I think we are done.

Well, it has been a lovely lambing season.  We have 33 new babies on the ground and thriving with this beautiful if not slightly unusual spring.

I have been asked how we come up with our names for the lambs every year.  Naming is certainly part of the fun and it keeps my older daughter Maggie in the loop.  Since she went away to college and then Korea and now Seattle, she is not home in the spring to see the little ones.  One great way we stay in touch is for me to announce the lambs as they are born.  Whether it is day or night, I email her the mom who has just started her new family and how many babies she has had.  I let her know color, size and gender and she takes it from there.

Every year we have a theme.  I think the first year we moved up here we had designer names.  It seemed like a nice transition for moving from near Madison to the remote island home we now share with the sheep.  We had many twins that year so names materialized such as Dolce and Dior, Armani and Hermes, Klein and Lauren, Levi and Wrangler.  Now many of those girls are having their own babies and adding to the flock.  I think we have more than four generations here.

A few other themes we had have had are dances with monikers such as Tango, Polka, Jazz, Jitterbug, Rhumba, Foxtrot, Jive, and many other lilting tunes.

One of my personal favorites, maybe it is the weaver in me, was the fabric name year.  Great girls are still here with Twill, Tweed, Tattersall, Tapestry, Pendleton, and Chambray. 

This year we are back to literary names.  I will give you a selection. Please comment back with their associated titles. Some are characters and some are Authors.   We have Isolde, Oberon, Matilda, Earnest, Oscar, Evans and Elliott, Corrigan, Minerva, Eloise, Ferdinand, Ashima, Lyra and Pan, Piaf, Albus and Aberforth, Reuben, Eliza, Cecily, Eponina, and Scout.  Thank you for participating.