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  • July 13, 2016

    Calmer

    Calmer

    Hopefully today will be calmer. I still have a couple of teenagers and their baby staying for another week or so.  But the Frenchmen and I are hoping for a calmer day today. Something nice and ordinary would do the trick. We got all the hay in yesterday morning. Stacked up into the barn working…

  • July 12, 2016

    183 – Excellent

    183 – Excellent

    183 Bales of hay – I hope you are keeping count. Baled in the early evening yesterday and way too many visitors eating dinner and dropping in for drinks so late John had already gone to bed and so forth for me to get it into the barn. So we will be loading it all…

  • July 11, 2016

    A murmur

    A murmur

    A Murmuration.   Not a murmur – a murmuration. Of starlings.  The first of the starlings always come half way through the summer and line up on the power lines watching the crops grow. Waiting for the corn.  By harvest time there will be thousands of them doing daily air shows. They were swooping over my…

  • July 9, 2016

    The Seat of my Pants

    The Seat of my Pants

    Need to be sat on soon! But not today. It seems i will be flying by them for a few days yet. Here is a little of yesterday though most of it was spent cooking. More today.   Cooking that is. I am looking forward to tomorrow when this dinner party is over and I…

  • July 8, 2016

    Working on the dismount

    Working on the dismount

    While the team was doing the milking I was snooping about inspecting my cows and decided that all the signs pointed to Lady Astor being in heat.  I am not going to breed Lady on purpose this year (with a vet and a straw)  as I don’t mind if she gets a pass for a season…

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