BrownSheep- It's been a while

[BrownSheep]

Not much to report. I found one of this years bottle babies dead under a wagon. My dad hadn't seen him for a week or so. Normally I would say he probably got into something he shouldn't have but he was outside the fence.
Our bottle babies are generally more than happy to stay in the pasture.

I have next week off to celebrate thanksgiving!

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

Sorry about the bottle baby!! Thanksgiving! It seems so strange, because up here in Canada, we had ours a month and a half ago already!!

 

[BrownSheep]

You odd ducks!

 

[elevan]

Aw, sorry about your bottle baby.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving vacation!

 

[BrownSheep]

My Thanksgiving was lovely!

Didn't get a whole lot done livestock wise. Only got part of their lambing/wintering pen up. Hopefully my dad can finish the rest. If not they will lamb where they are which is farther away from the house.

We did move in the big boys into the ewes. I suspect the two little rams got every one bred any way.
The yaks are in fine form. I cant wait for calves!

Almost done with the semester. Class this week. Then dead week ( aka the week teachers cram in new stuff in) and lastly finals. The Friday of finals week we are flying out to Florida for Christmas. One of my uncles lives out there so we're bring my grandma as well. He actually got a job in Houston recently and might actually be unable to be there for Christmas.

My sister actually gets out the week before me but goes back the 6th....guess who will be lazing around home till the 21st?

 

[BrownSheep]

It has been chilly. Sub zero all day....which is why I haven't even turned the door knob to go outside.
I have the zoo tomorrow, and let me tell you I have never prayed so hard for dirty dishes to wash in my life. My zoo keeper is pretty good about keeping me out of the extremes, though, thank goodness.
By next Saturday we *might* break freezing....We did get about 3 inches of snow yesterday. At home they didn't get much which is unusual, It's even colder there.

Two weeks from now we will be in Florida.....Which I remind myself of each morning as I pick out socks which will hopefully hold frostbite at bay.

 

[BrownSheep]

The zoo was wonderful per usual if not freezing...with out wind chill it was 10 degrees. My keeper told me she was going to start giraffe training on my days. So, I am looking forward to that. Finally warmed up today to a wonderful 26, bikini weather if you ask me.

I've been studying like a mad man. Have my Physics, Statistics, and Communication finals on Monday and Tuesday. I also have a paper to write for Western Civ.

The livestock is all doing well. The chickens have, for the most part, been cooped for winter.

 

[BrownSheep]

Went and delivered the car to my sister today. She'll be leaving for home tomorrow and returning Tuesday to get me. We stopped and ate dinner and went to a movie. Delivery Man, was pretty good, a feel good comedy about family.

We stopped at my Grammies. She's a night owl so grandkids stopping by at 9:30 is a great deal. Found pictures that proved nothing has changed since the 70's...NOTHING. We found a picture of my dad and two ( and possibly more) of his sisters discreetly flipping off the camera in what was otherwise a nice photo. He was the same age as me in the photo so that's always fun, and slightly trippy, to see. I've also learned that my dad's family of ten kids looked remarkably like the Brady Bunch...
It's hard to imaging that my gruff daddy was once an immature goof ball.

 

[jodief100]

It is funny to realize our parents were once our age. According to my uncle my dad was never an immature goofball, and since my uncle still is I guess that makes up for it.

 

[BrownSheep]

It's just kind of odd to imagine especially since I get the vibe my dad may have been one of those guy I would want to throw a brick at.

I have taken over our kitchen island,I'm blasting classical music, have a stack of note cards, piles of materials for four different classes, and some earl grey tea by my side....I'm pretty certain its finals week.