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From Wayne
Meanwhile, down on the farm - - - - - - - Kenny reports: (Kenny Sellers is our son and law) Our one chicken was acting like she was going to die - laboured breathing - swollen abdomen. Acting weird. So we brought her in the house a couple days ago, warm bath medicine etc…. Checked for a stuck egg… couldn’t feel anything. She stayed in a crate in the bathroom, then eventually to the garage. Still swollen up yesterday etc. I was outside walking with her and she was still eating but walking funny breathing funny looking like she was going to explode. Put her back in the coup last night and was going to give her a warm bath again today…..
Well she’s fine now - not swollen and red looking like she was going to explode!!! Wayne ****
From Nova Scotia Sus
Our weather has been stormy at times but one day this past week was a perfect day to hang our buckets. The sun was shining and the wind wasn't blowing so we put on our snowshoes and went to the woods. We tend to tap all the same trees from year to year. We can see the holes where we tapped each year .....some are high and some are low so we know how much snow we had. I could have stayed out all day it was so beautiful. Since then the weather has been cold so no sap to collect yet. Another day we spent digging out our fire pit for boiling down our sap we collect. Now it's just a waiting game for it all to begin. It's been quite a winter this year with regular snow storms and lots of work digging out. Our chickens are just waiting for a day they can get outside. Sus ****
From Doug
For us, good days are few and far between. We have ‘normal’ days but seldom get to enjoy a good day. When one comes along it’s worth writing about. Monday was one such day and so I’ll tell you about it. Firstly, it was the last and nicest of several sunny warm days, the kind you’d find in late spring. After a nice morning walk we did our usual morning trip up the gondola for coffee. At the risk of repeating myself, routine and familiarity are important. Because it was a rather glorious morning several of our motorcycle friends rode up from the city to join us. They had become pass holders when we played that music gig a while ago and are making use of them. As well there was the usual people there that join us most mornings. Then, to our surprise, Jane and her husband Chris turned up. They usually go there later in the day than we do. So, we had the makings of a party in the sunshine on the deck up on the mountain. We ended staying there an hour longer than usual and we all had a very enjoyable morning. We went for another walk after we got home, it was just too nice to stay in the house. After lunch Jane came over so we could do another enjoyable music session. We are working on some ‘new to us’ songs and that always injects some fresh energy into our music. Sue sat contentedly on the couch and listened to us sing and play. I could see her tapping her feet to the music and she even seemed to sing along a bit. At the end of our session we walked Jane home and then kept on going for another walk in the sunshine. Once we got home reality set back in. Sue noticed my guitar and asked if I ever play it. I told her I had been playing it before we went for the walk. She said she didn’t remember that so I said I had been playing it as Jane and I did our songs. She was surprised that Jane had been over because she said she didn’t know Jane had been here. Sadly, that’s our normal these days too. However the rest of the day was calm and relaxed so all in all a very good day. Something she’s been hung up on lately is the idea that her parents live next door to us but she doesn’t see them much because they are away a lot. She also seems to think that she is currently at ‘Doug’s’ house but isn’t sure why. She knows my name but not really who I am. She seems to understand that I’m taking care of her until she can go home. This too is our current ‘norm’. Here is a pic taken on the mountain deck on Monday showing Sue and I, and Jane and her husband Chris.
We (Jane & I) finished up recording another song, this time its a Neil Young song called ‘Long May You Run’. I’m not actually a Neil Young fan but he did write some nice material. Something I should point out regarding our recordings is that while my tendency is to stuff in as many tracks of harmony as I can squeeze into a song, that is not what our goal is when Jane and I record. We are simply trying to reproduce as close as possible what we sound like when playing live. The result is a simple clean sound. So, here’s our nice laid back version of this song. Enjoy.
Doug ****
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