A Long Time Coming

This blog post has been a long time coming,

So much has gone on, our lives have been on a roller coaster.

I am just going to outline some of the major events just to update things.

December 17th 

Martin went into hospital for an operation on his shoulder to repair a rotar cuff injury.

All went well, his shoulder an arm was totally immobilised and was going to be for 8 weeks, operation went well. 

Then it went wrong he developed an infection  was taken back into hospital, we had ART coming out daily to give him antibiotics intravenously.

During this time our eldest grandson Connor came to live with us, I also got news a dear long standing friend  had passed away very suddenly.

January 17th 

Our grandson Cameron was tragically killed in an accident 

Our world fell apart, it was a long nearly six week wait for the funeral, Martin was battling infection and having to go back in hospital, we were trying to keep things going here on the small holding battling relentless storms and rain.

March 17th 

I had to go into 12 week self isolation taking the government advice, being in the high risk group, 

COVID19 is sweeping the country, Martin should have been going in for another operation as the infection still goes on and not coming under control, operation cancelled, we have to now manage it at home, antibiotics and dressings is all the surgery can give us.

There has been good news 

Our granddaughter is expecting twins in June 

Twin 1

Twin2

Identical twin girls, A high risk pregnancy but she is being well cared for and is also on isolation until delivery.

On the smallholding front, all is well, We passed the TB testing, the buffalo mamas are pregnant, the goats are pregnant, the sheep are pregnant. 
Babies and new life everywhere. 
With everything going into lock down we are well prepared, the freezers are full of meat fruit and vegetables, we have plenty stores of canned preserved and dried foods.
We are now in a new growing season although we still have things to harvest.
We are very lucky to be in this position we can still go for walks spend plenty time outside, there is always lots to do, being self sufficient puts you in a good position we can also help out others who are not in a good place.
We have not had to stock up on anything except for animal feed, thank goodness the grass is starting to grow again a few weeks and we can turn out the Buffalo again. 
With all this down time this could be the year we catch up on all those jobs.
2020 is turning into a very memorable time, good and bad.