The Capped Plume
Phew. It was hard work at the playground today.
Why?
Here’s why:
It snowed last night. Quite a bit. Which is lovely of course. But being the first person on duty after a snowfall also means frozen locks and doors. I had to spend a lot of time and energy on that. Especially the door to the horse stables. They were tough to get open. In the end I had to get a hammer and pry them open. After trying shovels and hot water and lots and lots of pulling. My arms are going to be sore tomorrow. Well, they already are. I can barely open a soda bottle with my left hand. I can’t twist the cap. Probably pulled a muscle or two.
Also the water pipe was frozen. At least the rubber thingie on the end. And when I managed to get it working the built-up pressure sent a splash of water all over my face. In the freezing cold. Not fun. But when all the boring work was done I sat down with the goat kids and that was fun.
For every day it seems like they get more and more lively. They don’t sit still for two seconds. They are at the perfect age now, confident and curious but still tiny and soft. Just wonderful.
And as you can see, I did wear the cap. It’s such a cool cap, Debster! That’s the problem too, though. I’m not a cool person. I was a little afraid that some gang of cool people would come up and tear the cap right off my head and throw it to the ground and stomp on it and scream “you’re not cool enough to wear a cap” in my face. But luckily that didn’t happen. I don’t even think anyone pointed and laughed. Maybe I will start wearing it permanently. It keeps the haystack fairly in check. And it was good against the sun in the bus. My eyes are sensitive to the sun. Pheasants forever, and caps too.
Magnethe sniffed at the cap a couple of times. And the little liquorice-head nibbled at it too. Just a little.
March 22nd and I finally got to see proper snow here in Gellerup.
Still not a huge, giant snowfall. But it’ll do. Now I must relax. Much.
March 23rd, 2008 at 14:58
Happy Easter! We had a light dusting of snow here this morning.
Luis Lemmings: Any snow in your forecast for Easter?
March 23rd, 2008 at 21:55
Happy easter! Forecast says we’ll be getting more snow. The baby goats were very excited about it, when I told them. They kept jumping up and down!
Actually they haven’t seen snow yet. Playground is closed on Monday for holidays still. So Tuesday should be their first taste of the white stuff. Well apart from that tiny little bit that came when I was holding both of them the other day.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:06
The first time our two older boys saw snow, they didn’t come out of the barn all day. I finally had to pull them out, inch by inch. Once they were out, it was okay.
When they had gone to bed, it wasn’t snowing. When they woke up the next morning, we had about 3 or 4 inches of snow. They didn’t know what to make of it.
Frankie (being a year old when we got him) doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything. Snow, lawnmowers, 4 wheelers, they are all just something to examine and see if they’re edible!
March 24th, 2008 at 22:37
Debster – Well, I’m sure I’d be afraid of the snow too if I didn’t know what it was. Haven’t you heard of the horrible goat-eating snowmonster of New Guinea?!
If they make edible underwear then why not edible lawnmowers!