The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on January 18, 2020, 01:08:18 am
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Inspired by iPM, and also by Rosemary's diary and my utter inability to be as succinct as she, I thought it might be fun to have a thread where we occasionally write one sentence about our day.
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Today it has FINALLY stopped raining :excited:
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There used to be a DJ (is that still a thing?) who did "your day in three words". So mine is "Plant pots washed"
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Pony poo picked till i dropped!
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Great weather, lots of fieldwork planned - but, oh dear, iffy tummy and so I didn't hang around !!
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Lame dog - why always on a Sunday?
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:sunshine: (hurray) coast path walk . fish n chips :excited:
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A baltic windy day on the Moray coast moving sows, chasing gilts, splitting up boars fighting and cuddling newly born piglets :relief:
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Sunshine when it rose above the hill and the frost had made the mud stiffer.
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Lovely sunny, crisp cold day on Dartmoor - and spent most of it in the caravan doing admin (but with beautiful views <3 )
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Worked all day, never seen daylight!
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Can't think where today went.
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email playing up, what a great excuse :innocent:
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Cold
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Made bread, fed sheep, milked goat, dog to the vet.
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Septic tank in :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited:
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Don't leave road kill overnight to dress out. :unwell:
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It is too hot.
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Lazy.
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Tuesday : Well that was not the day I had planned
Wednesday : a bottle of cider, supper on, tea brewing, and 3 hoggs clipped, happy fulfilled collie dog :dog: : a better day :)
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Work.
(before you grumble, on a day like this, that IS a sentence).
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Work.
(before you grumble, on a day like this, that IS a sentence).
:)
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Too lethargic to do anything.
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Nice and warm ,so changed gear oil on topper , flowed well for once !
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That's 5 of the 6 hoggs clipped :)
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Took ages to get tractor and flail-mower hydraulic pressures equalised to enable connection AND it was SO hot in the ISO container store while doing so: eventually achieved, but it was almost as hot out in the fields.
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Cursing myself, for being no longer fit enough able to make hay, for selling the haymaking gear,
Its thick and ready to cut , the Old Boys that make my hay are all shielded and like myself going round the bend.
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Still waiting for rain!
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Rain stops hay and also shearing
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Picked the first peas
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toy shopping
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toy shopping
Boys toys or toy toys ?
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toy toys grand daughters birthday coming up
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Weeding the veg plot
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Getting soaked to the bone farrowing, feeding and bedding 274 pigs :gloomy:
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day job
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Definitely planned to stay indoors, but realised I'd run out of Flea/Tick med' for dogs so I did do a run to Pets@Home and then went back to the stay indoors strategy.
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First cappuccino in 4 months : tasted good :yum:, but strong! :tired:
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Watching swallow and blackbird fledglings making lazy circles in the sky.
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feels good to have all the sheep sheared at last :hugsheep:
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Lighting the wood burner and snuggling down.
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I didn't realise how old and slow I have become until 2 fledglings landed on me as I walked up the yard :-[
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Freedom at last ..... gundog training class over that border.
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grass cut for hay :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc:
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car trouble! Daughter looking for a new car & current specification is 'not white'.
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Little petrol generator wouldn't start today, 2 week old fuel gone off. >:(
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Booked a teeny tiny holiday in the teeny tiny caravan. :excited:
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Brushcutter wouldn't start today, petrol OK , forgot to turn the switch on, only noticed after the 5th or 6th pull of the rope , going senile thats what it is.........
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grandsons first wheelbarrow filled and emptied...
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managed to drop a dozen freshly harvested eggs today.. c'mon we've all done it haven't we ??
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Been told I’m still going to be on furlough through August
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managed to drop a dozen freshly harvested eggs today.. c'mon we've all done it haven't we ??
Yup