Hopefully by the end of the summer we will have our first two _real_ farm critters! Earlier this week, Andy contacted Green Fence Farm, and we are now on their waiting list for two Icelandic ewe lambs! WHEEEE! (Or should I say, “BAAAAAAAH!”)
The lamb-popping-out process hasn’t finished yet, so GFF can’t promise we’ll get our two ewes, so Andy and I must wait in agonizing anticipation for the next few weeks. In the meantime, we need to start cleaning out the barn and making sure it won’t fall over on us or the lambs, and we need to work on setting up fencing for the little girls to graze. (And we need to win the lottery so we can pay for this all.)
After we were put on the list, I started thinking about names. I _think_ GFF will name these girls before we get them. The lambs will be registered, and to do that I would guess names are required. However, we can give them nicknames, right? So, yeah, I was thinking about names. Lots of farms have naming themes: Celtic, Robin Hood, coffee. What would our theme be? I was thinking at first about using Slavic names, since I’m sort of Slavic and Andy’s Polish, which is kind of Slavic (?). Then it hit me.
Loafkeeper Farm.
BREAD!
We’re going to give our farm critters bread names! Pita, Sourdough, Paesano, Crumpet, Wonder, Muffin, Toast, Waffle (Andy says waffles aren’t bread, but I think it’s close enough), Tortilla! I’ve already decided that we’ll name our dog Naan, which is an Indian flat bread.
So, even though our (hopeful) two lamb girls will come to us with names already, we’ll probably call them Biscuit and Rye, or something like that. 
Maybe you can find out what scones and crumpets are in Icelandic.
-A
Cute!
I can’t help with the Icelandic, but I could throw in a couple Norwegian words! Heh.
Totally cute, and very thematic. I like Biscuit and Crumpet for little ewe lambies
You should add ‘Raisin’ to the list!
If we had a lamb named Raisin and had to eat it, would it be a piece de Raisin?
-A
YAY LAMBS YAY
I am so happy to find your weblog! ANd I want to rassure you that we wouldn’t dare name your lambs for you — they only need long complicated numbers to get registered, which we’ll give them, but names are up to you.
I like your names — the lambs are little furry fatsos at the moment, though the black one might be better called pudding. The black one’s mom is named “BaaBaa,” a pathetic testiment to what happens when you have so many animals that you start letting preschoolers name them. The white one’s mom just has a number, 103. Their Dad is Zeus.
We’ll be in contact soon about when they can come home to your farm — as early as the beginning of August, though we like to let them stay with their mom’s until the end of that month (probably just sentimental and really your choice!)
I like your blog — and, though I’m supposed to be a hard nosed business/farmer person, I am always really happy when it looks like our sheep are going someplace where they’ll be happy (and not eaten).
Thanks!
Kate
http://www.greenfencefarm.com
Hi Kate!
Welcome to our blog! There’s not a lot of sheep talk here (yet), but if you’ve ever been curious about ducks, right now this is the place to be.
The end of August will be just fine and gives us more time to get things ready here. We’ve been so focused on getting the ducks settled that we haven’t worked on the sheep area yet. We were going to start work on the barn this weekend but the 300 or so Christmas trees we have are begging to be trimmed. Perhaps we’ll train the sheep to trim them for us!
I hope the lambs will be happy here, and they definitely won’t be eaten.
=Carol=