Oh, what a busy day!

March 9, 2007 at 11:49 pm | In The Good Sheperd's Farm | 6 Comments

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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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  1. These are beautiful photographs!

    Comment by Suzanne Temple — March 11, 2007 #

  2. Love the names of your animals! I agree with Suzanne, you are a great photographer.

    Comment by jennifer — March 14, 2007 #

  3. Louise, your pictures are beautiful, and this post is just lovely!

    Comment by Dawn — March 20, 2007 #

  4. Life on a farm. I am so envious.
    The pictures and experience are great!
    Thanks for sharing!

    Comment by caygibson — March 24, 2007 #

  5. The pictures are great and I love the ones of the children looking at the new baby kids.

    Comment by Theresa ♥ — April 4, 2007 #

  6. Louise,
    Just seeing these now…thank you so much for sharing such great photos! Wishing I had been there :-)

    Comment by Donna — April 22, 2007 #


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