No time to cry

I got to thinking how a lot of people would've collapsed with grief over the happenings this week.  I'm still very sad.  A little (or alot depending on the hour) angry, but mostly very sad.

But, as my title indicates, there's no time to cry.  There's the basic running of our insane household that takes up parts of my day, cooking, "cleaning", laundry....  Then there's the myriad little emergencies of the day.  Today's included un-sticking a lamb's head (it was stuck in the fence) and de-fusing Sophie's attempts to sleep in the tent again tonight.

Since I was in the sheep paddock anyway, I ended up helping M feed the sheep and donkeys.  I ended up getting mugged!!  The sheep, who are not so petted really, will overcome all fears if they think you have a tasty grain in your hand/pocket/ponytail.  The donkeys were mad at me as they thought I gave too much grain to the pony and brayed their discontent (even Josie) to M who was not amused.

Speaking of M.  She's been letting the chickens out to truly free-range during the day.  Watching her walk across the paddock with a flurry of little red hens chasing after her is truly hilarious!  I'm determined to get a video!! 

I missed the moon-rise tonight.  It was supposed to be one of those optical illusions where the moon looks huge on the horizon.  I caught it just above the tree line here and it was still quite large looking.  I read the boys a couple moon poems tonight and we sang "Moon, Moon, Moon" (Laurie Berkner... we love her).  They were unwilling to go to sleep until Jim came in and cast his sleepy spell on them... I don't know how he does it... I think it has something to do with his slow heartbeat. 

Sophie's scar is not healing so well, probably because she won't leave it alone.  We got a call from the derm's office saying that the mole was benign, so that's good news.  I just hope the hole in her leg heals! 

Yesterday she was stung multiple times by paper-wasps, about 6-7 times.  The hub-bub of the whole affair had her face inflamed again, but it's since gone down.  She's doing fine bee-sting-wise today and hasn't complained of the places whatsoever.  Tonight, for some reason, she decided to wash her hair with toothpaste.  Seriously!  What was she thinking!!  So now her hair has a minty-fresh scent even after multiple rinses and rewashing!! 

Sigh.

Insane household remember?