Thursday dawned bright and sunny, a glorious day. Winter made a grand leap into Spring.  You could hear the daffodils cheering each other on. Coffee, hang out the laundry, halleluia, and on to the task of the day…cleaning out the winter’s worth of manure in the barn.  New lambs due any time. 

Everyone out of the barn…a perfect day, and no blackflies ,,yet. Slogging back and forth on tractor, the  field soon full of  muddy ruts trying to swallow the tractor tires whole. By evening, the barn was empty of equipment and half the floor was bare and dry. An early to bed : early to rise night

In my usual 3:30 insomniac state I stepped out into a calm night , the sky brilliant with stars, to make the first lamb check of the season..Felicity was due in 2 days and she like to go two days early. And, true to form, there she was! mom and twins, a white and a black, washed and fed.  All is well in the world here tonight.