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I was out doing a bit of weeding in the garden this afternoon, when I heard a lamb kicking up a terrific fuss. I thought perhaps one had gotten stuck in the ditch so I sidled over to check it out. Found this: newly hatched lamb struggling to take his very first step.
So, awesome.
We don’t own the field behind, but it shares a name with this house, so they were obviously together once. It’s a long, narrow field — flat as a table — and the sun rises spectacularly at the far end of it.
A thought experiment: imagine you are a lamb in Badger House Field, born at midnight. A chill, windy midnight (last year, there was snow on the ground when the lambs were born). Yours is a world of darkness (which it has always been) and cold (this is new and not very welcome).
A few hours into your life, just when you’re getting the hang of tottering a few steps behind your mother in the dark, this THING — this great, bright sun — blazes down the field in a streak of glory.
What must that be like?
Thinking on it is darn near enough to make me religious.
Posted: April 14th, 2014 under animals, badger house, personal.
Comments: 9
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Comment from QuasiModo
Time: April 15, 2014, 12:04 am
Did my first bicycle ride today…now it’s pouring rain and supposed to snow…yay!
Comment from dissent555
Time: April 15, 2014, 6:27 am
Yep, snowed here. Soft and white as baby lamb’s wool.
Comment from sandman says gubmint sucks
Time: April 15, 2014, 1:39 pm
Just got a Nissan Maxima and it’s raining and crappy weather here. Boo. No sunroof. S’okay: I work nights.
I like the little lambsie divies. They’s cute. Dumb and ornery but cute.
Comment from Mojo
Time: April 15, 2014, 3:45 pm
A kiddilidivie too
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: April 15, 2014, 4:00 pm
Oh to gambol like a Lamb in May ! Maybe if I take a trip to Colorado?
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: April 15, 2014, 5:49 pm
@QuasiModo – I think we’re in quite different climate zones [1]. I left on my bike ride earlier than usual this morning so I could get back before it got too hot!
1. I’m on the border between zones 9 and 10 on the west coast of Florida. It’ll be 87-88°F (roughly 31°C) today and the rest of the week.
Comment from Peter Risdon
Time: April 15, 2014, 5:56 pm
“A thought experiment: imagine you are a lamb in Badger House Field, born at midnight…”
We have a few sheep and they just lambed. I watched two twins being born in the early evening dark last week and had exactly the same thought.
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: April 15, 2014, 11:22 pm
It snowed in Chicago last night. This morning all the grass and bushes were white.
It’s now after 6 PM, and there’s still snow on the bushes and some bits of ground. (Mostly flowerbeds.)
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