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

It's dreary Monday !

5/16/2011

1 Comment

 
Picture
PLEASE can I have some more !
Good Monday morning. It feels like a Monday morning…though I’m not really sure what a good Monday morning would feel like ! As far back as I can remember, Mondays have been dreaded…back to school...Monday, back to work after the weekend…Monday and now it’s nasty, just because,… you’ve guessed it, it’s Monday. It’s dreary and grey out there, big black clouds are hanging over the barn just waiting for me to step out the door and I’m still a frizzball from yesterday !!!
In some ways I realized that the torrential downpour that was Sunday ( “Sun”day, huh, that’s a joke !) could work for me if I’m smart…and I can be smart, sometimes, (smile). Well, cleaning up the cow / sheep barn can be more than a little messy and a LOT smelly and cleaning up their yard  is one of those chores that would be delegated….if we had anyone to delegate it on ( don’t worry potential Woofers, we wouldn’t ask you to do anything I wouldn’t have GREG do !!). All that rain that fell yesterday caused a creek to run through the cow yard and it literally washed all the cow pats away, all gone and the yard got power washed into the bargain. So, it’s a Monday morning it’s going to rain, again….and Greg has put his “I’m the boss” T shirt on. It can only get worse from here ! I think I’ll just crawl back into the bed I got NO sleep in last night, so it’s going to be a bags under the eye, frizzy hair, wet Monday….GREAT !!!

Feeding time at the barn at 7.30 (ish) is always a bit of an “against the clock” race, every critter in the barn wants and expects to be first. Our newest barn occupant is Midnight, Midnight loves his food and Midnight wants it NOW !! If that beautiful black gelding doesn’t get his food first and FAST we are made very aware of our indiscretion. Midnight kicks the stall door and paws the floor, Charm impatiently paces and the two Shires just hang their huge heads over the stall door and watch my every move. Thank goodness they don’t kick their doors…they would demolish them. When they scratch their butts on the barn walls, we watch the wall bend, and we can hear the support posts groan. The two little doelings Baaaaaaa in glorious stereo the three amigos set up a chorus of baaas and moos and little ( not so little now !) Chance manages to raise her plaintive calls above all the others, louder and longer ! We are maybe going to have to give lumpy Lady our Shire mare a little more breakfast…when she has inhaled ( her grain is eaten so fast, there is no way she takes the time to chew ) her breakfast, Lady picks up her rubber food bowl in her mouth and holds it out to us. ( shades of Oliver Twist…”please can I have some more ?”)

Our thoughts and prayers are down 97th Street this morning as a very special someone is expecting some news… Please take care, keep safe, M   

 

1 Comment
Tony
5/17/2011 08:47:27 pm

Don't feel bad
it hasn't stopped raining here either for the past week
need a wet suit to get through all the ponds
bottles of air and mask soon to come
hope all is well
t

Reply



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

Proudly powered by Weebly