It has been a long time since Saturday mornings were any different from other mornings but since moving back into the paid workforce Saturday mornings are developing their old charm.
When I was a working single mother of a mob of kids Saturday mornings were all about getting the house clean and reset for another week. We always worked as a team in those days – my kids were great cleaners. 
Nowadays it is the barn that is being cleaned out and reset for the week and on Sundays the Airbnb is cleaned and reset but these kids are not much good at cleaning at all. 
They are very nosy and very friendly these piglets. And their mother is eating out of my hand – literally – again. Though I am still nervous of getting into the pen with her.
My hand is healing super fast now that I have finished the antibiotics. The swelling is coming down now and the wound is drying up. Because that is the first time I have taken a course of antibiotics in over thirty years I expect my gut health to recover just as fast.
Not going to the hospital for the stitches and treatment was a conscious choice – there are some nasty super bugs residing in hospitals now, like big confinement houses for animals these new viruses and funguses spread easily, and legally your hospital does not have to warn you about an outbreak within their walls. So I was happy that my incident was minor enough that I could talk the local clinic into treating me.
Not to mention the cost of going near an emergency room out here in the States.
Anyway – all is well with my hand.
This morning I will focus on cleaning out the cow’s shed and their yards. My diary says April/May for calves so it is time to move my focus to the other side of the barn. I still think Tia might calve first – Del’s udder remains largely unchanged which is just like her!
The grass is growing!
I hope you get sun today. We will be cold but the sun will help.
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
30 responses to “SATURDAY MORNING”
So glad your hand is better: do take care ! Could not agree more with you about the danger of superbugs in the hospital system. Have a very good immune system but have succumbed every time I have had an operation: neatly ‘bought it’ permanently at the time of my mastectomy which was a doddle in comparison. Glad you have the knowledge about the importance of probiotics when taking antibiotics which cause such havoc to the body. Am aghast that you have to pay for Emergency care in hospital A&Es in the States – this is totally free for each and every person in Australia, insured or not, as is all medical care unless one insists on certain doctors, a private room and bypassing others on the list for non-essential operations. .Love your photos . . . . especially of the ducks who cannot jeep away from the water . . . 🙂 !
So glad your ha d is on the mend, take care my lovely miss c!
Superbugs in hospitals are a fear here in Australia also. My Dad’s health issues were made much worse when he contracted one via a medical procedure in hospital when he was already very ill, then he had to be isolated and treated as infectious which didn’t help his mental wellbeing. There is some transparency, there was a board at the front of the hospital displaying information regarding its infection rates, which had it slightly above the mandated norm. Little comfort there…
I have always loved Saturday mornings, they have their own simple character.