This is Sue holding the lamb we named after her. Sue is 81 and a retired Nun. I go to her when I am having issues in understanding scripture. She is very helpful and makes me laugh. She has also been helpful with the naming lambs.
She thought Susanna would be a good name for a lamb and gave me a copy of the story from a Catholic text she had. I guess the story was good enough to be recognized as inspired by god, but not good enough to be added to the regular bible.
So Sue wanted a lamb to be named Susanna and when the twins came we chose the names Sue and Judith.
Judith lives with Sue and loves lambs as well. Judith plays the organ, which is a bit of an understatement. She was the choir director for the National Children’s Choir at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. She directs a choir here in town, Voices for all Seasons. My hay maven Diane sings with the choir. That is how I met these two.
Diane sells me hay. She has the best hay in the county and has raised goats, but really is more of a horse lady. Diane also has Candy Lite parties and Logan-burgen-berry-basket parties of which I get the invites. Gotta go, that is the etiquette. She and Judith get the invites as well, and that is how I met them. They tried to get me to join the choir, and I went to practice a few times, but didn’t have the time to do it. Yet they still liked me and love the sheep, so I go over to their house quite a bit.
We all had dinner the other night. Sue can eat half of a large double cheese pizza. Amazing. The thing about hanging out with women who are older and wiser then you is that you can learn from them. These two women are amazing and we laugh to the point I am in tears.
