Pet sheepie baas 1
As kids, there was always a pet lamb happening..Dad would come in with a lamb or two, revive them in the..open door..of the wood stove..and we’d be given the job of looking after them. We always gave them names..one with a broken leg ..that didn’t heal properly, we called Normie..she was pint size..deformed front leg..went in with the main flock ok. We used to have a lamb bar..probably held 2 gallons of milk..had 8 or so teats on the top, and tubes descending into the milk in the middle..we used to milk the cow, keep some for the household, and separate the rest for the lambs and or the calf that the milking cow had borne…took cream off, made into skim milk. 2nd nature to do this stuff, and it was only after I came back to the farm, that individual lambs started to make an impact. Guy called Bruce brought in a new born lamb..was in the middle of the road..so he got called Bruce. Thats what we told him,..wasn’t overly pleased as I recall. Anyway, there was a Bruce Goodluck maybe in state parliament at the time..He just ate what was in front of him..unlike Gerramanda lamb, who was a bit on the picky side. Gerromanda?..ah, in Qld we had a Joe Bjelke..and there was a jerrymanda happening apparantly ( you never know who is listening..)…whatever the spelling is. We had a local senator, Shirley Walters..so we had a lamb called Shirley..then another called Laverne to keep her company..there was a senior liberal polly that scored his name on another pet..dunno now! Bruce and Gerromanda lamb…had a ring to it! Girl I ..used to know well..put some spraypak cans into the incinerator..rusty old 44..and it was burning merrily, smoking away..Bruce and Gerromanda lamb were grazing nearby..Bruce mowing the lawn so to speak, Gerromanda pruning the thistles and the cherry plum tree..when the cans go off. uhhh..little ring of smoke and ash went up..and Bruce and Gerromanda lamb were nowhere to be seen. there was the bang-bang, a snort for want of a worser word..and there were two sheepies waaaay over the other side of the paddock..looking my way.. Funny, could have sworn they were just here a second ago..
Good story Bill
Great memory of yours.
Lovely story Bill!