Making hay while we wait

First thing I did this morning after checking Daisy was zoom over to Punkins Patch where Mamas wool has been spun. It is so beautiful.  Have you met Blossom yet? She is the sweetest little pet lamb. She helps Sara spin. You can see it over on her page.  Soon all the spun wool will be returned to me by this kind kind woman and I will get to work. I hope my rather rudimentary skills at crochet do justice to all the work needed to turn that grubby fleece into this pristine yarn. Thank you Sara. I fenced all morning yesterday. It was deeply frustrating. I hate working with wire. I mean I really hate it. And this spool hated me back so much, that it popped one side of the spool right off then unravelled into a tangled heap in the grass. I was not impressed. All I am trying to do is put up the infernal internal fences. This should be a simple if heavy process. Driving the steel standards in with this big billion pound pounder thing, putting little plastic bobbins onto the posts, then running the wire.  But I only had one more fence to do in that field, so I untangled the wire and kept going. Today I will set up the solar charger and put the young cows back in and manage their grazing properly. In the afternoon we finished the fence around the new outdoor pig pen. Then we slowly walked the big Plonkers across the field to their new home. We must have looked so funny herding these two big hogs, shuffling them forward with old doors held in front of us like enormous shields. However once they reached their destination they immediately started taking great big bites out of the dirt.  Thrilled to bits with their new home. I spent the rest of the afternoon completely cleaning the barn pig sty in preparation for the Shush Sisters. They will be able to run around in all that space. I will shift them today.  Their small pen is just too small.  Then I got all the chores done earlier because once Our John came home from work, we went out to bale the hay.  We had lots of ‘help’..  Thing Two and The Big Dog.  Everyone else scarpered. .  I have to say here that Ton is sleeping at the Big Dog’s feet in the foot-well of the truck.  I told him I would tell on him, he should be riding on the hay like a proper farm dog, but he said he did not care! The baler worked much better this time so I drove the tractor, which has a  seat that is set so far back that I have to perch right on the edge, absolutely upright, so I can reach the pedals. By this time I was getting tired.  Then the baler broke down again, so I  finished loading the hay onto the truck and took it back to the barn. But it was only a small load and hay in the barn is worth the extra effort. I had made a bean chilli in the crockpot, so later we sat over bowls of hot beans like cowboys, eating with spoons,  then called it a day. Good morning. Daisy is still calmly chewing her cud and watching the world wake up.  Absolutely no sign of doing anything.  Which is fine. I need a break day!  Well, not exactly a break, but once I have finished the chores, then the electric fence, and shifted the cows and the Shush Sisters, oh and watered,  then I am going to come back in here and do some blog visiting.  The rest can wait. I will come and see what you are all up to. I can see Daisy from here. Now remember during this busy period I do not mind at all if you drop a link in my comments to any pages you think I should read. Even your own.  I hate missing out! So feel free to direct me! The weather is still just perfect for the farm work. Not too hot and quite calm so far. Have a lovely day.  I mean it. You all have a lovely day. celi