Dawn across the sea of snow.
Marcel is doing very well. By yesterday afternoon he was following me about the kitchen. Boo Nanny is having to adjust to her lambie rising up and standing and being almost a tall as his Nanny.
Boo is trying very hard to be gentle, but Boo is only just, maybe, almost a year old. Boo is a puppy too. And he desperately wants to play. So he and Marcel are under supervision only for now. Now that Marcel is walking Boo will lay down and wack Marcel’s ear up, with his nose, again and again, trying to get him to play. Then leap before him, crouched. Then lick him all over with vigour. Then run ahead and run back. “Get up and play – get UP!!” But no Boo Boo. This Baby is too fragile.
Still,when everyone is sleepy they are perfect together.
Yesterday popped up above freezing with a stiff breeze so out went the washing.
I checked the bee’s store house, no sign of any bee eating anything. But that was to be expected. In the next few days it may get warm enough .. we will see.
Yesterday I picked up a bottle of PG 600 from the vets. It is basically an estrogen replacement. Sheila is reluctant to come into heat so this will flood her system with hormones and hopefully give her a kick start into fertility. Today Sheila will receive, via injection (from The Piggie Midwife :not me), a good big healthy dose of PG600 (6- 10 cc’s the sperm man said) then 5 – 7 days later she should (hopefully) be in heat and then she will be visited by the Arch Angel Hershel (I was brought up Catholic I am allowed to make these kinds of jokes) via the Piggie Midwife:not me and her catheter, and hopefully, fingers crossed and etc, Sheila’s reproductive system will have kicked into action and we are back in business.
This is Sheila’s naughty face.
The sperm of the Arch Angel Hershel (image below stolen from his site .. there is a very kind man on the other end of the phone there if you need advice) will be delivered Monday evening via an unsuspecting courier.
So fingers crossed. Again. (Maybe he was just very young when this shot was taken, he looks so small next to our big beautiful girl.)
And later today my new milking machine is due to be delivered. If it has not been held up by the weather.
Daisy would beat me with a stick if she saw how wide she is looking in this shot. But really it is just the lens ( yeah right!) – I wanted to catch her shadow.
NO, Pania you are not fat honey.
You are just round and warm. And waiting for Godot.
Dusk approaching across a sea of snow.
I hope you all have a lovely day
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
78 responses to “Boo will have to mind the baby today, it will be a busy one.”
I love boo.
I’m so happy to hear that Marcel is doing well. He sounds like he’s a fighter.
It is amazing to me that cows carry they calves on the side like that. Seems like it would be so uncomfortable being lop-sided like that 🙂
Best of luck with Sheila. I hope that you will one day have little Sheila’s running around the farmy.
Glad to hear that you’re no longer in crisis mode. What a couple of days that was — and I’m sure we don’t know the half of it. What a beauty of a day today was! We’re in for a weather roller coaster over the next 36 hours, though, and it’s supposed to be very windy tomorrow evening, so, please be careful. No more flying around the farmy! 🙂
That first photo does look like the ocean. What progress Marcel’s made! Poor Boo, just can’t seem to figure that little guy out. Too bad his name isn’t Bo & you could have named the lamb Peep.
Peep! Why didn’t i think of that? c
Well if you get more for yarn then they could each have a name but you could call them your “peeps”
I hope we have a dry day for the shearing this year, last year the shearer turned up out of the blue and it had been raining the night before, I had a terrible time drying the wool. and it never stopped raining! This year i will get more organised. c
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They are so cute together! Wait until Marcel gets big enough to take down Boo!
Love it today we will hit the 40’s they swear so my laundry will be caught up and hung out as well over the frozen snow pack surly to get slippery today 🙂
Lovely photos, Celi. I was out early yesterday to visit friends and didn’t take time to comment. As usual, you started my day off with sweetness and hope.
Your dusk and dawn pictures are simply beautiful! I hope the shots don’t give Sheila PMS!
that’s funny MISS C i have been sitting on a milking machine for three years now brand new never used it. it was easier to milk by hand than to have to clean it up. it took me twenty minutes to milk the cow that’s from walking out of the house to walking back in .. Missy says its power milking the cow kinda looks at me and braces her self our cow only has three teets that work the forth oraface (not sure on the spelling of that 🙂 ) seems to be not there.
now the Girls all do the milking three maids a milking 🙂