SUNDAY FUNDAY

[lola]

Wecome to sunday funday everyone!

It's a beautiful morning here where I am......hope your Sunday is indeed a Funday

Let's get the conversation going........

[Former-Member]

We went shopping for little gifts for kids teachers and food shopping. Home again - it's very hot here today.
One week left of school for the year!!

[Mazarita]

Plans fell through for visiting friends. So I'm listening to independent electronic music on the internet. Dreaming up short video ideas...

[Crazy_Bug_Lady]

Incredibly busy day.

Incredibly hot day.

Ugh.

Two herds got together through a gate, so we had re-organise them before the truck came to 12 off to market.

Then we had to go to the front paddock as one of the cows had given birth and there was something wrong with calf. So we had to get the calf in the car, a halter on the cow, and I led the calf up to the shed. The calf ended up dying We think it was premature, and something happened to the umbilical cord, and the heat...

Then loaded up two bulls both off to new homes.

Finally home. Loooooonnnngggg cold shower...

So out in the sun from 9 till 4.30.

I don't think I drank enough water... I don't feel well... And I still haven't been sleeping more than 3 hours each night since my psych appointment Thursday...

[Crazy_Bug_Lady]

Forgot to mention!!

Because the girls got in with the boys, I got to see my heifer!!

Can you tell she's mine My Killi is definetly a Special Unit...

[Mazarita]

@Crazy_Bug_Lady Sad about the calf. Sounds like the heat has really got to you too. You said elsewhere that it was 41 degrees! Great that you got yourself straight into a long cold shower. I would slowly drink water over the evening to try to rehydrate. Sorry you are feeling so haunted by the last appointment with the psychologist. I would talk to them about it next time I was there. Hope you get some really restful sleep tonight and feeling better in the morning. 

[Crazy_Bug_Lady]

Thanks @Mazarita I can cope with the loss of the calf, but the poor mother. We left the body with her, then took the bulls, so we were gone 3 hours. When we came back she was still lying with him, and trying to get him up. We'll leave the body with her so she can recognise it's died, and not freak that we've taken her bub.

Yeah, I feel all headachey and dizzy. I've had some juice, and found some hydrolyte tablets you mix with water.

I have a PDoc appointment Tuesday, so if I still feel sick (from the heat) I'll have tomorrow off, and I'll talk to the PDoc Tuesday. 

[chookmojo]

I had a lovely 3 day weekend. Got lots done on Friday so I was happily lazy for Saturday and today. The chooks have really started to make themselves at home in the back yard instead of sticking close to their coop, so we get a lot more chicken tv. And our big news is that our new foster to adopt cat arrived. He is terribly shy so we really haven't seen more than a little worried face, but he finally deigned to eat something today, and the girl cats are very keen to be friends, so I think in time he will come out of his shell.

[Fancy_Pants]

Happy Sunday Funday!!!

how is everyone today?

[Billamba]

Generally I have been pretty good lately. Managing reasonably well, etc.

Today was the day that I leave to head 'home' to live with my parents again. Leaving the family I have lived and worked for for the last three years was honestly one of the hardest things I have done and knowing that I will be 2500kms away I feel quite a sense of loss as well knowing I can't just visit whenever.
These guys have taught me so much and have believed in me which is something I have never truly felt before. They taught me to believe in myself, given me confidence in myself and treated me as one of their own and leaving all of that is so damn hard. They have all embraced me and accepted me as me and for the first time in my life I felt special and good for being me. I was me, not my brothers sister (significant issues there with his disabilities), not my parents daughter I was me and I was able to gain my own identity away from all of that crap. Leaving these guys is one of the hardest things I have done.
Going home won't be easy and will have significant challenges which hopefully I will get through (I am terrified to be honest but need to do it to begin my next adventure).
On Friday I said goodbye to the wonderful Mental Health nurse I have worked with for the last three years - was very emotional. We both dropped a few tears in the end. I can not thank this lady enough, she honestly saved my life and has taught me so so much to enable me to continue managing my mental health better and it's scary leaving her and her support behind too. She is going to help me transition home and onto a new person so will talk to her a few more times but it was pretty hard to say goodbye and try and convey just how thankful I am.

An emotional few days and certainly not a Sunday Funday for me but I leave with lifelong friends and memories so it's not all lost.

Hope others are fairing well