Tuesday, May 9, 2006
May Day weekend recap...
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This past weekend was great. Spent time with many good friends, raised a beautiful Maypole, and welcomed the newest Burke-Smith via a very lovely Naming ceremony in Ingsleigh Hall. The weather was perfect (save for a little overcast & droplets on Saturday), and the blackflies were just semi-evil. On a sad note, however, we lost our old sweetheart of a ewe, Alice, to bloat yesterday. She was a very gentle old Finn with arthritis. Everyone seemed OK when we left to run a couple errands, but Alice was already gone when we returned less than an hour and a half later. We are very sad to have lost her, since she was so loving and gentle around small children. Alice will sorely be missed here. One other bit of sad news also: our second attempt at hatching eggs from our Dominique flock this year has failed. None of the eggs were fertile, so it looks like our rooster Chucky is shooting blanks. :( We have some Narragansett turkey eggs in the incubator now... crossing fingers on these eggs, as it is our first batch this year for turkeys. |
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