It was HOT, not that we are complaining, in fact I am a huge fan of those wonderful warm sun beams that we all know are really not good for us. Have you ever noticed that people seem to smile much more when the sky is blue and the sun is shining? It seems even bad news is somehow more easily accepted when the weather is pleasant. I base that comment on an observation made yesterday. A really good friend of ours water main broke, bad enough,.. the water main broke under a tree, a VERY big tree with huge roots …it’s getting worse and because she doesn’t have running water she is unable to use her dairy. Because she can’t use her dairy, all her dairy animals are wandering round with huge milky bars and there is nothing to use all the wonderful creamy frothy milk on. My point is ( and I know I have taken some time to get to the point but I wanted to paint you a picture!)…when this really good friend was sharing her terrible news with us, she was smiling, she was telling us that her fractured water main was wrapped around the roots of a huge Cedar tree and it wasn’t really clear the route Neanderthal ( well, the house is really old!!!) man took when laying the water pipe. She managed to joke and smile through her misfortune. I guess she is a message to us all, also, when we think we have a problem there REALLY is someone worse off .
Let’s have a bit of a catch up round the ranch. The two transient Canadian Geese are still using our pasture to graze and raise their brood of 5 goslings. Mom and Pop geese have become very tolerant by which I mean that now they DO allow us to enter the pasture which is very nice because when they first embezzled our pasture from us in the Springtime, they wouldn’t allow us to walk past…and certainly not to enter without a battle. The goslings are apparently growing faster than the grass they munch which is pretty fast. They are possibly now as big as Momma Mallard …which leads me neatly into my next update. Momma Mallard has been seen on the pond with her sole duckling. Sadly the farmyard incident which resulted in Tiger the barn cat using the ducklings as horsd’oevres and entrees decimated her original brood of 10. As a single parent, Momma Mallard appears to be quite determined to keep her little one out of the jaws of resident cats racoons and cayotes and out of the beak of a carousing eagle. Good luck momma.
Chance and number 20 lamb are growing well and morning and evening will find the pair, eyes closed,( seem to make more noise that way ) bleating pathetically waiting for the little red teat to find its way into the open mouth.
Oh dear, run out of time, see you all tomorrow ! Take care, keep safe, M
Let’s have a bit of a catch up round the ranch. The two transient Canadian Geese are still using our pasture to graze and raise their brood of 5 goslings. Mom and Pop geese have become very tolerant by which I mean that now they DO allow us to enter the pasture which is very nice because when they first embezzled our pasture from us in the Springtime, they wouldn’t allow us to walk past…and certainly not to enter without a battle. The goslings are apparently growing faster than the grass they munch which is pretty fast. They are possibly now as big as Momma Mallard …which leads me neatly into my next update. Momma Mallard has been seen on the pond with her sole duckling. Sadly the farmyard incident which resulted in Tiger the barn cat using the ducklings as horsd’oevres and entrees decimated her original brood of 10. As a single parent, Momma Mallard appears to be quite determined to keep her little one out of the jaws of resident cats racoons and cayotes and out of the beak of a carousing eagle. Good luck momma.
Chance and number 20 lamb are growing well and morning and evening will find the pair, eyes closed,( seem to make more noise that way ) bleating pathetically waiting for the little red teat to find its way into the open mouth.
Oh dear, run out of time, see you all tomorrow ! Take care, keep safe, M
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