For the 2nd day now, Bambi has gone straight up into the milking parlour, and stood eating while I attach her to the wall ! She eventually comes to the bell, but I think she rather just follows Starlet and Chuck. She had a bit of mastitis in her fat teat yesterday, so I was watching it. This morning it was watery, so I didn't put that one in the milker, but put mastitis meds up it. The consistancy of the cream what not 100% so got her back into the parlour and put meds up the other 3 teats as well and let all the herd-share owners know it'd be a few days for the meds to work and get out of the milk. Mabel is not the happiest either, has foul-smelling grey watery poops. I hate this wet weather as it makes them so much more susceptible to the nasties. Will go milk her again tonight, will give the milk to the dogs and cats and watch her and Mabel carefully.
I really need to get motivated to can some more tomatoes, go pick another lot of apples and can them, pick wild grapes to make juice or jam. But first of all I need to get stuck into the kitchen. It is sooo small and I have sooo much crap in there. Canning pots in the middle of the kitchen floor together with the huge baskets of tomatoes, large pots, bowls and pans in the sink as they're too big to fit in the dishwasher and have to be done by hand, but I'm allergic to the wash=up liquid so put off doing it until I absolutely have to. The dining room is full of empty canning jars, full jars and various canning paraphernalia, the pantry cupboard urgently needs to be de-spidered / de-bugged, have new supports put in to take the weight as the boards are bowed, painted white. All I feel like doing is going back to bed. Have this ruddy swollen gland in my head again, just not a happy camper !
The sun's come out and I can see it streaming into the lounge. Maybe I should go and lie in it ? Oh no, now it's not so bright anymore ! Maybe it's
Had another response to my request for a Border Collie stud for Anni in December. Another red and white boy. Advised that I already had a willing red and white boy if I couldn't find a black and white one for her first.