the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

What do others do about the bit around the base of chicken run fences and similar? On one side we shall have a hay field, so the grass there is going to be pretty long. On the other side, the sheep will keep it trimmed shortly, so no worries there, I guess. Maybe I'm just a bit OCD about the whole thing!

When we have a run is use or with chicken fencing I just let it go. Shade is good for chickens....being jungle fowl decendants . If I had a permanant run I've often thought I'd put some stuff that they could forage from.....raspberry canes I didn't think much of the quality off for our garden for example...maybe a less vigourous rose, sun flowers would be twee but make for happy birds when you gave them the results.

If they have some sun for sun bathing and some shade they'll be happy. Or leave the fluffy grass so they can feel safe and peek out from behind it. They like the grass seed heads.


I should so be sweeping right now!

lostinrates

I'm on my lunch break now. All ging fine but the person meant to be riding today to show foot falls has cried off. H is happy trotting horses up and will ride, but feels a bit self conscious as he's still a novice. But t'would be good for him so in the spirit of support I've said if he can hoist me up I'll do the big horses who can carry me. I'm really excited. I know I'll be regretting the pain afterwards but, when I'm up there it always feels like ''home''. So, I'm having a quick hot toddy before going out.....it should be finished by 4:30 this afternoon.

lostinrates

wow, heavens opened this afternoon!

Had a great afternoon, and desperate to work out a way I can get up and down myself. Getting off was really painful the normalish way (I just kind of slide off can't jump away), but I feel fine now.

Rummer

LIR well done for getting on and off in one piece, those two manoeuvres were never my most graceful, especially when I had my giant TB. The ground always seemed so far away then I would land with a thud and a stumble . I really miss my horse and my long term plan is to get a Fresian gelding, although that day is still a while off

Finally convinced OH to come out and help me in the garden :j and we got most of the back paths tidied and got the piles of rubbish, roots and weeds bagged up to take to the dump. I also got a load of things put on to gumtree so when they go the garden (and greenhouse) will look much tidier .

Tomorrow I am going to spend the day in the greenhouse cleaning and getting another batch of things planted up. The things that I have in there already are really starting to grow and it is lovely chewing over where to put things

Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

Had a great afternoon, and desperate to work out a way I can get up and down myself.

Do you not have a mounting block? Our yard had one with stairs and I used to use that to get on and off my horse

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

Do you not have a mounting block? Our yard had one with stairs and I used to use that to get on and off my horse

Not one tall enough or long enough.....I need literally to step over not up and over. Its all very awkward.:o

We hope to build something with a sort of a bay I can use to mount in safety, but there is something in the way now where that will be.:D


I found to day I can mount almost normally though someone holds my other stirrup, so I could just sort myself out to ride when someone else is here....


The getting off is harder really I think, its very pain ful for me and takes a while, and getting a horse to stand still while I flounder needs to be near something long enough and close enough to a wall to leave some room for them to shuffle about a bit in boredom but have me close enough to what I'm trying to get on to...




OK, what's going on here, the white border where the tulips turned out to be yellow? Now the wallflowers are just starting to open an they are looking yellow too. What gives? What could be causing this?

Rummer

Thats really strange that the plants are coming up yellow, no idea what could be causing it, curious to know the answer though!

alfie_1

OK, what's going on here, the white border where the tulips turned out to be yellow? Now the wallflowers are just starting to open an they are looking yellow too. What gives? What could be causing this?

its whats called sales artistic licence :rotfl:
you cant/wont [they hope] take em back so its "oh dear, hows that happened!!"......:(

alfie_1

hi all.
LIR ....glad your day went well, i have the same problem re getting on/off a BIG horse.....i gave up...:o
i used to have to literally stand upright in the stirrup to "bend" my leg over as opposed to swinging it over. like you say, fine if someone else holding other stirrup !! else me and saddle end up doing a gracefull slide unable to defy gravity!! getting off was more like an aerobics lesson than a gracefull exit..... thats why i stick to driving now although i did plan to ride ruby..[as a final age defying feat!!] but if she continues to JUMP like she has i will find a girl/lad who is willing to bring her on for that and they jump her. i will drive her. she is growing so fast and has VERY long legs so dont know what height she will make.....??

choille very kindly sent me an old cloth map of the new forest. love it :)but ended up completely re arranging my lounge and display cabinets so i can see them better !!:( got a great old wooden ornate fire surround at the car boot sale [£10 !] so have that in place...:)

got an old toy horse racing game too, boxed about 20s 30s. the man said £10, i said £5, he said £6 so i got it ...only to hear his wife on returning to the stall, exploding that he'd sold it for that...... i slunk off round a corner
i got some nice old books aswell..

i look after a holiday cottage 5 miles away and have a lovely older couple from dundee there at the mo...[met them when they were here last year outside my house with a flat tyre,]while changing thier wheel for them they said they were sounding out places to stay so i showed them the place and theyve come back now and thier daughter and family in june...so good PR or what !!
its only let some times, not advertised, more through word and mouth !!

i think iv got my biggest fattest hen interested in sitting on "the" eggs....fingers crossed:T
im hoping to get some veg planted tomorow....

soupdragon10

Lovely mothers day as DD took me to local garden centre for coffee and cake and bought me plants for the garden, a lovely paeony, a choisia and a lovely spiraea. Now have to clear areas for them, but once job hunt and applications are done will have time to do this if the weather holds.

I am toying with buying some fertile Buff Orpington eggs from e-bay - does anyone have experience of how these hatch if they are sent? I will have to rig up my old Octagon 20, but don't have the self turning cradle so will have to set up an alarm to remind me to turn the eggs - is it 2 or 3 times a day (when I did this before the turning was automatic).

Would love some hens again, and Buffs are really great - I lost 14 to a fox (from what I thought was a fox proof shed) which put me off getting more for a long time.

Back aching a bit from digging and general moving stuff, will need to book to see chiropractor soon.

I am so glad the weather is improving at last as it does give us the impetus to go out into the garden.