While Chris is out of town for a few days, I'm feeding and watering her flock. There are six white sheep, who set up a great "baa-ing" as soon as they hear the car pull up....
a brown sheep and a llama...
and the goat.
The goat seems to have the most intelligent expression.
When I arrived in the morning yesterday, they all had frost on their backs, and I had to break up 1/2 inch of ice from their water trough, but today was milder. Even though they are pastured only about a quarter mile out of town it feels like real country; on a section of gravel road with open fields on one side that are backed by a wooded ridge, and trees on the other side for a short distance then marsh and beyond that the river. It feels peacefully miles and miles from anywhere.
Thanks for the pix! I suppose there's a barn sort of thing for them when it gets really cold?? The sheep farm I stayed on on Salt Spring Island, BC, had a guard llama; does the llama serve as guard for the sheep there at your friends'?
ReplyDeleteThere is a shelter for them, though Chris says they are more bothered by heat than cold. They were in it when I stopped by this afternoon, not because it was so cold, but because it was raining.
ReplyDeleteI wondered, too, whether the llama does guard duty. Actually, the llama came first, and the sheep later, and he hasn't really taken a very protective attitude. Like a certain cat I could mention (Baxter) he mostly gets by on his good looks.