Good Morning World
For those starting to feel like they are living in a jail cell, it doesn’t get any better than this. I used to be a HUGE Elvis fan growing up so it brings back many memories.
And for the slightly younger generation,
https://youtu.be/sOkKSnqJPYY
Happy Tuesday all.
A quiet day today.
Our 30 year old horse, Whiskey sadly didn’t make it. Buried her out in the field right where she passed.
Having a drink at the dam, watching the sunset and saying goodbye
Found this in the nursery. Isn’t it the most beautiful rose you have ever seen?
Day 2 of Lockdown… Yesterday.
We started yesterday morning planting some new seedlings. I’m not used to bending this much and I definitely felt my age this morning getting out of bed. Everything ached and creaked.
We only hobby farm nowadays but thought with the Apocalypse upon us, we should probably make some effort to get a few veg in the ground. If not for us, then certainly to assist the local market in case imports are affected with border closures.
Shortly after planting, and taking a well deserved break, we noticed that Horsey (aka Whiskey) was not herself. She was staying in her stable and not roaming around as usual. Occasionally she wondered out and just lay on the grass, but not making any effort to eat. She was also sweating up a storm.
Now Whiskey is an old lady of 30 years. So she has had a pretty good life so far and she now roams around the farm freely, doing as she wishes. So when we noticed she wasn’t feeling herself, we thought this may sadly be the end.
The farm is a small community of close friends so we rallied the troops to get some advice from all. We have a number of horses on the farm so everyone is familiar with horses and their ailments.
After lubed up arms bring shoved down her read end and a few other pokes and prods, she was given some meds and all we could do was give her lots of love and hope she pulls though.
We sat with her on the grass for most of the day, giving her lots of scratches and tickles and making her feel loved.
We got up early this morning to find Whiskey laying on our front porch, still alive and well. She is roaming around this morning. Still not herself, still not eating, but is drinking water voluntarily. All good signs and can only hope that she is on the mend. She is definitely staying close to us and not venturing far off.
Not sure what the day will bring yet. Getting quite a but done on the farm and in the house over the last few days. But as it’s Sunday, perhaps we deserve a rest.
Touching base with family and friends is important so will make it my mission today to reach out to a few. See how they are, and have a virtual coffee catch-up. Hope you will all do the same.
Happy Sunday all.
Good morning all
Received an early morning message from my kids in Dubai with their recommendation to add to my playlist today …
https://youtu.be/wBrb0jIR2_8
Will post a little later this morning with yesterday’s activities. Have some serious dance moves waiting to try out in the kitchen first. I forgot how much music can add to our lives.
Good morning World
Just having a little fun this morning. Be safe out there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5A4H8QJH8
Enjoy your day
Once upon a time, in the beginning… People had the time to make things from scratch rather than just buying them from the store and it’s so nice to have the time on our hands to do just that – go back to basics and do things the old fashioned way where we can.
So we decided to make Waragi, a Banana Brandy. My other half has been dying to try and make some ever since a friend made Morula Beer a few weeks back.
He managed to find a keg and of course the challenge was on to see what he could do with it and spent a few hours taking it apart and making a new contraption for the top part of it.
So he’s finished the first part of a making a stil to get the fermenting process going.
We spent hours peeling, cutting and boiling up bananas.
And adding the necessary ingredients (Sugar).
And it has then gone into our converted keg for the fermenting process.
And now we wait a few days before starting the actual distilling process…
And in the meantime… a second bucket has appeared. We’re making Lemonchello with all the lemons and limes falling off the trees on the farm.
And I’m making banana bread from all the left over bananas.
Who knew I could be this domesticated.
Hope I can come up with something equally exciting to do tomorrow.
Good Morning Good Morning
Woke up to a whole new world today – Day 1 of total LOCKDOWN due to COVID-19.
I haven’t blogged for quite some time due to time pressures but suddenly find I have all this spare time on my hands, so thought what better way than to touch base with my old blogging friends (Knock Knock – Hope you are all still out there) and start blogging again.
I will be endeavoring to write a new post everyday for the next 21 days of Lockdown.
The Lockdown is not anything any of us could foresee and it will be the end of most of our businesses and possibly my own. We have had to put 125 people off work this week as we cannot afford to pay them if we are unable to work. So feeling a little sad that it has all come to this. But I am not going to harp on about this dreadful disease, there is enough hype about it all without me adding to it.
So in amongst all this madness, I find myself home on our farm – my little piece of paradise. Feeling less stressed. Woke up with a smile after a good night sleep. Reached out for our JBL Xtreme 2 Bluetooth speaker and what better way to start the day than with some music.
Opening song –
Got out of bed, got dressed and decided to wash dishes and found myself dancing to:
So yes, life is good!
Will be looking for things to blog about everyday. Definitely going to take advantage of the time on my hands and find something new and interesting to do each day.
The first is going to be about us making some Banana Brandy (Ugandan Waragi).
So leaving you with an alternative version to It’s the end of the world as we know it – Enjoy!
