Busy, Busy

Vaccinating baby calves before they are turned out to pasture with their mothers...but they are not so baby-ish any more..little fuckers...and I have the bruises to prove it, three to be precise.. 

I wonder why, as a person who has very obvious allergies to cattle dander, am still working up close and personal with CATTLE.  After just four hours in the barn walking the calves into the maternity pen and then catching them in the head gate and holding the syringes for Robert and then turning the calf loose again, I had a gravelly, scratchy throat all night, flemmy, itchy, puffy eyes...and this morning the eyes were so swollen I had trouble seeing...and t he throat is still flemmy and my voice is gravelly like a 70  yr old smokey bar maids.... and today is round 2 of vaccination day, yup, we are officially old people now, we have to do our herd in groups, as we don't have the energy or move fast enough anymore to manage the whole herd in one day like we used to do... so I will be in the barn again working a larger group of calves today.  But, when it is done, we will be able to move them all out to the pasture fields and I won't, if there is a GOD after all, have to see their ugly butts until fall. That gives me a couple of months holiday...before it all starts again...

As a Gemini, and an artsy kind of person, I am cursed with a huge imagination, and a some what limited ability to put what I imagine and dream up into a physical form.  Meaning, I think to bloody much and make more work for myself....I have all these great thoughts about projects I would like to do around the yard and then torture myself by not being able to do them.. I should just stop dreaming them up...but it would be easier to just stop breathing.

My latest project, which is in the planning stages still, is a small decorative shed built to look like a tall narrow victorian house, that will camouflage my water hydrant in the front yard...currently I have a bent willow fence there but it is getting ratty and rather than beautifiing the yard is detracting from it.  besides I am itching to build something. I have all the materials salvaged from other projects so it is just to make the time...but I have to prioritize...so it will have to wait until after the garden is seeded.

Robert worked the garden up for me the other day but it rained for two days afterwards and is still drizzling everyday since.  but soon...stuff in the greenhouse is growing crazily....and it is time to put it all outside...but I think it might freeze once the sky clears so I will wait. 

Less than a week to go to my big doc. appointment...the one in which I am going to grow a back bone and speak my mind....hahahaha we shall see.
wish me luck.