Spring is Broadsiding Round the Corner Towards Us!!!!

It's still light at 6pm, Spring is coming!!!!

Have dehydrated apples in every available container in the house and the fresh ones are nearly run out :(  They were delicious!!!  I'll miss them, but damn the dehydrated ones are gorgeous too!  Can't see the horses getting many of them!

Roger the old skinny TB of a horse has just gone off property for a month or so after finding someone who volunteered some grass to the boarder's mini pony and he needs company LOL.  They've only been home for a few ones since the last jaunt, it's great not having such a demand on my paddock!

Been doing more mechanical stuff on the vehicles, not by choice, but they're all shitting themselves at the same time LMAO.  Little car is ready for a new WOF after I had to do the rear wheel bearings.  Tow wagon finally has it's new radiator hose on, but I'll try charging the batteries one last time before I give up on them and have to replace them, then it and the float can finally get back on the road in time for the Trail Riding season for wee Smokey, and Marcus's wee bike started.... stopped.... wouldn't re start... needing a leaking fuel hose to be replaced, had to take plug out to get it un-flooded, started it again, and it runs like a piece of shit... Gotta now find a diagnosis for that before he grows too much more!  Feels like an air issue... we'll see!

Bear is nearly 6 mths old and still a brat to the other cats, but is my completely spoiled little love heart.

Vada had another very mild gutsache on Friday night but it seemed to pass quite quickly thank god, I guess 7 is getting older for a Great Dane, will have to watch him now!

Haven't been on the bike for 3 weeks now!!!  Good God I need a decent ride, bring on next weekend when I'm childless!!!! 

And that is my life outside of FB... still boring as hell LOL

End of an Era....

10 yrs ago I got a weekend job collecting eggs at a free range farm just up the road, 8 yrs ago I chucked that job in, and over that period when it came cull time for the shed when the moult hit them I would brings some chooks home with me, at one stage we had about 20 of them!!!  Well over the years they have fallen off the perch until there was just one left.  Well over a year ago she was allowed out of the chook pen to free range the backyard with the dogs and the cats.  One day she decided on a weekend morning to come up the stairs, down the hall and jump up on the bed to say gidday LOL.

She hated being touched but she would chat away to me and follow me round the place.

Just over 3 weeks ago she stopped eating for 3 days, comb paled out and she was walking like she was egg bound... three days later she started eating again and while she struggled to walk she was "OK".  Then Vada bowled her over as he spun around at dinner time without looking and she didn't squawk or anything but after that she went a step backwards with walking again.  Think she broke something in there actually.  So I popped her into the big dog crate where she couldn't wander too far, was warm, soft underfoot and food and water near at hand all day long.

This morning I went downstairs to feed the zoo and she didn't talk to me :(  She died over night.  Peaceful looking death at least.  So she is now buried in the backyard, right beside the house and the chicken shit on the stairs to get upstairs will eventually fade away removing the last traces of her and while I hated her trying to roost on the stairs and would punish her and carry her down again, I will certainly miss my old girl.  Rest Easy Phoenix, you will be missed...

yes, that IS a chicken on the bed!

Meanwhile Vada is still not well, although he has moved bowels more than once now and is peeing OK, we went for a walk around the paddock just now and he did all of the above, ate some grass and FINALLY had a drink of water when we got back in... so fingers crossed he is on the mend from god knows what!  He's tucked up sleeping on my bed again, the only place he will actually lie down properly so he can rest (yep, bastard is spoiled rotten!)  So I'm on a day off babysitting him.  Fingers crossed he won't need a vet visit again now... just need to keep him drinking!

Having to be the strong, sensible, sane one without respite....

....SUCKS!!!  The little ego wants to scream out "WHAT ABOUT ME????!!!!!"  Fucking frustrating but there you go, that is dealing with other people huh?  Great learning, but hell, sometimes plain sailing for a wee while would be fucking awesome!  Never mind... that strong core of steel I pride myself on having is being tempered and hardened and strengthened and as long as the emotions don't harden with it, it can't be a bad thing can it?  No longer battered round in life by circumstances or dealing with others needs, just smooth sailing not cause the seas are smooth but because I know the state of the seas doesn't actually affect me sailing on them...

So anyway, it's the middle of the school holidays, Marcus has done a great job of washing trucks down during the week so will chunk off a little bit more of what he owes on his computer.  Bear is now 2 stone lighter *wink wink* love it when you pick them up from the vets and they say "keep them inside tonight, and if it's cold, tomorrow too" yeah, whatever lady, ain't gonna happen!

Vada my darling big black bastard went to visit the vet this morning with a belly ache.  Big dogs like Great Danes can be prone to bloat which can be a death sentence for them and being half as hour out of town I didn't want to risk it, so he has been given the all clear for bloat at this stage, some drugs on board to clean his stomach out and the big bloody softy would only lie down on my bed where he sleeps at night, so that is where we are now, him wrapped up in his mink blanket finally snoozing, me listening to music and thanking god it didn't have to be an after hours vet visit since it is a Sunday LOL.

Rain might have finally stopped for a little while, first sunshine I've seen today is peeking thru the clouds, GOOD dump of rain since last night and warm yesterday and today, grass might be fooled into pinging up out of the dirt!

AND it really IS staying light till later now, 5.50pm and still able to see (just, but see I can!)  Spring is on it's way, half way thru winter WOOTWOOT!!!