Importing The Flu
When you live in the country you generally only get sick when people visit from the city, or when you go to the city to visit people. I wish Missy would have stayed at her parents for one more day; she’d have known by then that she had the flu. Now I can feel it coming on and dread the thought of neither of us being mobile over the weekend. I’ll have to crawl to the chicken coop each morning and evening and try not to throw up as I feed the dogs, rabbits, chickens, turkey, cats, and ourselves if we can keep anything down. Meanwhile I am dealing with the contractors who are working on the back porch and painting the barn roof.
A farm is no place for two people to be sick at the same time.
So if you don’t hear from us for a few days, don’t worry. We’re just in bed. If you don’t hear from us in a week, send in the troops. ;-P
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Feel better soon!
Sorry to hear you two are under the weather. One sick person is easy to work around, but two is a challenge. Out west it is high allergen season here in CO, which has hit me particularly hard the past week. Ragweed is supposedly peaking. Joy. There’s nothing worse than not wanting to go outside for fear of being uncomfortable if not outright miserable. That’s an unfair torture. Hopefully your flu passes fast…but at least you have the chickens for soup!
Ew; I hope you guys get over it QUICKLY!
Sorry to hear you are sick. I live in your area (Fancy Gap) and wanted to share some info about a natural ‘cureall’ that I’ve been using for over a decade – Oil of Oregano – taken at the first sign or inkling of possible illness you can really and truly battle the bugs in a way you would never have dreamed possible. It’s also highly useful topically from simple infections to deep inflammations. I just recently read somewhere that Hippocrates wrote volumes about it, although I haven’t fact checked that yet. Anyway, just wanted to pass that on. Hope you both feel better soon!
I’m so sorry! I hope you all feel better soon. That’s why I strive to never leave the farm…
Jeanne,
Is that your website (Ornamentz?) I know we have some great artisans around here, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
Thank you all for the well wishes. We are both feeling better today, which is just in time since I have to start work again in 1.5 hours. I couldn’t stand the thought of losing my weekend productivity completely to illness, so I still managed to finish putting linseed oil on the new foot bridge, pick some apples to be used for apple butter, and pick a few gourds from our garden to let them dry out.
The Mrs. is still asleep. She was hit by this a lot harder than I was. This being a stomach flu / virus, I think my consumption of raw milk has helped me develop a nice strong immune system for things like that. But that’s just an unfounded theory.
Either way, I feel much better and the Mrs. was even up walking around yesterday. The neighbors joked around about having a “sighting” of her!
Thanks again!
Thanks for the compliment! yes that’s my website. It’s an ongoing work in progress, my business has evolved over the 18 years of it’s existence. My husband and I moved up here from DE in 2007, we’re kind of learning the farming ropes like you two are, though we’ve probably got at least 20 years (older than) on you so we’re moving kind of slow with it all. lol! We’ve got fruits and berries and this year by god we have corn! Even with minimal produce there is still a lot of work involved processing it all. We’re hoping to install a ‘production kitchen’ sometime in the near future to make it a bit more efficient, and procure a tractor. I love this area and I really like your blog! Take care now, Jeanne
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