Sheep in a Jeep

Story time at The Read Leaf Bookstore, May 2003

We had many visitors for story time over the years at our bookstore, including several dogs, baby chicks, and even a one-day-old calf that the kids got to name.

The morning the lambs were scheduled to come, their owner called and said he couldn't make it. But we were welcome to come pick the lambs up ourselves. Roger took the call, and because he didn't want to sound like a city boy, he said he would be right over.

Heh heh. With a little help, he managed to get them into their crate, get the crate in the back of the Jeep, and get back to the store in time. Then we let the lambs out of the crate, and things got a bit crazy. It was immediately clear that we lacked the necessary lamb wrangling skills.

At one point the lambs were running freely through the non-fiction section, pooping as they went. We had to shift into high gear, wrangling the lambs and wrangling kids to keep them from stepping on the lamb poop (which, thankfully, consists of easy to clean up pellets).

And then, somehow, we managed to get the lambs back in the crate, back in the Jeep, and back to where they came from.

The end.