Re: It rained

Oh I'll bet they are so sweet.  Would love to see pics sometime.

On 2/12/07, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
wrote:
>
> Nope, but we will if it looks necessary. Mom's got what looks like
> plenty of capacity, all 3 of them are getting about equal time, and we
> had one ewe raise triplets last year without needing to supplement. So
> we'll just watch for now.
> I hope it works this time too, because teaching them to switch back and
> forth from a bottle to a teat is pretty frustrating.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of james singer
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:14 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] It rained
>
> I hope you're bottle feeding one of the lambs. Momma's only got two
> teats and the lambs get pretty aggressive about making one exclusively
> their own.
>
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
>
> > So we finally got rain! Almost a quarter inch, gosh, don't know where
> > all that moisture is going to go. It was cloudy but warm Saturday, we
> > got the rain that night, then cloudy and warm again on Sunday. Today
> > it's windy.
> > We came home Friday evening to a nice surprise, one of our ewes had
> > given birth to triplets. Three little ewe lambs. Everyone was on their
>
> > feet, dry and clean, and nursing. I am so glad no intervention was
> > needed and I'm just hoping the next two are as uneventful. From the
> > looks of them I'm thinking it may be two weeks to a month before
> > everyone's done, their timing has been better in the past but as long
> > as we don't need to assist anyone I will be happy.
> > Anyway the rest of our weekend was yard maintenance and social events,
>
> > I managed to put down some mulch and pull a couple weeds but that was
> > it.
> > Didn't plant my tomato seeds but I still have plenty of time. I'm
> > trying not to look at the dry garden much, hoping that there's life
> > under all that dead stuff. But the opuntia looks maybe a little better
>
> > after the rain. Could be wishful thinking but maybe. I didn't even get
>
> > to go hiking - my friend fell while we were out two weeks ago and hurt
>
> > pretty bad. They've decided she has a compression fracture of a
> > vertebrae so it will be months before she's up to much. It's just not
> > that fun going by myself but hopefully I'll replace that time with
> > garden chores instead of loafing around reading the paper or
> > something.
> > My daffodils are up about six inches and the galanthus is blooming, at
>
> > least the ones that didn't get frozen. No plant activity anywhere else
>
> > that I can see.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
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> Island Jim
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> Heat Zone 10
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> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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Kemp TX
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