Lets face it .....most "normal" people probably get up, eat breakfast while watching breakfast telly and toddle off to work.
Me? Well, on work days, I get up, gulp down half a cup of tea, and race to the farm (now 5 miles away) I feed 20 farm cats! have to do them first, cos the hens would eat their biscuits. Goats are all yelling for their breakfast, so feed those - 12 with the new kid. Two piglets are next, having heard me they get up. Small pony and sheep are next, quick muck out of the pony if its too wet for him to go out. Then down to the hen sheds, let out 60 plus hens and banties, put out food and water for them. Water for all the goats, pigs etc. Put food and hay out for the llama. Put out the eggs for sale near the gate.
By now, hubby has fed the 8 big ponies, and the 5 dogs, and is yelling that if I want a lift to work, then I must be ready now, or I can walk - a good hours walk! Rush up to the shed to get changed, have to wear my wellies as far as the gate cos of the mud, change into work boots, get in van, then realise have mud off wellies on trousers .....oh well, will have to dry and rub off, no time to go and change.....and this morning I had mud on my jacket too.
Arrive at work about 8.45am looking rather dishevelled, and specs of mud on face, and feeling like I had already done a days work. Lunchtime walk the hours walk back to the farm, and start again with the animals.
On mornings like this one, when its snowing hard and freezing cold, you do wonder what it would be like to be "normal"!!!