Sickness and weaving

 Amazing form almost too perfect to eat

August 23 2017

Slkie is still sick.  She spent all last week lying on our divan, feeling too nauseous to eat or drink anything much.  By Friday she was starting to perk up and I got her a small weaving loom so that she could learn to weave.  I have been pretty busy weaving myself and have experimented with simple tartan designs that look quite good.  I have even sewn up the first cushion made from homespun and woven cloth.

Over the weekend Silkie was much better and was eating and bouncing around like any other eight year old.  Wayne came up to the valley with his family and some friends and we all met up for lunch at Bo’s restaurant.  It was a sunny day, so quite packed out but Indi , Ben and others managed to fit in making a continuous stream of our mob coming by to talk to us.

This made for a very jolly time and the two small kids were surprisingly good.  After we had eaten we took them to the park to play.  It is an amazing playground with lots of things to do and after having two large glasses of wine I quite forgot I had a bad knee and was leaping from boulder to boulder with the kids.  This was not such a great idea and I was very sore on Monday but worse Silkie was also sick again.

Bo spent all night in emergency at the children’s hospital with her and was told not to give her the medicine the local doctor prescribed.  Every one knows something is wrong but no one can find out what.  It is all very worrying. She is staying at home with Bo today and I expect she will be back here tomorrow.  Edd has gone off to collect the boys from school after fetching barley from the brewery this morning so we have been fairly busy.

I have been planting more seedlings in the vegetable garden and moving the dead dogwood tree that Edd cut out of Toby’s garden yesterday.  I piled all the branches up to burn with some broken pallets that were left over from the stone we used when we were building.  Now I just have to dig the tree roots out and then everything is clear to start on the landscaping.  It has all taken quite a lot of work and the winter weather has slowed everything down.

The goats continue to get larger and bag up more. They will start kidding in a few weeks and our workload will increase.  Edd has finished the slashing the ti-tree and bracken that was starting to take over the top paddock and is now back to fencing.  Volunteers put us up boundary fences after the fires but they were plain wire and they need to have ringlock added before we can use that area for sheep.

Meanwhile the sheep are grazing in the house site and keeping the grass neat on our house roof. They do a very good job because the manicure all the edges and tricky bits.  It is nice seeing the little lambs playing around the house too.