Day In the Barn

I spent practically the whole day in the barn yesterday. Ok, not the whole entire day. I left to eat and say hi to my kids and greet the new family that's going to move to TO... someday. I milked the cows in the morning, cleaned the barn, and then milked the cows in the late afternoon, and made it to dinner, and what did I do after dinner? I watched a movie with Rowan and Keenan, called "Stranger Than Fiction." It was ok, although I found it a bit shallow. Lots of timeless themes and whatnot, but no character I really could connect to. Oh well, it was good to veg on the couch after a day of lifting and hauling. "Barn clean" includes finding enough cans and making sure they're all washed for the next two milkings. There's a lot of milk these days, with four cows fairly recently freshened.

Our new family's from Kansas, and they aren't really ours yet, they're Little Flower's, the Catholic Worker Farm a few miles away. It's a very long involved process for a family to join TO, and I'm guessing that from the family's point of view, it's a two year process from idea conception to settling in to TO with the rooms you like. Our family's got a mom and dad and a sweet baby, and I hope they like Little Flower and vice versa. I'm sure everything'll work out one way or another. Holy spumoni. ("Spumoni" is a flavor of ice cream -- it's one of the striped kinds, with nuts, yum).

Okey dokey artichokey, I need to go make some labor credits.
much love,
Kelpie