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Posted: Tuesday 10 August, 2021

by Rosemary at 8:05pm in Smallholding 1 comment Comments closed

Monday 2nd August

Today saw Rosie, Bronte and Rora return to the herd. Rora headed for her mum to suckle but Blizzard said, quite firmly, “Not on your Nellie”. So I guess she’s weaned now. Next job was to clean out the field shelter ready for – whomever.

On the first day of his holidays proper, Dan cut the grass and strimmed all the edges. Looks very tidy.

The calves have chewed the end of the hose. Now the water comes out in four directions, as I found out this afternoon when I got a cold shower.

hose Calf chewed.

Tuesday 3rd August

Lovely day, so I got into the veg garden and did some weeding. It took twenty minutes to do this patch. Very satisfying.

weeds A fine crop of weeds.

weeded All gone.

I spent an hour at my desk doing Festival stuff. Ace is showing no interest in Annie, so it looks like she’s back in calf.

Dan was out topping before breakfast, and then reinforced the hen pen fences.

Wednesday 4th August

Sunny, warm, gentle breeze; put spot-on on the cattle and Smokey, to help with the flies. Another hour at my desk and a bit more Festival stuff done. Idid a bit more weeding - I love unplanned flowers, though.

Unplanned marigolds.

After more pre-breakfast topping, Dan “treated” himself to a pole saw, which he’s been promising to do for ages. .

We have a Jay in the garden. I’ve never seen one before.

One of the great things about living in Angus is the availability of fantastic local berries. Picked up some delicious strawberries from East Scryne today – they scented the whole house. Briefly. They were wonderful.