Wide Awake And Can't Sleep

 Ugh, it's 4am and I've been awake a couple of hours and am dead beat, but sleep is eluding me in these, the wee hours, of this morning. One would assume that the 5 hours in the ER would have tired me out, I felt tired when we left, but no, now I am wide awake.

I'm not worried about hubby now I know that he's going to be ok. Oesophagitis is fixable, even though he's in pain from it. The CT scan ruled out the rest of the bad things that I was afraid of. The last couple of days, with him dealing with issues swallowing, food feeling like it was stuck under his diaphragm and other pain, had me worried that I told him, "we're going to Urgent Care". They sent us to the ER so that he could have a CT scan. They gave him some morphine for the pain and he is sleeping well now.

The past couple of days have been busy, over on the property. My grandson, Dylan, and great-granddaughter, our miss Lily, came over on Sunday. Dylan helped Mark and did some mowing,

Miss Lily and I hung out with the goats, and she had a blast, feeding chickens, feeding the stray dog, sitting on the tractor with Sunshine (yep, the goat jumped up there and Miss Lily went up to hang out with her). The weather was hot but there was a breeze, and it was a beautiful day.

Mark's been working on the enclosure for the goats,

and we now have a nice hay rack in the pen that the 2 boys will be in after this weekend. Mark was putting it together in this pic. We pick up Max on Saturday morning. We met him earlier and think he and Solomon will have fun together.

Sunshine's new companion, Maisie, also arrives on Saturday.  She will only be 8 weeks old so we'll be keeping a little bit closer eye on her for a couple of weeks until she knows she's safe, and is settled.

The stray dog saw Solomon and Sunshine for the first time on Sunday and freaked out.  She started barking and backed away, we think she was trying to figure out what they were! She did end up eating though, and watched them like she watches us. She'll get used to them, she's a chow hound (poor baby) and nothing is going to stop her coming for food.

We hooked up with a new vet, closer to us and deals with large and farm animals, so on Monday, Solomon and Sunshine go for their CD&T shots. Max has already has his, and Maisie will have to wait another couple of weeks, and will be getting disbudded at the same time, under anaesthesia.

Noon - well, I managed to nap awhile, and then woke up and we are now having a rainy day. Hubby took his shower, I don't shower in storms, so here I wait for the lull, so that we can then get our day's to do trek started.

I have to pick up a new arm support for my upright walker as the other decided to split. That's heading in one direction, towards Greer, but then I have to loop around to go to Fountain Inn, to pay my boutique fee and pack up my books. On the way to Greer, I have to do a stop at Tractor Supply to get another sack of goat grower pellets, a red bucket for the boys' feed and a storage container for it as well, a bale of straw and a bale of hay. Getting ready for separating the boys and girls this Saturday. 

Saturday will be another busy day, going first to Belton to pick up our new boy, Max, and then to Fountain Inn, to pick up our new little girl, Maisie. Then the fun begins! It'll be great having 4 again. We missed having goats, it has been 10 years since the last of our previous 4, Sadie, died.