Daydream thread continues.....

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

Ah, the vagaries of local microclimates.

This bitter spring really has made me even more concious of this. The allotment site is very exposed to wind from the east (and my part from the north as well). So its thermals and hats all round.

Walk two minutes to the main road, the situation is so different; the whole "village" is just over the summit (about 10 feet below at most) and the trees and houses protect is. So it feels about 10 degrees warmer.

Weird day yesterday; about 16 degrees C and a howling gale but very little rain.

I will try and post up a few pictures I took in April 2010; at present we are well behind that very cold spring although the a bit of sun this week might make a difference.

ferretkeeper

Still having IT problems, incredibly slow old laptop, big computer has officially died, losing the will to live until...

I got a surprise at tea time tonight:



my other ewe has finally had her babies, another two pure white shetlands, a boy and girl, it's got me all springy again!

Also the goat was behaving herself at milking time for once - she developed an infection a week after her difficult birth despite long acting antibiotics from the vet so I've been giving her daily injections. Plus she has hurt her udders (licking her milk or the udder cream I use, she likes the taste of both!) but I've still got to try to milk her, so with sticking plasters on it's a mission and she's not been at all in the mood so today was a bit of a milestone...

I've been looking at hand milking "apparatus" on t'internet (when it works) and decided to copy something I've seen in America, can't wait for it to ship here, I need this now. It's based on a hand pump you can use for many things including bleeding brake lines on cars and bikes. With a bit of silicone here and clear tubing there I think I can make what I need! It might just be a back up if hand milking goes as well as this from now in, but I'll be glad to have the option.

I too have an influx of frogs/toads - noticed them when I went out last night, no sign in the day really...

Nice dry day, mostly, so the dogs got to stay out a good while and I got a ton of housework done, they are now crashed out everywhere, my turn soon...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rhiwie... THANK YOU:beer::beer::beer: I love you and mrs Rhiwie:D

FerretKeeper, :T:T:T cute...I haven't got the right land for sheep, but would love to come over one day and look at your babies

watching CNN news:o:o:o such terrible news

Davesnave

The swallows arrived today!:j

It was also warm enough to work without a jumper on, so things are moving in the right direction.

Nice lambs again, ferretkeeper.:) We have the joy of watching the lambs just across our little valley every year, but now the hedge is laid, we see more of them. They charge about in gangs, but run back to Mum now and again for sustenance.

choille

Lovely lambs FK.

We haven't got any more. Lovely watching the wee things running & leaping about the place, but sad we have no grass.

Wild goats got in so spent a while trying to get them out, but they'll come back. I haven't got all along the shore side fenced & they're coming along there & coming up the croft.

We have snipes drumming, bats flitting around & daffs are now all out.

rhiwfield

Ferret, nice lambs!

CTC, with your new pig paddocks will you be breeding any pigs now?

Just submitted FITs reading and well down on same period last year

RAS

rhiwie -last March was wall to wall sunshine; it was April that was the disaster.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

yes Rhiwie, instead of getting a boar in, they recommen AI so will have to read up on it...

hopefully will be buying another arc soon, and because we are getting further away from the house, hubby is looking at water bowsers etc...:eek::rotfl:

We might be ready to get some weaners at the auction at the begining of the month...

Davesnave

CTC, it's on its way at last!:o I gave it to MiL to post and she forgot, so we took it to Hatherleigh today, where we went for a mooch around the market. Didn't buy anything, except edibles.

Then it was on to the coast, where the weather was so good DW demanded to eat fish & chips on the quayside, so that's what we did. Looking around the quaint old town afterwards, I actually found myself in shirtsleeves and eating an ice cream! :cool:

Back here, in the polytunnel it had been really hot, so we began moving many of the less hardy plants outside to their summer positions. With the swallows diving and swooping, I felt the first really summery evening had arrived.....

......then a big grey cloud came along! :rotfl:

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

yes Rhiwie, instead of getting a boar in, they recommen AI so will have to read up on it...

hopefully will be buying another arc soon, and because we are getting further away from the house, hubby is looking at water bowsers etc...:eek::rotfl:

We might be ready to get some weaners at the auction at the begining of the month...

aI is great. Low stress for the gals, no travel risk, low infection risk.