DAY 36 - Karma?

If I thought that yesterday was unlucky, today just kicked its ass. First of all Diwali's condition still hasn't improved and seeing her lie on her side in the barn plagued by flies already just broke my heart. We got some more grass and trees for the animals, resulting in a fire ant attack again so bad that I had to strip all my clothes off the second I got home and scrub my back vigorously with the bath brush before being able to continue doing any more work. Our main job for today was to clean out the cow barn again where for some inexplicable reason, fresh grass was strewn everywhere on the ground and therefore rejected by the mamma cow. The wheelbarrow with the cow manure was also so full today that it took me about half an hour and multiple breaks to get it down to the greenhouse, where it was too heavy to even go across the threshold and I therefore had to carefully balance each shovel full of poo from the wheelbarrow at the entrance all the way to the furthest row of kale beds without dropping too much and without cursing too loudly. When we then went to clear the grass from the barn I started getting the dreaded signs of a migraine approaching, and sure enough, soon after we (on top of everything else) found a mutilated Bratz doll in the pile of grass we were disposing of, the headache fully kicked in and I had to flee to our room. Even though I'd secretly welcomed it at first, thinking it'd be a good excuse not to work much more, I soon felt victim to the old 'Be careful what you wish for' since I then had to spend a couple of hours lying in bed, wide awake but unable to keep my eyes open, feeling like my skull was about to spontaneously combust. It was getting dark already by the time I felt good enough to venture outside again where Sarah (you absolute diamond) had finished the barn, helped giving Diwali her medicine and washed up most of the disgusting items in our kitchen. The evening was quite quiet after we heard about Diwali's still worsening condition and we just need to hope that tomorrow will be better.