成人快手

Hmmm. It seems that the fairm is conspiring against my first Hogmanay. It's one of those warm rainy nights that's just perfect for being indoors visiting folk. Erlend says it's traditional tae bring a lump of coal when you go first footing - so we are going to bring some coal tae friends that have fires and we'll see what they say.

But...the fairm is no cooperating. This morning we discovered that Pepper's calf died. Pepper is a very tame heefer and this is her first calf and it would have made a fine coo in the future! The poor lass is depressed just laying there in her pen lo-ing for her calf. I took the curry comb and gave her a good brushing doon. She liked that. We are going tae try and buy a dairy calf so she can have a calf tae care for.

As if this wasn't bad enough Erlend found a boatload of calves up at his sister's fairm (Erlend rents the land and byre) that are sick with pneumonia. He's spent most of the day separating the sick from the healthy.

Then we spent the afternoon shifting sheep. We took Magnus (the ram) and my two pet weathers Sigurd and Swain oot of the flock because breeding time is over for Magnus. (He's a big brat these days - always dooshing me and charging me!)

We noticed one gimmer limping very badly - one of our best gimmers!! - so Erlend pounced on her as the sheep went through the gate into a fresh field and then he flipped her ower and we could smell something nasty. When he pared her hoof he found a TERRIBLE case of footrot - so deep and nasty! We've treated her and treated her but tae no avail and now we have tae cull her which really really annoys me. She's a lovely sheep - big and healthy and tame! We had tae wrestle her intae the pickup truck and tahk her tae the byre while she nickered for her flock all the way. (Thankfully she has kye tae keep her company in the byre.) We gave her painkillers and put her in a pen bedded with fresh stray. We'll keep her comfortable and manage her pain until we have her butched - or sold for butching.

The rain is lashing against the windows as the sun sets and darkness arrives. We had tae wait for the veet tae get here with a supply of pnuemonia jags and now Erlend is up at his sister's fairm dosing the calves. He said he might not get done until 10pm and he still has to feed the kye which will take about three hours. So my first Hogmanay just might be spent here on the fairm rather then gaan oot.

But! I told Erlend it's nay bother. I knew that when I married a fairmer that I'd have tae deal with whatever the fairm threw at us! I told him it's no bother if we can't do much first footing tonight and we'll bring in the New Year together and then go and visit folk over the next few days.

I just hope nothing else gets sick or dies or has to be culled. That's the downside tae a fairm!!!!

Well, I'd better have a kip just in case folk first foot here! Erlend topped up the coal bucket so I can keep the fire going till late.