Lots of people, when they want to change their lives, talk about how they’re going to move to the country and live more simply, off the land. “None of my friends would’ve pegged me as a farm person, but I’m as farm as it gets at this point.” “You become farm people quickly,” Kelis told me. Not long after, another sheep went into labor with twins.
Kelis had her son get a garbage bag, which she used to craft a makeshift glove, and then gently put her hand where it needed to go as she helped the sheep give birth to a ram. But necessity is, indeed, the mother of invention. She didn’t-not the kind she’d need for the task at hand.
Kelis called her sister, who is a veterinarian. Like so many of us, whenever Kelis doesn’t know how to do something, she consults YouTube, whether it’s for guidance on canning the fruits and vegetables she grows on her farm or helping a sheep deliver a lamb, when she realized that the sheep was, in fact, pregnant and in labor. Early one morning in February, Kelis’s 11-year-old son, Knight, walked into the main house on the farm where they live two hours southeast of Los Angeles, and said, “I see a foot hanging out of a sheep’s butt.” Until that moment, Kelis hadn’t even known that the sheep was pregnant.
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