He washed him, and he put show sheen in his fleece. He trimmed his “dreadlocks” from his face, and gave him a buzz cut. Gideon spent extra time on Gus the days before the show. The final one he landed on was if Gus wins at the NC State Fair, we had to keep him. No matter, Gid is the king of making excuses. We don’t keep rams,” we continually reminded him. The “black sheep” of the bunch of rams, Gus was special to Gideon
I’m not sure why, but Gus was friendlier than any other lamb that year. Born on a windy day, he was dubbed Gusty and Gus for short. Sybil had given us the only natural colored ram of the year. As the saying goes, there’s always the one black sheep. That was the final count for how many ram lambs we had born this year.
