Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Le, i get some purebreds for £15 if i smile hard enough, some i have paid upto £45 for. Cream legbarrs should be chepaish now...they have been very bred for demand. And cuckoo marans are cheaper than the other colours, so if its egg colour rather than bird colour should not be too bad.

I love my cream legbarrs, but have no success with marans....though really love dark brown eggs and would love some more frnch wheatens.


So, today we planted our aldi trees, seems to take ages to plang five trees. The digger holes were so huge that they took loads of filling, so we had to scour the place for some decent soil. Having set up some electric fencing last week, the grass is coming through to fast for the fatties, so we have to make time tomorrow to change it all again, sigh. I expect lots of lami problems this year for people, one of ours here put weight on over winter!

Then dh started to strim bramble to make a break so we cold burn some more. He promised be he had cut a huge break along the tope where i couldn't see and so we would have a safe brambly hedge left. Of course....what heppened mest is obvious! We oly lost about fif tenn feet of hedge, and it should grow back quickly....being bramble. Its unlikely we will get as much as we hoped done of that this weekend, and that will be it till the end of nesting time. .

While we were down there doing that clearing around lake cake, we had the dogs with us and the geese were aout too. Dog dog was over excited by the geese mating and took a running jump into the water. She was shocked, but also rather proud of the adventure...she acted it out, running towards the water, dunking a foot then shaking, when sh then my dad came to see her later. She is almost human at times. The geese of course, are fine, but were probably annoyed to have been interupted!

Had to play musical chairs today. Tweed's situation puts paid to cream legbarr breeding now this spring, which is almost a relief tbh. So no home bred chicks this year i doubt, but means it probably is worth cranking up the cooker soon. So will need to give a good disinfect. Anyway, tweed has gone in the coop the hedge hogs were in, the hedge hogs have goone in alfies dog kennel...its warm enough that they might want to wander off now anyway, early but warm, and they were a good weight still.

The snowballs are in the wooden house i use for breeding or broodies.......

Its been such perfect weather, cool enough to work hard, warm enough to enjoy it. If only more weekends were the same!

alfie_1

Lotus-eater wrote: »

So she lets a fox kill them, instead of quickly ringing their necks?
Mmmm, questionable animal friendliness me thinks :cool:


on the otherside of the coin, if the chooks are nearing the end and apart from filling en mass a freezer with tough birds,[ at our designated time] putting a natural source of food into the wild animal food chain, has to be weighed up by the owner of said chooks.?? we as humans deem our methods of "the kill" to be humane..... are they ??
theres only so many chicken roast dinners i could eat anyway...:D

rozeepozee

I think I may be a bit hormonal as I'm feeling all sentimental tonight

Or maybe I should just "own my feelings" as a counsellor might tell me, and say I'm full of the joys of life. A surprising thing about moving here is discovering how kind and generous people are. It's perhaps a little sad I'm only just discovering it now in my 40s. I don't know. Better late than not at all. Folk give you the gift of time round here. Complete strangers invite you over for coffee, drop soup off when they hear you're ill, cut your hedge, no money changes hands... You guys have been lovely. Advice, support, chat, seeds, books...

Living in the city, you can become so suspicious of others' motives. Yes, we may be experiencing a honeymoon period. Nevertheless, mind, body and spirit have been revitalised by this change

Rummer

I really want to get out in the garden tomorrow!

Rummer

rozeepozee wrote: »

I think I may be a bit hormonal as I'm feeling all sentimental tonight

Or maybe I should just "own my feelings" as a counsellor might tell me, and say I'm full of the joys of life. A surprising thing about moving here is discovering how kind and generous people are. It's perhaps a little sad I'm only just discovering it now in my 40s. I don't know. Better late than not at all. Folk give you the gift of time round here. Complete strangers invite you over for coffee, drop soup off when they hear you're ill, cut your hedge, no money changes hands... You guys have been lovely. Advice, support, chat, seeds, books...

Living in the city, you can become so suspicious of others' motives. Yes, we may be experiencing a honeymoon period. Nevertheless, mind, body and spirit have been revitalised by this change

I have often been very moved by the kindness and generosity of strangers. The people on her have also been as you say funny, helpful, generous with advice, time, seeds and plants.

Thank you all

choille

I seemed to take ages to list a few items so just did a mass relist. CTC thanks for the link. I may actually be more organised at some time & not leave things till very last minute & then find camera flat - van too crowded to place things for photographing suff etc etc etc. Seems I have to do thirty things before doing one simple thing - phew.

Poured down again so we went off to Inverness to escape the constant beating down of it.
Took elderly neighbours discarded chairs to a lovely charity shop & came away with masses of 'good buys' which is not what was intended! But lovely nevertheless. Shopping always does it for me if I'm getting bargains.

rozeepozee

Can anyone help me with some plant identification please?

rozeepozee

For CTC: the house might be unlovely, but the dingle dell...:heartpuls

lostinrates

Rozee, i love your joy.

I am a little scared for you incase a less joyful experience leads to disillusionment. I would say it is as much about how we project...how people interact with us, in the main i have had good city expeience and my preference for rural and isolation is countered by a remaining excitment for what some cities offer.

rozeepozee

A wise woman once told me: better to enjoy the hope of something, than worry about being disillusioned by it not happening