“Video? What video?” Zane asks.
“One of you running around the tree with the cow chasing after you.” I grin and walk back to the car, careful to sit more on my left side so none of the poo on my right side touches anything.
Zane climbs into the driver’s seat and points a finger at me. “No texting Max the video.”
“We’ll see about that.”
“What’s there to see about?”
“If you’re helpful today at the store.”
He narrows his eyes at me. “You don’t play fair, Bliss.”
“I never claimed I did,” I reply smugly.
Turns out, Zane can be very helpful with grocery shopping with the proper motivation.
After I got cleaned up, we made the drive into town, and he didn’t complain one bit about all the food we bought. In fact, he’s the one who paid for all of it and pushed the heavy flat cart for me. He did ask me very sweetly if I was going to delete that video.
I will definitely be keeping that for a future date.
CHAPTER 18
Bliss
It’sone of those no-good, very bad, horrible days. I left the house at five this morning to go check on my lambs and found that a coyote had gotten into the herd and killed two of my favorites. They were a set of Merino twins.
I had to catch an ewe and take her up to the barn, then I pulled one of my triplets that I had penned up in the barn. The triplet mother had enough milk for two lambs, so the third will do better on my other ewe. The issue is trying to convince her that she wants to raise this lamb as her own. It’s going to take a while to graft the lamb onto her. She definitely did not fall in love with her adopted lamb at first sight. I ended up in a full-on wrestling match with her to get her to let it nurse.
After that, I had to go look for the other two missing pairs, which I’m assuming got chased off by the coyote. I eventually found both in the ravine with one lamb stuck in a bush.
I brought them up to the barn as well, which was quite the event, trying to catch the lamb and ewe and put them on my four-wheeler.
I’m setting them up in a pen with some water and feed. They’ll probably be just fine, but he was stuck in that bush fora while, and I want to make sure he gets enough milk from his mama before they decide to go on a run around again.
My phone rings, and I glance down to see Zane’s name on the screen.
I unlock it and answer. “Hello?”
“You’re all right,” he says immediately.
“What’s wrong?” I ask.
“I was getting worried about you. I tried calling a couple of times, but you didn’t answer.”
“I was out in the pasture, and I only get service when I’m here in the barn,” I explain.
“Are you coming home soon?”
“Yes. I still have to go find the goats. I think they got out again.”
“Do you want help?”
“I think I’ll be okay. There are only five of them. I should be able to find them.”
“It’s already dark,” he reminds me. “If they won’t go far, maybe you should wait and find them in the morning.”
“I wish, but I have a coyote problem out here. I’d rather put everybody in the barn. I’m bringing all the sheep in tonight.”
