Hello Bloggy friends!
You’ll never guess where I’ve been, never!!
Not Scotland. 
(Or those poor chaps in the photo wouldn’t be nearly so sunburned… )
Do you give up?
I’ve been farm sitting.
Yes! A Very Brave Person left their farm in the hands of the (completely uninitiated and citified) Bluestocking household.
Here’s what we’ve been doing…
Loving Angus. Isn’t he beautiful? He’s a mere youngster yet, and we are all smitten.
Feeding the goats and sheep. Why was Blossy feeding the goat in her pj’s? Because it was FIVE am. (Yawn!)
She just couldn’t wait.
Feeding Cows. Cows, friends, are Very Scary Characters. I may have mentioned here before that I have uncomfortable feelings about cows.
Geese! I want one. Or maybe two. Aren’t they pretty? Heidi, though, (yes! It was Heidi’s farm, but more on that later) said that perhaps something less noisy would suit our very close neighbours. But… but… geese are so pretty! And goslings are very, very special indeed.
And because she is such a thoughtful dear…… Seedlings!
No, we didn’t have to feed them, we planted them in Heidi’s vegetable garden. :D
Doesn’t that sound delicious, Bloggy friends? It was. And there’s more.
We went to a Scottish music festival during our time at Heidi’s farm. And a great bookstore (joy!). But even more delightful than either of those was the opportunity of meeting up with a lady from the Aussie homeschool board that I have known on line for years.
I didn’t actually get to meet Heidi, but certainly kept in close communication with her over our stay, as farming is trickier than I thought.
Friends, I may have said it before once or twice, but.. I really, really do have the best bloggy friends in the whole world. 
Nov 08, 2011 @ 22:18:38
Oh, how delightful!! But I’m so curious as to who you met from AH. Pictures are lovely. I bet you all had a lovely time. Was Mr. BB with you too?
Nov 08, 2011 @ 22:30:10
Ha! Well, lucky I went looking for a link to her blog (which is now private), because otherwise I would have missed yesterday’s post on how she is desiring to not be named on the internet. Hence, my vague reference only.
Yes, Mr BB came along and did blokey outdoorsy stuff.
Nov 20, 2011 @ 13:16:06
How delightful! I had no idea that *your friend* from AH lived anywhere near there! Lovely pics
Nov 20, 2011 @ 17:18:01
Thanks
Yes, it was a lovely bonus that we were able to do some visiting too!
Nov 09, 2011 @ 13:18:33
nice pics
Bagpipes and kilts are quite something…
Nov 10, 2011 @ 18:43:33
Thank you, Vimsy. Could have spent a lot more time there playing with my camera, but it was only a short visit.
Nov 09, 2011 @ 14:32:32
hehe, It’s ok, I’ll confess Susan, it was me. My family had a lovely time meeting, chatting and playing with Mrs BB and her family too, who I’ve discovered actually moonlights under a number of pseudonyms! Regardless, she is perfectly lovely and I will enjoy reading what she has to say even more now that I know more about her.
Mrs BB, now I understand why you weren’t as enraptured with Meadow as we are … apparently, despite her small stature and adorable eyes, she is a very scary character!
Thanks for stopping by, I hope we’ll see you again sometime.
Nov 10, 2011 @ 19:07:27
Missy, thanks for your kind words. We certainly enjoyed our visit!
As for Meadow… well, you know she is going to grow into a Big Scary Cow – adorable eyes or no.
Nov 20, 2011 @ 13:18:53
HI Missy,
I’m so glad that you have met our dear Mrs BB and her delightful family.
A number of pseudonyms? Mrs. BB you’re not holding out on me, are you?
It’s lovely that you two got to meet. I wish I were there
Nov 20, 2011 @ 17:23:51
nah.. wouldn’t hold out on you, dear girl. Possibly Missy is referring to my urbandaisy blog..?
At any rate, there’s nothing simmering away that you aren’t already aware of.
As to being at the visit.. well, much as I’d *LOVE* to catch up in real life with you again, you do realise that between Mr BB, Mr Missy, and (ahem!) myself, poor Missy didn’t get much of a turn to speak. Now, I’m saying this in my most gentle, loving voice, Our Susan, but if you had been there too….
Hehehee….
Nov 21, 2011 @ 13:38:03
Hmmm, that is true. There was an awful lot of talking that I didn’t do. I did say to Mr M later that there were plenty of other topics I would have liked to have quizzed Mrs BB about. Maybe we should leave the Misters at home and plan a girl’s only outing so the girl’s can have a greater percentage of the airtime (like all of it!) Susan, I’d be happy to share my allocated talk time with you. Shame our representation is extended over 3 states…
Nov 22, 2011 @ 07:36:13
LOL!! Yes, not too many girl topics covered!!
And the pseudonym? I must have Missied two or three times for every joi!
Nov 21, 2011 @ 13:42:10
Oh… Mrs BB’s mystery pseudonym was her AH screen name which tripped me up all day!
Nov 10, 2011 @ 01:31:03
Oooh, how exciting. Angus the Clydesdale looks like a very fine specimen indeed. My Miss B would be in seventh Heaven with the experience you’ve all just had. She STILL can’t understand why we can’t have a pony in our backyard! Love Fee
p.s. I’m with you on the whole cow thing … as much as they look beautiful with their big brown eyes … I’m not overly keen on getting close to them.
Nov 10, 2011 @ 19:15:38
Fee, I’m sure your Miss B would have loved it.
Despite several of my Words With Friends buddies predicting that they would read about my remains being found under a barn somewhere in remote country Australia, we had a wonderful time. No horror stories, other than maybe when I thought the girls had scared the broody hen off her nest, and mixed the eggs with the others they collected. Or when every single animal Heidi owned was in the pen that wasn’t theirs. Or maybe when a lady came to tell us there was a horse on the road (a road with a 100k speed limit!) and we had a little panic that we had somehow lost one of Heidi’s Houdini horses…
But it all worked out in the end, and it was an experience we will treasure the memories of!
Eh. But the cow thing. I *made* myself go over for a photo – but Mr BB and the chicklettes fed the cows.
Nov 11, 2011 @ 23:30:53
Hello Mrs BB,
Thankyou for being so complimentary about your stay. Evidently, I should have given my animals the same warning as I do my children, before we venture out in public…”be on your best behaviour!”.
You all did a wonderful job at keeping things alive whilst we were away. The photos are lovely, although I presume a wide angle lens was required to get that particular shot of Spot the Jersey in her “delicate” condition?
We (who am I kidding?) ” I” just finished off the chocolates that you left, and the pumpkin soup was dinner last night and lunch today too. I “cooked” toast to accompany it.
I look forward to meeting you and your family one day and handing you back the Henty book you left behind (probably deliberately to enrich my poor taste in literature).
One last thing, when we did arrive home, the house was so spotless that I asked my husband if there was anyway we could just live somewhere else so the house stayed that clean forever!
Bye for now,
Heidi
Nov 12, 2011 @ 20:38:42
Hello Heidi friend,
Thank you for giving the Bluestocking household an experience we will never forget. ♥
As for the talk to the animals about their best behaviour… I didn’t believe my wwf buddies for a minute about you being an axe murderer – I was quite sure you were the lovely person I believed in. HOWEVER! If my wwf buddies had hinted that perhaps you had a word to your animals and mentioned.. maybe… that there was a bunch of city folk coming to stay, and wouldn’t a few well timed pranks give them a bit of a shake up, and it wouldn’t it really be doing them a favour because they would have something to blog about afterwards… well, then I would have to allow my suspicions free reign..
That clean house? Don’t be fooled. The wee chicks all had to sit and eat their lunch on the back steps. One meal in the house after it was cleaned would have been enough to make it look as though a troop of cavalry had gone through at the gallop.
(or a bunch of Vikings had feasted, or …. 
)
BB x
p.s. Enjoying the Henty?
Dec 04, 2011 @ 08:30:12
You have some great pics from your trip to Heidi’s farm. And a Scottish music festival? That’s fantastic! I love the bagpipes (my sister lives in Scotland and we are of Scottish heritage), The highlight of every summer is a local parade with 3 pipe bands in it!
Dec 05, 2011 @ 18:24:33
Hello Young Wifey,
If I could convince my sister to move to Scotland, I would! (I’d love to have a legit reason to visit
)
Thanks for taking the time to comment here.
Dec 05, 2011 @ 22:17:19
Hi Mrs BB,
Sad news I’m afraid. One of the grey geese (a goose (ie. a girl) was taken by a fox the other night.
On the bright side, I was given another five white ones to add to the flock. Mrs BB, be glad they weren’t here when you were. They gaggle decided to escape and go out onto the road one day. I did manage to herd them back to their pen. Mind you, Angus had a wonderful time trotting through the gaggle and sending them in all directions!
See, my animals don’t just misbehave for guests, they misbehave for me also!
Heidi
Dec 06, 2011 @ 11:11:50
Poor Heidi!
Poor Goose!!
Really, if something had to eat that delicious, tender, smokey flavoured delectable bird, what a waste that it was a fox!!
As for five more, naughty, roaming animals… that would certainly have made for interesting adventures. ..