I love sharing my recipes, photos of the critters, the lovely newborns, the cycle of life on the farm, the garden and more with you all.

There are a few subjects that don’t get covered as much on other blogs that I read, and I am trying to a point to cover them when needed on mine, as an example, last year when I got kicked by the cow, I shared the injury and the recovery in pretty good detail.

Of course, I didn’t talk to much about the knee being weaker, and that I have now done month and months of workouts to strengthen the leg and the muscles that support the knee itself.

Which brings me to the lastest of my ow’s, Now if you have been following from the beginning, I have a amazing ability to find any nails that are flipped and step on them,  I can slide and fall in winter, like no body’s business..

These kinds of things I consider my own fault and so be it, but this time is the not my choice for getting injuried, it was girls, three days before she was to leave (a couple days after she had a run in with being “over the top boss cow attitude” with my hubby, she took a run at me, it was over quickly and I handled it well, she was fine afterwards, and I had only taken two cow head butts.

However, they were good ones, and I went to bed the first night and rested, I took it easy and I did my stretches and I did my standing DVD and in truth I thought I was healing pretty good.. I really did, I felt not bad, energy coming back up, until I went to see Isabelle..

O my, we could work and put hips and neck back in, but I have pulled/moved my left ribs cage.. and its not nice, not nice at all, when she went to work on it, I about came off the table, I love that girl but at that moment, I didn’t know if I wanted to scream, curse or hit something 🙂

I went with a low moany wail of pain, she went with, massage, ice rub and you need to book in for a message before I can even begin to work on that, and I will be seeing you much more often till we can get it fixed..

Sigh.. not only is the cow costs unplanned but now I can add in several hundred dollars worth of extra medical that I was not expecting either, thankfully some of it will be covered our medical plan, but that means that I won’t have that coverage later in the year.. sigh.

I can let it scar now, and deal with it later in life or I can deal with it now.. I prefer now..

We don’t talk much about the little bumps that farmers get, and I get why, we just deal, its part of life, I mean, broody hen, fresh laid egg, of course I am going to peeked yesterday when I made her move..

Yes, I got a small burn when canning, and every time it gets near heat, it burns, a reminder to not be so careless next time.

Feeding out grains, sheep are not polite, they will bump you as they mill around, you can use a dog to hold them back if you want to do so, but none the less, bump, bump, bump..

Out riding in the bush, dodge a branch, thawk.. you get the idea..

We move on and we get it done, but that does not mean that we don’t get strains, bruises or even true injuries, we just tend to post cute photos, interesting stories and recipes..

Thankfully, its all worth it!