I've got this series of articles in my head: "Seven Habits of Lowly, Effective Servants." I made a list of seven things gracious people do to serve others, things that are encouraged in the Bible, and will someday write them up, one per brief article. Number One is pay compliments generously. I think I'll hang on to that quote up above to use.
Most of us notice things that are praiseworthy but fail to pay the compliment that would probably make somebody's day.
Mark Twain said, "I can live for two months on a good compliment."
Yesterday we got a heater for Fred that I turned on this morning when I went down there to work about 9 am. The thermometer read 45 degrees when I began and wasn't up to 60 when I left a couple of hours later. At that point I couldn't get my right thumb to work (the spacebar) and my fingers were almost numb.
I need to start that heater up a couple of hours before I plan to work down there.
Thinking ahead, what if Marta doesn't have at least two bottle babies? You can't have just one goat because they're herd animals and a lonely goat is a noisy, unhappy animal. So I've been reading up on sheep, thinking about the possibility of having one goat kid and one lamb.
I've learned that not all sheep have wool; some have hair (technically, all sheep have both and it's a matter of ratio). Wool can be spun and used, but a sheep with wool has to be sheared. Some goats have hair that's useless but sheds, so no shearing is req'd. Hair sheep, as they're called, are meat breeds, though there are some crossover breeds that have a wool/hair blend.
My research led to to a breed called Painted Desert that are raised mostly as a hobby sheep for their appearance. One of the acceptable variations is polycerate. Multiple horns.
Freaky!
One of the more common meat breeds is Dorper. As you can see, like Boer goats they're bulkier, meatier. But breeders I've contacted won't have feeder lambs for sale until early spring.
Speaking of Boer goats, here are a couple of pics I took at Marta's earlier this week. They're not very good, but I'm not a photographer, and if I were I wouldn't be using a cheap cell phone.
This doe and several others came over to the fence to see the strangers. It looked to us like someone folded the bottom of her ears up and ironed them in place.
This is Pam holding one of the two new kids. The barn stall was small enough that I couldn't back up to get more of them in the shot. But this gives you an idea of how small a kid is 48 hours after birth. Pretty cute.
Isn't it racist to have Black Friday sales. Isn't that an Alt-Right thing? I'll bet it was Banon's idea.
We're in a short break between storms. It stopped raining a couple of hours ago and won't start up again until midnight. When it does it will arrive with a vengeance with about 1.5" of rain falling tomorrow and 20+ mph winds blowing all afternoon. With the rain we've already had plus what will fall tomorrow the ground is saturated. Add the wind and trees will come down. Hopefully not on Baker Rd.
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