Guess what?! We are all good today.

Yesterday flowed. It trickled along from one thing to the next. And at every bus stop of the day, my little metaphorical red bus puttered up,  work got on or off in a gentle orderly fashion. Work was started and finished and wandered back down the circular road of life without hurry.

I am thinking of weaning Minty from her twice daily bottle…

But until she stops jumping her fat body through all my gates

I may as well just give her the milk. She needs lots of building up anyway, so she can be a good productive healthy ewe. 

Daisy is most definitely on the mend now. She will soon be smelling sweet like my old Paisley Daisy. She gave two and a half gallons of white creamy milk twice yesterday. That is 5 gallons or 18 litres of milk a day.  My skinny girlie arms are getting a work out carrying that bucket!

And look what happened when my back was turned. I am taking my favourite shovel on my morning walk today to grub out these thistles. It is one thing to have the fields drying up through lack of rain, but Quite Another to have GREEN thistles growing with such disgusting vigour in amidst it.

Good morning. There was something else I was going to tell you but at 5.15 am it has dropped completely out of my head.  I spoke with my favourite hay man and we are going to go over on the weekend with trucks and trailers and teenagers with gloves to collect 100 bales of good alfalfa hay. His production is already down by a quarter, so I am grabbing it while I can.   We will probably cut ours once later on but the quality and quantity will both be less than expected.

Good morning. Once more it is dawning clear and a little cooler than normal which is brilliant for the animals. I can see Daisy lying quietly waiting in the field close to Pat’s Gate. After I wrote to you yesterday I called out Good Morning Daisy,  from the kitchen window.  Then filled the buckets with hot water and by the time I got to the barn she was there too.  What a girl. Though she has decided that she will not be hurried OUT of the milking parlour afterward.  She likes to watch me clean her milker. She is going to move on in her own time, thank you very much. Thats fine Daisy. She waits until I start cleaning the floor then she lazily sways out the door.

I have been looking for a shot that says Summer for our header. I put up the jumping lamb last night but this morning when I look again, I don’t think it is summery enough. So we need to look out for another one.  I like to change it with the season.

Have a lovely day. I am off out to milk my cow. Then feed everyone.  Then bake the bread. Then todays cake which is lemon and lavender. Maybe I will make the lavender jelly today too. I will see if I have everything I need!

Have fun.

celi