October 16th
The barn is alive with the sound of……… Actually not sure quite what. A Kookaburra is sitting on someone’s arm, a HUGE iguana is wandering around the floor, a meerkat is sitting up on his hind legs in a little pen in the corner and a jennet is sitting on someone’s head. Yes. A normal working day at Tilley Farm. The jennet is just beautiful. She is a member of the mongoose family but has paws like a little cat. She is alarmingly interested in the skunks which are blissed out with TTouch on the other side of the room. We also have snakes, spiders and a giant African snail who is slowly creeping up one of the participants arm.
Mags and I have been on a clearing mission and our feed room is super organised and clean. We are moving on to the hay store later and Jon is getting a little twitchy as we may just take our cleaning appliances into the house. Frankly it needs the yard blower and the power washer but as we are unable to get a skip in through the door we may refrain from going that far.
Our front paddock is looking gorgeous with its new fencing and everyone is enjoying the course. Although I have extra hours in the day now there still doesn’t seem to be enough time to get everything done. Perhaps I take on too much. Oh well. At least the word ‘bored’ is never a part of my vocabulary.