Sunday, 31 October 2010

Rebuild!

The tractor has a nice new home! We have renewed the old garage with a nice new tin skin so the tractor, and a few other bits and bobs, can stay nice and dry and warmish through the winter!

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Doing the splits

Well splitting logs to be precise! Andrew cleared the branches over hanging the fields so after burning the smaller bits earlier this week we spent today splitting the larger bits ready for next winter.

Also this week one of the geese started laying again for some strange reason and as andrew had seen them mating we are incubating them, bit of a punt we know as very late in the year. We also now have a fancy fully automatic incubator so good way to give it a test run if nothing else!

Friday, 1 October 2010

Pecking order!

We have moved two of the chickens into a different group and it's caused a definate pecking order we arn't letting you join our group scenario! They are getting pecked less and getting to the feeder eventually but a slow process! They are still young just hope when they get to laying age they will be able to hold there own and fit in albeit still at the bottom as they will be the largest in the group when they reach full size!
The one plus is that Layer who was at the bottom before has moved up the rankings!

Sunday, 19 September 2010

Chicken hunt!

We decided two of the young chickens were old enough to be moved in with the yard chickens today however when we came to put them away nowhere to be seen! After half an hour of searching we found then in the hedge row near where we had left them!

Monday, 6 September 2010

Running hot and cold!

We now have two taps in the kitchen, one only for the hot the other only for the cold! Anyone who has visited in the last year or so that will make sense. :-) Also we now have a splash back for the sink also!

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Benchmark!

Or should I say setting the benchmark, we have poured the concrete into the mould which should hopefully make a bench/table out of the three tree stumps left from when we had the trees taken out from behind the house, thanks to H&A!
Once it has set we will be making the final surface out of bits and pieces into a mosaic, sounds odd I know but when finished it should be functial and fun to look at!

Thursday, 12 August 2010

Potatoes and tractors!

Well the day started with pulling up the first of our potatoes which are looking very good. I also pulled up a few of the beetroot which are very tasty.

The afternoon involved us collecting a shiny blue tractor, second hand but had been very well looked after. If the weather holds out we can top the fields and get the chickens back in their big run which they will appreciate I'm sure!