Good afternoon everyone
* Krista drags up a chair, orders a strong black coffee and a slice of cake *
A busy morning this morning, catching up on all the housework that didn't get done yesterday as planned. Instead, I worked on the farm and played with the cows all day.
It's amazing how on a farm, new jobs just keep adding themselves to the list.
For example, we went yesterday simply to run six cows through the dairy so that they could get their lead feed - special minerals in the lead up to calving.
While we were there, one of them snapped a gate in half, which then needed welding back together. Then the vacuum pump blew three v-belts which had to be replaced immediately. Then two cows went down with milk fever and had to be treated intravenously, and one got stuck calving, which had to be pulled.
Next a heifer jumped a fence and joined the milking herd two months too early, and she had to be separated and sent packing to the maternity ward where she belonged. Then not one, but TWO calves decided to play hide and seek, and it took an hour to find them both!
The work just kept piling up! Anyway, I'm home today, and the housework is now done, and I have the afternoon off. Praise be - it's the first day off I've had since my hospital visit and I'm exhausted! If it's true that there is no rest for the wicked, I must have been very, very bad!
- Krista