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CAUTION....Macho is aromatic

9/29/2011

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Good morning, supposedly the last really nice day for the foreseeable future and we are all advised to run out there with our sunglasses and shorts…..ok, sunglasses and shorts …then what ??? Shorts here on the ranch are currently NOT highly recommended, actually shorts are most certainly not even advised until Macho has “done his duty” and he and poor little Alyssia have been “released” from the honeymoon suite. ANY close contact with Macho the amorous buck is almost certain to render the afflicted with a “persona non grata” Odour cloud for at least the next 24 hours ! Macho seems to have a never ending supply of pee which he liberally applies to himself and anyone else who is unfortunate enough to be in the immediate vicinity, actually to anyone who is close enough to be in the vicinity of pee droplets carried in the air. Poor Macho, he SO wants to be hugged and anyone with a working nose is keeping a sensible distance from the disgusting stench. I am ensuring that there are signs around the ranch advising our Farm Tour guests that the source of the aroma is the too cute brown buck alluringly peeing on himself in the corner! In 5 months hopefully Macho will be the proud and very disinterested father of a little Macho created with pee and lust…bless!!!

Yesterday after whisking her way through morning chores and winning the war on spiders/ spider webs, Ursula went to work in the garden. With a wheelbarrow bigger than herself, our little tornado is clearing a weed free swathe through the blueberry patch and single-handedly providing breakfast lunch, ors d’oevres and entrees for our ever anticipating chicken house.

Quatre’s abs’ and pecs’ got quite the work out yesterday when the rototiller and weed whacker came out to play. The boys toys that leave wimpy me wheezing and weak looked like kids toys when Quatre went to work. I guess this is how getting old feels, smile. Thank you Quatre and Ursula for all your enthusiasm and hard work, you really have made a difference and the garden looks great !!

I have heard about premature babies and premature animal babies but I have never heard of a 3 day premature chick !!!. Yesterday as Quatre was gazing into the incubator she said “ chicks hatched” to which I distractedly replied, “ no Quatre, not till Saturday”…..NO MAUREEN..I said chick’s HATCHED!! And there it was, cheeping away in the corner of the incubator surrounded by silent waiting eggs, a little black chick. Welcome to our world.

Just a little mental reminder, this Saturday is the Key Peninsula FARM TOUR, so if you would like a day of free entertainment and find a source of good fresh healthy farm supplies, come out and visit us and the other farms throwing open our gates to the public. We look forward to meeting you!!!

Well, time to go, take care, keep safe, M
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Pauline
9/29/2011 06:09:01 am

Sounds like you are having fun over there all ok here -much better!!Back to work today,hope you are also ok Maureen dont know where you find the time to write all this but it does make for smile reading !!!! love you Pauline

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Lesley & Derek
9/29/2011 12:55:33 pm

Wish we could be there for farm tour! Hopefully it won't rain, but, if it does, at least the visitors will be treated to a wonderful fashion show!

Would it be too much trouble to request a few pictures of the couple relaxing in the honeymoon suite?

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MomS
9/30/2011 12:19:54 am

Sorry I won't be there. Hope you. have a nice crowd. See you next week.

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