Everyone Has Their Own Animals They Love, For Me It’s Cows

Everyone loves animals don’t they? I certainly love animals, I love all sorts of animals but I do have a favorite.

I really love my cows. They’re such  animals, almost a half ton in weight but ever so gentle. I’ve never seen an aggressive cow. Bulls perhaps, but not cows. Even my kids can pat them as long as they’re feeding them at the same time, the cows don’t necessarily like being patted  but they’ll stand there and be patted if they’re getting fed well. They just pull back a little when you try and pat them because they’re nervous.

The best time to pat cows is when you feed them hay. They just love their hay, and when the grass growth is getting slow because winter is coming you need to in crease their feed with hay or something else. I have hay to give them.

Now that means of course  that youre committed to feeding your cows each and every day. Once there’s no feed in the field then they need hay to eat each day without fail. So you can’t just go away for a few days and leave them or they starve to death. So you’re committed to it.

I feed them all  myself. I like my holidays though so when you go away you have to have something so that the cows are fed. I do this myself.

I have a really good system. I keep a 2 of my paddocks fenced off with the gate closed so that when one has some good grass in it I can keep it that way. The cows all eat my hay until I have to go away and then I can open their gate and let them in there and they have plenty of food for a week and I can go away knowing my cows aren’t starving to death.

And the cows aren’t silly either, they know that there is grass in there somewhere when they look through th e gate so once I open the gate they’re right in there as fast as they can go.

And then when the holiday is over I take the cows all back into the main paddock, close the gates and feed them their hay all over again.

I feed my cows right after my own breakfast. They know when I’m going to feed them and they’re right there sitting in front of the shed in the mornings when I come out to feed them all. They get their hay right in front of the shed for breakfast. Usually 1 1/2 bales of hay for them. But on a cold day I give them more.

I gave them 2 bales of hay this morning as it was cold. But it’s getting warmer and the grass is getting longer, it’s growing dast. And that’s good because my hay is getting short, I have a shed for hay and it’s pretty empty as of now. (more…)

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Why Do I Love Writing? Who Knows?

Writing is fun, it’s why I do this website. Since I was a kid I’ve always loved writing stuff.

It’s my way of telling the world about my life, right here. Writing is cathartic.

I really love it, though I’m not all convinced that I’m much good at it really. I have been into writing for many years, in  fact I remember when I was really young in primary school I wrote stories one after another. I wrote them then gave them to my preps teacher who read them all. I suspect she got a little bored with it all. I can’t believe  I wrote so many stories when I was young like that.

When I got older I did a degree in Arts but never concentrated on writing, and now I wish I had done so. If I had my time all over again I would take my time to study what I loved to do, writing,  and I still love it.

It’s an interesting question  about whether or not I could ever have become good enough at writing to make money from it. Who knows. But if I had the chance then I should have tried it, after all if you don’t try you never know if you can really do it. I should have tried it.

I’m quite convinced writing is a skill that can be learned by anyone. Of course not everyone can learn it because there’s other important things to learn as well. For example I think it’s essential that you love to do it yourself. That’s like anything at all. If you don’t love it you’re not going to keep at it long enough to learn the skill.

If you really like it then you’ll take the time you need to take to develop it till you’re really good at it. It really will take some time but I’m sure it can be done. You need to work every day but if you love doing it then that’s no problem. Every  day is fine.
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The Weather Is What It’s All About.

I’ve told you already about living in the country. If you live in the city chances are you don’t notice the weather as much as we do. For example if it doesn’t rain much all my grass stops growing and my cows have nothing to eat.

So the weather is a big part of life in the country and today the weather is superb.

Don’t you love days like today, I do? It’s just as I like it,  beautiful. Warm but not too hot  at all,I hate heat. There’s no wind and it’s just ideal. I love it like it is today. I’ve been out in the car and I’ve been feeling good. I drive along looking at the superb views and I love it here where I live. I see cows in the fields and happy  people.

But of course I’ve decided that it’s a perfect day but maybe not everyone would agree with me. Maybe for some people it’s just a bad day. Really a bad day. Maybe you’ve had some bad news or something isn’t working out for you at all or maybe you’re  sick.

Now of course thats myinterpretation. For many people today might be a really terrible day. Perhaps you’ve just had some really bad news for example, or just feel bad. Maybe you’re trying to do something that isnt working out. Maybe you just don’t feel well at all.

So I wonder what it is that makes it such a good  day for me and what it is that might make it such a bad day for you.  It’s not about the day itself is it? It’s the same day for me as it is for you too. I see the sunshine, maybe you don’t see it. I see the cows in the fields but maybe you don’t even notice them at all.

What is that makes a good day for me and a terrible day for you. Its me and you, its how we see it all from our own perspective. Its nothing about the day at all, its about how we see the day. So I see sunshine, I see the cows, I see the peoples and more.

Isn’t it just in our heads? Isn’t it our mind that tells us it’s a great day or a terrible day? Isn’t it irrespective of how the day really is? We filter our experiences of the day through our minds and we see if from our own perspective.

I even think it’s possible that if you and I have the same experience of the day we will see it completely differently. You come for a drive with me and we see different things the 2 of us.

You see the same cows as me, the same sunshine, the same people, but maybe you don’t even see them at all. Maybe you see something totally different. You mind registers the same things as mine does, and records it, but it filters all of it through the experience you’ve had in the past and mine does that, and that makes our experience of the days different. (more…)

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I Live Where I Live, The Country.

Where I live is very important to me and it’s a big part of who I am. I’ve chosen where I live very carefully and am very happy with my choice.

Eeveryone can choose where they live and that’s exactly what I’ve done.

I’m lucky enough to live out in the country and I just love living in the country. I’ve lived out here for 3  years now. And I grew up in the city but I wouldn’t really want to go back to the city any more.

And there’s so much here in the country that you’ll never see  living in the city. Here’s an example. Cycling. I love to ride bikes and it keeps me fit which is so very important. But it’s good for so many other reasons. It gets me outdoors to places that are so good to be in.

And riding gets you out where you see so  many things that make it worthwhile. I love to see all of the sheep and cows in the paddocks. Actually I have my own cows and sheep and I love that and I even get calves.

There’s so many other advantages to living out here and cows and calves at my house is just one of them. It’s nature and I love to see nature.

Now it’s summer and it’s so very hot I can feel it right through my feet. There’s  been some hot weather and it’s getting on top of me, I don’t like the heat much. Of course it would still be hot  even if I lived in the city but here it’s still better. I see lots of nature, I see the seasons come and go and I see things like the grass start to grow  and stop and the leaves fall off the trees and start to grow again.

All of the leaves turn such great colors, and then they fall off and they look so good on the ground around the base of the tree, and the trees drop seeds and new baby  trees start to grow underneath them. I ge t to see the old and the young, all cycling like me.

Nature cycles just like I do, and I love to watch it all happening right through the year in front of me.

If I lived in a city I mightnt even have a garden at all. I mightn’t have a tree. I might have a lot of concrete though, I might have pavers and a BBQ, but I mightn’t have a tree or a blade of grass anywhere.

And unlike here I probably wouldn’t get to see the seasons change.

Personally I think it’s very sterile in the city and of course that’s just my view, not everyone thinks  that.

My family lives in the city and they love it. My brother is a doctor and he’s still single, so he likes the social life of the city. There’s things to do there that he’s into, and it suits him. But the city is not for me I have to say.
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I Have To Do Something To Stay Fit, For Me It’s Cycling

I have to say I like to keep fit, but the truth is that I’m not very fit. I would like to be, but I’m not.

So I had to find something that I liked doing to keep fit. And bike riding is it.

I’ve said it before but I like cycling.

I came  to cycling quite a while ago. Well no not that long ago actually, considering that I’m not all that young. I knew I had to do something to keep fit.

Swimmingnever did it for me. I mean swimming is boring, really boring. You just swim up and down, up and down, up and down. For hours. Actually it only feels like hours and hours, I rarly swim for more than about 20 minutes, that’s about as long as I can stand the boredom.

Theres that black line beneath you. You just go up  and down that black line. Its mesmerising. Its meaningless, it’s really boring. I can’t believe how boring it  is.

If you really want to get fit you need to swim at least 3 or 4 times a week, probably more. And if you find something boring then you’re not going to do it 4 or 5 times a week and keep at it like you need to?

And that’s doing at least a half hour of swimming. You need to swim for at least a half hour to get enough good exercise and it just feels like such a waste of time.

So I was in a bit of a bind. I used to jog and found that as boring as swimming and so I was a bit stuck. But then I started to think about doing cycling.

But I had a problem. I didn’t have a bike. Well I did have a bike but it was outside the shed in the junk pile and all rusted. Way too old. So somehow I had to get a good bike and it isn’t cheap to buy a good bike.

There’s a riding club near me so I went and talked to them and found out that they were starting a group of recreational riders and so I figured that the universe was telling me that it was time to buy a new bike, that it was the perfect opportunity for me.

So I joined the riding group and got cycling. I loved it. They did long rides and short rides and I did all of them. But after while I started to get a little frustrated with the speed of the riding.

I’m not very young but despite that I really felt that I could ride harder than the recreational group did, that it was as good social situation but I wanted to get fit and do a workout and it was way too slow for my liking. So I started riding on my own to get a quicker ride in and workout more.

So after a while of riding on my own I found that it was nice to ride hard but a little bit lonely. I was getting a workout on my own. So I made some enquiries and found out that there was another riding group that rode out of the town a few days a week that used road bikes and rode harder. It went on sundays and I decided to go along and give it a go.

But the bike I had bought was a hybrid bike, half mountain bike and half road bike and they all rode road bikes so I would have no chance of keeping up riding my hybrid. So again I was stuck without a good bike. But I knew I liked riding now so I bought a road bike and joined the group. They’re good riders and sometimes I can’t keep up but mostly I can keep up.

But of course its a very hard workout, exactly what I  need. (more…)

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Hello From Pino.

This is the website of Pino Yotaku. It’s just a personal website, it may or may not interest you but that’s okay because it’s really just for me.

I decided to see if I can make a website for myself. Not strictly for myself because a friend has helped me build it and her showed me how to work it, but from that point forward it’s all going to be my own work.

So welcome to my website where you can read all about the life of Pino Yotaku. I hope you enjoy it.

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