Sheep

As you know from a post a couple weeks ago, we have sheep!! We have a flock of 17 ewes, 6 year old ewes (1st year mommies) and, well as of the 10th of January we are not starting off very well. Our flock has been reduced to 15 ewes -one of which has a lamb, therefore we have 20 left to lamb(that is if they are all bred). One mommy we lost was similar to a grandma or I prefered to call her crow bate, she was old and well we expected the cold week would get the best of her, the other mommy we lost had some issues lambing( I won't go into detail for those of you with a week stomach).

So as a fun loving sheperd I sure hope that our lambing luck gets to going up on the rollercoaster, because it sure is fun to go out and see that precious small lamb. We hope the lamb flock grows a little larger.

Enough farm talk, at church this morning we were asked to think of the small things that we are thankful for and to be glad we have warm homes to live in, therefore I challenge you to think of the small things you are thankful for. Also we were asked to invite someone to church next week, therefore anybody who would like to attend the Troy church, let me know.

Also as a school teacher we are hoping for a new playground, or at least some equipment, and we have a chance. U.S. Cellular is giving out $100,000 to the top ten schools. The contest is a vote from Community member or other people around the states. Therefore if you would like to assist or give at least your vote to our school we would love to have some new playground equipement. If you are interested all you have to do is go to U.S. cellular and pick up a voting card and then follow the directions, we are voting for the North School!!!! All votes would be appreciated, you can check it our at www.uscellular.com/callingallcommunities.

Thank you and have a great week.

P.S. sorry for all of the topics at once!