Sorry, but it is going to be a short one again tonight. When we are haymaking the day goes so quick, that other than making the hay we really don’t do much else. Other things to write in the diary just do not happen.
I cant believe after the rotten summer that we have had, that we are now getting so much warm sunshine. So much so that we may well be able to bale the tomorrow. As the hay is making there is a really good smell with it. It doesn’t always guarantee good hay, but it is a fair indication. There only seems to be one problem area, that is a three acre area that was hit by the flood. The field of five acres is dissected by the stream, although further down from the main flood. I hadn’t expected that the field would have flooded as much as it had, until I saw it and thought about it. What seems to have happened is that a culvert under a lane, that parts the five acre field and another about five and a half a from the main farm got quickly blocked with the streams bed stone, this caused the lane to flood about a hundred metres or more both sides, the soil that had come off of the hill with the rain spread on the grass as mud. When the grass was cut it brought up the soil in the grass, making it very dusty. probably forty bales will be spoilt.
I got the telescope computer back this evening and tried it straight away in the observatory, but unfortunately I could not get a remote connection from it to the farm house. It seems that although the computer did have a problem, it was not the reason for me not being able connect to the observatory. I should think that the wire connection from the farm house to the observatory is the cause. I will try to get another wire put in as quickly for the new moon. It would have been good to have had it working for Sunday, as it is going to be a good clear night for watching a spectacular meteor shower. If you look towards the east, this is the bad part, from about 11pm Sunday to 2.am Monday it should be a good if you have never seen any.
I don’t know if any one else counted, but I am sure that I counted sixteen Badgers feeding at one time tonight. The youngsters, both this years and last, are getting too brave when I take the feed up. I have said before that I don’t want to humanise them. I will make some sort of noise that will make them run back to the sett when I feed them in future.