Tossin' the Dossen

Time for some more introductions.

The Jinkers fold is a lot more than you may have seen so far. Did you know that a group of Highland Coos is known as a fold rather than a herd. It refers to our higher status of breeding over other bovines. Well actually it is more a reference to traditional Scottish farming practice where our ancestors were kept in a stone pen or fold over night for protection.

Speaking of protection, our cool fringe has a name too. It is called a dossan. It protects out eyes from the icy winds and weather as well as pesky flies, and believe it or not, we have no problem seeing through our dossan.

So Rachel’s progeny is led by Ethan, sired by Pete. He’s a sterling young bull. Very chill, and even has a dossan. I feel that he may have been a Highland Coo in a former life. Ethan is my spirit hooman.

Then there is Rachel’s mini-me. Her name is Charlotte. She gives us lots of attention when she is here and she is also our poseable modelling prop for photos. Another of her jobs is that she is the brains behind the website and social media, so she is the Web Master or Web Queen. So I like to call it Charlotte’s Web. Quite a catchy name I think.

Our third introduction for this week is Charlotte’s servant. His name is Nich. Nich is probably one of the coolest people I know. In Scots Gaelic, we refer to him as a fear-ciùil. For those playing along at home, the pronunciation is Far-Kyool, best to emphasize that hypen! This means man of music. It is like he has rings on his fingers and bells on his toes. My only real concern with young Nich is that he seems to wear an unusual combination of colours all the time. I think it is a reference to his charitable nature in supporting a football team that isn’t very good.

Jinkers is quite a nice place

If you’re looking for bushland and space

The fields are not bare

There’s Coos with long hair

So come meet us face to face.

Wisdom of the week – A snail gaes far but in time. A snail doesn’t move very fast, but its persistence over time gets results. Whether in learning, savings or building your dreams, just keep moving forward and overtime you will make amazing progress.

Anyway, that’s it from me for today, and until we next meet, Lang may yer lum reek.