Work Around the Farm

This morning we are leisurely reading the newspaper when Rachel calls to tell us that Lake Camelot is having their garage sales and there is something we could use at one of them. It is an island for our kitchen here at Bridlewood and only $20.00. The truck was loaded already with 2 sections of a round bale feeder plus we didn't have the $20.00 on us and the people selling it wanted it paid for in a half hour. We tied down the bale feeder, ran to an ATM for the money and drove straight to the garage sale. It really was a good buy and will take the place of our old kitchen table we cleaned out of an apartment. The table was left at the apartment because it is not in good shape but we have been using it for 8 years. Rachel was again right, we paid for the island, told them we would be back, then drove to the farm. Mark helped me move in a round bale, put up 2 round bale feeders, then went to move some tree limbs he cut earlier. While he was moving the limbs, I fed Raven then pulled Jenis out to grain her. She had stepped inside a bale feeder and scraped up her left back leg so while she was eating her grain, I hosed off the leg and doctored it with some iodine salve. She is not lame on it and it looks worse than it probably is. The parts to the automatic waterer came so Mike was working on replacing the broken parts with the new, hopefully it will work without leaking. We drove back to the garage sale and loaded up the piece of furniture and brought it home. We have just finished eating a wonderful breakfast, of course hunger is a great cook and we were at the farm longer than we thought we would be. We had brown farm fresh eggs, collected just a few days ago, sausage, whole wheat toast with blackberry jam and a vine ripened tomato off one of our tomato plants. Since breakfast was eaten at lunch time we will get to skip a meal. We may be going out for dinner with David and Stephanie. David had his 31st birthday yesterday but Steph had to work all day so we are hoping we can celebrate it today.