24 hours

I am not kidding you. This all happened in one 24 hour period.

 first of all, C is very sick. After making multiple calls back and forth to the doctor and pharmacy I was able to get the prescription called in, transferred, and paid for. I was able to find someone to bring C to pick up the meds, and was able to give her instructions on how to cope with her illness. Lots of hand washing needed.

In the meantime M & Z& I went into town for an eye doctor recheck. Z played very nicely with a little boy there, which reminded me about how much she needs a sibling her age to play with.

I picked one quart of strawberries and we all enjoyed a bowl of homemade goat ice cream with fresh strawberries. Lots of face and hair washing needed.

In the afternoon, I put on my scrubs and went to the goat barn for labor and delivery for our goat. She had two babies, a boy and a girl. I had to help clean the nose off the male, and deliver the afterbirth. At the same time, G & M went out into the pasture and played tag with all older baby goat. Lots of hand washing needed.

That evening there was a fox in the yard. I was nursing the baby when one of the girls started screaming. Looking out the window, we saw that a Fox had one of our chickens in his mouth and was taking her down the yard. We were able to scare him off. You would never know ,however, that he didn't eat the chicken, as there are more feathers on the ground than there are on the bird. Come to find out he tried for one of our other hens first because there's another color chicken feather all over the yard as well. Bill went out with his shot gun and caught sight of the fox twice but was unable to scare it off permanently.

The girls also found a baby bird maybe a blue jay, who still has down and not real feathers. They have put it into the hamster cage in the garage, and are feeding it baby chick food and it seems to be doing quite well. Lots of hand washing needed.

This morning, while feeding the goats, oue buck threw up all over me. He decided that he was angry that I would not let him eat Olive's food. So he regurgitated his food, a lovely green grass color, and proceeded to drop it all over my arm! Lots of hand washing needed.

This morning I was getting ready to feed the animals and had a gallon jug of milk that had been in the garage  for sometime. It was quite expanded because of the heat so I thought I would release the pressure from the bottle. As I opened it, the air rushed out quickly and I had curdled milk all over me and the freezer and the wall and the floor and . . .yuk! Lots of hand washing needed.

A had her wisdom teeth taken out today and she is pretty miserable. That leaves me to do all of her chores this week...plus my own and take care of the rest of life. Thank goodness B is willing to help!

Last night we sat down, as a treat ,to watch an episode of Green Acres. If you ever heard the song you know that it's kind of an earworm...But the first 2 lines are: "Green Acres is place to be, Farm living is the life for me." After the last 24 hours, I'm thinking of changing the song to: "My house is the place to be...if you use goat milk soap so free(ly)" It's a good thing I just made three batches of it. Sounds like I might need it!