[Jacob-list] Big scare (whew!)

[Hobsickle at aol.com]

This past Tuesday a big storm went through part of the  country.  (I expect 
that many of you experienced this.)  The  temperatures were in the single 
digits with strong winds straight out of  the north and good amounts of (here) 
snow.  I got home from school and  started into chores.  When I fed the rams only 
three came over to eat  the hay, so I went into the pen to find the fourth.  
There he was--an  unmoving hump of snow with horns sticking out.  He looked 
dead, but  he's my best ram and my hope for the future, so I gathered him into my 
arms and  headed up to the house.  When we laid him on his side in front of 
the  wood stove we could see that his sides were moving and a foot would 
occasionally  twitch.  After a couple of hours it was time for bed, so we decided to 
put  him in the kitchen (where he could urinate on something other than 
carpet, if we  got so lucky) and when we rolled him onto his belly he could hold 
his head  up.  When I got up in the middle of the night to stoke the stove, 
there he  was standing in the kitchen stomping at me!  Now he's back out with the  
sheep, acting like nothing ever happened.  Boy am I thanking the  Lord!
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