It is Sunday Feb. 6, 2011 and a beautiful sunny day with a bright blue sky and the eaves are dripping!!!!! We got a little of everything yesterday for weather. It was the Valentine event at the Tasha Tudor Museum and we were not sure if we could even hold it because of the weather. It turned out to be alright and we had it from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Just as Jenna and I were packing the car to come home at 2:30 p.m. it started to rain. By the time I walked up to Darcy's at 5 p.m. to go do the chores early, it was snowing hard. My grand daughter Rowan walked home with me for a sleepover at YaYa's house and as we went to bed at 8:45 p.m. Then we had a thunder storm and sleet!!!!! I am very worried about our barn and if it can handle the snow that has stayed on the roof all winter. The barn has a very steep metal roof but the snow has not come off at all. A dairy barn collapsed in Londonderry this morning with 4 people in it and some injuries. I don't know much more but will find out tomorrow. Darcy knows the farmer that was injured because the farm is just down the road from Flood Brook Elem school where Darcy is the Librarian. Last year they lost a brand new barn from the weight of the snow on the roof. I just went up and blocked the gate so the sheep can't get on the side of the barn where the snow might come off.
My poor old Ripley continues to be sick. I wrote to Faye Whitney and Kat Smith and both wrote back with suggestions. I also got a very long, very helpful e-mail from Nadine Chounet and I'm trying everything to pull him through. On Friday I was at my class at Marlboro College and called my Vet Shephen. He said to give Ripley 2 c.c. of Penicillin for 4 days. I've also given him 1.5 cc of Vit. B-complex. This morning for the very first time in one and a half weeks, he pawed through the hay and picked up three tiny,tiny little pieces of hay. He pushes the grain around and lays his head on the feeder and its ripping my heart out to watch this. The more he doesn't eat, the more I do eat, so if he can make it through this I should be able to wear my husband Jonathan's clothes!!!!!!!!!
I've managed to clean a lot here at the house today and that is a major undertaking! There is just so much to do and not enough time to do it. Or else by the time I get home in the evening, I'm too tired to do what needs to be done! Darcy took Rowan and Declan out to lunch and to the Movies because Todd worked today. I've been out taking pictures of how much snow we have and all the out buildings because I am fretting myself silly about the weight of snow on everything! I guess I might as well stop worrying because nobody else seems to care!
I'm taking a 10 week class through Marlboro College for Non-profit Management. This is to help with my new job as Executive Director of the Tasha Tudor Museum. It was extremely hard for me to walk into that first class, wondering if this old brain could still absorb knowledge!!!!! My class on Friday was a really good class and I learned so much about fund raising. This Wed. we are having a Valentine lunch at work and Amy will be able to sit down with me to brainstorm about all the projects for the Museum. I just love this new direction my career is moving in. I have loved being a nurse and will continue to do it part-time, but I truly love Museum work.
Well I'm going to add some pictures, one of poor old Ripley and several of the snow. Hope everyone is doing o.k. and don't shovel any snow.......it will melt sometime!
So-long from Maybelle MaMa
My poor old Ripley continues to be sick. I wrote to Faye Whitney and Kat Smith and both wrote back with suggestions. I also got a very long, very helpful e-mail from Nadine Chounet and I'm trying everything to pull him through. On Friday I was at my class at Marlboro College and called my Vet Shephen. He said to give Ripley 2 c.c. of Penicillin for 4 days. I've also given him 1.5 cc of Vit. B-complex. This morning for the very first time in one and a half weeks, he pawed through the hay and picked up three tiny,tiny little pieces of hay. He pushes the grain around and lays his head on the feeder and its ripping my heart out to watch this. The more he doesn't eat, the more I do eat, so if he can make it through this I should be able to wear my husband Jonathan's clothes!!!!!!!!!
I've managed to clean a lot here at the house today and that is a major undertaking! There is just so much to do and not enough time to do it. Or else by the time I get home in the evening, I'm too tired to do what needs to be done! Darcy took Rowan and Declan out to lunch and to the Movies because Todd worked today. I've been out taking pictures of how much snow we have and all the out buildings because I am fretting myself silly about the weight of snow on everything! I guess I might as well stop worrying because nobody else seems to care!
I'm taking a 10 week class through Marlboro College for Non-profit Management. This is to help with my new job as Executive Director of the Tasha Tudor Museum. It was extremely hard for me to walk into that first class, wondering if this old brain could still absorb knowledge!!!!! My class on Friday was a really good class and I learned so much about fund raising. This Wed. we are having a Valentine lunch at work and Amy will be able to sit down with me to brainstorm about all the projects for the Museum. I just love this new direction my career is moving in. I have loved being a nurse and will continue to do it part-time, but I truly love Museum work.
Well I'm going to add some pictures, one of poor old Ripley and several of the snow. Hope everyone is doing o.k. and don't shovel any snow.......it will melt sometime!
So-long from Maybelle MaMa
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