Gentle Giant Meadows Ranch
  • Home
  • "Almost" Daily Diary
  • Maureen's 60th Birthday Trip to England
  • Gertie and Quest: A True Story - The Book
  • Foresaken Love
  • The Gentle Giants
  • Photo Gallery
  • WWOOFER Program
  • John & Jean Hudson Wedding Nov 2013
  • Lambs
  • Poo Time
  • Memories of a New Cattle Rancher

Happy Friday

11/18/2011

0 Comments

 
Good morning and happy Friday ! Well, the “road bump” appears to be a little more of a problem than we first thought and currently I am sitting ( which is good) stuck with a catheter needle (which isn’t quite so good !) to try to drown my system intravenously with antibiotics. I have an infection in the incision in my back and it has got so comfortable it doesn’t want to leave. Apart from that, I’m fine !!

It is becoming quite clear that living the ranch vicariously through the eyes of the team is going to make it difficult to generate enough crazy data to construct my daily diary entries. I am becoming convinced that I am going to have to resort to waterboarding and white noise torture !!! Whilst munching on their breakfast, between chomping on toast, peanut butter and jelly (yuk !!)  I did manage to glean some details of Thursday on the ranch.

It seems that a beautiful rainbow settled over the pastures yesterday, since all the team are still here and working I think that we can disprove the pot of gold theory..though the leprechaun may still be lurking. It may have been said Leprechaun that persuaded big brother John to chip away the cement at the base of a roof bearing post instead of levelling the cement around the post. Ooops !!! remember Greg…no blame policy if the roof falls down !!

Poor John, not sure if he is looking for some time off but he really didn’t have to mallet his finger instead of the nail….I don’t think permanent damage has been inflicted but he did get the sympathy vote! The horse stalls have now been completely dismantled, countless rusty nails, yards of baling twine and some less than solid panels of sheetrock are going to make way for new four star accommodation for our equine friends. Now John has finished pulling them apart…he can look forward to re building them. How much longer before he escapes ??

Quatre went to work with the pressure washer to clean the rubber stall mats. Although she is never intimidated by hard work, we have discovered she does appear to have an aversion to digesting horse poo, pee and mud. Quatra’s quote of the day..”note to self, keep mouth closed when pressure washing rubber stall maps” something tells me that was a life lesson learnt ! Thanks Quatra .

Ginger still appears to be enjoying her farm experience and unfailingly returns from the barn wet cold dirty… and smiling. Her farm experiences before she came to Gentle Giant Meadows Ranch could not have prepared her for handling our wonderful Shires, the flock of sheep that think they are dogs and cows that like nothing more than a back scratch but her enthusiasm and willingness to learn have helped her confidence …I believe she is having fun.

Well, my time is up, the back police will be checking on me so I will go and walk some more circles !! Take care, keep safe, M
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Its me, Maureen, (the Boss)

    Archives

    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.