As of Monday morning, the foot valve in the water cistern is seized. Thus, no water for me or the cows (of which, at the moment, including babies, there are 31.) I’m pretty easy, came into town and had a shower at Jim’s sis’s before work. Her hubby is a plumber and will go to…
We woke up to discover another bull calf in our pasture, and a couple of hours later Stupid Cow gave birth to a heifer. So the girl babies are still ahead by one. I’m very glad that Stupid Cow had her calf before Jim leaves for a five day training session, because, well, she lives…
There’s a moral to the story. (Isn’t there always?) The moral is: Don’t check your email first thing in the morning; it’s too easy to get distracted. And how! The day started with some Forward Motion business that needed taking care of. Yes, it could have waited until afternoon, but not once I knew it…
Thanks, Mar, for the loan of your muse. The only reason she’s helping me at all is because she heard there’s a polar bear on her tail, and she’s trying to stay ahead of it. I haven’t bothered to tell her that Inuit is (mostly) harmless, because I’m not perfectly sure that’s true, and because…
After getting the gears from Mar and Jean about my whining about lack of writing, I decided to do some writing, so that I wouldn’t have to whine about not doing it. Hey, it’s perfectly logical, if you think about it. No? You’ve thought about it and it doesn’t work? Oh well. It works for…
Big talk here about being a writer, and I’ve been stalled for weeks. I refuse to call it writer’s block, because mostly it’s not. Some days the problem has been sheer laziness, other days it’s exhaustion (yesterday, for instance), sometimes it’s been distraction (lots of that), and a few days it’s even been because I…