It has been an iteresting day today. First, Mom and I picked up three calves. One has a swollen leg but it isn’t really that bad. Mom thinks when the swelling goes down the little guy will be just fine. The other two we think are just wormy so they will all get medication and we will give them a few days and go from there.
When we got back in the house from dealing with the calves, Mom found that the bathroom hot water had thawed out so we stopped everything and took showers. Mom was afraid that in the night it would freeze off again and trust me when I say working on the farm means showering everyday … LOL … We have insulated the pipes but there is one spot in the hot water line that runs through a cinderblock footer for a wall under the house and we can’t get to where it is so it can’t be insulated. It is okay though because when we first moved here the water froze off all the time. Then Mom made Dad insulate the pipes under the house and it is much better.
Anyway, following our nice hot showers Mom and I worked on two fleece. First is the fleece of Pickles. Pickles is a Shetland Ram that was born to Momma Shetland and he is grey in color. We aren’t sure if his fleece will turn out very good but Mom is washing it up and we will see. The second fleece is that of a cotswold. We don’t remember if it is Twix, Skittles or Snickers but it is from their first shearing.
Mom has decided that she will be watching and processing the fleece that we have and getting things in the shop to sell but while we were working on the ones she is starting with she got a rather rude call from a 4-H parent.
I don’t know what it was all about but I could hear the lady on the other end of the phone yelling at Mom from half way across the room. The sad part is that the lady had no business even taking issue with Mom because she had nothing to do with the issue at hand. I will tell you I feel bad for Mom because I know she is only being the leader because of me.
To top that off when Dad got home he was in a mood. He wasn’t so happy about the calves and he started taking Mom’s head off. Mom had had it with the other lady at this point and told Dad that she wasn’t going to take it from him. I went outside to rope… LOL. Tomorrow I am sure will be a better day. For the record I love the three new calves!
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