When my husband woke up late and asked if the baby and I could do morning chores yesterday I had no idea what I was in for!  Usually chores are easy and relaxing as I love going out and talking to my sheep (I call them my girls) all while Purdy dutifully watches over them.  Everything was off to a great start the horses were well behave and eating in their stalls while I walked out to do the sheep and llama.  I made it halfway to the sheep pasture before I realized something was terribly wrong followed by some pretty colorful language on my part.

In an effort I believe to scratch herself Purdy had become entangled in the cattle panel we use for a gate on the hoop house.   She had kushed down and had her neck through one of the holes on the panel.  Now if this had been Ewestace, Purl or even the Little Buffalo it would have been no problem.  If they do get stuck they patiently wait for me to come and disentangle them, Purdy however had other ideas.

I set about freeing the llama which my daughter thought was highly entertaining as I was wearing her on the front of me.  Gently pushing her head and neck through the hole wasn’t going to work since she was trying to spit and eat me all at the same time.  I ended up doing a combination of pushing her shoulders and pulling her rump end to free her.  She did get one good kick in that nailed me right above the knee.

The whole time I am trying to free Purdy my sheep are being as always every so helpful.  Ewestace had come over and was investigating the llama on the other side of the fence from me which only made Purdy angrier.  Purl was standing next to me trying to convince me to leave the llama and it was more important to pet her.  I explained to Purl that we needed Purdy and her head scratches would have to wait.  Luna who I had only just pinned down the day before to medicate and was still extremely wary of me decided the best corse of action was to bounce off the walls of the hoop house in an effort to be uncatchable and very much in my way.

The best reaction out of all the sheep however was the Little Buffalo.  If you have not met her imagine a very small little brown sheep who doesn’t usually make any noise or get into trouble.  Her survival tactic is to hide herself among the other sheep and stay close to Purdy (this is my llama’s favorite sheep).

The Little Buffalo stood near the gate for a few minutes studying the situation when she suddenly made the tiniest noise.  It was almost as if her anxiety had reached a natural level at which point it escaped and she went running off in the other direction.  I could just picture one of those cartoon bubble above her head that said “Run they are killing the llama and we are all next!”

Thankfully  everyone escaped morning chores unharmed and safe although i did accidentally dump Purdy’s breakfast on my kiddos head.  In other news the chicken incubator is on lockdown and we are just waiting for the little peeps arrival.  Jeff and I built their very adorable brooder box today and I will keep you updated on their progress!  Be sure to go like our Facebook Page as the most current updates will be posted there!