I wish I'd never called this pretty ewe "Cheeto". It was cute nickname at the time...but surely we can come up with something better? Help!
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I first met "Cheeto" back in 2014 apparently. I recently stumbled across an old photo of her in my sheep files. She was snuggled up with a cute white ewe lamb and I'm wondering if she was one of the early Lamb Camp Calendar models? I'm not sure why it was in a random folder with no similar pictures around her though. I honestly think it was destiny.
The first time I actually remember meeting her was early last spring. That morning she was just another ewe I was watching in the lambing field. She was resting out in the field, legs crossed in front of her, and I thought she was cute...so I took her picture.
Later that day and into the evening, every time I turned around I'd see her looking at me. Sometimes standing right beside me. "Hello there! Would you like to take my picture again?" This went on for a couple of weeks until she lambed...and I took pictures of her and her pretty lambs.
This spring she picked up right where she left off last year. I'd be crouched down helping a lamb or taking a picture and I'd turn around and she'd be standing right next to me. "Hi there!" It never failed to make me smile :-).
She had two beautiful lambs this year, Big Moose and a sister who is staying at Final Frontier Farm as a replacement ewe. She probably could have lambed one more year, but she has an arthritic knee and I wanted to retire her here so I could see her smiley face every day.
I don't know why we pick the friends we do or why they pick us. I'm just glad we're friends.
"Hi there!"
"Would you like to take my picture?"
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