That my hands are still shaky?
Not good for a photographer. Ah well, today is Day Three of the IcePick Headache Bad Head so I am sure you will forgive me the camera shake. I feel so sorry for people who deal with pain on a daily basis. I should be grateful that all I have to deal with is the occasional Bad Head.
Above is the most boring picture ever but it shows you the surroundings. We are surrounded on all four sides by waterlogged empty fields.
And what a misery of a day yesterday was – it rained and blew, the clouds were low, the fog thick, the light dim and slowly it got colder.
Two middle sized pigs (the smaller hand reared ones) have been slow to pick up – still not eating much. They are too old for this kind of problem. They will go off on jaunts around the field and chew on grass but then straight back to bed. No fighting for food. I am still concerned.
Tima and Tane are still a box of birds though – nothing slows these two down.
Everyone got an extra portion of straw to help with the cold last night: we are drifting down into another cold snap again, though so far I see nothing below 0F/-17C . I don’t call it cold until we get down to 0F. We all do ok below freezing. Sub zero is the killer.
Actually wind is the killer! Luckily everyone has good deep beds out of the wind. It will be chilly today with wind but I am promised some sun.
Some days on the farm in the winter are kind of dull to report on. But this is what farming is like out here. Some days are dreary, it is real life.
I need to shut this screen off now. Get moving.
I hope you have a good day.
celi
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If it’s day 3, you’re coming to the end of it. Keep your head and face out of the cold wind as much as possible. Do try hot or cold washcloths, depending on which you find most comforting. For me, it’s cold. I put them on my aching head and you can practically see the steam rising… But I know some people find heat relieves the stabbing pain more. We’re having torrential rains and pretty strong wind too, down here, but it’s hot and steamy with it, 80°F +. Cyclone season is here. I’m hoping we’re spared again this year…
That cold wind is evil today, we have been walking straight into it.. c
I think what you have is just left overs from what laid you low at your son’s. When you’re tired and run down these things happen. As you get better so will the ice pick stabbing. 😉
Poor frozen faces… keep cosy.
The wind is the killer…always! I so agree.
Linda
Morning Linda.. c
Morning! Gray and gloomy here. Oh well, it is January after all.
So sorry you still are not 100% but it sounds likes the pigs are. Hopefully you will be soon. Never do I think “dull” in regards to The Farmy. Not even in winter, It got so cold so quickly here as that wind blows across us. Bitter, bitter cold!
Bitter bitter cold – and that wind – we will not be doing any complaining when the summer comes around again.
I remember thinking how fairytale your earlier snowy landscape looked, now the mud looks like a battlefield tale landscape. But it, and dreary days are as They say all just grist for the mill. I prefer dull days to drama days.
Yes, I agree – lack of drama is a relief! c
I sure hope your piggies become hungry piggies soon!
Yes i hope so too! a pig without an appetite is a sorry creature.. c
Icepick headaches certainly are not migraines but still oft associated with both the latter and cluster headaches – usually come on after about age 45! Altho’ the cause[s] are not certain I am afraid stress seems to play a big part and your abortive trip to Canada accompanied by the dour weather cannot have helped.. The drug Indocin helps in over half the cases but can be quite dangerous in the long term . . . . actually the best proven remedy is meditation: it would greatly help both stress and headache – you take time off in the afternoons: an ideal period during which to enter absolute heaven as far as I am concerned – I have had severe daily pain for decades and get rid of it for hours this way and without Big Pharma! Hope it is on the way out . . . three days is unusually long . . . there are other reasons but only a quack and tests would make sure . . . all the best . . . oh, I have had visual migraines for at least two decades: small transient ischaemic attacks, but I have no pain associated, just broken vision from a couple of minutes to half an hour: slow down > goes away 🙂 !
How awful to have severe daily pain – that would wear on a person.. hope you get a few hours without pain every now and then. c
*smile* So much work, am back late !! Well, Valerie has also come on board with meditation I see . . .once it becomes part of one’s life it is wonderful! My main guru for CD’s is Deepak Chopra – his gorgeous, sexy Indian voice [if you do not know, he is actually one of US’ foremost professors of medicine and has a large facility in La Jolla] can ‘make you do anything’ !!! Pain: one learns to live with it, to smile and tell it to ‘f… off’ !! I was born with a back of a 95-year-old [no, one can’t see: am told I have a superb posture!] and nought can be done about that!! I would take painkillers 1-2 a month: am not about to wreck my liver and kidneys and blood composition, thank you! You just live with it and don’t think about it 🙂 ! All the best . . .and hope your chest has cleared up . . .fully . . .
Celi, hope you’re really beginning to feel Better… one of your friends wrote asking for the pain banishing technique I mentioned yesterday… rather than write it out again, I referred her to a blog in which I wrote about it … the directions – if you’re interested – are in a blog of january 2013 called The Challenge of Meditation … go well, magnificent person XXX
Thank you Valerie – I did not see your comment from yesterday – we will come over and find this post – thankfully I am better now so no more need to worry .. c
I’m farther behind than I realized… I thought the ‘ice pick’ was in your back… but, rather, it was stuck in your head. Do you get nauseous when that happens? I give you so much credit for working through it.. but I guess you have absolutely no choice. (As I read on Thursday’s post – your headache is better – thank God.) And – are those fields ever dreary…. are they usually snow-covered, like in Quebec?
Box of birds? That is a new one to me!