Just another Day on the Farm

I made dark pink heart tops, and then a few big full sized Pink and white with pink middles, and I had a little fun cutting up some to be a “broken heart”

Somethings on this worked, and some didn’t, its always a learning curve, It was nice to play a little..

Hi Gang,

Rough couple days at the farm this week, Not going into detail on this, its just to raw to me, so going to touch on it and then we are going to move on..

As you know I lost my  big old ram, it was a awesome boy and it was a blow, every time I see the flock, I feel him missing..

Then came Girl, I had not planned on moving Girl out, I knew logically that it was a good move but I was not there in my heart, then Girl pushed the issue with her “I will be top cow” and so she got moved out, I remained standing and pushing though, but the cracks were showing..

But this week, was not expecting it.. I have a goodly number of hounds, and a number of them are older, as in into their teens and I baby them and we have all kinds of things in place to give them the best older years possible, but I was not expecting one of “middle” age hounds to get sick and it was found that he had cancer, and he went downhill very quickly, it was a very hard choice that needed to be made and I know it was the right one, he passed over the bridge to the other side.

But that does not change the fact that it has hit me like a brick wall, Rest in Peace my lovely boy! You will be sadly missed, you were as quick with your tail wags as you were with your tongue, you loved your head snuggles and your special run, hit the door, turn a full 360 was filled with joy..  you were always filled with life, kindness and love..

For all of you who share your world with critters, hounds and purrpots, you know just how much of a void they leave in your life when they go..

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!

small little vest, , flip over and bing bang boom, a sweet little water proof, fleezed inside, just zip it up.

You can also do a little sewing on jacket, a bit of elastic and it slips over the head and around the legs and they are good to go.

Got the vests and the coats for a dollar each at the second hand shop.