A Time To Keep

Today, Sebastien helped us to bring Cleopatra the cow to a friend’s farm to be bred (I wonder if he has a bull named Julius Ceasar!).   Poor Sebastien has been kept quite busy since the beginning of his spring break.  At the beginning of the week he butchered two pigs with the help of his older brother Xavier, then helped process all the meat, and for the rest of the week he has been working for a fellow parishoner remolding a spare room (trading work for a car), in adition to working evening shift at Western Sizzling. 

It took a lot of enticements to get Cleopatra in the trailer.   One of the kids suggested that we roll her up in a carpet (we’ve been reading Cleopatra by Diane Stanley).  

While Sebastien and the two younger boys were gone, Isabel decided to have her babies. 

Felix, tenderly overlooking the birth of the kids, suggested that we name them (both males) Basil and Mattimeo.  He is a big fan of Brian Jacques’ Redwall  series. 

Sebastien came home with two new steers.

These two will be called Eric the Red and Leif.  Although Dominique said the the white faced one reminds him of the Phantom of the Opera.   Our last three cows were Alexander, Charlemagne and Napoleon, and the last three pigs Plato, Aristotle, and Socrate, I am sure you can see the pattern. 

The little boys faces, when they saw the kids, were so precious that I can’t help but indulge you with a few more pictures.