Spring is here!

Nope, it doesn't look like it outside. Today and yesterday were probably the most wintery we have had here this year. The wind was blowing sideways snow and tumbleweeds across the roads and everywhere. But we woke up this morning to the first lamb of the year. Looks like a good one. A ewe, from Cornflower. We're naming the lamb Marigold.

I told people we had a lamb today, and some asked if it wasn't a bit early for that. Actually, lambs can handle cold better than they can handle wet. They just need to get dried off and have something in their stomachs, and the inch-thick wool coat they are born with keeps them just fine. Note, we do have barns and sheds out there, but you wouldn't catch the sheep in them unless the weather is worse than this. It's like they think barns are for wimps.

Bonus picture of Ashley and Cuzco

Cuzco kept trying to eat my face when I went out with peanuts to take pictures of the lamb. I couldn't get a picture of that, since I was holding the camera, but when Ashley convinced him that her peanuts were just as good, he went over to her for a minute.

I did not want to get up this morning, and even knowing about the lamb, I didn't want to go outside. It took seeing her out the window, and then I grabbed my coat and shoes and camera and peanuts and ran outside in my pajamas. Thursday is my sleep in day this month due to reduced hours at work. Something about this weather really wears me out though. I went to bed at 7 p.m. But I woke up for the phone at 10 (usually that's prime time for calling me), thought it was morning, and here I am. I have knitting pics too, and will get them up. They are even on the computer.