but trying to catch a lamb tore the ACL in his shoulder. :0( Saturday morning the sheep were needing to be moved across the road to their new pasture. After Mark and Sawyer had the paddock all set up they started to move sheep. The move involved going through the main gate into the pasture and into the driveway where they can mow down the ditches. The gate was removed but the sheep remembered that that area was hot, so they were a little reluctant to move through it. Eventually though all the sheep found their way to greener pasture with the exception for Esja and her new lamb. Everytime they were even close to the gate she would veer off and run away. So in the process of pushing them toward the gate, the lamb ran into a corner and Mark decided to try and catch the little lass with the thought that if he had the lamb, mom would follow. So he ran…and reached…and the little lamb was in his hand but catching speed so he dove for her and piled up on his shoulder. All he could do was hold his shoulder and I see he was in a lot of pain. All his little helpers came running up all wide eyed asking if he was ok. Being the tough daddy that he is he rubbed it off, smiled and said yep! A few minutes later he was on the 4-wheeler turned a corner and we all watched his ride go forward while he fell to the ground. He didn’t have any strength in his arm and wasn’t able to stay aboard when he took the corner.
The sheep all moved...
One of Mark’s previous students was getting married that night and Mark did not want to miss it despite being in a lot of pain. He didn’t want to go to the emergency room and be told nothing was wrong and miss the ceremony. The wedding was so very beautiful and the rain even held off despite the dark clouds that loomed all day. The bride and groom held a sand ceremony, where three viles of sand where mixed into one. One represented by the bride, the groom and God. When they were mixed together the pastor told us that this is the way God sees our marriage, it would be impossible to sort out those individual pieces of sand and now the three were now joined together forever. It was very sweet.
We only stayed at the wedding for just a little while and eventually headed up to the emergency room. He ended up having some x-rays done that determined there were no broken bones and that he had torn his ACL. He was sent home with some pain meds and a sling and has to make an appointment with the orthopedic doctor this week to see what the extent of the damage is.
Mark lying low...
He spent most of Father’s being pretty still and that about drove him crazy. Mark is not one for sitting around when there is alot to do…he tried to go out and weed some strawberries and soon found out he couldn’t do much of that without his shoulder hurting. We did have a nice day though, we had Mark’s dad and brother over for lunch and my brother with his boys and my folks came over for supper after my dad was off of work.
Showing my dad his bees...
The kids were too cute pampering and wating on their dad, so even though Mark didn’t get his strawberries weeded he did get some much needed rest.
The crew pampered their dad all day...
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