The July Project Day 5
Posted: Wednesday 2 July, 2014
Yay! Day 5 of the July Project and it's only the 2nd! Needless to say, "the plan" is undergoing some adjustment :-)
The new guttering for the barn extension is coming on Friday (our neighbour has a roofing company so he's getting it for us at a good price) so putting it up is now Friday's job. Dan's sorted out sleepers for the IBCs to sit on BUT plumbing them in will have to wait until the contactor has been here to concrete the floor. Phone call for me to make in a minute :-)
Dan spent the morning making guards round the apple trees. He's got three of the six paddocks done, less four trees but he's run out of stone. When we start on "the pile" again, there will be plenty more. "The pile" is the heap of stone, broken bricks and rubble that is the remains of the buildinngs we demolished to build John and Linda's cottage. But in the meantime, he did a bit of tidying around the barn and a run to the skip, so that's another area tidy :-)
Tomorrow, we're bringing the sheep home from our rented grazing to be Heptavac'd, Crovect'd and wormed.
I milked Annie again. I am finding it challenging but I'm determined not to be downhearted at my lack of expertise and to persevere. The dogs are loving it - warm, creamy milk for breakfast :-) I'm sure I smell of milk - I usually manage to squirt some up my arms and on my boots :-(
Smokey is much better, thankfully. Another day of wet poultice then a couple of days of dry and he should be fine.
