Scheduling Lambing Season

I carry the weather forecast and my calendar to the barn.

"These would be good days to have lambs," I say, pointing to the sunny days when my calendar schedule is light.

The ewes, heavy with lambs, look at me. We sigh.

We both know that I should mark the rainy, windy, cold days and the full-schedule days as the ones in which I'll go to the barn and hear the baas of newborn lambs.