"Before Christmas" Update

Well, first for a regular update on us. Because apparently I'm not gifted enough to get all the photos downloaded into one blog for regular and Christmas. So Christmas pictures will follow in another blog, maybe tomorrow... I've about had enough for today.

We have had a pretty good end of the year. Here are a few pictures to show you what we've been up to. Here's Darcy with Deer (yes, that's his name... Deer). My, how he's grown since the last pics I put up of him. He's now taller than Darcy and got an attitude of his own. He's very tame with us and Darcy, but I know as he gets older, we won't be able to take shots like this anymore.


And this picture of Doug was taken the week of Christmas. We came home the Sunday before Christmas and found that this little guy had just been born and his momma had kicked him off and left him, well, pretty much for dead that night. Luckily they were right here at the house so we went and got him, brought him into the house, warmed him up, and fed him some Enfamil (for lack of anything else proper) to keep him alive till morning. I got him some proper lamb replacement milk the next day and we had him about two days. Then Doug took him outside to play for a little while, and Momma came running up to him, licked him and then took him a little ways away and let him nurse. Now. For those of you who don't know much about livestock, this is practically unheard of. Usually once a momma kicks a baby off, that's it. But this little guy has been out there with his momma and twin brother for a week now and doing just fine. We were very happy it turned out this way as the poop and pee in the house was starting to get on my nerves. But the little guy didn't even way 2 pounds and it was freezing every night, so there was no way we could leave him outside without his mother caring for him. Unfortunately we did not take any pictures with him and Darcy because we weren't sure he was going to even make it (usually when mom leaves them, there is something wrong with them, but we think he was just so puny and weak she didn't think he was worth it). Although the two of them did have fun running around the house together for a few days.

So, that's a wrap up of our before Christmas happenings. Hopefully I'll be able to get this old computer to download more pictures later and get some up from Christmas. Until then, hold your breath...