Spent the weekend cleaning. I was reading about the Japanese nationwide spring-clean on waterbaby blog.
Only today have I cleared the pile of ironing I had sitting on the bed.
I finished off the yearly ‘family type stuff’ with a drive up to dads farm for a couple of days of country fresh air last week.
It was nice to see big fluffy cottonwool clouds in the sky as I drove up the highway.
Currently blue skies are drought skies over here.
I think that the happiest I’ve been in a long while, was driving up to dads and back. Not the arriving there, but the drive itself.
Threading through the country side, music blasting out of the radio, stopping off in tiny rural towns for drinks and snacks.
I helped dad round up some calves, then we snagged their ears with electronic tags.
I’ve read about this sort of measure in the U.S. where animals are tracked by computer to quickly shut down disease outbreaks like BSE or foot and mouth.
After seeing the chaotic business of animal movement in the U.K. I reckon this is probably a good thing.
As usual when visiting parents I arrived home totting a bundle of food.
A bag of cherries, Chocolate brownies and a slice of pizza for my lunch.
As a consummerate road traveler myself, I can not only picture your lovely drive but add that there is little finer. Also, having resided in drought country under constant blue skies, I know well the pleasure of seeing, well, anything other than vast blue stretches! ... so glad fluffy whites accompanied your drive. I dig hearin' about tagging calves' ears. That's an experience foreign to yours truly, and if you ever need a blogging idea, there's one right there. ;-) And don't we all leave the homes of our parents toting bags of food? lol
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