All is well on this home front...
Lambs..... check. Bouncing around like bean cakes.
Forest fires... check. Out and not a bother any more. We even made the CBC news.
Mother's day... check. A fine day to share with my family.
Hay.... check. We have enough to go on with for now. 2 bales and one more coming.
Swollen ankle.... check. Gone down though still a little swelling there. Hopefully improving.
Ok so what did I not write about out of that. Lambs... well you've all seen them by now. Fanny in the end popped them out like there was nothing to it. The only thing I can figure is that she must have gotten pregnant right before the ram left the pen for the winter and even then she would have been a little overdo. Still, she had them and all is well. The story on their names goes like this.... the day they were born two of my friends from FSJ were visiting and one of them said that Fanny looked like she was going to have them at any second. That night they were born so I had to call one of my friends and let her know that Fanny had finally given birth... we were talking about names and she suggested that Rene was a good name which just happens to be my friend's name. Worked for me... so I named the lambs after my two friends that were here and predicted Fanny's imminent birth. Rene and Linda are great wee lambs though they are not always sure about Honeydew (the llama) and look up at her like she's a serious giant.
Forest fires. Almost. Last week on Thursday I'm sitting in the living room working on flax when I hear the fire trucks heading out the highway. Usually this is significant since we lose lots of people in accidents on the highway between here and FSJ, and if the vehicles involved catch fire then our volunteer fire department gets called out. It wasn't till later by about an hour or so that I noticed a very hazy sky which turned out to be of course smoke. The smoke seemed to be coming from a source quite close to my house! Alarm bells went off in my head and I thought I had better go and investigate. I took a walk down through my property and discovered that there were several fire trucks and whole pascal of firefighters working diligently to keep a grass fire getting into the trees. In particular the trees of my next door neighbour's house and the crown land to the west of us. It was quite a shock to see fire so bad that close to us. One of the fire fighters who is a close friend of the family came over to my fence line to talk to me. He let me know that if it got into the trees that I would be evacuated. Well I kept my fingers crossed and took faith that these boys who were friends and neighbours were doing their best to keep the fire out of the trees. All I could think about was, "how in the hell am I going to get out of here without a car or anything." and, "What will I do with all of my animals." I stood there all afternoon watching and waiting as the fire flared up in the wind and then died down and then flared up again and firefighters dragged hoses and poured water all around the perimeter. Finally Teapot came home from school and we walked around the fire area at one point we caught flames starting to lick up a tree and almost reaching the branches. teapot grabbed some snow and put those flames out and then we saw a quad coming checking the tree line and putting out hot spots as he went. As evening came on the wind died down and slowly out went the fire... though there were logs burning for two days afterwards. I'm glad we didn't get evacuated. Here's a little map to give you an idea of how the flames went...
Mother's Day was spent on the deck enjoying sunshine and family... and I didn't spin one darn thing.
Hay we picked up the second bale and have one more to get... that hopefully will be enough to see us through to the summer and the new hay season and hopefully it won't be so bad this year. Hopefully hay will be more plentiful.
Swolen ankle... or ankles... yeah not sure what that one is about. It has been a little bit of a worry as heart issues are prevalent in my family and for the first time in my life I'm completely out of shape and needing to walk and get my self in better shape. It also could be because of damage to my leg from falling through the floor in the winter and doing some pretty bad damage to my leg since on of my legs was swelling worse than the other.So now it is diet time in earnest and get myself in shape in earnest and... crap.... I might as well face it... I'm getting old. I have to get off my arse more and stop spinning long enough to go for a walk... right?! Right! (sigh) Well spring is here and the trails are finally clear so I will be walking more now... let's hope that helps.
Today is a fine morning and the grass is turning green though the trees have stopped their growth since there hasn't been rain in ages and the snow has melted and there's nothing for them to grow on... I see I will be praying for rain daily again this year. I think I could move to a wetter region easily.
Rain please come soon....
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