First grow the fruit and vegetables and then have a “cooking” day
Humans and animals trying to find some shade
I’m dozing under the pergola
The sheep are lying in the barn and in any patch of shade
Hoverfly feeding on the pollen of the Cosmos flowers
August sunset
And another friend and grandchildren came to see
Bobby the lamb (Bobby is a girl. My brother chose the name yesterday).
New guests
Three contented girls – age immaterial
Me and my bruvva (and his wife and her parents )
Full on harvest time
Across the road from our gate the combine is going up and down the field harvesting the golden wheat
And in the next field “make hay while the sun shines!”
Planning ahead
Our ewe, Domino, is one of the other sheep just about to lamb. Several years ago Domino had an udder infection leaving her with scar tissue and an inability to feed further lambs. Commercial farmers would have culled her but we didn’t and she has produced fine lambs year after year. We have to bottle feed them. She gave birth to twins in January and they did well on bottles. Now Domino is expecting again and Jeremy took some of the colostrum from Toffee’s lopsided udder this morning. I held Toffee and he milked the distended side into a jug. She has plenty left for her beautiful and big girl lamb.
We have poured the colostrum (the rich first milk that contains extra nutrients for newborns) into two bottles and put those in the freezer. If, as we suspect, Domino gives birth to twins we will have rich colostrum to feed them on day one.
