Checked all the other water troughs, good for the day. John and Angie came over with 2 new cheeses for me, and my 2 buckets, and took 2 replacement buckets of milk. Schlepped ice water and salt into the back entrance. Mopped up the water in the kitchen, cleaning all the salty / muddy spots.
Herbie came home from work, and I cooked breakfast for dinner, eggs, hash browns, fried onions and toast, cilantro sprinkled on Herbies', cheese on my burnt toast under my crispy egg white, runny yellow. Then went to milk the cows.
All proceeded fairly well, until Dolly finished her food. She backed out the stall, and I realised I hadn't clipped her to the wall ! She pulled the milker off, tipped the bucket over. I grabbed the bucket as I didn't want milk to reach the vacuum pump, and the lid came off, spilling about 3 gallons of milk on the milk parlour floor. Double damn. At least I didn't get milk in the vacuum pump as that's an absolute bitch to clean. Herbie has to pry the front off, take the blades out which I have to clean and then dry in every nook and cranny with ear buds, before putting form-a-gasket on it to re-seal it as it's a weird shape. In sub zero temperatures I hate getting water on the floor as it freezes, making the lower barn and milk parlour a skating rink. So I squeegee'd and squeegee'd with the Gila Monster blowing hot air, until all the milk was out, then used the udder wash, milk bucket wash and sanitiser lots of water to wash the milk off. With all this drama, managed to flood the feed room, twice !
By the time I got back upstairs with about 2 1/2 gallons of milk, I was exhausted ! Told Herbie I officially needed a holiday. Fortunately we don't have a herdshare owner on Wednesdays, but spilling so much milk is tragic.
I had an article about a Salsa Verde Chicken Lasagne pop up on my FB feed, so decided I wanted to try it. Peeled the tomatillas, never had them before, cut them and roasted in the oven with some garlic cloves. When they were cool, added onion, cilantro, jalapēno peppers, some herbs and spices and whizzed it in the zoup zoup machine. Cut some leftover turkey from Christmas, got out some of the leftover cauliflower white mushroom sauce, and layered that baby up. Baked it today for lunch, and it turned out delicious. Made a tossed salad with avocado pear with it. Herbie had 3 helpings. Leftovers of everything, so lunch tomorrow is taken care of :).
Today was a much easier day, no mishaps. Watered the beasties with the hoses, then drained them well so that I can use them next time. It's easier than schlepping buckets of water on the buggy.
I fell in the snow today. First time this season. Behind the airconditioner unit when I went to turn the tap off after filling the sheeps' water trough. Fortunately I didn't hurt myself, but was covered in snow. Today our high was 19 degrees, and it's currently 13, same as our low last night. We have about 4 inches of snow on the ground, soft, powdery stuff that you can't form into snowballs.
Lisa is doing very well. She's huge. Doesn't listen very well, thinking of keeping some treat sticks on me so that when I call and she comes, she can have a piece. She loves those 'bones'. Herbie tried to get her to go to him today with the treats. He called her, and she runs to me ! Oh well, seems she's like her mum, would rather have loves than food.