Nap Time

Show of hands, who would like to be this cute lambie this afternoon?

From earlier this spring at Final Frontier Farm, Paris, Kentucky

Count The Legs And Divide By Four

There's an old joke when counting large groups of animals that you just count all the legs and divide by four.  I thought that would be fun title for these pictures and decided to look to see if there was a story of origin.  Of course there is :-).

The anecdote is attributed to Reub Long, an Oregon rancher.  From Wikipedia...  What an interesting life.  I'm glad I looked!

Once, after standing on the top rails of a corral above the thick dust covering a bunch of running horses, almost all of them paints, he dropped to the ground as the gate swung shut and announced, "By golly, boys, I'm a rich man; I've got 42 head of horses!" A woman standing close by looked at him in utter amazement and blurted out, "How could you count all those horses, Mr. Long ... Why ... There was so much dust you couldn't see your hand in front of your face." Reub looked at the woman almost apologetically and said, "Why it was easy, ma'am, I just counted all the legs and divided by four."^[1]  

So how many lambs did Baaxter's mom have this year?

Foxglove Farm, Lexington, Kentucky

Lamb Camp Is Far From Over

Even though these lambs are probably headed off to college by now!  While it would be nice to be "caught up" (insert hysterical laughter), I can look at cute lambies all year if I have to ;-).

Enjoy!

Some of the beautiful ewes and lambs at Tanglewood Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.  These fancy lambs are Wensleydale/Bluefaced Leicester (pronounced lester) crosses and a few of them are going to be for sale when they are weaned (cough MarmePurl ;-).

I Believe This Has Set A Bad Precedence

So, speaking of Twitter, one of the funniest things ever hit the boards yesterday.

Okay, so someone stole some sheep.  Doesn't seem like a super rare occurrence over there (!).  Wait, look again.  THEY BLURRED OUT THEIR FACES!

Here is a link to the full story.  And an even funnier link.

And now Maisie is going to expect the same.  Although...why did they do that?  To protect the innocent?  I think she's out of luck ;-D.

Edited:  Good point, Maisie.  Here you go...

Tongue Out T(ewes)day

While I don't really enjoy Facebook, I've long been a Twitter fan...when I have time.  How Suzanna of @Zwartbles Ireland fame manages to post so many darling pictures and vines (short videos) all day, every day while doing everything else she does over there, I have no idea, but I can promise you she is worth a follow.

One thing I especially enjoy about Twitter is the "hashtags".  You can use a hashtag to find important, up to the minute information, for example #ymmfire, track cute pictures of #Bullwinkle, see what farms are like around the world #farmlife or join in some silly fun with Jimmy Fallon  #momquotes.

Today is #TongueOutTuesday (everything) or #TongueOutCoosday (cows) or #TongueOutEwesday (sheeps).  You can follow #TongueOutEwesday to see all sorts of cute and/or funny sheep and lambs caught with their tongues out.  My picture for this week is not very obvious, but has a funny story behind it.

I was sitting down (the best angle for sheep pictures) in the field at The Training Center one evening, far enough away from the group of sheep so as not to disturb anyone.  A big ewe and her two lambs were nibbling at the minerals in the blue feeders and turned to face me and then started walking over.

I didn't think much about it other than how cute they looked "coming over to check out my camera" and snapped a few pictures of their approach.  When she got about 10 feet away, the ewe started stomping her foot.  Uh oh.  This was not a social call.  I scrambled to my feet.

Later I realized it had been Miss Piggy and her two Piggly Wigglies.  Miss Piggy wasn't a bottle lamb, but for some reason is (usually) exceptionally friendly for a flock sheep.  I've been in her field enough times with the camera that I can't imagine that was what was bothering her.  I think it might have been that I was sitting down.  

Regardless, between the expression on her face and her two lambs licking their salty lips sticking their tongues out at me (you'll probably have to click the picture to biggify) I think this picture is funny.  Lamb Camp continues!