A Little Busy

My very pretty accomplished daughter. I will miss her immensely.

My beautiful daughter is here visiting, so I have been spending all my available time with her. She is off to Australia in a few days, where she will spend the next three years studying midwifery. She intends to come back to Canada to practise the profession, and will have to do some work in Canada prior to settling down to a real practice somewhere. Midwifery in Canada is just budding compared to Australia, where the majority of women have babies naturally at home with a midwife and a doula, which is a birth coach. They consider it a normal part of life and would not consider going to a hospital to be treated as though they had an illness, as we do in North America. As a result, there are far less interventions done and the birth process is smooth and easy with only rare complications requiring hospitalization. Doctors only have a small part of their education about birth and babies, whereas professional midwives have three or four years dedicated only to that particular study, therefore are more qualified than doctors when it comes to delivering babies. They do have the right to use hospitals for their ladies should the need arise. 

The weather has been frightfully cold and the chores are taking a much longer time with extra insurances to put straw down for the animals. Still, some chickens and ducks have frozen feet and will have to be slaughtered so they do not suffer. The sheep are well insulated and do better, but the goats and llamas shiver and hide in their barns. Tonight it is minus 27 currently, brrrrr. 

Plus, the septic froze at the Inn, so the plumber had to be brought out. A temporary solution is in place and in the summer the whole system will be carefully looked at to ensure that the problem does not persist. 

There was a full house at the Inn last week for a few days and for the next two weeks as well, it will be very busy. The foks staying are theatre artists and will be excpecting bagged lunches and suppers, plus the super delicious complimentary breakfasts, too. I will just have time to do the chores and the rest of the day will be consumed with tending to the hospiality business, Moose Hills Inn. I am looking forward to the theatre troupe and their lively conversations. 

So, please forgive the missed blogs in the past few days. Hopefully, I will have the time to write some thoughts down in the coming two weeks, at least, I plan to.