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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. We don’t have a lot more photographs to put on the Photo Page.

Sidmouth Devon. The Church at Sherwood Forest. Elsie.

Hello Mr Farmer, Taken when I visited the Dingle peninsular in Ireland, last October, the Robin was so tame we managed to take about 20 pics of it. Thanks, Rose (FF)

My daughter lives in Sydney and I took this photo on a recent visit. Rose W’canton.

We managed to harrow the Horse field today. Harrowing is normally done to take out the dead grass and to breakup clods of earth. We harrow to break up the Horse droppings. Horse droppings are not very good for grass Leos. They don’t break down like Cow and Sheep droppings and kill the grass under them. The harrow breaks them up and spreads them about a bit. The ideal way to deal with them is to clear the fields of them every week. I am not into that with the amount of Horses that we have, we would be working from morning to night every day. There are machines that you can buy that hoover them up, but again it is very time consuming.

We have been putting in a new webcam wire for the Lake area in the Summer, and for the Sheep and Horses when they are in the barn during the Winter. We are also running wires to the Holiday Cottages so that our Holiday guest can access the Internet whilst on Holiday. We have to be careful where we run the wire because of the animals getting hold and chewing them. Arnie is the worst culprit, he chewed through a couple of webcam wires that we are using for the Dove nest. When we were putting the wires in today I forgot about a water pipe that we had capped off. It was a temporary job, very close to the ground and hidden by grass, it was also not a very good job. One of my Lads was helping me as the whole job was getting messy. A rough old high bush was in the way of us being able to get the wires in to the Farm House roof, and needed cutting back, whilst pulling the large cut branches I broke the water pipe, even worse I was standing right over it. Before I had time to move away from the torrent of water I got soaked from top to bottom. I wasn’t best pleased I can tell you. Even worse the pipe hadn’t been used for a very long while and the first seconds or so of the gush was filthy. My Lad tried not to laugh, of course he did, and what a mouthful he got. Mind you I am the worse person in the world for laughing at the sort of things that happened to me, when it happens to others. Half hour later I laughed myself.

We let Willow and Gypsy out of their stable for the first time in a couple of days. We have kept them in to stop Willow having any contact with Lady. We put Branston in a stable and let the two Fillies have the run of the area that he uses. It was the first time that Willow was out without Lady. She went and stood by the gate in the direction of Lady and called out, Lady did not call back. Both Willow and Gypsy were a bit frisky and looked as if they may have attempted to jump the gate. They settled down after a while and went exploring. Once they realised that they had the large area that they had, nothing would have stopped them from galloping around at full speed for a good twenty minutes. If you had been watching the Puppy cam you would have seen them. Once they had kicked and bucked two days of being in, out of themselves they settled down, a little puffed out and a little sweaty. Willow went back to the gate now and then, gave a little call to Lady and returned back to Gypsy’s side. Willow and Gypsy have bonded well, staying close to each other for most of the day. We thought that we may have had trouble getting them back to their stable, but as soon as they saw their feed coming out of the barn they followed it back to the stable. I have decided we will do what we did today for another two or three days, we will then put them in to the barn next to the Sheep.

It is to overcast to put the Astro webcams on tonight.

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