Bovine news

We were all set to send Donna, the Ayrshire cow, off to market today. She must have known because yesterday she had a change of heart and began allowing her calf to feed from her. Edd says Max looked embarrassed when his mother finally began to lick his hair into shape. He was accustom to her knocking him out of the way whenever he came close.  We can now milk Donna once a day and we hope we can sell her with her calf.

We are gradually completing the list of assets that we need to supply to the lawyers for the class action. The amount of stuff we used to have is totally horrifying. No wonder I struggled to look after it all.  There are pages and pages of stuff and I cannot imagine how anyone is going to deal with it. At least when it is done it is some one else’s problem and I can finally forget about it all. Edd and I had stuff left from our early childhood. I was aghast to find out the present day price for my Dolmetch recorder that I must have had about 60 years!

I have tried very hard since the fires to avoid getting over loaded with belongings but we still have a problem with letting things go and as a result get bogged down with work. Other people’s stuff also tends to collect here. Al came yesterday and made sure the boats were OK.   Al and Simon had put the boats in the large polyhouse so that they could be repaired, but once it was broken they no longer had any protection and were in danger of getting more damaged.

Our new neighbours came up again this weekend and we had great excitement when a friend of theirs landed a small plane on Hargreaves Hill!  It was a pretty risky venture dodging power lines and coping with rough paddock landing on a hillside, but it came and went with out disaster. The plane gave all the animals an enormous shock. The goats must have believed that they were being attacked by an enormous, albino eagle! The noise also flushed out Craig’s missing cow that had been hiding somewhere on their land! We were all very relieved to clear up that mystery.  All round the cow situation has now stabilized.

Next we must prepare for Xmas. Time is going much too quickly and I will be in difficulties if I leave things much longer! Everyone else in the family is equally busy so goodness knows how we will plan our mid summer feast. I also think that Bo is having a work party here soon, but I have no more work related events planned.