Daydream fund challenge part 4

lucielle

Hi All. Pleased to hear mums on the mend, Alfie.

I'm halfway through looking after my 900 fleecey ladies. Had another set of quads today which timed it right for 2 ladies who only had one. After some sneaky manoevours (sp) and gunge everyone ended up with 2 lambs. Result!

I'm head pet lamb looker afterer, the next batch should be going tomorrow fingers crossed.
L

greenbee

Well done on rearranging the lambs Lucielle! It's a long time since I had to look after sheep. I always found them to be very stubborn on the rare occasions they got an idea in their heads!

choille

Great stuff Lucielle. Tiring but lovely job. So cold here for the lambs at the moment but that is what happens.

greenbee

Finally got round to checking how dry my logs are. Even the willow I spent last year splitting is now at 13-15% (based on my random sample), so no need to worry about ordering more for a while. There's enough for a couple of years, and I still have a bit of coal and plenty of kindling. I also have a basket of bark, and a pile of bits that are two twisted and tough for me to split which I'll either burn outside or give to my brother as he can chainsaw them.

He told me they've had another tree down at work, so he's dealing with that at the moment. If anyone goes to the doctors' surgery and finds their GP outside wielding an axe, that's my brother...

Davesnave

900??? :eek: Makes my 27 look a bit puny!

potplant

Nine HUNDRED sheep, heavens! Plus the lambs!
Alfie, I hope your mum's doing well, it sounds good. At husband's rehab centre I've practically become staff, but she won't need anything like as long as he does. Today I'm getting an estimate for a stairlift - we have a lot of stairs....
The garden is growing back faster than I can keep on top of the weeds, but yes, among them are some good self-seeded finds - a whole patch of baby helleborus orientalis for a start, will be interesting to see what colours emerge when they eventually flower. And gradually in little bits of time I'm getting other plants in, veg seeds coming up etc. So though this morning its horribly grey and wet I guess the rain is good - last week I actualy had to water everything.

choille

Hi Potplant do you have a room downstairs that would do as a bedroom?

It must be hard for you having so much to contend with. I do hope that OH makes a good recovery.

Dull here & still windy but dry so will get some twigs picked up as the place is littered with them. They do make good kindling.

alfie_1

SO....
having spent the last evening sat as if an old peoples home with my 3 lumps of lazy dogs and missing my marshas youthfull bounce and enthusiasm for life ....I decided this morning to keep myself busy ...
I stripped all the cushions and covers off my L sofa and the dog throws and set forth in the washing machine ... I then hauled the sofa out and hoovered what appeared to be the remnants of a mouses banquet ?? anyway I then hovered every square inch of my lounge then shampoo'd it all ... TWICE ! dog beds got washed too...
my lounge now looks so much cleaner and fresher !!
the dogs are still lazing around and I think appreciating the peace and quiet ... I am NOT !
once I know marsha is settled [2 weeks trial] I will be happy and can look to the next foster ...
weather was lovely today , they have forecast carp weather the next few days but we will see .... it sometimes misses us here in the shelter of the IOW ...

greenbee

Miserable weather here Alfie but not raining yet! I was hoping to mow today as I have the nice sharp mower blade back, but I don’t think it will dry out enough.

Davesnave

Looks like 'darn sarth' we are stuck in an easterly air flow for the next week or more, alfie, so the weather might be cool, but it won't be very damp. Cue the usual game of tomato cover-up on many nights. I couldn't live without my fleece at this time of year. Indeed, it's done a sterling job all winter, so I even have a full sized nicotiana flowering and most of last summer's container plants are still fine.

Log delivery yesterday was almost all ash with just a few bits of birch. About 30% are too large, so I had a lovely morning splitting those and I'm aching this morning.

The road here is closed over the next few days for repairs, but we can still get out if we need to via an alternative route we often use. I thought with it being a bus route they might be re-surfacing, but no, it's just a patch job.

Since having a 4x4, of sorts, we're less concerned by banging over the potholes and ruts, but it doesn't ride or handle as well as the old car did.:( At the bottom of the hill here there's a 90 degree bend and a rut at the side to take the water that streams down all winter. I've lost count of the number of folks who've caught the rut when sensibly keeping close to the left on the blind bend, lost control and gone straight on into the field!

Apparently, you don't have drivers like that in your neck of the mountains, choille :eek::
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47851582