This week Alberta was hit by a freak
summer snow storm. I do not recall getting snow so early before but
I do have memories of late snows in May and June.
The trees still have leaves and many
are bent over and some are breaking. The animals are not
particularly happy about it either. The roosters are not even smart
enough to go inside and are roosting on a branch with no shelter
above heads. The cats are unimpressed.
The sheep are pretty well adjusted, the
snow is not too much for them, they can still dig through to the
grass.
It is that time of year to sell them
though. I had a buyer who was all lined up to come two weeks ago,
but when he went to leave his place he noted something was wrong with
his trailer, I think he said an axle was broken. He was going to fix
it and come the next day. The next day he had bought the wrong axle
and was going to have to try again a few days later, but after
repeated trips to Canadian Tire, or wherever you buy new trailer
axles, he was having no luck getting the right one and eventually
said for us to go ahead and sell to somebody else.
This was frustrating, but
understandably not his fault, unfortunately I had turned 3 other
buyers down in the process, two of which I did not get their phone
numbers. Thankfully I did get the e-mail of one guy and he is coming
right away for a ram lamb. Well, I should say, he is waiting for the
weather to improve then will be here. He has selected a nice brown
Katahdin ram so we are holding that one for him, but we do have an
interesting bunch of rams this year including one with four horns and
a really neat looking tri-color hair sheep.
I am not happy with the weather, I am
not a big fan of the cold. I have aches and pains, and it is hard to
take. It is one thing to get winter weather in winter, or even in
the fall, but again, this is still summer and we have 2 more weeks go
to before it is fall.
I love Alberta, but sometimes I think I
am crazy to live here.
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