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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 the sixth one down. There only a few more left to show.

The first three are of the Griffon Vulture, that were sent to me by Simon, when he first approached us about a Griffon Vulture nest webcam, for our site.

The two others are from Sue. The description is on Mondays Diary.

Rose asked if Ewy is in Lamb. I shouldn’t think so as she has not been near the Ram. Since we have been letting Emmi and Gypsy out in the Horse field in the afternoons with Arnie, Ewy has been keeping close to Arnie. Tonight when we went to get the Horses in, Ewy came down to the gate with them. She did look sad, and ran up to the wood when we started to walk the Horses through the gate.

You must have thought that I had given up on the Duck. I haven’t done anything with it since before Christmas, as we have been so busy. A good part of the day is now taken up mucking the Horses out, and getting the stable ready for when they come in of a night. After a bit of trouble with the Duck I have managed to get the engine running. I just need to fix the steering and I will be able to try it out on the lake. That should go alright. I will then need to fix a wireless camera into it.

I mentioned a while back that we were looking seriously at trying to generate our own power and heating on the Farm. We intend to use Solar Panels on the Farm House roof to partly achieve this. We cannot start that until we get our roof re-tiled, that should be in the Summer. Over the past couple of days we have been looking at the option of using another resource that we have on the Farm, to heat our water for our heating and hot water. Over the years that we have been at Denbury we have noticed that the dung heaps from the mucking out of the animals, gives off a lot of heat. We have always said that we would look into capturing the heat, but talking is as far as it has got.

Yesterday I experimented to see how hot the muck heap was generating. I put a jar of water a few inches into the muck heap, after a few hours I got the jar out. I didn’t have a thermometer, so I was unable to measure the temperature, but it had heated to a degree, that if it was in a bath, it would be to hot to bath in. The muck heap works the same as a compost heap. If you have ever taken the top of the heap down six inches or so, you will see for yourself the heat that is generated.

Our next step is to obtain a large container to be able to fill with muck, and other necessities, putting in a long pipe with water circulating in it. We will then be able to see how much hot water we can generate. It will work, but have I got the time to see it through?

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