Ready, Set, GO !!!

I am keeping my self busy with lots of small projects. We are still finishing some work on the corrals when ever Robt. has spare time from feeding cows. which is a couple of hours every other day or so. The weather has been spectacular here since I got back and I have accomplished so much outside I have amazed even myself...hahahaha

The one day it was a bit on the cool side and Robt was having trouble with the cattle waterers freezing up (lack of winter ready maintenance but you didn't hear it from me wink wink ) I spent the whole day measuring our master bathroom and jotting it down on paper, we are in need of a serious renovation and Robt has wanted me to make up a plan with some proposed changes for a while now. So I have that in the works...to scale drawings showing several scenarios from major destruction to just a little tweaking. I taped it out on the floor for him since we both tend to be visual people and we both liked the in between version the best, where we add a wall or two and rearrange the vanity with a walk in shower.  Now we will file it away until the day we win the lottery and when we do, we'll be all set for demo...hahahaha

We also talked about blowing the roof off this house and adding a second floor.  A beautiful master bedroom suite with spa bathroom and a painting studio with quest bedroom . The view from up there would be even more spectacular than the one we have already.  Gotta start buying lottery tickets I guess.

I built a new rolling gate for Robt, where we sort the cattle so that he no longer has to stick a fence post in behind the cows ass, and have the smaller ones turn around in the alley and duck under the post and escape. Now he just rolls the new gate across on a cannonball runner system and the cows can turn around, flip upside down and turn themselves inside out they are not getting out again. hahahaha I can't wait to use it for the first time and see the consternation on their faces when they realize we've out smarted them....I know I am humanizing them but I swear to God they get their jollies off thinking of ways to screw with us...you can almost see the wheels turning.  In fact, some of the oldest cows (15-17 yrs old) have been here their whole lives and have come to know Robt and all his bad habits, which coincidentally work in their favour, especially when they don't want to be where we put them...because Robt has a habit of not chaining the gates after he goes through them...thinking that he will do it when he comes back, only Robt never does the same thing twice in a row....so when he comes back he will often go a different way and forget that he left that gate unlatched....so these old cows, and I've seen them with my own eyes on several occasion's, come up to a gate and give it a gentle nudge with the old noggin, to check and see if he chained it or not.  We have moved the cows out of the calving pen and out into a large paddock in front of the house  while we spread new bedding straw around for them to lay on for the night.  We have to do it with the cows out of the pen because they turn into a bunch of little kids when they get near a round bale and start jumping around, pushing it and generally trying to destroy it. The problem with that is they never push it in the direction we want it and never spread it on the bed pack but usually up against a fence somewhere or right next to the water trough. It can also be very dangerous while they are romping around with these bales, because they aren't paying attention to us and have kicked us and knocked us down, thus their removal while we work...but those old cows, they only want to stand out on the snow for so long and if we get delayed with the new bedding, they have come up and checked the gates, caught Robt at his bad habits and have filed back into the pen and wrecked the bales, so that when we do come to spread the straw there is nothing to spread and there is straw in places we didn't want straw, with the cows all laying there chewing their cud with blank looks on their faces...and I swear they won't look you in the eye, because nobody wants to take credit for the deed....

You can tell you've been on the farm too long, when you start having conspiracy theories about your cows.

I have started a new painting.  I am in the process of sewing some new table clothes, for those of you that know me, you know I can't stand table clothes that hang loose over the table so I make my own and I put elastic at the corners so that the table clothes hugs the table top like a fitted sheet.  I love them that way...I would love not to have to have a table cloth at all but Robt put his coffee cup down on the oak without a coaster and made a ring...I don't want more than that one, thus the cloths

I actually had a call from my son on Saturday.  He is not having a good year health wise and is still waiting to hear about some tests the doctor had done.  The phone call was going well until he dropped the hint about needing cash to take his wife to Edmonton for a follow up appointment with a doctor she saw in the summer.  I just ignored the request and kept talking about other things, he brought it up three times in an hour long conversation but I was strong and didn't offer to give him any. Besides, Robt and I are skinned...these big bank payments are taking some getting used to.  I got off the phone with him , feeling really bad that I played dumb and sad, that that might have been the only reason I even heard from him....When I mentioned that robt and I were just having a quiet Christmas dinner by our selves and that we would love it if he and Eleesha could join us, he back peddled, something about his being sick that day and yada yada yada.....what ever....more food for the freezer then...

I have a standing bowling score on Wii resort sports that will take Robt an eternity to beat...hahahahah  he only has to challenge me to table tennis to make himself feel better, because apparently I suck at table tennis.