Daydream thread continues.....

Rummer

Do you think it is safe enough to start planting up some seeds in the greenhouse?

choille

Yeh, If you keep them warm/insulated - ie bubble plastic, polyterene boxes etc. It's the night time temp plummets that you have to watch. Seedlings will die if they get a touch of frost.

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Do you think it is safe enough to start planting up some seeds in the greenhouse?

Err, nothing's guaranteed these days, but we are not having any more frosts in these parts in the coming week, so I will be sowing in the poly.

Although temps in there have been down to -3c quite often in recent weeks, that's not affected my parsnips and I'm hoping the peas will be OK too.

Nice little piggy paddock CTC. I see the Takeuchi in the background, same as my digger man uses.

lostinrates

Alfie, those crooks were 'self hybridised'.;). Mixture of Cochin, cream leg at and Maran blood.

lostinrates

Well, yesterday we moved some more logs. Cannot believe we have been moving leyland logs felled when we arrived here. Having run out of bought wood we have been burning a mixture of the leylandi, and lime, and a little horse chestnut.....all felled here. It's all burning nicely too. Thank goodness.

Besides some log moving we did some weeding in front of the house, filled a couple of bin bags of rubbish left by motorists on our road side boundary (people seem to aim at our front gate with beer cans and McDonald's trash) And brought the trees out from undercover. Hollies look good but everything else remains to be seen. In other sad tree news, the magnolia we planted on arrival here was cut in half by a branch falling in the high winds last week. It was never very happy...it looked fine but I swear it got smaller rather than growing even amillemetre.

Today we brought on poor old girl to clean her up a bit for the last time.:(. She enjoyed having a warm wash of her back legs and ate big buckets of food in the back garden. When she was clean we rubbed baby oil into the skin under her tail, as i am scared she will get sore from her runny poop and urine. and then plastered more oil all over her legs so that at least her skin is protected a bit from the stuff as she keeps going on her back legs. We all cried a bit, then watched as she gamely trotted back out to see the others. My ep trimmed her feet too. Just in case she lingers on a bit more.

ukmaggie45

Oh LiR, I do feel for you - felt a bit like that when Brodie cat here last visit - don't know if I'll see him again now. Hope your poor old girl is feeling better for your ministrations - sure she will! Big hugs from Liverpool.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Alfie, those crooks were 'self hybridised'.;). Mixture of Cochin, cream leg at and Maran blood.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: the CROOKS round here are a right mixture too :rotfl::rotfl:

choille

LIR - It is sad when you have an animal for a long time & they start to fail. You sound so good to them. It's beautiful...in a way. That's all you can do is make them comfy & help them keep their dignity as long as you can.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

havent long got in, and I smell like a kipper ( and so does alot of the ranch's neighbours washing:eek::D)

taken some pics, so will post them later.

Davesnave, hubby woul love to have one of those mini diggers, and in reality we really do need one with all the work we are doing/got to do... that digger belonged to the fencers..

we are slowly finding out who the 'back stabbers' are, you know the type, nice to your face, and moan and groan about you to others... I think My time of being nice, and being considerate to the neighbours ( or certain ones) is now coming to an end:D

LIR.... sounds as though, you are helping her retain her dignity..which she so deserves...

Alfie.. I will give our works addy... are you going to give me a clue to what hubby will be getting:p
agree the sun has been out, but it is still cold...

alfie_1

LIR has the most amazing affinity [is that right word ?] with all creatures in her domain. she understands em.... she can see what others dont. she knows her animals inside out ...to my reckoning anyway. anything living with her care is blessed.