Meet Cookies and Cream.
What? You didn’t think I meant human kids, did you? I think the 3 I already have are quite enough for now. No, these are 2 of Pat & Steve’s kids. They weren’t doing so well (parasites. Again. Sigh.) so Pat asked me if they could come here for some tlc. So here they are. My daughter and I went and picked them up Sat. evening. The farm sitter dewormed them, and I’m giving them the coccidia meds and some Geritol to help their anemia. Sunday evening I took a look at some of Cookies’ diarrhea (if you have goats, you look at their poop alot) and in there was what amounted to 2 1-foot tape worm lengths and some segments. Now, my daughter and I being ourselves- we took pictures, but I won’t make you look at them. It’s actually a relief – she is painfully thin, and now that the tapeworm is gone, I can work on making her fat & sassy. We’ll have these 2 nice and spoiled by the time Pat takes them back.
Speaking of, here is the Steve report. He’s been doing great, and they thought he was going to get to come home today, but he now has a slight infection (probably not too unexpected given how intense and invasive the surgery was) so it will be a few more days now. Everyone is disappointed, but better that this was caught now than when they got home.
Thank you all for all your kind words about Pikachu- and all of your kind words always. You guys are so sweet and supportive- I really appreciate it.
I told you all about bringing Greta home. She is Sirius Black’s mother, and is a bit of an old girl. She settled in well and figured out coffee and wine quickly. Something was telling me not to open my 3rd field up, but there was some nice wild grass down at the bottom, so I did. Forgetting that there may be some Mountain Laurel in it (its extremely poisonous to goaties) and forgetting that Greta had never been exposed. (mine will eat a little, be sick for a few hours, then that is that). Poor girl was sick for almost 72 hours. Dr. Melinda was out here twice, we tube fed her both times, but it took the 2nd time- complete with both IV and subQ fluids, to get her back to herself.
Melinda brought our friend’s daughter, M., with her. She was a huge help. She’s planning on being a farm vet too. She’s got such a sweet, gentle nature- she’ll be perfect. Here’s our poor patient:
A couple of hours after the fluids, she was up and eating- acting almost like her old self. That was such a relief- I felt so bad for her. And it was totally my fault. Now the front field is closed again, and this winter I will ruthlessly eliminate any of that foul (but beautiful) plant I find on my property.
Here she is in full Greta form the next morning- not even waiting for my coffee to cool off or for me to have any…
(she was back to mooching wine that evening, too. Whew.)
Finished one of my test knits (oh! I have a free set of needles now. What to do??). Can’t really show it to you, but you can kinda sorta see the color in this picture of Chance- the once pitiful bottle baby kitten.
Now for some stash enhancement. My Black Bunny Fibers yarn club and sock club installments came:
The yarn club offering was Pinky Dinky Doo, a super soft merino single. The sock club is Midnight-
an absolutely gorgeous blue faced leicester/nylon sock yarn with a nice, tight twist. I sent my daughter outside to take the pictures, and she is so well trained from taking pictures of my handspun, that she took a few of these:
Ok, its early evening, and Greta and Fluff will be demanding their wine…
oh! i’ve been MIA (life’s crazy) for a couple of days and – oh, i am so sorry to hear about pikachu! and greta being ill and the two you are nursing for pat & steve – you are a dear. i don’t know that i could handle it all… you are one strong lady!
kisses to stuff and puff. ‘night!
Lots of cookies in C and C’s futures I think, yes?
Poor Greta and the bad weed! I’m glad she’s bounced back so well.