Sunny days, everything is A OK!

Keeping busy over the weekend has been good for me. We've helped 2 heifers deliver their new babies, one was breech so a bit of a challenge. The cow who we helped yesterday decided she would chase me and instead of climbing up the fence I just decided to keep running... Idiot! I got to the gate, climbed up it like a wild cat and flung my leg over. She stood there staring me down! My screaming stopped her in her tracks too my partner said! HaHa! I'm learning, I really am! I can read cow now I think... When walking them into the yards so we can assist I can basically do it on my own now as you can tell where they plan to go as they look first! My poor girl today who had the breech calf I think just wanted to get a drink, she knew to a degree what was going on. She kept running towards the dam and I kept cutting her off then I just let her be for a minute thinking "We're both women here... If I'd was in labour and had just run 100 acres, maybe I'd like to get a fricking drink!" and sure enough she got a drink then started trotting again, she went straight into the yards then I got her down into the crush. Poor darling had feet hanging out but wasn't even dilated, she did well though! Baby boy not long after.

My divine little calves who are living in our house yard seem to be doing well! Bambi is a fat piglet and drinks WAY more than she needs to but she's just so cute! That's the city girl in me... Basil drinks enough then is happy to lay in the sun for most of the day, when he's hungry he comes onto the front porch and looks at me until I come out. He's a clever little bully!

I should be outside in this gorgeous sun, you wouldn't think with the ice and frost everywhere this morning that we could enjoy such a lovely day today but it's here and I'm inside why my gorgeous man is over building my new chooks and house. I might make him a coffee and scoot on over.

Blood tests come tomorrow... I could cry just thinking about it.

What to do? What to do?

So yesterday we drove a hour and a half to Dubbo (Our closest "city"...) to get a dating scan on our baby. Sadly and it was fricking sad as sad can be there was just the little sac measuring 14.1mm but nothing there. The technician was lovely, she kept making me pee and come back and she kept trying but the reality of it is there's a lovely little home in my tummy but nobody is home.

Now we just have a waiting game, saw 2 GPs at the practice where I go they ordered another HCG level blood test to see if my levels are going down. In a sick, sad way I kind of hope they are going down then I will just know. I have in my head that what if they went up from last night but are still going down, I'll have hope and as much as hope can be a beautiful thing is can be a pain too.

What to do? What to do?

Take my mind off today but building chicken houses with my gorgeous man then go on heifer calving duty again with him later this afternoon.

Men.

I don't understand why he can't help me out by not chucking shit on the floor or washing up his fricking coffee cup!?!?! I get that I'm at home and he's out working but I'm not his slave.

What's it going to take for him to just help me a little bit?

I'm 7 weeks pregnant which is thrilling, I asked him to take the kitty litter box out because I'm not actually meant to go near it. Who do you think ended up taking it out?

Grrr... MEN!!!

Friday seems to be the day.

As of this Friday I will have been living here for 2 months. I can't believe how fast it's gone. My darling partner and I have been together 5 months (As of last Friday!). There have been some ups and down but we're making a go of it.


Next Friday we go for our babies first ultrasound which is SO exciting but at the same time very scary. I'm such a pessimist that I'm worried there will be no heart beat. If I believed in God I'd pray that everything will be ok. I'm trying to be positive, I've got the vitamins and I'm trying to eat a heap of protein. It will be so beautiful though to hear the heart beat, I'll probably cry I'm that emotional at the moment!


This week have been a week of new additions to our little home. On the weekend my partner found his long lost cat up in the chook house. She'd been gone for 7 months! She is now coming back from being feral and pretty much lives in the cupboard... She'll come good I hope!


Then we have 3 more chooks to lay for us and some ducks who in time will also lay. I cannot wait to use their eggs to make a cake!


And last but not least I'm taking care of a GORGEOUS little Hereford calf who we've named "Bambi". Bambi came to us because her mummy had a prolapse that was past the point of return. She had to be shot. I guess you understand why our new family member is named Bambi now?


It brings our total to 2 cats, 4 dogs, 2 guinea pigs, 2 ducks, 6 house yard chooks, a gazillion show chooks and the divine Stanley-Jim our Sulfur Crested Cockatoo! I love country life! Next we will get a llama I hope!