Ye Olde Batt: Catching Up Again

Another week is gone and I really am sorry about not getting anything on here. It has been unusually busy this last little while. Lambing has slowed down but we are still waiting to see if three more ewes will lamb. We now have 6 lambs one of which...my only white one.... almost didn't make it. Her name is Reece (like Reece Witherspoon in Legally Blond) and she was one of a twin.....born weak to begin with she didn't seem to be doing well and especially after the weather got cold. We even had snow and with the bitter temperature she started laying down in the hay and not feeding and then her Mom gave up and stopped letting her feed. When Hubby and I found her in the barn sort of keeled over in the hay we knew we had to try something. I wrapped her up and brought her into the house and forced her to drink some colostrum and milk replacer and slowly over the next 48 hours she improved. In between feeds we would take her back out to her mom and watch to see if she started shivering and then we would take her back in to warm her up.

She improved until one day I noticed that her mom finally started to let her feed again... like she finally realized that her lamb was going to make it and so then we left her alone to take care of her baby. Reece is now jumping around with her sister and Stew, who is a boy lamb born a day after Reece a Rizzo were born. There have been no new lambs since. The house has continued to be renovated and so we are in the stages where soon the contractor will stop till the window come in. Hubby has been off from work for a day surgery performed on Tuesday this week, so he has been able to watch all the changes that are going on too.

Hubby had surgery for a hernia and developed another headcold. He certainly has had his share of them this year. The hernia surgery went very well and he is up and on his feet the same day. He was walking kind of funny for a few days but is much better now. If we could just get rid of that cold everything would be great. He will be back to work on Monday.

The house has totally changed in appearance. Go back a few weeks to my earlier blog posts and you will see how the house looked then. Have a look now: