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There are two kinds of waiting during lambing season. There’s the “I-can’t-leave-the-farm-because-someone-could-go-into-labor-at-any-time” kind and then there’s the “We’ve-got-a-ewe-in-labor-but-Oh-My-God!-the-pyramids-were-built-faster-than-this-kind” of waiting.

We did a fair amount of the second kind of waiting yesterday. Darcy was clearly in labor, but she was a first timer and didn’t seem to be in any hurry to move things along. So we sat in the little paddock for a couple of hours, keeping an eye on Darcy and being entertained by Blanca and Fresca.

They are the rascal-iest things you’ve ever seen, investigating everything, tasting everything, jumping on everything.

For a while, the two of them used the pregnant ewes as their own personal trampolines.

Caroline bore further investigation, too.

Caroline also got to spend some quality time with Emma, a mama-to-be for the first time this year.

The waiting can be frustrating but it’s also kind of nice to be forced to sit quietly in one place for a while and just enjoy the animals. It’s a welcome treat in the middle of the otherwise constant hubbub of lambing season. For me, it’s a reminder of how lucky I am to get to be here, doing this work, and how there’s no place in the world I’d rather be.

We took the babies out onto the lawn today for some sunshine.

Have you ever seen anything cuter? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- there is nothing cuter than a baby goat.

They look so goofy and serious.

The tiny ducks, swimming in their tiny pond.

The geese continue to sit on their co-nest. There are 13 eggs under them. What on earth will we do with 13 geese?

Our t1 line is officially in and working! Woohooo! I got to call Hughes Net and cancel my service today. When they asked why I was canceling, I told them that it was because they offered the worst technical and customer service in the world. This afternoon the satellite comes down and we will try to forget that frustrating, expensive chapter of our lives, shall we?

Lambcam 1 is working but the other two have to be reconfigured by Paul this weekend. Standby for live, streaming, hot-and-cold-running lambs.

Speaking of standing by, we are all anxiously awaiting more babies. Our friend Diana flew in from California to help with lambing and has worked her butt off around the farm in the meantime. She is welcome at the farm any time after all the manual labor she has put in. Bertie has us all running in circles, pretending to be in labor every 6 hours or so, complete with loud noises, eye rolling and weird discharge. Then she goes back to eating grass and ignoring us. It’s actually pretty normal but it’s super annoying.

More news as it develops…

We are right in the middle of our busiest time of year and everyone is a little bit tired and cranky. In addition to lambing, we are about to role out our Fall/Winter 2012 yarn and designs to the sales team which will be immediately followed by the initial stages of  planning Spring/Summer lines. We also have Shepherding Camp next week to prepare for and a million other tiny things. It’s…a lot.

I am absolutely useless when I don’t get enough sleep and the last week has been short on it. My insomnia is back, so much so that  I’m going to the doctor tomorrow for an Ambien prescription. I hate to, but it’s either that or alienating everyone I know with my epic bad mood. Let’s hope it works.

In better news, the house was full of engineers here to work on our T-1 line. They are supposed to be here sometime today to put in the last cable and test the new system, so we could have functional internet by this afternoon. Zac has a plan to get the lamb cams up ASAP. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s up.