Dorothy still hasn't given birth. She is limping though with that excessive bulk of lambs in her, but seems otherwise fine and had a great appetite this morning. The weather, unfortunately is going to become raw and wet for the next five days and will not be as ideal to give birth in as today. What is important is that she seems content.

Pictured behind Dorothy is wonderful 1070 who developed mastitis in half of her udder last spring. Her udder does seem to appear much better, actually quite normal, after having been treated with a regiment of penicillin, but Valerie decided that it was still best to give her a years rest. She also is a wonderful mother.

Our one and only lamb so far this season is also doing fine, as is her mother, Emma. It has been suggested by friends to name her Magdalene after Jesus' wife.

I'm definitely in the beginning of the learning curve with regard to creating this blog. It seems that whenever I download a photo, it just doesn't end up where I had attempted to place it. By the way I also discovered yesterday that one can not cut a MS Word document and paste it into the blog page. It is also very important to proof read what one has written, something that few newspapers do these days.