When you add another code to your day. (I added five calves and 50 meat chickens). One needs to add more time! The time is added at the beginning and ending of each day.
So we are in the flux stage, the reshuffle. Then yesterday we had to add a trip to the vet for Boo. He has a staph infection in his foot, up his leg and into his mouth. He is terrified of the vet and refuses to sit like a dog on the floor when he visits. He sit on the chair next to me and stares straight ahead. There is no talking him out of this.
Until the vet comes into the room and then Boo slinks right off his chair, slides under the chairs and comes to rest under where I am sitting.
He is on massive doses of antibiotics and already doing better.
The Vet said with the humid wet summer we have been having he has seen a few of these cases in dogs.
Plus we had another 100 bales of straw to stack into the barn before it rained. We ran right out of cooking time so we all trolled off to the pub and had pizza and beer for dinner. Sometimes this is the only way. 
Here is a Miss C shot for you. The calves are still doing well except for the tall skinny one. She is called Difficult. We are getting the required amount of fluids down her throat but she has an odd sucking motion and gets tired fast. So she is drinking tiny bits often and I think she was better this morning.
This is the only shot we got yesterday evening from Amanda’s phone. Today I will do better. We are dripping wet from rain in the night and sopping wet from the humidity!
We were running yesterday. Tomoyo has taken over the meat chickens and the corn stalk chopping which taken a lot of the work off me. (The sweetcorn and the stalks are fed to all the animals, though Manu is still in training!)
But today will settle down a bit as these things do and by tomorrow we will have adjusted the schedule and we will be trucking along.
I am inside for my coffee now, still in my nightie with yoga pants on underneath as I was over feeding the calves at 5.30 this morning and am still going!
Do you want to see sorry Boo again?He does make me laugh. No-where else does he sit on a chair!
I am going to zoom out and help Tomoyo shift the chicken caravan (she is a tiny wee thing) then breakfast and coffee and a shower then we will start with the list!
I hope you have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
65 responses to “In for coffee”
Love this photo of Boo – that’s so funny! I’m glad to hear too he is doing better. I enjoy/LOVE reading your blog! 🙂
I was just wondering where you’d got to 🙂
…and sorry, I meant to say, poor Boo!
Never a dull moment C. Do hope Boo and Difficult are up and at em soon.
Have a happy day.
🙂 Mandy xo
Oh my. Poor Boo. That shot cracks me up. Hopefully things will all get shifted around today and you can get a new schedule all set. If I know you it will happen sooner rather than later.
You make farming look so glamorous dressed in a skirt and muck boots:-)
I feel bad that we haven’t been out to the farmy in such a long time, but you have so much going on that I don’t want to detract from all the work that you need to get done. And I know we would most definitely detract. So for now, we enjoy the farmy thru blogland.
Poor Boo Boo give him a hug and get well kiss from me XX At last a calf I recognise, like our Freisan (dairy herds in SA), they always look bony and underfed to me 🙂 Laura
“Zoom” and “trolled.” Great verbs.
My god you do sooooo much. Thank god you have the help you do! I so appreciate reading your blog with my breakfast every morning!
Poor, poor Boo. I really could feel his anxiety at the Vet. You described it so well. Oh my. – Glad, that he’s better now. But when I saw the header photo first I had to laugh out loud. Sorry. But it looks so so great him sitting on a chair with that paper roll next to him hanging on the wall – it looks as if he was sitting on a toilet seat (or on the loo). Oh no. Great shot.
Love the Miss C-shot too. But you had a very hectic day yesterday and would sure have needed much more help. Please take care, Celi, and settle down a little, as you yourself said.
Boo on the chair is so special. My Luc, all aquiver, sits under me the whole wait for the vet. He is as big as Boo or bigger German Shepherd mix but a just a Scaredy Cat at the vet’s. I’m glad for Laura’s comment. Those skinny calf bones sticking out worried me. Pub nights happen. Hope you have a Drying Day on The Farmy.
Poor Boo, glad he is feeling better. My dog was sick last week, but doing better now, he also hides under the chairs an shakes at the vet. He also insists on sitting and staying on the scales. Funny animals!
Great picture of the dog…hate it when animals are sick and frightened…he seems such a cool dog…
Boo-Boo! Please tell that doggie to get better! I am already planning next summer’s ball games and he is an integral part of the game. 🙂
Thinking of you all and wish I was there to help with your growing list of chores!
I think Boo is trying to disguise himself as a person sitting in a chair. Maybe he won’t be noticed there. 🙂 I’m taking a deep breath for you since you obviously don’t have time for it. I shouldn’t be sitting here in my pj’s either. We have another heat wave and everything has to be watered and readied. Oregon is getting not enough rain in the summers anymore. Something is very wrong. I’m hoping your Difficult will revive from the stress soon and perk up.. Pizza and beer make all long, hard days better. Think I have a dinner plan. 🙂
Oh that skinny little calf does look like the food just isn’t getting to where it needs to. Poor thing. Boo has the right idea. I think he’s trying to let the vet know he is HUMAN. No dog to look at here. No sir! I’m going to sit just like Celi and maybe the vet will find some other animal to poke. Then poor Boo’s ruse crumbles and his bravado disappears before he can pull it off!