Red’s faithfulness and hard work are forever an inspiration for me. Today, as the temperature climbs into the 90’s, I remember a photograph of Red I took just a few months ago, while Maria was in India. A blizzard was raging around the farm, and I told Red to lie down and hold the sheep where they were as I went to get hay and grain.

When I returned, the sheep were in place but I couldn’t Red at first, not until my eyes had adjusted. There he was, he never moved an inch.