Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

Davesnave wrote: »

I'll swap my dinner with yours choille, but not the sheep! :eek:

Sounds awful, and boring with it.

Glad to say Pete came up and dosed the ones here for fly strike about a week ago, but with the weather being so wet here, I haven't ventured to see them today....:o

Really needed this rain. We might lose a few young trees after such a dry July.

Yeh, finding the sheep hard work. Just been out & she - the hebredian with the sore eyes has forgiven me for dragging her about - helped by the fact she got a lettuce & some carrot tops.

Turned into a lovely sunset with the mountains turning purple - so might be a nice day tomorrow. Must put the machine on & get some washing done.

Davesnave

I keep telling myself the rain is desperately needed, but what we've had today isn't really rain, just mizzle. It made running the electric cement mixer a little dodgy, but when it didn't clear, I felt compelled to put in a few hours, laying foundations. I'm on such a tight schedule now, every wasted day hurts.

Horse Woman has been occupying our thoughts a lot recently, as she hasn't bounced back after her op, and while giving no special concern to the medics, she's not coping well at home. It's been a devil of a job persuading her or her sons to bring in a carer, but the 3 local ladies looking in daily, providing food, shopping & company, got together and put their foot down yesterday! They don't mind doing that, but they're not taking on the jobs carers do.

Now, someone will be coming in once a day now for personal care/cleaning up etc. Fingers crossed!

Bricks arrived today. Breathed a sigh of relief they were the right ones, identified from a photo I emailed. Did a good deal there: hand made bricks for the price of modern, hollow machine-cut things.

Still haven't looked at the sheep today. :oFeeling poo after getting wet and a bit cold too. Still have to grease chicken's legs as well....:(

ukmaggie45

Dave, you're working so hard, hope you got the chicken legs greased OK!

Here's a bunch of flowers for you and Mrs Dave. And all the other Daydreamers too. Fresh from our hedge at the caravan.

Roses honeysuckly buddleia bouquet by Maggie, on Flickr

choille

Beautiful Maggie. Very pretty rose. Love the Buddliea. Hope your weather is kinder than ours.

Davesnave

Oh that's nice of you, maggie! :A

Is the buddleia 'Harlequin?' We used to have that, but I'm not sure that we still do. The honeysuckle in the hedges have been especially good this year and the dog roses too. The buddleia in the mini-woodland are out now, but the ones we cut back haven't quite made it yet.

Sadly, we didn't do the chickens' legs, as it bucketed-down after dinner and the phone was red-hot before. In fact, I unplugged the phone in a fit of grumpiness, as the dinner nearly spoiled.:o It happens because people reckon we're out most of the day, and we don't carry mobiles, so they ring when they think we'll be around.....perfectly logical!:rotfl:

choille

It's been torrential rain here all day. Had sheep stuff to do, so that was a soggy event.

My dark purple buddleias are out, but the orange ball one isn't as yet.

Last coat of varnish on the door facings that are fitted - yippee, had enough of that job!

Internet went off this morning & has only just come back on.

DaftyDuck

Fed the horseflies some more blood, got massive heaps of ragwort, dock and thistle, need some sun to dry it all out before bonfire of the insanities.

Lovely flowers, Maggie. Any flowers I arrange look like Homer Simpson dunnit. I have zero artistic talent .

I'm glad my buddliea collection seems to have survived the move and is now planted and covered in flutterbies. So are the thistles that are in flower, so I can't weed them out of the fields. Buddliea globosa, the round one, and to me it stinks like something horrid. Great for later flowering, though. Most of the others are in flower, but that's partly because their toes were squeezed in plots until recently.

Mary donk behaved for the farrier and vetwife, seems to be a low sprain, not too bad. Will keep her rested and not work her.... So same as for the other 3 lazy s0ds. They, and the horses, laugh as I pass, doubled up with my workload... They turn and trot off when I wear gloves...

I do have quite a few trees from seed, it's just I'd like even more for the hedges. And I'm far too mean to buy enough from Buckingham Nurseries to do all I want to plant.

Chicken legs, greasing, sounds like a euphemism to me...

Consider yourselves all thanked, and I'll do it later... I'm on my primitive tablet that predates the internet, from what I can tell

Rummer

Hello! Hope you are all well, just about to read back and catch up.

greenbee

There's always something...

Watchman receiver is clicking. So now I need to work out what's wrong with it and try to fix it. Think it might have to wait for a bit. I may dip the tank just to check that it is still over half full as per the last signal. Not that I really ever believe it!

Davesnave

:hello: Hi Rummer, long time no hear from you! Hope all is well at your end and that the horrible weather I've heard about in your neck of the woods hasn't put you off the garden altogether.

Greased chicken's legs last night, not as a euphemism for anything other than coating them in petroleum jelly. It's a very effective way of treating/preventing scaly leg.

And yesterday I carried-on, dropping barrowloads of concrete into what seems like an infinite void, but it's probably the minimum I can get away with as the conservatory company are fussy. So is everyone else when it comes to getting rid of smashed-up ceramic tiles, so they've all gone in there too.

Hopefully we get rid of the remaining old insulation today, having Freecycled it to somebody who hasn't been able to get any new stuff for free. :cool: