Forty Foot Road: Claire's grad photo proofs :-), plus update on lambs and Roger

Claire's hair is still Annie-red ... only slightly subdued, and it is growing out beautifully! It's starting to look highlighted, and she doesn't have dark roots showing because the hair colour tones were almost identical. It's actually quite lovely, but she can hardly wait for her own hair. And wait she will have to, because NOTHING at our budget level covers this red! She has decided to go with Image 1 for her order. She has grown up SO much this year ... and not only on the outside. I'm very proud of her :-).

We just completed Claire's Venture Portfolio (what a big job this is!). This is toward her entry into the Venture program at the high school in September. Gasp. Two in high school. I just have to run in town and get a signature on a letter of reference and pick up a CD (she is including video of two of her musical performances, snippets from Annie and Enchanted Sleeping Beauty). Then, off to the high school to drop the binder off and pick up Alison for the weekend!

All I can say is ... hurray for weekends!

Farm chores ... gave new little lamb his Selenium-E shot last night, and will likely band him later today. Iain will be doing shop class this morning ... I have to modify our creep panel so that our smaller adult sheep can't wiggle their way in. Iain, with my guidance, will cut the correctly sized piece of wood and screw it on to the panel. For those not in the know, creep feed is a feed ration specially made for little lambs. It's a delicious concoction of various crunchy pellets, some grains, and molasses. Adult sheep LOVE this stuff, so a creep panel is a length of fence with a lamb-sized door cut into it.

Speaking of homeschool, here is Iain yesterday doing math ;-), along with Coriander and her new little guy. Unfortunately, Corrie liked nibbling on the math book ... which belongs to our school district ... so he had to move to the other end of the shelter.

And for those of you asking about Roger, here are some "Mr. Roger's Neighbourhood" photos. This cat, honestly, is the neatest cat I've ever been privileged to meet. I'm so glad he showed up. He has graduated from following Alison out to the bus, to following us EVERYWHERE around the property. When Iain heads over to the pond to explore, Roger follows him. When I took Dickens for a short walk a few days ago, he trotted after us for quite a distance! When any of us head out to the sheep pen, he now knows that fence is off and he comes out to play with the sheep. He loves the sheep, and Rosie and Coriander adore him. Here are two photos taken yesterday:

Here he is in his "Overseer of Sheep" position:

(He tried this when Jasmine was in here with her twins, and she was less accepting of him. But he and Corrie are buddies!)

And here is his as "Overseer of the Neighbourhood":

And lastly, two of Corrie and her babe. Here Corrie is attempting to recover from the birth. Aren't you glad human babies don't do this??? I'm glad we don't shear before lambing!