A Wee Blond Moment

Yesterday was a super productive day!  No seriously, it was.  I went for a run in the morning, got my kids on the bus and then spent most of the day helping a friend paint her house.  I got home around 4:30pm and seeing it was still a bit early to start cooking dinner, I decided to put up the new clothes line I had bought a kit for when in town last.  That was my first mistake.  I should have stopped when it took me half an hour up on the ladder to screw the hook into the side of my wood shed.  I should have taken that as a sign that I was tired and maybe needed to leave it for another day.  Nope, it served to piss me off that it took a bloody half an hour to screw in a bloody hook(because I don't have a drill at the moment) and therefore, screw you clothes line kit, you're getting set up!  

Measure twice, cut once.  Yeah...how many times have I heard my mom say that?  There I stood with the clothes line in my hands thinking hmmm I should double check this and yet I cut it anyway.  Sigh.  It ended up being about six inches too short.  So I had to cut another piece, tie it together and reattach it.  Problem solved.  Erm...

Notice anything wrong with this next picture?  Yeah, that's right, my ladder is now part of my clothesline.
 
Blond.  Moment. 

 

 I'll deal with it when I need my ladder next.  For now it can stay put to remind me that I can't be good at everything.  (Just almost everything.)

Farm Update

So, I've been busy.  Not quite sure what I have been busy with but it's been over a month since I posted.  High time for an update! 

The pigs are growing by the day.  They became a real nuisance; escaping their field to wreak havoc in my gardens, yard and chicken coop.  This in turn made the need for an electric fence a top priority(I may have giggled uncontrollably for a minute or two when they zapped themselves repeatedly the first day.  Can I also say that it has stopped the dogs from escaping the property and I may have giggled when they zapped themselves as well?)

Is it wrong that I see bacon when I look at them?  And smoked ham.  And pork chops...

I had my first chicken casualty by Raven last week.  That happened thanks to the pigs putting a hole right through the chicken yard netting prior to electric fence installation.  My dogs slept through it.  Obviously.  I came home to a pair of Ravens defeathering a chicken.  Not impressed.

Peking Duck and his gang

The not so little lamb anymore.  She is the cutest.  I especially like it when she plays with the dogs. 

One of our Barn Swallow parents.  There are two pairs sitting on eggs in the barn right now. 

My garden is an effing disaster.  More weeds than anything.  I can't seem to find time to get out there and do something with it.  Procrastination at its finest.  Growing in there somewhere are peas, onions, broccoli, gai lan, bok choi, carrots and kale.  I keep thinking, 'next year will be better.' 

And lastly, we have a Killdeer family living in and out of our yard.  They have 3 of the cutest little fluffy babies that run around on their little stick legs that I have to dodge when I drive to my gate.  This picture shows one of the parents and a baby in the back.  They weren't interested in a family portrait.

 

And just like my garden, my house is also an effing disaster.  This will hopefully change before Saturday as it is the boy's 7th birthday and I have 10 kids coming to my house for gluten free pizza and fun on the farm!  Please please PLEASE let there be sunshine that day!!