Sheep

 2/11- Chico CA

   I have always loved the sound of rain on the roof. In the rv you can hear it pretty plainly. It rained last night so hard you couldn’t have talked inside. We even woke up to a patter of rain in the roof. We hung in bed as long as we could as there wasn’t much else to do. 

   We headed over to grandmas to help her out with her puzzle and what do we see, they are having baby animals at the Inn. The baby in question here was a two week old Painted Desert sheep. These are sheep that do not grow wool and thus do not need to be clipped. They are used mostly for meat and grass control. This little cutie was apparently rejected by her mom and was being bottle fed. 

   I have a cute story for you along these lines. Kalyn had a lamb that was a runt and rejected by the mother. What she normally does is waits and sees if it is alive the next morning and then she might take some steps. She didn’t give this guy much chance but nevertheless there he was in the morning so she bottle fed him a couple of times and the put milk in a bowl for him. He was so tiny all the other sheep just pushed him around or ignored him. He could not even get up over the 3” lip to get out into the yard. Guess who comes to the rescue- the cow, the biggest animal there befriends the little runt and protects him. He will always be a small sheep but he now runs around in the pasture with the rest of them. 

    Looking ahead at the weather it looks as if the cold and wet of the east coast this past month is going to be hanging around here. I keep hearing atmospheric river. Of course this means snow in the mountains and we are talking a lot of snow. The ski areas around here have been having very poor seasons up to now but I suspect that may change. 

   What that means for us is it looks unlikely we will get into Yosemite or Kings Canyon. We will head straight south when we leave to somewhere where it’s warm again!!

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