Let's start with this..... I sure hope this doesn't turn into a shiner. With an opening like that, who could walk away from this story?
Well, I can't take 100% credit for this little stunt. Here is how it started.
I pull up to the farm today and see that I have a few escapees in the big field. I might add this is where the babies AREN'T supposed to be. They are to be with their moms in a different field. Try as I may, I am no sheepdog, and failed miserable at getting the 3 lambs back into the correct field. Off the to the truck I go to fetch my red dog. Ok Zeke, its time to work lambs. I have to say he did a good job, mostly patient, he had a hard time undestanding why I didn't want the entire flock. In hindsight that might have been easier, but I thought if I could just get the lambs close enough to the OPEN gate I was holding they would go in. HA, HA HA. What a freakin' joke that thought was. Not only do the lambs think Zeke is there friend, they are deathly afraid of me. Who knew!!! Great time to find that out! So, plan B is put into place. Corner said lambs in barn without getting trampled by the rest of the flock. I was doing well until one little black lamb made a running jump and flew into my face. Knocking me almost on my backside, but I caught the little stinker and put the attacker back in the appropriate pen. Me holding my face, I could feel the swelling almost immediately. GREAT! My only thoughts were, tomorrow I have an important meeting to go to at work. I really don't want to have to explain how I got a shiner from a 15 lb lamb. So here's to hoping it won't turn into a black eye. Ohhhh, the things I do to myself.
Sorry no pictures on this one :)
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