I'm not feeling too good today. Started feeling bad yesterday and woke up kind of nauseated, etc. Thought I'd share that with you!
When we were still on the farm my brother Laurence was quite small and one of the things he loved to do was watch what "few" cars went by on the road. But this day, some of the "sheep" people from across the Snake River were moving their sheep, can't remember which way but every spring and fall they moved the sheep and at this time the "new" lambs were there. Guess I had better explain this moving thing better! They moved them from one side of the river from one pasture to the other side of the river to another! Guess they pretty much had finished cleaning out one pasture! Anyway Mom hears this yeslling and crying coming from Laurence. She thought he was saying "my leg! my leg!" and ran outside to see Laurence with a lamb that was trying to get away. And he was saying, "My lamb, my lamb!" The sheepmen had given him a lamb and he, of course, was delighted but the lamb wanted to be back with its "mamma". Well, we kept the lamb into the next summer. It used to get to be 109 and 110 temperature-wise and since we had no electricity to run any fans and there was very little breeze, we moved our beds out to the cool, green lawn. Of course we had to bolster them up so they would be "even". Well, this dumb lamb would get up under the bed in the night and "baa, baa" all night! I was so aggravated at it and would get up and chase it away and just get settled in again and it would start all over again! Here I was running around in my nightgown all around the yard and yelling at the lamb! Dad came running out of the house to find out what was the matter and I told him. Of course, he and Mother thought that was the funniest thing they ever heard!! Dad told me to go back to bed and he caught the lamb and tied him up farther away from the house! But I could hardly wait till fall when we had "yummy" lamb chops. Laurnce had decided too that the lamb was a lot of work to take care of and Mother and Dad had enough kids to take care of without taking care of a pet lamb!
