A bit more than usual

Angie KO so off to the GP in the morning while I did horses and walked the dogs. At midday Farmer Franz said he had unexpectedly got the large muck spreader and would be coming late afternoon to load our two muck heaps. Kathi came by to return the horse trailer - luckily we didn't need it last night for Asyr, who is limping around today. We are giving him massive dosis of Aspirin to help with the aches and pains. He can eat grass though. Needed a 40kg sack of sugar beet pulp for the horses but non available only in bulk so attached the small covered trailer and collected 200kg (about 15% cheaper than in sacks) as well as Angie's prescriptions from the chemist. Back home high pressure hose out plastic barrels to store the pulp in as well as six large cow stable rubber mats which we will put in Asyr's box. Not ideal as " liquids" get through the joints in the 1mx1m mats but they are very heavy and should help if he gets in a difficult situation again as well as make the concrete floor a bit warmer in the winter - it's of course covered in straw but this easily gets pushed aside. When we win the lottery, we will have the stables kitted out with an inch of liquid rubber. I guess we ought to start playing first before we dream.

MrB popped by in the evening & we managed to off-load some of the masses of tomatoes, a fennel for his fruit salad? and a few eggs. In exchange he told me off regarding the bees but that story is dealt with on the bee journal.
In the collage left to right:

Top row: Franz & son Markus loading the muck

2nd row on our walk: Playing sticks after a short paddle in the stream
WhiteFlash, a rival to Bliper RedFlash and two pedal car tractors spotted in the village. If I could would give the left one to MrB (Eicher his favourite) and the red one for Elliot. View of the alps now with a dusting of snow.

3rd row: Still on our walk - Maize silage being unloaded on a tip and then pressed down by driving the heaviset possible machine backwards & forwards over it before covering in plastic sheets. Back home - The trailer of sugar beet pulp and the washed drums we will store it in.

Angie still feeling lousy, she has a viral infection and the hospital has postponed her appointment for a month as they couldn't judge whether her problem has got better through her weekly treatment sessions. Not even the good weather could entice her out to do much.