Daydream thread continues.....

rainbowcattail

Hi Rummer, I know how you feel! I was panicking slightly yesterday then dh suggested we finish clearing the bit we started and put the garlic & shallots in and then clear it bit by bit. We are lucky in that there is a mass of strawberries down one end from the previos owner so we will just create a bed round them when we get that far. Bit by bit Is my new mantra

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choille

Yes - I'm the same & have to do the bit by bit mantra as my mind & my back can't take owt else on at the moment.

Must get listing, or photoing. Snow on the tops this morning so that'll add to the pictures!

Lotus-eater

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Lotus..... the place we bought used to be a chicken battery type farm.... all the long huge sheds have long gone, but the concrete blynths and the pastic long feeding pipes are still on the land, including the drinking nipples in the pipes...I will pull some of them out of the pipes, and i can send a few to you, to 'play' around with if you want to....

That's very kind of you CTC, but I think those nipples only work when they are upside down, these other ones work from a vertical surface. I think they're amazing and better than any other watering system I've ever seen.
But no one else seems interested in them, so I'll shut up now :rotfl:

alfie_1

well, ive cleaned /cleared all my verandah and lit a bonfire so i dont hoard....:D i am amazed at myself what i have shoved in there !! always saying "that may come in handy one day " !!:rotfl:well it hasnt and its now GONE...

ive had washing machine going full blast..:o

and ive been watching/listening to GREEN BERET with john wayne ...:T

so i am now officially that sad old woman in the woods....:rotfl:

im off to get my fat balls now [for the birds !!;)] and coal and food for me ..:)
then ive got to chop a stack of wood...

all the seeds [random mix up from various sources] i planted in my old lobster/crab pots [rescued ] have all started to grow like fury so should be a good display tho i have NO idea what half of em are...:D fun fun fun ....

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

That's very kind of you CTC, but I think those nipples only work when they are upside down, these other ones work from a vertical surface. I think they're amazing and better than any other watering system I've ever seen.
But no one else seems interested in them, so I'll shut up now :rotfl:

I am, very much so. On weak days ordinary waterers are too heavy for me . I use cat litter trays, but need to change now for safety due to ratus ratus.

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

You can plant garlic now. It will just crop later. Mine only went in about a fortnight back!:o

Will look for P mint now, but it is always slow to wake up.

We should have some pineapple mint. It was just starting to bud through when I trimmed the herbs a couple of weeks ago ...... but then the frost came back & I'm not sure yet whether it's actually survived & just stopped in it's tracks or it's had it. It's looking a bit sad at the moment but may be OK.
As everything on the moors is always a bit behind the lower levels, it may be a week or two before I can really tell, though.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

I am, very much so. On weak days ordinary waterers are too heavy for me . I use cat litter trays, but need to change now for safety due to ratus ratus.

Well hang on, you've heard the saying, I was so impressed I bought the company? Well it's not quite that , but I've emailed the company this morning about a bulk order, because I'm planning to sell them.
You can have them at cost

You need your own water barrels or something to drill them into.

alfie_1

i wrote and it disapeared ??

i dont think ive stopped all day..:D love days like today...

i got 2 big bags of john innes multi, bogof.... at scats.
got some more plants...:o like i need em...:D

ive started to put in the pailing fencing and bimbles been helping !! im digging a post hole and hes digging his own...:eek:

right NOW, its bath and do the listings i intended to do earlier...:o

no its not...im going to plant my plants..:D :rotfl:

p.s. i am using all the plastic clear containers that cakes come in for my seedlings. i shut the lids at night . i would like to say that the majority come from what i buy at knockdown for mabels treats but that would be a tad dishonest....;) :rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Well hang on, you've heard the saying, I was so impressed I bought the company? Well it's not quite that , but I've emailed the company this morning about a bulk order, because I'm planning to sell them.
You can have them at cost

You need your own water barrels or something to drill them into.

Oooooooh!

Well, we have spent all day cleaning up rat faeces:eek: So much damage. Dh went up intothe loft of the dairy building, where i thought would be seething with rats, but not so much as a poo.

Less faeces appearing, but poison still going.

We bought one of those sonic things, but i think we need three or four, so they don't just move into a nother building or house:eek::eek:

Tomorrow we are opening bird doors early and going to drive over to make my mother a surprise breakfast, then coming home to get started here later than usual.

Davesnave

We've been demolishing 2 wooden pigsties we've used as plant shelters, but unusually for a breaking job, it's taken all day. That's because we're keen to save the ply panels, but they're very well nailed together, and bolted too with well-rusted 5" M10s. It was much worse than digging!

Oddly, it looks as if there's a small spring in one of the pig sties; a very soggy area 2' across. Odd place to build I'd have thought.

We had a couple of downpours, even a clap of thunder, but during those I screwed the little chicken coop back together, having Crecoted it all twice for luck.

Ozzie looks like he might have scaly leg, but it's a hard thing to ID if it's not very bad, so it might not be that at all. He's also getting over a bit of chest trouble, so we've just been treating his legs with Vaseline every night rather than medicate. Apart from ivermectin, is there anything else we could use?