Nice to be missed!

Thanks for the emails inquiring whether I am still alive and well...  Yes but almost ever since Susie left I have been involved with preparing the slide presentations for the retreat... I am doing two... "What makes it work" and "Salvaging a Block"  First it requires actually defining my own thoughts so I can articulate  but also lots of time sorting and acquiring images..  I have settled on nearly 100 for each program but to get that I probably sorted through 4 times that many.. 

And as always life is there to throw in a few curves... When you are in the drought cycle the last thing you want to see on a farm is water appearing on the surface of the ground.... a sure sign of a leak in a underground pipe...and even worse it was about a 1' away from the foundation of the garage..which meant lots of hand digging..  It's now fixed but in the process there is a problem in the pump house and a yard pump that will need to be dug up... Both those will have to wait until I get back but the one by the garage was not one that could wait... fixed now..at a price.

Then Inga came from Leavenworth and bought my remaining ewes last weekend... Even though I know they could not be going to a better home, it was so sad to load them on her truck and I'd be lying if I did not admit to shedding some tears. It was not only losing the sheep but giving up yet another part of my life because I am getting older.....  very depressing.  She also took my ewe lamb and asked if I had named it... I hadn't because I was trying not to bond with it also... But she sent me a email and said she had named it "Gerry".  I believe this is a  photo   taken shortly after she was born...

If you have followed my blog for any time at all you know that they occupied the good part of my daily life and a large part of my heart.