Last night I added another sleeveless sweater to my wardrobe. A set of ram lamb twins arrived courtesy of Pheonix shortly after dinner. It was a wild night, snowing here and insanely windy. The lambs were all shivery so I made another set of sweaters. There's nothing like wool for wicking moisture and keeping warm bodies.

Holly stopped by to help out. Before we had finished tending to Pheonix and her little boys, Tupelo, Pheonix's full sister, was clearly having strong contractions. So we hung out in the barn for a while and nothing happened. So we went to the studio and hung out in front of the tv watching the lambcam, eating pizza. It's a good thing we didn't wait in the barn. Tupelo didn't drop her lambs until nearly midnight, but she did it all on her own, a sturdy pair of ewes!

The two sisters are side by side in their lambing pens.  In keeping with my "color" theme, I'm naming my second set of arrivals for the secondary colors. The ram lambs are Verde and Jade (for green) and the ewe-lings are Violet and Papaya (for purple and orange).

I don't think anyone, including me, correctly predicted that Pheonix and Tupelo were so ready to lamb. Last week lots of you thought Pansy and Kodiak were ready. And I'll tell you one of those two is a lot closer than the other! And there is another ewe in the wings at the moment, looking pretty close.

Will it be veteran ewes Pansy or Kodiak? 

Or one of the four year olds,  Calypso or  Cassandra?

Maybe 3 year old Verbena?

Or the two year old fillies: Corono, Zuni, Aberdeen, Helena, Galveston or Mystic?

All commenters will be entered in the drawing to win 2 skeins of Foxfire Fiber Wool & Alpaca Twist and a copy of Lisa Lloyd's Thistle and Fox Socks booklet. The drawing will be held a the end of lambing season.

Lamb-Along with me.