Lady Astor is still being put to bed early – much to her disgust. 
She would prefer that only the dairy women and men peek at the next shot, as it is only a documentation shot but interesting if you are a watcher of cows. And you all are. Mercy, what an education you are getting (along with me I might add).
Yesterday Lady was obviously uncomfortable and often when a cow has some pain she will lick at herself. Unfortunately she was licking her back when I was standing with a camera in my hand. This udder though huge is not quite ready, the teats are not tight and shiny yet and no dripping milk. But close. This can all change in an hour. Very close.
The only other inhabitants of the big barn (other than the chickens I cannot catch) are the four little pigs. Last night it got cold again and they finally found their straw bed.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Oh I forgot the cats. The barn is full of sleeping cats in the day time. Here is our old Egoli. And of course the peacocks up on their palace but they were too busy staring at the cadet. 
I would be surprised if there is not some excitement on the farmy today.
I don’t know about your table but mine was such an eclectic mix yesterday I had to take a shot for you. I shifted nothing – this is exactly how it is. (None of the fertile eggs I bought at the bantam swap hatched by the way. Hope we have better luck with the peacock eggs that are going in today.)
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
72 responses to “Peek in the Barn”
You could put anything on that table with the lilacs and the assembly would look good. I have similar table, was kitchen table but was really too big for the space so now it’s a desk. The plonkers are cute but I have a real soft spot for ginger cats 🙂
Oh, love your lilac also – my favourite flower next to lilies in the valley. Quite a contrast to Lady Astor’s last heavy days on film!! Have had my own excitement this morning: a cold stove in the kitchen started loudly crackling and a horrible smell emanating a few hours back – thank God midweek and staff working hours, ’cause a huge mouse had crawled inside the works and there could have been a bad electric fire – all I would have needed at the moment! All well now, bar the house smelling foul 🙂 !!!
Oh that must smell awful – glad they could fix it!
Hey, Fellowship. I promised to tell y’all straight after the Husband, and I’m keeping the promise.
The news is: I’m NOT going to die any time soon. Well, not because of my back pain, anyway.
No metastases. No other bad stuff. Just a *f…..g painful* pinched nerve between L4 and L5, staring us right in the face on my bone and CT scans. Next steps are medication specifically for nerve pain, keep up the heat packs, and an MRI scheduled asap to take a really, really close look at whether I suffer and they take out their little knives and fix it, or whether I just suffer. The Kick Ass Boots can go back into the wardrobe. I want my fluffy slippers…. oh, and a hot water bottle 🙂 and a bar of chocolate.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. To all of you, and Whoever is out there listening.
So glad I checked before filing and going onto ‘real’ life!! OK, you will have to find ways to cope – mine is also L4-5: hope your walking is not affected ’cause I’m fighting that at the moment > neuropathy . . . . but the bone is clear, glory hallelujah! I passed on the knives, Kate . . . heat, exercise, meditation, some painkillers . . . good luck and am jumping up and down for you 😀 !!! Well, kind;of . . .
Nah, it’s just giving me this extremely upright and rather aloof posture. Putting on my undies is a major (literal) pain. The heatpacks are an absolute godsend, the DeepHeat ones last for 8 hours! No chiro, on the doctor’s orders, but physio a must. Something new on the meds front, best taken at night. We shall see….
Mr Google has some very good sections on ‘Lyrica’ which may help you. I know a couple of people who take it – yes, sleepiness is one problem. I have actually learned to live with the pain, just block it out mentally, but every now and then take 2 Panadeines 4x a day for 2-3 days to ‘break the pain cycle – my best pain help comes from meditation: prefer Deepak Chopra’s beautifully modulated Indian voice: after 3/4 of an hour of total relaxation the relief is palpable and drugless!! To each their own.
I have yet to try it; tonight is my first dose. Drowsiness is one of my chief reasons for wishing to come off the oxycodone. My pain is often severe enough to produce tears, but the grey fog of drugs is worse. Panadeines sadly are about as much use as Smarties. My limber youth is coming back to haunt me, every joint that used to be free is now a source of pain. But as Celi would say: “Excellent” now how shall we deal with this…?
HooRay and loads of sympathy: hooray for diagnosis at last and sympathy for your pain, which I hope the drs can deal with. It’s amazing that you’ve kept going nonstop with all your creative achievements. Chocolate is essential for morale purposes.
love,
ViV
Chocolate already laid on! The relief is huge, I hadn’t realised what a mental burden I was carrying around. MRI will give lots and lots of detail of the problem area so a much clearer idea of what we’re dealing with and what sort of intervention if any is needed. So depressing to be on yet another drug, but she’s all in favour of me weaning myself off the oxycodones, so I shall continue my gradual detox.
I’m glad you are now able to relax a bit. I wish I could find some tolerable pain relief. Morphine-based meds are the pits and nothing else is offered other than paracetemol. Anti-inflammatories are a no no in conjunction with anti-coagulents.
They’ve given me something called Lyrica which is for neurological pain in low doses and for epilepsy in high doses, so it interferes in some way with erratic nerve firing. I’m told it may make me sleepy, so I’ll be starting it at night – a spot of unbroken sleep would be most welcome! I shall hold out against steroid shots till the end of time, but maybe a nerve block might become necessary in the fulness of time… Meanwhile, I’m alive, and likely to stay that way 🙂
Thank the Lord. I hope the new meds suit you.
If they let me sleep for longer than 3 hours before the pain wakes me, I’ll count it as a gain. I haven’t had a drink in years, so I won’t miss it on this new stuff either 🙂 I have a printout of the CT scan showing the problem. It really is quite enlightening…
I hope the new med is working out for you, Kate.
It’s helping, and now that I’m used to the side-effects, I’m allowed to increase the dose 🙂
Egoli is beautiful .. There is something special about a cat curled up snoozing