Sitting in our living room on this grey rainy day makes me feel so peaceful…calm…all is right in my small part of the world…and it is!
I watch as my sheep eat the fresh, sweet, green, tender grass…and I wonder…just, how good it must taste to them? It has been 160 days at least since they had good grass. I can watch them from my windows choosing the best blades of grass and how their lips, nose and tongue chooses the best blades… I can hear the rain from time to time and it is so comforting… it is like a great symphony accompanied by the blue birds, sheep bells, and ewes calling softly to their lambs.
I remember well as I look over the pond towards the barns at Grandpa’s… with the rain falling making patterns with the light wind on the surface of the pond…how Grandpa and I use to spend rainy days…oh… we spent many an hour oiling tack, keeping it fit for use… the smell of the leather and the horses combined to make it a heady perfume the best perfumer in the world cannot duplicate nor make any thing that smells better to me! What fine memories I have of the times spent with my Grandpa!
The sheep are loose in our yard for the moment…they tend to love green onions too and when one of the old ewes decides its time …to the highway they all run! My neighbor has a highly esteemed patch of wild onions (wild garlic I think) in their grass along side our driveway. The sheep know not to go but I suppose their noses get a whiff and they have to try knowing, Journey and I will be along to fetch them back.
I took photos and realized the Maples are starting to put on a big show! It is heavenly!
I can see the December lambs are starting to grow! The ewes that were bred for April lambs are starting to look like they might have twins! I sure hope so!
Some of the ewes have found the dry hay in the barn and have been hanging out there staying dry and fed…
To see my ewes all over the yard… so happy and full ! Sigh What a simple country pleasure!
Oh, and the English Shepherds on the porch in their beds snoozing not a care in the world (for they know food will arrive because CHEWEY and I have it under control!
Then the English Shepherd litter on the porch what a sweet bunch of puppies!
This Springtime pleasure will last until my Hosta Lillies start to show their heads…then the sheep go to the big pasture daytime across the pond. If there is one thing sheep love more than spring onions its Hosta Lillies !
Yes this is my world…the one I came from…left… and yes ! came back to! What a Journey it is! God is so good! For He is restoring the years and yes the things the locust have eaten!
It is a beautiful simple day in Jackson Creek! I love the rain!
