We need to do a serious blog entry, but in the meantime, so you, our readers, won't be totally disappointed, I'll give you a quick update on animal and plant life around these parts:
- Shortly after the baby goats became agile enough to work their way out of the fence, they disappeared. Although I normally think the worst of such situations, I think these little ones had simply gotten old enough to be sold or given away. Mom and Dad are blissfully unaware the babies are gone. Not knowing anything about the reproductive cycle of a goat, we're wondering how soon before we see another couple baby goats.
- Our horse friends (remember the three horses who always stood so close together?) must have moved to another pasture. We haven't seen them around at all this year. But then we never saw them the first summer we were here, so it's logical to assume they're grazing in another field this year.
- The brown cows on our canal walking route and the dairy cows on our cemetary walking route had still, as of our last walks, not returned to their pastures, which means they must still be in the barns. We're still trying to figure out the magic dates for putting them away and bringing them out. The weather has been mostly gorgeous for two of the last three weeks, so it doesn't seem to be a weather thing.
- Spring is bustin' out all over. My tulips haven't bloomed yet but they're getting close. One of the rhodos in the back, a deep red one, has lots of flowers that we can see from the house. Forsythia is blooming everywhere and daffodils abound. SHAPE has set out its spring flowers in all the beds and it's gorgeous. We'll be heading back to Keukenhof soon and will try to make the amarylis show at the local chateau - in Beloeil, a scant 10 kms away - in early May.
2 comments:
Interesting update. You have piked this reader's interest. I'll be watching for continuing developments in the saga, "Where have all the animals gone?"
Don't forget to take lots of pictures of the tulips!!!
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