The calendar says spring.  Here in Montana it is anything but!  They say we have 9 months of winter and 3 months of company!  This year, I am afraid it's going to be true.  We've had 7 months of winter weather so far.  It is snowing again right now!  It's just after 1:00 am and I just came in from the barn.  A ewe was having twins and I hung around to make sure everything was okay.  I will go back out and check on things when I am finished here.  I have one ewe left and then I will be finished lambing.  I will be glad to be finished because it's always a worry, but I really hate having these little lambs on the cold, wet ground.  That's when sickness rears its ugly head.  I will just hope for the best.

One of the boys born yesterday, a twin, developed the runs and wasn't getting better.  I just kept an eye one him and thought I'd wait it out.  That's my general M. O. anyway.  This morning towards noon his stool was getting lighter and lighter.  White stools are not good, so I called a couple of friends and wound up taking the lamb to town with me for some Kaopectate.  I had to take him along because I needed to be at the shop in the afternoon and I simply didn't have time to run in and run back home again, besides I really thought he might be getting too much milk and that was part of his problem.  I left mom and brother in the jug.  (That's a small pen.)  When I brought him home just after 5:00, the mom wasn't very accepting.  She's still not.  I've had to pin her up against the wall to let the little guy nurse.  I am hoping that once he gets her milk back in his system and the Kaopectate leaves, his little hind end will smell a lot more like his brother's and she will accept him again.  We shall see.

Here's a picture I took on April 8.  Although I am sick of the snow, it can be very beautiful.  For one thing it covers up all of the trash..................but that's another story.  I fear it will look the same as this picture when I get up in the morning.  The flakes are coming down!

Morning update:  The snow is still falling.  It's not nearly as beautiful as the picture above for three reasons.

1.  There's more snow.

2. There's NO SUN!

3.  I am SICK OF THE SNOW!