It seems to me....

Since I have been so busy that I don't get a chance to enter Blog notes. Probably since I now have a facebook page I do get messages from those who care to read what I write there (but I don't write much there either).

I guess I will make monthly (or more often as the mood irks me)entries here.

I have been invited to several Dinner at the Farm dinners since my last installment. The food was delicious and I have made some new friends.

I have installed a new bee package where I was the only person out of probably a hundred who reported a dead queen making me scramble to drive back to Marlborough to pick up another while the worker bees sat and got really angry at me. Installing the package wasn't too bad since it had been a warm day and by the time I got back it was almost dusk. I used cardboard to scrape clusters of bees from the side of the garden shed and put them right into the hive. I don't think I lost too many and the next day they were busy doing what bees do.

I had lost a total of five adult Does and probably eight unborn kidds went with them. Most of the Does were Oberhasli or some part there of. Listeriosis (from bacteria on the ground or from silage they got into while loose from their pens)and Menegialencephalitis. Nothing could have been done to save them. Doesn't make matters any easier.

I have been invited to several Farm Markets but don't really have any product to sell unless I beef out my youngest Guernsey who is not making quite enough milk to be able to stay here. I am working on getting her a home and would rather go that route.

I have severely reinjured my back and have been wearing electronic stimulators to help the pain and keep me functioning and walking. The children have been wonderful and I am grateful for them.