I should really remember it every year as a hard month, but my enthusiasm and sheer determination tends to make me forget that I have the same struggle every year. September – the middle spring month is just yucky. It is always stormy and windy and rainy and soggy and boggy and really hard work. But the thing is – it is an uphill battle … Continue reading This is the last day of the worst month of spring.
We’re doing feeds four times a day that take absolutely ages. The kid’s lambs suck up the milk in no time, but the older two are still learning how to use a bottle as it isn’t how they started out and it takes forever. I’m trying not to dwell too much on their start or get attached. I think the key is don’t look them … Continue reading Lambs are a huge distraction
Well not technically in the garden and if it gets in the garden there will be less of the cute, but for now they are in their little house and they are the cutest lambs in the world since last year’s ones. We built a nice little shelter for then beside the chicken coop, put up a fence and a gate and stood back and … Continue reading There is cute fluffiness in the garden
Yesterday was a day of two halves. In the morning is was wet and miserable – with rain drops so fat and heavy that it seemed to come in monsoon proportions. But the ground was already overflowing so the new rainfall just lay on the top of the lawn, with only the tips of the as yet un-mown grass poking through a sea of mud … Continue reading Another Yesterday full of excitement.
