glenolam's madness - April passed away

I was wondering where you were.



Wow you sure have a ton going on. Congrats on the soaps, let us know how the red wine turns out.

6 days with no power?? So fill us in. Did you stay home the whole time?? How about your freezer? Any lessons you can share?

Good to hear from you.

G

ohiofarmgirl said:

wow great work with the soap idea!!! but um... i'd probably just drank the wine and put red colored soap in a grape leaf mold
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OFG, you are an original!

Trust me, OFG...the thought did cross my mind.

Tanks - we thankfully had a generator so the cow didn't go all soft in the freezer. We were able to shower once a day so, yes, we still went to work every day. My MIL watched little g since the daycare was closed but surely didn't mind a little grammie time!

So, on to sad news...

April passed away last night. As I mentioned I brought her to my friend's house so she wouldn't get bred and all was well with her, she ate every day like usual and last night at their supper seemed normal. My friend knew April was sick so I told her to keep that in the back of her mind so she wouldn't be surprised if something did happen, but we sure didn't expect her to pass away this quickly. She was right as rain last night and then dead this morning. I guess she had a little blood coming out of her rectum, which sorta makes sense if you think that her cancer was in her udder - who knows if it was also on her organs and such.

So, the positive is that she didn't suffer and didn't have to go through the winter being sick. The negative is that my friend had to deal with it, but she didn't mind. She's even going to bury April on her property because we have a lot going on right now. I love her!

Everyone else is doing well. Duke, my nubian buck, really doesn't know what to do with all these ladies hemming and hawing over him. He needs a lesson in manlihood...

I'm so sorry, though I'm glad she isn't suffering. I'm also glad I got the chance to meet her!

Just because it was expected doesn't make it less sad.

Bummer....

I'm real sorry about April! I am glad she did not suffer for long.

Thanks - it is sad but I did give her a good "good bye" just in case something happenend. It was a really hard hit on me yesterday. I won't go into much detail because it's not the time nor the place, but so much has happened to us in the past few days that her death was just icing on the cake (maybe that's not the right way to use that statement...). but we can only go up from here, hopefully!

TanksHill said:

6 days with no power?? So fill us in. Did you stay home the whole time?? How about your freezer? Any lessons you can share?

G

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I forgot to say there is one lesson I really learned during our no power days. I am not meant to live "in the olden days" like the early settlers. Too much time for conversation. Way too much. Talking is good, but there comes a time when you break down with the twitches because you can only take so much talk. So to combat the constant conversation my lesson learned is that sending the hubby off for fishing with his friends is a fanstatic idea!