We started the morning by going out to the barnyard in the wee dawn hours to put the sheep in the barn in preparation for shearing.  I was so pleased to have Trouble help me - she moved all the ewes, heavily pregnant ones as well as the yearlings with their new lambs - quietly into the barn.  We were done in all of 10 minutes and back in the house for coffee.  What a champ!  I decided she should stay in the house while we did the shearing and let the sheep into the pasture.  This early evening she brought them back into the barn, again very quietly.  She's turning into an excellent farm hand.  About 8:30 p.m. she decided it was time to get with the program and have those puppies - the first one was born and we will check back in tomorrow with the rest of the story!