Well hello folks,

Wow things have been busy, so busy that I have just not been able to find time to blog.. sorry my dear’s, I have been missing you and think of you often but finding the time and space to sit down and get the info out, that has been taken by “now” needs.

So lets see Friday was finished off making plum sauce and hitting the head to pillow, I awoke on Saturday with so much plans, and we both got to sleep in (a rare thing these days) and so I started the day smiling and we were running a touch late on the morning farm chores, so I was dealing with hounds and purrpots and fowl, it was a picture perfect moment for me, clucking chickens, honking geese, the hounds rushing back and forth playing and chasing each other, or sniffing in a amble walk along, a line up of purrpots for the three just filled feeding stations and there are horse’s, and sheep at the bale and Dh is taking bright lovely green hay off in a round to roll and haul down for the milk cow and calf and the horse’s nicker morning mom and I head over to give a morning hello and I freeze, because there in Sam’s nose is a big old thick green snot..

I freeze and look at it, in truth in disbeielf to a point, he has been so good since arriving, I just was not expecting it, then my body and mind unfroze and we snapped into action, he was put into the barn in his own big box stall, locked away from brandy and temps were taken, nose was cleaned, electrolyte’s into his fresh water, all fresh dry straw so I can track bathroom, fresh green hay hauled in etc and the watch begins.

I started his med book and was tracking everything, in a nut shell, it was nothing, he never had a temp, he was eating, drinking and going to the bathroom perfectly, he was bright and full of energy the full two days he was in the barn and he went to just a bit of lighter green on the right nose by the next morning, clear and just a touch by the next evening and by the next day, nothing, and he was allowed to come out of the barn and rejoin the main group, please note that brandy was also watched and checked and nothing.

So most likely it was something very small indeed but it totally flipped my day on its side.. we got all the gutters cleaned and a few other needed things done on the farm, including working in the gardens, but the issue with this was that it was pouring rain, we were soaked to the bone a couple times.

It was a long enough day that I was finally eating my supper at 9pm, and we always eat by 7 at the latest..

Sunday came on bright and lovely, and we were up early and booting it, we needed to have showers and head to a get together for the day, travel was good, and the morning was spent talking about grains, green cover crops, fodder etc, a amazing potluck and then a afternoon of a seed saving seminar which was great, it was officially done by Ottawa Garden and it was a pleasure to meet her in person and for me to get to sit back and listen an learn. Afterwards we took a nice walk in the local woods and tracked down an number of ready to harvest fall berries.

We arrived home with a new farm critter, his name is cuddles, and he is a 14 week old mixed breed young rooster, he a nice gentle tame boy that needed a home with room for another roo, Big Red is very old at this point and young wash is awesome, and a wonderful flock leader but he is not going to produce as big of offspring as a nice big mixed double purpose brown egg layer, so Cuddles just fit that bill well.

Introduction were done today and as I had hoped, he came from a flock with a strong rooster in lead and he was a calm non-fighting boy and that is just what happened, wash offered him challenge in a soft way three time, three times cuddles, said, no thank you and that was it, they both went back to free ranging! Perfect!

now I need to get back at it.. photos of cuddles coming at later point!