Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

We now have wee lambs in the field that makes a valley with our fields. Soon they'll be racing about and jumping like they do every spring, when I'll be able to take soft focus photos of them, with the primroses and all the new leaves.

But for today it was celebrate DD2's birthday in a local eatery and then off for a ferret walk, to see if we could burn it all off by tea time in the local woodlands. :cool:



Boy, do these guys walk! Compared with Eric and Wilf, DD2's original two ferrets, these are Olympic 10 000m champions. Sorry, I don't know which one is alfie, alfie; I think the one with the green lead

However, they're having the 'snip' tomorrow, so we'll have to see if the amazing forward focus they demonstrate every time they go out is repeated once they stop looking out for lady ferrets!:rotfl:

Just for a change, it rained, but we completed a reasonably strenuous 2 mile route before getting very wet. Best news of all was that DW managed it too.

DaftyDuck

Survived lambing most of last night/early morning, followed by a day at the Norfolk Showground surrounded by ~ 8,000 children. Didn't kill any of them, as far as I remember! Lambs or children.




You can fit those lambs in one hand, easily. All doing well. One more mum to lamb!

Time for bed.

choille

Lovely lovely lambs and ferrets - goodness - ferrets on leads.

Met a nice couple from West Wales and their collie which has ice blue eyes - both of their eyes, whilst down the beach. Two collies played together really nicely which is great to watch.
Really bitter wind out there today - brings tears to your eyes.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

goodness - ferrets on leads.
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As you'll know, they don't walk to heel and they have a tendency to disappear down any hole, so leads are the only way to give them exercise outdoors.

Eric and Wilf were hopelessly slow when out on the lead; they'd play-fight and muck around a lot. These two just go like the Duracell bunny. Whether they'd murder him is hard to say, but so far they've been very good tempered and disinclined to bite. :A

Eddie, the one on the red lead, chatters to himself incessantly when he's having walkies. Alfie occasionally joins in.

Not much wind here; just rain.

Hope you get a good night's sleep Dafty!

DaftyDuck

Hope you get a good night's sleep Dafty!

Hah! Sadly (or gladly), the next ewe is busily wandering round in circles, then raking a nest in the middle. I suspect it might be a late night - or not much night at all. But, there are several warm heaps of Bagot to curl up with, if things get cold.

Yes, these latest are the cutest, smallest sweetest bundles of bouncing fluff imaginable. Hope the next lady manages OK. Off to the barn again now.

alfie_1

early good morning to you all...
someone remind me of my "taking it easier" quote please !
why am I up at silly o clock to do an airport run .... then go to work THEN do another run after work ????


beautifull misty warm morning tho....

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

beautifull misty warm morning tho....

Yes, at last, the outlook seems much better.:D It'll now be the usual race against the weeds, the grass and keeping everything potted-on/watered. :undecided

We've had some nice comments about the panto, so whatever our fears, the audience didn't seem to mind. Heard one person was disappointed at the lack of 'local' jokes and I can relate to that. The lines of the Ghost of Christmas Future in 'Scrooge' are something I still trot-out occasionally when appropriate: "There are worse places than Witheridge!":rotfl:

Davesnave

Apparently, not everyone had the glorious day we had yesterday.:p

Anyway, apart from mowing and potting toms, we were able to get the 'gone completely bonkers' eucalyptus in the garden down without wrecking the foxglove tree it was threatening to overwhelm. :j

I was a bit out of my comfort zone, working from an extension ladder, but at least eucalyptus are easy sawing, so we got the top 10 feet down without too much drama. Then we dropped what was left with DW pulling it the right way with rope. I think if it had gone another season, I'd have been paying Pete!

That just leaves a cherry at Mr Dog's end, which is being bullied by a wild service tree and needs to come out of its way. The WST is rarer and will win in the end anyway.

alfie_1

well good morning peeps


is this the start of the "warm spell" ???
certainly is here ! misty early , now a lovely day ...
going to crack on with the garden this weekend . got my little shed moved yesterday [didn't have the heart to demolish it so the builders next door hoiked it up and literally carried it to another spot. this makes space for the greenhouse, of which the built frame is unceremonially dumped on my lawn at the mo ! AND it is a lot bigger than what I thought !! in fact its huge !!
so this weekend I have to clear an area for it which means due to the height a couple of tree branches have to be removed.
planted and sorted all the plant pots by the cattle grid yesterday having bought a lot of half price plants [dahlias etc] .. I do love dahlias as they go on and on and on ......
im mowing my lawn weekly to get it back to a lawn !


hopefully once the ground dries up in the fields I can give all the hoss's a good groom and bath. they are all mud monsters at the moment ! then get the sheep shorn.......


well im off out while the suns out ..


have a good weekend peeps

choille

Glorious here - warm, yes, warm and no wind or sleet or rain - how odd is that? The waterproofs can come off but still wearing wellies - it's traditional.

I have done my back in & I don't know how. Up most of the night and just barely walking about. OH who is not that great with his mobility has taken the hairy one down the beach on a long line just in case. It is peaceful without all the clatter so I am just sitting feeling guilty for just sitting feeling guilty for just sitting............

Alfie you sound busy what with glass houses and taxi runs and potting things. I like dahlias too but I can't touch the pollen or sap as it gives me a serious rash but they are good value.

Dave I planted a eucalyptus too near the house. It got frosted a few times and is a bent stringy looking skeleton too near the house really. I think they are called widow makers in Oz as they can suddenly drop a limb. I may saw it down while it's stlll a juvenile all though it's fairly shot up - it looks too stick like. I think eventually it may deter the insects that bite but I think that would be its only redeeming feature - however I don't like killing trees. I am confined to a chair at the moment so I have time to plot and ponder.