March 11, 2007

ain. Other than a few drops the other day, we heard rain on our tin roof for the first time in 5-6 months. Things are still melting around here and the hip deep snow I fell through yesterday was even a foot shorter. 

The "new" Daylight Savings Time.. or Standard Time or whatever it is now, which is a couple weeks early anyway, messed up all the animals. "Joey" the wee cat, did not wake me up at 6am on the dot. The cows were an hour late coming up to eat (which was actually ok with me today).. and it messed up my natural clock. I think we should be like Arizona who never changes or Labrador in Canada, whom is always off everyone else by 30 minutes. 

Today was another productive day. Amy came over and before we started building, I fed her Almond Pancakes and organic Maple Syrup. Then we started on nestboxes for the rabbits whom should be kindling on the 14th. While we were measuring, cutting out and building the nestboxes, I discovered something about Amy. She is the epitome of the stereotypical woman who cannot hit a nail. I also found out she would make many of the loggers ears blush around here as she is hammering..  and missing. But we got the nestboxes done fairy quickly and ran over to Amy's farm and got them installed in the does houses.

I got home and my darling guy had started dinner and made Chicken Cordon Bleu, noodles and a mixed salad. Then I noted my Almond Pancake mix (Winter 2005 issue if you are interested) was missing.. he said "OH.. is that what it was?".. he used it for the crust on the chicken. It is OK, I can make more mix up  as it is pretty easy.

We worked more on the magazine today. I needed Amy to do some of her nice drawings for me for an article in the upcoming magazine. I have not drawn for so long, I have probably lost that talent.

I have a weird mark on my left arm. I am not sure if it is 'road rash' from cleaning chicken houses the other day, or I picked up Ringworm (which is a fungus, not a real worm) from the last years calf of "Daisy's". It just looks like a spot of skin that was scraped. Just in case, I will put Clotrimazole cream on it for a few days. 

Then sadness happened. Amy left around 8 pm and then in about 15 minutes a car comes back up our driveway at Mach II and we are trying to figure out who it was. It was Amy again. A cat had run out in front of her and her car hit it. She knew I had a stethoscope and stuff, so we checked it out, looked at its corneal reflex and declared him deceased. We went back down the road to a couple doors to see if we could find the owner. We couldn't and so I will bury it tomorrow.

Just on a personal note as a vet tech. 80% of domestic animals hit by cars are un-neutered male animals. Please spay and neuter your pets. It is not just to prevent unwanted animals. It could save a life.