the good news...

... are that Alan is much better though he needed another course of antibiotics, nearly back to normal though tires easily; and that the years first wwoofer Bogdán arrived, and he's a nice lad from Romania, from the town of Hunyad originally, he've been living in Temesvár for the last few years while at university and working. He sent a wwoofer photo before departing 4am yesterday to successfully hitch-hike here by 4pm. And the geese started to lay. Maybe there will be enough laid and the lady geese will sit on them, and we'll have little geese, we;ll see!! I know, I know, now you want the bad news... well, Ermintrude managed to drop her nice two little goats just when the sudden cold snap snapped, and next morning they were dead. The truth is, that I didn't let Alan attending to them, as he was not well yet, and it was very cold. So, that is sad, but hopefully we'll still have milk and Cassandra wisely waited with hers so far. The weather was far from being as hideous as in the rest of the country where motorways were closed down by snow with hundreds of cars stranded and electricity and connection to little villages failed for days. We had the sudden -10C with horrid northern winds and a bit of snow, but nothing worse. Erzsi put 23 indian running duck eggs in the incubator and 20 chicken eggs, so we'll try to raise these when the time comes. The factory hens arrival was delayed due to the weather, they'll come next week. Tibi came to help to saw up the wood, and and Bogdán helped tons with this and other stuff an his first day. I made rakottkáposzta to make him feel at home, but he's never ever had anything quite like it. He needs feeding well, he is very skinny.