Pretending to Farm: Baby Love

Who or What is She?

She calls herself Lauren but is also known as Mom, Gramma, Lar, and, once upon a time, Peach.
An ex-suburbanite who moved to the wilds of the Sonoran Desert and decided to raise fiber animals, fowl creatures, 3 halflings, and one pint-sized farmer without a clue as to how. Join Lauren as she learns how to file alpaca teeth, shear a horny goat, raise 3 teenagers and 1 grandchild while cooking dinner and doing the laundry with her other six arms.

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March 22, 2008

Baby Love

Of the three 5-6 day-old lambs, Katie is by far the most rambunctious. The girl just wants to have fun. And show off her Mike Tyson impression.

Unfortunately, the rest of the herd prefer resting under the shade beneath the Palo Verde tree on this lovely warm and sunny morning. Outnumbered, she acquiesces. She loves her mum that much.

Closest to Katie in temperament is McLovin. His devil-may-care attitude percceived on Day One has increased with his confidence. Obviously, this concerns Carmela. I've seen that guarded apprehensive look in her eyes somewhere else. Oh yeah, in the mirror. Speaking of, someone please send Jeff Corwin over to identify this rare arboreal lamb. He has a strange call; it sounds like, "Grammaaah!"