Laffing Horse Crafts

Caruso’s a ram. He’s basically a nice guy, too. I can scratch him under his chin and he’ll almost purr.

He’s a Jacob sheep ram. That means he won’t ever get much larger than 225#. Jacob sheep are a smaller breed.

Still, you don’t want to be there when Caruso gets mad.

Tonight he got mad.

A break in the fence allowed all of his smaller horned buddies to get out into the ewe’s pasture. Those are his ewes, donchaknow!

I climbed into Caruso’s pen and caught him and scratched him under his chin while Jeanette and Elena repaired the fence. Once the fence was repaired, I hopped over it to catch the errant rams that belonged in with Caruso (once breeding season’s over and the ewes are removed, the rams settle down and play nice together).

We caught ‘em and one by one I hefted ‘em up and over the fence. The last boy was the biggest and had the largest rack, so I was being extra careful… I had strained my back about three weeks ago and it was just starting to feel good again and didn’t want to strain myself or get caught in the face with one of those horns. I had him over the top of the fence and was about to set him down when Caruso nailed the fence at a full tilt. He caught me full across the belly and, um, more sensitive parts of my anatomy.

I dropped the boy rather unceremoniously and caught my breath quickly, thinking I was fine.

Boy do I hurt now.

So, if you see this:

Don’t walk, run. Or better yet, stand your ground – if you’ve got a solid 2×4 handy!

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It’s no tractor, but it is a real workhorse.

I’m referring to our Pontiac TransSport which we use for everything. We load it up and take it to shows… almost always makes it, too. We load it up with tarps and buckets and hay and use it to go get goats and sheep. We’ve even had a miniature horse loaded in it… that was fun. We load it up with people and go to the movies. We load it up with groceries when we go to the store. We spend enough time on the road zipping from one show to another and home again that a lot of our strategic planning goes on in the van. Jeanette often waits for me in the van while I finish up at work before lunch and does her homework. We all carry cell phones, so it’s a communications center, too. No internet access there, but a laptop often travels with us.

Now if we could only figure out how to hook a plow up to it… hmmm.

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