Powerless.

No newbies today, so still 14 calves.
We were scheduled to be without electricity today to allow work on the power lines. Not really a problem as we have the wood fired stove - in fact that's really all we have. Anyway, as long as the kettle is always on...
Just before lunch we were whinging about the constant bad news on radio and telly. “We should watch DVDs instead of telly”. Only problem with that is we currently have no TV set in the study where our DVD player is.
So, after lunch, into Wang to buy a little TV.
Bumped into Kevin Ryan on the way home and arranged for him to come and weld a rail on the cattle race back on. I wrenched it off with the tractor some time ago when a calf decided it would be good fun to get its head stuck between rails.
Home about 4.00pm, power was back on, so set up the new TV. It’s smart TV and I've decided that the TV is a lot smarter than me.Read more