Thursday, 25 June 2009

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  Holden had another seizure last night.  Even though I trust his pediatrician and his neurologist that seizures (of his kind, anyway) are not harmful it doesn't diminish the ice-cold fear that grips my heart when he has one.  I'm going to call his pediatrician's office today when they open to just have them note it in his chart--with his medication he shouldn't be having seizures at all. 

  Despite that I slept like a rock (usually after a seizure I hold an all-night vigil).  I was worn out from helping Anthony with the fence and then going swimming.  We got the goat pasture moved to an entirely different area.  It had been within the cow pasture which ended up presenting a problem I hadn't anticipated.  The cows wanted to go into the goat area.  They couldn't, of course, because of the fence, so they'd stand in front of the gate all.day.long and poop there.  It was not good.  And we're not talking nicely formed cow patties (I pick those up throughout the day and put them lovingly in my compost pile) but this mud/waste muck.  So we moved the goats out of that area.  As soon as Anthony took the cattle panels down Roselle skipped into that area and promptly waddled her behind into the goat house.  In fact, that's where both cows are right now (actually, I haven't checked but I'm assuming that's where they are.  They could have hitchhiked halfway to Vegas for all I know).

  I was nervous about moving Romeo Blue, the llama, but he did fine.  Anthony just led him with a bucket of grain.

  Now everyone is happy and the problem of the poop swamp is over.

  Today Anthony is going to work on running more electric fence.  We're going to more than double the cows' pasture and allow them access to a barn (besides that lovely goat house that they're so excited about).  He also found a patch of raspberries so I'm going to try to get down there and pick some.  I need to get the okra plants in the ground before they Die and, of course, other gardening.  It's been so hot that it's nearly impossible to do anything after 9 am or before 9 pm.

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