Still here

I promise we haven't fallen off the face of the earth.  The farm is still intact, although alternating between snow, slush, and 50 degree weather that makes us almost hopeful that spring will eventually come again. 

The sad news this week is that The Nose threw our very first lambs on Tuesday.  Sad, however, because they were both stillborn.  While it was not a great way to start our lambing season, it wasn't entirely unexpected, as she and her sister did not have good pregnancies last year either (one was either not bred or miscarried her lamb early on and the other abandoned Sweet Pea, leaving her to be bottlefed).  We had wanted to give them one more chance; however, she will likely not be bred again.  We're still waiting to see how Fathead does with her pregnancy but are trying to be realistic in our expectations.  Sometimes ewes just aren't good mothers.  It's a sad but very real truth when dealing with animals.

But even though we had some bad luck with the twins, I have to say it's difficult to be too hard on any mother that gave us this cutie-pie:

Sweet Pea, cozying up to Adam for chin scritches

In happier news, the CVM girls are definately getting bigger, so we're very hopeful for lambs in about a month or so: