Life on the farm has been real quiet during the day, it has to be as Garth is working nights. So, he comes home and sleeps all day, thus quiet must reign. This does make it difficult to get much done in the house. I love my open floor plan house, when we are both on the same schedule, but it does not work when one of us is working nights. Or sick and trying to sleep.
I know what today will bring, already. It started with a phone call at 10:30 last night. My Dexter cows went visiting. They are at my neighbors. They came home from a nice dinner out to find my cows in their driveway. After calling to make sure the cows are not mean, they herded them into their secure back pasture for the night. Once we figure out how they got out, and fix it, we will go and get them.
In the meantime, dishes, laundry and other noisy jobs must be done this morning before Garth comes home to sleep.
I am really looking forward to having the restrictions removed from my life, but still, it will be a fair while before I am fully functional again. Just because I am allow to start working again, does not mean I can pick up a fifty pound bad of feed, or a 5 gallon Jerry Can. But soon.
In the mean time, my beans in my green house look about to bloom, which means green beans soon. The radishes are doing great and the lettuce needs to be thinned. The temperature is forecast to be down to the mid twenties tonight, so we shall see how the sweet potatoes and cucumbers like it in there.
Our experiment with the celery is going great. The plants are much faster this way. From seed, it took about four months to get them to the point they are at now. It has taken about a month or six weeks by using the end of harvested celery. A nice short cut I plan on using again and again.
Lady Leche is still hanging in there, not doing great, but not getting worse. The stanchion we wanted to build today may have to be put off. We have to fix fences first. But, once the hot wires are fixed, we can lock her and Buttercup down, which will force him to suckle, which is what we want. The domino effect is so predominant on a farm. Work must be done in the right order. Problems must be fixed in the right order. Or, you spin your tires and go nowhere. But, isn't that the truth for much of life?
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