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After checking Lady last night before going to bed I…

After checking Lady last night, before going to bed, I was drawn to open the boot of my car, that is always parked outside our entrance door. Why I was drawn to it, I really don’t know, I have never done it before, and there was no reason for it. I reckon someone up there wanted to give me a fright to keep me awake, to be able to keep an eye on Lady. As I opened the boot, looking into my eyes was a mouse. With my fear of mice and rats, my first and only instinct was to slam down the boot and run, but before I had even the chance to do that, a small rat came out of a gap in the boot panelling. It was horrible, I screamed, slammed the boot down and was gone. Since we have had the farm, I have got a little better when I see mice or rats, but only to the extent that I don’t scream out as load, as I once did, but I still run. Big girls blouse, you may think, yeah, but I don’t care.

It was my own fault, and I am lucky that I had not seen any before. For convenience I have been leaving the bags of sunflower hearts and peanuts, for the Birds and Badgers in the boot of the car. I wont be doing that anymore.

The first job this morning was to clean the car boot out. Gingerly I took all the old bags and spilt food out of the boot. Taking the spare wheel out was a little, no, very daunting. Fortunately I found nothing horrible. If they are still there, I have left a tasty meal for them for tonight supper. They wont bother me after that. No way, for any reason would I have driven that car last night, I dread to think what might have happened if I had seen one when I was driving.

Had I managed to move any of the sheep, I was asked on the forum this morning. This morning I actually penned in four of last years Ram Lambs. They are not so much a problem as the Ewes, as they wander all over the farm, as a group, in places that I would be pleased for them to graze off. But I had them, and it would be good practice.

I tied the trailer to the gates of the pen I had made, and started to load the Ram Lambs in to it. They did not want to be captured, one tried to butt me, I managed to get hold of his horn before he got me. I had managed to get three of them into the trailer. Then the trouble started. Hey diddle diddle, the cat played fiddle, the cow. Well, who ever penned that nursery rhyme, should have seen this sheep jump, if they had, the nursery rhyme would have been a little different, for this Ram Lamb cleared the trailer with the extra side panels on, with inches to spare, and away he went, as fast as his legs would carry him. I had somehow managed to put the trailer back up. That was a mistake, for the last one to be loaded, saw the light under the trailer and whilst nearly knocking me over, squeezed its self under the trailer to freedom, and was gone like a flash. I suppose getting two Sheep to where I wanted them was something, however small, that’s of course if they are still up there. All this experience that I am getting, could help make me a Shepperd.

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