Electra electrified!

So, I go out to feed and water the chickens in the coop this morning, and I see a ewe in the electric fence. I run over to the battery and unplug the charger, and run over to look at the ewe. Her eyes look really gross, like she had been dead for a long time or something and she didn't move. I ran inside to wake my 11 year old daughter and said a ewe was in the fence dead and I wasn't sure who it was. Rosemary came out and went over to her and then yelled back at me (trying again to do the chickens) and said "It's Electra and she moved!" so I ran back over, and she said that this ewe is very skittish and she usually is afraid of us. So we tried to untangle her (4) horns out of the fence. We struggled for a little bit, though Electra did not struggle as I think they can sense when they are being helped. I didn't think I was going to be able to do it so I told Rosemary to go in and get Marie (my oldest, who owns the sheep) so they came out. By then I had her out and she was just sitting on her legs, but holding her head up OK. I hollered for the girls to get Rescue Remedy and we sprayed some in her nose (Rosie couldn't find the liquid kind.) Marie also expressed some of her milk (she has a pretty young lamb that was near by when I first went out) and rubbed it in her eyes - because we have pink eye going thru the flock - which is why her eyes looked so awful when I first saw her! We then led her to the water because she can't see with the pink eye, which is also most likely why she "walked" into the fence and then tried to win the fight! Whew, from a "dead" ewe to a live one was a much better start of the day!

Teenagers CAN be terrific!

So, my 17 year old daughter and her best friend and I were coming back from the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival today, with 7 Jacob sheep in the back of the van. We stopped at McDonald's for one last stop (6 hours straight driving) and I saw a mother with her daughter and a younger son who was blind. She was helping him into his seat and she looked at our van and realized we had animals and asked if they were goats (a typical question as their faces look goat like, but they have wool and heck, she was from NJ!! :-)) and I said no, they were sheep and we were just coming back from the festival and she said to her daughter "Look at the sheep" and her son said "I can smell them!" LOL So when we got on the road, I told my daughter what had happened (she was getting in the van on the other side while that was happening) and she said "oh, I wish I had known, I would have been happy to take one of them out for him to feel." Brings tears to my eyes just thinking of how special my teen really is (most of the time!)

Bangs for Obama

So, for my fortieth birthday I dyed my hair in 4 stripes and bangs with hot pink dye (Special Effects from Evolution on the Commons in Ithaca) and then I put the bottle away.....somewhere......and I couldn't find it...for almost 4 years! Well, i found it a few days before the Inauguration, so I decided to dye my bangs in honor of Obama! :-)

Obama's books

So I have just finished reading Obama's two books - "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams From my Father" and they were both really good! I decided that if you want to learn more about the person Barack Obama, read the Dreams one and if you want to know where he wants to take our country read Audacity. I had a hard time getting into Audacity one but once I did, I really felt so good about where he wants to go. The Dreams one is facinating about his struggle with his races, and how he became comfortable with himself, which is so obvious now to see him. It gives me so much hope to think we might actually come out of this alive...

Also I read a biography about Obama and one of his wife, and they were very good too!