Monday, June 29, 2009

19 June 2009

Today I went to look after a friend’s daughter as her school had closed for a week due to a swine flu scare. Listening to the news last night, Australia has had its first Swine flu death in Adelaide. They did say he has complications but it’s really scary none the less. During the morning I got a call from Johnny to say he had taken Jonathan home as he was ill. He couldn’t keep anything down. Now the reason Jonathan was with Johnny was due to him taking part in a week’s worth of work experience. He really worked hard and the poor thing is not even going to be paid for it. Work experience is arranged through the school and it is totally voluntary. I think personally he was very tired and now has caught this tummy bug. He couldn’t keep anything down and wasn’t a very happy chap. He also had this raging headache. So it was panado’s and off to bed for him. Later on this evening he perked up and was able to drink a coke. Hopefully it’s just a 24 hour thing.

You might remember me speaking about getting some sheep. Yes, what can I say I’m on the hunt again for more animals. I’ve been searching and finally found two sheep for sale not to far from us. I felt rather silly though as I had contacted this lady in the beginning of the week and Johnny was under so much pressure at work he ended up working late each night. This foiled my plans to go and look at the sheep. Finally tonight we went and had a look. Now it was rather dark and it had started raining again. Jemma, the lady had a flashlight so the situation wasn’t ideal but I got to see them okay. You guessed it. WE WANT THEM. The female is pregnant and due to deliver mid July. The second is a 7 month old male from a completely different family which is so wonderful. I know down the line when it’s bitterly cold in the middle of July (not that it’s not now already) and this girl has her babies, I’m going to probably be complaining again. What am I going to do with a baby lamb or two? I don’t think they will survive outside. Well enough of that, I will cross that bridge when I get there. Where there’s a will there’s a way. The sheep are crosses between a Damara and a Merino which means we will have to sheer them. Jemma, has a man that comes around to sheer the sheep for a small amount. She said she would give me his details. He doesn’t mind only doing two sheep which is good. I must add once we have seen it been done I’m sure Johnny will like to try his hand at it aswell. I think it would been rather nice to spin the wool and possible use it to make some knee blankets for the lounge. How awesome will that be? To raise your sheep, shear them, dye the wool, spin it into balls and then croquet your own knee blankets. I think apart from the very hard labor it must be rather rewarding. So we arranged to collect them Saturday afternoon when Johnny gets home from work.

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