This morning I will milk the cow, clean the buckets and the milking parlour, strain and store the house milk. Feed The Bobby and Marcel their milk. Feed the pigs their milk and hay and a little grain (for Poppy).( Who is taking after the ‘Flying Nun’. )
Feed the chickens their milk and their grain. Feed Queenie and Daisy their mounds of hay.
Feed the sheep their hay. Fill all the water barrels. Then I will load a small dog crate into the back of the car and we will drive the two hours down to the Kunekune breeders and collect ‘Timatanga Moana’ the new kunekune. The latest addition to the farmy.
There is snow coming again and until it warms up she will sleep in an enormous dog crate in the snug but I will take her out into the garden in the day. Yes, I know, having her in the house is bonkers but there is snow in the forecast and it is cold and she will be so tiny. Tinier than a little lamb. We will see. She will have a beautiful house under the apple tree later on but it is still not quite warm enough and she is only just 6 weeks old.
I will have images of her for you tomorrow. But I have to say I feel almost tearful to be driving across the state to collect a little scrap of my home country(New Zealand) and bring her home.
Boo would very much like you to throw this stick for him. He promises to give it back.
Sheila was housekeeping yesterday. Soon she will leave this space and return to the sunroom (with Poppy I hope, who was SO much healthier yesterday) and the new Plonkers will arrive and take up residence on the East side, so I guess she is getting it ready for them. Marcel and The Bobby will join the sheep. Marcel was loose with the sheep yesterday and all went well.
Do you see the suggestion of green? I think I do.
Ok. Off I go to milk and all of the above.
Oh and Daisy was looking through the milking parlour window at THIS. It was grocery store day. Instead of throwing all the old veg into the skip, they throw it to Daisy and Sheila. Wonderful.
Have a lovely day.
I shall pop into the comments lounge when I get home and let you know how Tima is. (Thank you Kate for her name!) I shall take the camera so we (hopefully) will have some fun shots tomorrow.
Your friend on the farmy,
celi
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43 responses to “Dirty Windows”
I’ll throw the stick for you Boo, I have lots of practice. Hope you had a good journey up the road to get your Tima. I saw herds of Herefords yesterday when I went out to buy cane mulch, they’re there all the time, but I *noticed* yesterday, we stopped for a look and I told Mirrhi they were just like Queenie….she was very interested and did big sniffs of their air through flaring nostrils. I think she’d like a cow or a pig. Especially that bat eared girl who needs a nose kiss.
Well it’s 3:28 and I’m getting antsy to hear!
E mai, poaka iti. It will be lovely to have a new baby on the Farmy and to follow her progress.
I hope by now the newbie is home and settling in. This is a good day for the farmy. And, for a change, the weather may even cooperate and give her a proper welcoming of a couple of warm days. That is one lucky piglet!
we have been home an hour and the sun is just peeking through, which is just lovely.. now it is time to milk daisy and settle eveyone into their night spots.. did you send me this bit of sun John? thank you.. c
Tima. Perfection as far as names go. Happy weekend to you, c, and the farmy.
Boo! OK, fetch!! No, silly billy, you bring it back: not funny 🙂 ! I’m not coming after you!! You bring, I throw . . . . .OK, OK, You are busy with Timatanga . . . . now you look after her . . . . haere mai little one! [And Miss C, you would give me a ‘D’ for window cleaning at the moment 😀 !!!!]
Welcome to the new little one! I can hardly wait to see her. I hope she has a peaceful night.
Haere Mai Tima! You have come to a good place, and I can’t wait to see you!
Looks like someone got happy with their beebee gun! ;o)