Documenting Life on our small holding. Follow the adventures with our animals from birth through to meat production curing of hams, creating bacon, etc, experimenting with producing as much as we can from our little farm. Experience real quality of life. All the ups and downs including Planning permission wars....



Just an everyday walk with the kids!!

Tuesday 23 February 2010

Good days work!!!lol.....

Right what have been up to??? Mmm not enough if I'm honest..lol Joe decided he was well enough to go outside to work, well after I gave him the idea, "get on with it Joe!" said I... 
note to self be more subtle next time.. then cant be blamed for consiquenses..
He went straight out dived into the digger and sank. I stayed in the caravan teaching the kids, and cooking up a feast, cleaning etc. you know just girly multi tasking...lol so after a few hours of listening to Joe's digger making very promissing digging sounds I went to see how it was all going... Big mistake... Basically he 'd got in the digger drove over to start work on our blocked drain and promptly got stuck every time he tried to pull out, move, push pull he ended up deeper and further stuck till half the digger was under the mud...oops... 
"its all your fault" said he.. oops .... I wasnt very helpfull as I replied with " Why did you go in that deep mud why didnt you go over there?!" not helpful ..lol  hours later both of us changed colour and yet again digging out the digger, an all too common experience....broken backs, shattered and finished I said we should give it one more go when Joe was ready to give up, eventually we some how got her out of the bog that had nearly eaten them alive, I must add here that this the 3rd or 4th time we have got stuck in this particular boggy bit... once with our huge DROTT machine a huge bulldozer on tracks that i was very proud to be able to drive, I said that DROTT stood for (Drag rubish over to there!!!!) she ended up on her side, she actually nearly lost . Then, I nearly burried the hire machine alive. Williams Plant hire of Welshpools, gorgeous 3 1/2 ton hymac thingy.. then Joe in our poor old much loved Massey ferguson 50B digger. Oh dear another lost day and suprise suprise a much bigger mess than when Joe started what a good days work..

Pigs well they all happy in there new homes, the new boar has settled and is no longer beating up his new Glousceter old spot wife.. dogs happy in the snow we have about 5 inches again.. chicken is laying... fixed up our incubator that Joe found in a skip, set some eggs in it, done a deal to get 9 hybrid laying hens, 1 Barnwelder cockeral and 8 eggs for the incubator for £20  good deal I think.. hope they hatch and hope there isn't a good reason for the incubator being skipped but so far so good its keeping up its temp nicely. 


Andre went out taking pics of the cats today and found my prize Bengal  champion stud tom sitting in the hen house on the eggs... mmm I think he's a little confused....Shell shocked!!! 
He could even be suffering from "Egg-sor-sesory confusion"

lol then after that our Rotty Sasha who is deeply in season and wanting a dog, or should I say should be wanting a dog was trying to persuade our young boar to sort her out.... she seems confused too!!! 
Could be an interesting hybrid... well she did foster one of our orphened piglets before maybe its all my fault... Look on daily mail online Sasha and the fostered piglet Apple sauce!"

What else???? mmmm nothing really should be out there getting loads of work done planting out trees fencing tidying up but theres too much snow on the ground..

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