“Touch it!”

“No.”

“Come on! I really want you to touch it.”

“No. I’m not gonna touch it.”

“You’re gonna touch it eventually. You should touch it now so it doesn’t scare you when it happens later.”

“I don’t care! I won’t touch it!”

“Please touch it? I want to know if you think it’s strong enough.”

“I’m not a sheep.”

We put up the fence today. It got tangled. It’s a good thing I didn’t have a knife handy. I don’t think electric fences work too well when they are cut to shreds. We finally got the tangles out and got the pieces all set up and got the charger plugged in. Then we had to drive back to Cburg for more poles. We were there this morning already. Blerg. But hey, the fence is up!

We also got some hay and cracked cornn for the sheep today. The folks at GFF said the sheep’ve been eating cracked corn, so we figured we should have some for them when they get here. Speaking of feeding critters, I picked Japanese beetles for the ducks. The last few days there have been hordes of them on the blackberry plants down by the road. Today I only found about a dozen. I never thought I’d be sad to not be able to find Japanese beetles on my plants.