Yesterday Tane Mahuta was loaded into Kim’s car and off we went to the vet. Thank Goodness for Kim and her car. After another 79 dollars we discovered that he has thrown his hip out a bit and developed a secondary infection. He has a temperature of 104 degrees (between 100 and 102 is normal) so he has had antibiotics and I will give him three days of an anti-inflammatory.
By yesterday afternoon he was able to get up by himself, without crying. So let’s hope this will be sorted out soon. (For the record his testicles are perfectly normal). Thank goodness.
Other than that the day proceeded in a genteel fashion. Repairing buildings, scooping old barn floors, weeding the garlic, cleaning. I was Kitchen Mama and we all had a lovely slow productive day.
Look at Freya’s little ridgeback. Isn’t that sweet.
Every day lately it seems to have rained. For weeks now. Just when you think we are waterlogged it rains again. I have given up on trying to keep the basement clear of water – the pump will have to deal with it until the water stops coming in then I will sweep it all through. Even the well is overflowing. The lawns and the fields are sloshy. My gumboots are wet from hauling Tane up out of a puddle he was stuck in, the verandah is a continuous farmy mud heap and I think we are all growing webbed feet.
The fields are so wet that the nitrogen is fast being leached out of the soil. Do you see the yellow in field in the distance? That whole field is just about dead. There are many fields like this now. Late plantings are taking it hard. What a mess. We are going around our own vegetable gardens fertilising with fish fertiliser. But we need sun too. We have had very few good sun days.
But there you are. There is no lid on this job – we are at the mercy of the elements. And the plants that are established are growing like triffords. The sunflowers on the South side of the property are as tall as me now and still growing. It is an incredible growing year. So wet and so warm.
Have a lovely day
Your friend on the farmy
celi
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45 responses to “Tane Mahuta”
wonderful post- good to hear that Tane will be ok- poor piggy. Hope your face is also on the mend. I wish our wells were overflowing- we’ve had to cut back on what gets watered and what can just go brown this year. It’s always something isn’t it! Have a lovely day.
So glad Tane is on the mend, poor guy. At least he had some fun getting himself into this predicament. BTW, I made a version of Allison’s Shakshuka the other night, inspired by hers and Mario Batali’s and it was amazing! I wanted to post a wee pic in a comment reply but couldn’t figure out how to do it. Thanks to you and to Allison for the good eats! 🙂
Oh so glad you have figured out little Tane’s troubles. He looks like a miniature Wookie to me! 🙂
You with all that rain and us with the hottest, driest Puget Sound spring and early summer on record. Our climates have flip flopped.
At least from the sounds of it you all are eating like Queens! Oh and King John too! 🙂
The world is going crazy! We in the rain forest have a drought and unbearably high temps this weekend, and you in the dry flat lands have rain storms. I think the fellowship needs to do a rain dance and set the world to rights again. 😀
Very few sunny days for sure. Not one of my Gerbera daisies plants have bloomed.
Thank goodness Tane’s ailments are treatable, poor little sweet, furry-faced fellow. He is such a heart-breaker.
He is – I was feeling quite miserable about him.. c
There’s something really lovely about the old car and the peacock. Nice you snapped that one
Could muse over it with wild beauty contrasting with human’s effort and pride of products?
Hope the day goes well
Am thinking along Viv again: just in case some are too young, part of that song says:
‘ . . . the rain may never fall till after sundown
by eight the morning fog must disappear . . . ‘ in film Richard Burton sang it well . .
Hope the antibiotics are the correct ones and work fast And I shan’t make any ‘funny’ comments re the possible reasons for a certain hip replacement 🙂 ! Glad your face healing and there is no cheekbone fracture . . . Keep well . . .
Oh thank you Eha, I could not remember who sang it, all I could think of was Robert Goulet (who was no slouch). I can hear it in my head right now, the voice, the tune, the timing of the words. This is going to be my current earworm, I’ll be humming it for days.
Chris S in Canada
Chris – methinks Robert Goulet sang Arthur on Broadway and Richard Burton in the film: I don’t actually like ‘musicals’ very much but loved the lyrics of many of the songs 🙂 ! Love the wording of this one as most of us would like the rain to come, but when we are asleep 😀 !! Camelot indeed!!!!
Do you have an animal chiropractor nearby, Celi?
Anti-inflammatories may make him feel better, but if he’s actually shifted something out of place…