The Good Life!

 

Mike and I are very, very lucky people.  We have three sons, two gorgeous daughters in law – Harry is still interviewing!!! – and three beautiful grandsons.  Then, if that was not enough, we live in a fabulous place.

We get a huge amount of pleasure from our family, our animals and our garden and we spend most of our time with them.  Leonora finally decided to give birth this morning - heathen that she is – preventing us from going to church!  Fortunately I had just finished serving breakfast to our B and B guests before she decided to go into action.  It was all text book stuff which really impressed some of our guests who are sheep farmers and were amazed at how easy it all was. 

 

 

Although we have only got two crias on the ground so far – both are girls and both are really strong and healthy.  We would be a bit happier if the latest addition – Livia – was feeding from her Mum , but we had plenty of colostrum in the freezer, so hopefully she will be fine and feeding from Mum tomorrow.

I had hoped to get a bit of gardening done today, but Livia changed those plans.  Nevertheless I did enjoy a walk around the garden this evening, I love rhododendrons but I have to say that azaleas are my favourites – the perfume is so exotic.

 

 

Please don’t get the impression that I’ve been swanning around, taking pretty pictures all day.  We are anxious to crack on with our breeding programme and so had all three boys working this afternoon.  Houghton King, Grazing Hills Parker and Emelises’s Montezuma were all in action.  Parker and Monte are American imports and will hopefully add some top quality coloured genetics to our herd.

 

 

 

Our pigs are also thriving and just love to say hello whenever you go over to see them.  They haven't quite got the hang of close up photos yet!  ie there's close up and there's too close up!

 

 

Needless to say, with all of this amount of activity going on, there hasn't been a great amount of time for culinary  expertise.  Fortunately I had a lovely free- range chicken in the fridge so I've just picked loads of herbs from the garden and have mixed them with garlic, lemon rind and butter and have eased them in between the skin and the breasts.  So lots of salad and new potatoes and I think that we can we well pleased with our day!