Cory
This is an old picture of Cory as a lamb. Cory was sold last year after giving this farm some really excellent lambs, two morrits, two blacks and a white. She went off to a farm here in Vermont to a gal who really wanted a merino. I was thinking of her and all the other lambs born here. It is below zero this morning and the wind is howling and this is time that lambing happens. Lambs have started to drop over at Green Top Farm, but not Tiny yet. I am curious as to how she will fare after having a c-section and loosing her lambs last year.
I do not miss having to go out in this kind of weather. I don’t miss the worry I had with lambing with this type of weather either. But I have quickly become a wuss. I didn’t mind the cold when I was outside a lot. I do now. The house was cold this morning and I bumped the heat right up. Bub will crank the fire and reduce the thermostats when he appears for the morning.
I am driving down to the banana belt this moring for a meeting in Brattleboro (2 and a half hours one way) and will be leaving earlier then I would be if I was just going to the office. There is a select board meeting tonight, making for a long long day. The schools in the middle of the state are closed or opening on a delay, so I am hoping that there is not too much ice on the highway.
Our WCAX weather man, Gary Sudowski says that it is zero, but with the wind chill is feels like 15 below. No, no it does not. It feels like zero with a friggn’ wind in your face. 15 below is a whole different feeling, much dryer and sharp when you breath. Zero is zero. Just dang cold and you don’t get any pity points for needing to go out in it, because it is normal to have cold weather like this in vermont.
I am going to wear my sheepskin hat 
today and be glad that the sheep are at nice farms, rather then miss having them here in the cold. Being away all day and meetings at night makes it impossible to raise sheep well at the same time. You got to check on the lambs and the mothers every couple of hours and hope you don’t burn the barn down with heat lamp. So I will look at not having the lambs as a positive today. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
