Sarah woke up completely covered in mysterious red bites
today, making me quite gleeful that in the fight for the proper bed I’d gotten
the short end of the stick and slept on the futon. Our first assignment for today was of the not-so-exciting variety: cleaning out
the cow barn. This consisted of collecting all the old, dried up grass from the
area and wheel-barrowing it all the way down beyond the greenhouse, then
shovelling the surprisingly large amount of cowpats onto the wheelbarrow to
sprinkle it around the greenhouse later and filling up the cows' water trough
with the help of a too-short hose and a bucket. Sufficiently covered in cow-poo
already we didn’t mind the baby-sitting of the baby cow this much today, and
even though it took us a while to work up the courage to snatch her away
from under its mother’s eyes, we were successful eventually.
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| Even though the big cow's name is 'Surabi', she's never referred to as anything else but 'Momma'. |
Unfortunately, baby Diwali had just been given a bath by her mother
and was covered in a fine layer of slime, but she was a lot more relaxed today than
it was yesterday and even laid down next to us.
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| What a little darling, once she's calmed down. |
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| The only time Sarah actually held the cow - finally I had my hands free for sketching |
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