The Boards

I have two black boards – actually they are made of slate rescued from an old school destined for demolition. One board (in the Cloak Room)  is for the Work. The other, kitchen board,  is for – well, kitchen stuff, household stuff and reminders and my thoughts. 

I will not read you all of the kitchen board as one side is a deeply boring grocery list but the other side says:” You can’t teach old dog New(-er) tricks.”

You see:  The other day as I walked with the dogs I realised what this meant.  The: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks thing?

It is not about teaching an old dog New Tricks – we can all do that – it is about teaching an old dog to leave his OLD tricks behind and learn NEW tricks to replace the old tricks. This is much harder for us to do.

Much harder – even when we know the old tricks are obsolete in the extreme. 

Mrs Flowers and her peachick are still defying the odds (and the cats).

Tima Looks as UN-pregnant as a pig can get.

Hugo and I put Difficult Bobby into the car and brought her home to be friends with Little Bobby. Two bony calves. The other two are still waiting for their human to pick them up. It is a very busy time of year around here.  But hopefully it will be soon.  Anyway Little is way pleased to have someone his own size to be with. His lungs are still very bad – poor wee fella. He coughs and wheezes but is still alive – he is beating the odds as well. But small. 

Poppy still wanders the farm at will. But she has always done this. She always comes home for dinner.

Hugo helped me lift the divider between her (and Sheila’s) pen and the middle pen with Molly and Tahiti.  So now the big pigs can see the little pigs. Both big pigs immediately started to fight the little pigs through the fence. (Even though these are Poppy’s daughters).  Sheila promptly moved her bed across to the other side and soon Poppy lost interest and went back out into the field. The little pigs were very interested  but we need to be sure of Sheila before I blend the two pairs of girls into one unit.

The other thing written on my board is

• Clean
• Wash
• Tidy
• Clear
• Then slow down and COOK.

This is how life should be.  At least for me.

i hope you have a lovely day

celi