Sheep Wranglers!

Geoff and l have three sheep here at the Farm.We also had three up at Mum and Dad's place just around the corner in Franklin to help them keep their grass down as well as an extra paddock that WE needed before we moved here.

Tomorrow is shearing time so we had to go up and collect the three at Mums so we could have them all in the one place when the shearer arrives.

Its always a bit of a palaver getting sheep to and from their place.

a.) the paddock is a fair way away from the area where we park the car.......yes..car....(.our sheep travel in style in the boot of the old Mercedes). Well ,not the boot so to speak, that sounds a bit cruel and a bit Middle Eastern if l am allowed to say that? A bottle of red wine tonight enables me to say ANYTHING though! So its a Station Wagon and we block out the windows with cardboard throw down a tarp and we fit two sheep in snug as a bug and they travel incredibly well and always without trouble............the odd piddle or two but that's all.........

b.) you ever tried push/pulling a sheep?

c.) You ever tried it using a Chihuahua as a Sheep Dog?

d.) Ever know the real meaning of DISAPPOINTMENT when you have a real true blue fair dinkum Border Collie sitting IN the car without a CLUE????????

OK , now you see what we are up against before we have even caught one...............................Ah now...... now here's the NEXT thing......................................l KNOW one should never laugh at ones loved ones.............but........................the photo below l am afraid reduces me to tears of laughter every time l see it...................................

Visualise this........................

Sheep in makeshift pen.............a bit ramshackle as you would expect... two in, one to go........... third one in.Geoff makes a run for the gate (me.... barking instructions from the other side of the fence)

Third sheep cottons on, spins around and is gone..........................NOT taking into consideration that Geoff has just watched New Zealand beat France in the Rugby World Cup................he launches himself in to the air and lands ON the sheep. A tackle that would do any Rugby player League or Union proud.

"Get the rope... get the rope" yells Geoff.....................

 "Yes dear yes dear" replies l as l cruelly and ingeniously extract my ever so nifty slim line iPhone out of my back pocket................. "l am just undoing the knot now darling" .................((((((((((((.click)))))))))))........(preserved for prosperity) '"here you are darling........one rope".......................l think its the angle of the knees.........................l just don't know.............!!

Anyway.....tears of mirth and laughter aside......... we manhandle our first sheep up to the car, load her in the back and head back to the farm. Here she is peering over the back seat!

 She wasn't too keen to off load the other end so needed a bit of a push and shove!

Lilli LOVES this farming stuff! Here she intrepidly hanging out of the window on the trip back for the second two!

The next two went on just as easily.One of them however insisted if we pushed too hard or pulled too hard she simply sat down and wouldn't budge. Just a big fluffy soft  white ball of wool with her feet tucked under her sitting on the lawn!, So amidst the giggles  we exhaustedly (by  now) pushed, pulled, chased and dragged her up the hill to the car to finally make it home.

With some nice sheep poo etched into our jeans!

 

Hauling them out!  

Omar was quite impressed by the new arrivals. Louise didn't recognise her long lost daughter and they all settled down very quickly and very quietly.Phew!

Our baby chooks looked on...........

 Topped off by a beautiful sky over the house line. A good day and a funny evening....