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 Lockdown 5 day 7 and its been a week! Ive achieved a good chunk off my list of tasks and today I added a few more as covid case numbers dont seem to be reducing so who know if the lockdown will end next Tuesday or not. So today was a bit of a "back to basics" day - firstly housework which has got a bit behind - Im not sure how and to be honest not a lot to do but the lounge room and kitchen got a deep clean.  Its lovely to walk in the house and its clean and tidy. Also the usual washing, dishes etc but a clean house does feel good.    Tonight it was herd test night - this happens about once every 6 weeks.  We milk as usual but there are little flasks attached to the cups that take a sample of each cows milk.  This is then sent away for testing and we get back a report showing how many litres she produced, the components of that milk, her cell count and lots of other data.  Its usually a long process but pretty quick today as more than half the herd is...

 Day 5 of lockdown and its also world milk day - so cow pics it is! As most of you know my husband Gary and I are dairy farmers in Northern Victoria and we (mostly) love doing that.   Yes there are challenges at times  - the weather (sometimes super hot or freezing)  - cows doing stupid things - calves doing stupid things  - us doing stupid things  - machinery breaking down at just the wrong time  and the list goes on. But we do love our "girls" and yes we are tied to doing something every morning and night but the rest of the day could be anything! So enjoy your milk in your cuppa, your breakfast, your cooking and think of us occasionally when you do #dairylove