Is that someone has to take them. That seems simple enough. You just point and push the button, right? These days they even have all the automatic settings for you and you can double check immediately to see if you need another one. Ok, so maybe the problem isn’t the camera, but the fact that I don’t have ten arms. It seems like the more I try to capture our life with pictures the more I find my hands are too full to worry about taking pictures. Take this weekend, for instance…
We had to move animals around. We finished that beautiful fencing project a week ago and now we’re shuffling everyone around on the grass. Cows here, horses there, sheep, sheep everywhere. The last group to move was the ewes and lambs with one hyper baby cow, her overprotective mama, and her rambuncious 2 yr old sibling.
We had to move everyone bunched up on the right, past that gray chicken house, and through that red gate on the left. 50 feet. Just 50 feet. Of green, green grass. Sheep notice stuff like that.
Sheep have interesting personalities. Staying in a tight group (calling flocking) makes them less vulnerable to predators, so they do it when they’re scared or stressed…but some breeds “flock” more or better than others. And do we have one of those breeds?
Of course not.
To any farmers reading this…Clun Forest sheep are awesome, we would totally recommend them to anyone. Just don’t expect them to act like a bunch of airhead ninnies like some sheep. They tend to size up the situation (and the shepherd) and then…well…watch…
The cows race forward and the lambs head backwards and the ewes (the mamas), well, they eat. That’s what Cluns do best. Eat. The lambs haven’t caught on to this trait just yet (give them another month) so they run around with absolutely no direction at all other than trying to stay together.
Enter that baby cow…
She thinks everyone just wants to play. How do calves play? By galloping around like a chicken with her head off, until her mama starts bellowing and chasing after her and sheep start to scatter in front of her…and now we have cows in the left field, lambs in the right field, and sheep about to eat the blueberry bushes (which are so small from the last time they gotten nibbled you probably can’t even see them in the pictures). So what do we do?
We loose the secret weapon…
Notice the lambs scattering? Notice the ewes…eating? Yeah, it took them about 2 seconds to size up the shepherd and notice that they outweigh him by about 140 lbs. They just melted out of his way and snatched all the leaves off the grapevines. Again.
Uh-oh, here comes that little cow again…
The problem with pictures is that they don’t come out well when you’re lunging around like a 15 yr old border collie with arthritis. But we live by the motto “don’t give up!” 30 minutes and several miles later everyone was in their new home sweet home and we were on to the next chore.
Some members of this crew find the camera more exciting than others.
