lane frost

How many of you have been to a rodeo?  Have you ever watched mutton bustin’?  Best event held, in my opinion.  You take a little kid and toss them onto the back of a sheep, then turn the sheep loose.  Did you know sheep could buck?  Well, they do.  Which is why I called our farm Bucking Lamb Palace back when we first got our sheep. 

This past week we’ve had a few bucking lambs around here.  Not because anyone was trying to ride them, but because the kids are trying to get ready for the county fair, and their sheep just do not want to cooperate.  You wouldn’t think there’d be much to showing a sheep, would you?  Just put a halter on it and lead it into the ring, right?

Wrong.  No halters allowed.  No collars or ropes of any sort.  Naked sheep.

Naked?!?  You cant be serious& 

Sheep are not as lane frost as people want to think.  But you know lane frost already because you visit me and I’ve already complained about such things.  Sheep are smart to make you think they’re stupid so that you don’t suspect that they’ll do smart things, making it easier for them to do them. The smart things, that is.  Did you understand a word I just said?  Because I’m not sure I did…that’s just how confused the sheep have made me.

But back to bucking lambs and 4-H kids.  The girls were trying to get their hands on lambs, and lambs were doing their best not to have hands on them, dashing left and right and leaving girls face down in places they didn’t want to be.  We parents would have helped, but we were too busy laughing. 

 Ha Ha!  My daughter just tripped over your daughter!
(Dads can be so insensitive&we moms werent laughing&no, really, we werent!)

Some of the sheep going are Icelandic sheep, most of them being the horned variety.  Nothing to fear with horns, my friends, as they become mighty fine handles.  But for the girls with sheep that have no handles?  Life can be difficult.

Thank you, Mom, for buying a lamb with handles for me!