This is what I saw
Walked into town this morning and saw this on the path. It’s not my photo, it’s the robot’s, but it’s startlingly close to my experience. Fortunately, there’s a local WhatsApp group I could report it to – there was a road on one side and a field of wheat on the other.
He turned and disappeared into the wheat as I came close. I think it was a he. I don’t have the expertise to tell teats from testicles at a distance.
Read this on the web today: “In America in 1812 a young girl called Mary Sawyer nursed a lamb back to health when everyone else had given up on it. The lamb consequently followed her to school every day.
In 1830 Sarah Josepha Hale wrote a poem about the incident which was entitled Mary had a Little Lamb and thus became a popular nursery rhyme.”
I asked the robot if this is true. It said the two facts are true, but the connection between them is unproven. Mary Sawyer didn’t claim to be that Mary until she was a very old lady.
Day one of the heat wave. I’ve gone into defensive Southern mode and refuse to move out of the shade until it’s over.
Posted: June 22nd, 2026 under personal.
Comments: 7
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Comment from Uncle AL
Time: June 22, 2026, 7:43 pm
This is the nursery rhyme I remember from when I was little:
Mary had a little lamb.
She ate it with mint jelly.
And everywhere that Mary went,
the Lamb went…in her belly.
I’m medium sure this it the right version, but I’m 100% sure about the mint jelly part.
May God bless my mother and father, and may they rest in peace. They were delightfully iconoclastic about some things! I remember the stack of cartoon books that lived on the living room bookshelf: Charles Addams of course!
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: June 22, 2026, 10:10 pm
Mary had a little lamb
She shaved it for its fleece
The Bobbys took her knife away
And put her on supervised release.
Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: June 22, 2026, 10:33 pm
Well, it looks like ExpressoBold Pureblood gets the Dick – Al Greenspan has shuffled off the mortal coil.
Comment from aelf
Time: June 22, 2026, 10:49 pm
The version I remember best is:
Mary had a little lamb
Her father shot it dead
Now she takes the lamb to school
Between two hunks of bread
If you’re going Southern mode, don’t forget the iced tea.
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: June 23, 2026, 1:32 pm
Let’s face it… Mary is bad luck for the lamb population!
Comment from Mark Matis
Time: June 23, 2026, 7:30 pm
I merely note Clarkson’s question when he was helping deliver a lamb in one of the earlier series:
“How many holes?”
Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: June 28, 2026, 2:00 pm
Yar. Wool markets being what they are, some people are using it for mulch/slow release fertilizer.
‘Tis a shame, yar.
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