I've missed that view

This week I'm back working and both Nick and I are definitely not being eased back into it. We've both had pretty full on weeks. The number of calves has just rocketed and were not even at the cows due date yet. Luckily yesterday I picked up our third calf rearer from the airport. It was a mammoth day for the girls in the car but unfortunately Bruce wasn't able to go and collect him as planned. Turns out he's from Somerset which makes you realise it's a rather small world! Candy fell asleep at the wheel last weekend and crashed the car on the driveway, so lucky that it was on the 30km/h driveway rather than the highway. On Monday I took the car to be assessed and there's only two panels on the whole car that aren't damaged from the impact of the electrical wires on the fence. She's pretty pleased that she didn't snap the wires and only took out a fence post, I'm mostly happy it happened to her and not me! The company applied some beautiful yellow tape to hold the front bits together and we've lost a wing mirror so driving to the airport was harder than usual. At least it gave Tarran, the new calf rearer, a very easily identifiable car to look out for! He definitely laughed when he saw it and realised I wasn't joking! He's a very friendly chatty guy so I think he will fit in well as long as he doesn't talk too much when things need to be done. I tried my hand at making apple pie for the first time this week. Candy had picked the last of the apples from the tree outside so I made up 3 pies, one to have for tea and two to go in the freezer. It's surprisingly easy when they always use ready made pastry that we store in the freezer. I'm enjoying going to work each day and loving seeing Eliza with the calves. She is so into them and goes right up to the fence with her hands through the bars to pet them. When we first came back Bruce and Candy talked about how she is refusing to say any words but in the short time I've been with them I've got her saying loads just by talking about everything I'm doing and her copying me. One morning I had her saying; all clean, all gone and all done. Bruce didn't believe me at first until he heard it. I have also taught her to call me Nanny. He was adamant there's no way she can say that after so long of her not talking until one day this week she was shouting "Daddy" over and over until I walked in and she smiled and shouted "NANNY". Bruce just looked at me and said "okay now I believe you". It feels bad to say it but I feel their approach of asking her to say things all the time wasn't working for her. She's definitely more prone to copying so I'm excited to see how her language develops while I'm here. At 5am on Thursday a black Labrador turned up at the shed. It was put into Tika's kennel, much to her disliking, and it was my job to find out where it came from. Luckily through the power of Facebook by that evening we had found the owner. It had travelled a good 3km to get to our cow shed so I'm happy we found it as it was a much loved family pet. Candy, Grace and I went to watch Mama Mia 2 as a preschool fundraising event so Grace dropped the dog off on her way to that which was helpful. We watched the film in Geraldine cinema which is the cutest single screen cinema where most of the seats are old comfy sofas and armchairs. I had to bake a cake for a cake raffle at the event and made a great lemon drizzle cake. It was great up it the point where I took it out the tin and the whole inside fell out everywhere, oh did Bruce laugh! It still tasted awesome and I now like lemon flavoured cake it seems. The sister will be happy! In the end I used a packet vegan chocolate cake mix, something Candy bought by mistake, it turned out rather well and went for $15 so that's something!Okumaya devam et