Friday 15 May 2015

One Job leads To Another

Today has been very much a day of lots of one job leads to another,
It all started with Odd Job and Girls, when I was doing the rounds this morning, the girls needed a bit of extra grazing, so I moved all the sheep hurdles down and made them an area outside there gate that they could go and munch, I was looking at moving them into there original paddock this week end but Odd Job is being a piggy and munching his way through any grass growing and expanding his waist in the process, I then decided to cordon off half of the paddock he is in 
I ran snow netting as a barrier across the field, that's the orange stuff you can see in the photo, this will give the grass a chance to grow in readiness for the pregnant girls to move back in there.
Of course the snow netting was being used to divide up the duck area, so I went there to remove it and noticed the electric fence had run out of charge, we use big lorry batteries and they are really heavy to move I then had a brain wave 
I hooked up the portable solar panel and it started charging up the battery, why I never thought of this before I don't know.
as I had taken down the barrier in the duck enclosure I then moved the duck house, then I noticed wood laying around and other stuff so ended up doing a big tidy up, stacking up all the bits of wood, tidying up the plant pots behind the greenhouse and tying all the canes together, getting troughs for carrots as I spotted them behind the shed, I knocked up a loaf of bread when I popped in for a cuppa, walked the dogs up the drive to check for post, played ball with them in the field, filled the log basket, washed the dishes made the bed up after it was stripped to be washed, emptied bins and then gave the fridge a good clean out,  watered the poly tunnel, put some lily bulbs into the flower border and planted out some of the young lupins, I feel like I have 100 miles and not stopped all day.
Off to Bluith Wells tomorrow to the Small Holders show :-)

12 comments:

  1. Gosh what a busy time you've had. I have a list of things ready for tomorrow as I'm off for a few extra hours tomorrow.

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  2. Enjoy the show tomorrow Dawn, think you will need a day off after today! We're looking forward to going on Sunday. Shame we're not going the same day, would have been nice to have met you there

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  3. I am glad that I a not the only one, some days I feel that any moment I will meet myself on the way round. I looked on the Tom tom for the way to Builth Wells but when I went to book the car in for the MOT he offered tomorrow morning. I dare not refuse incase I had to wait for 2 weeks. Enjoy your day.

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  4. Thank you for the offer of Alpaca Poo I would love some, I will ring you Monday.

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  5. Enjoy the show. As for jobs they never end do they!

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  6. Good grief! I'm exhausted just reading everything you've done today - a fantastically productive day all round! :)

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  7. Good Grief woman! Slow down, I'm worn out just reading. Have a lovely day at The Smallholders Show, I would love to get to it one day. I hope you come home with some new ideas or nice things

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  8. Crikey Dawn, I don't know how you do it, I'm shattered and my day has only involved sitting down at work.

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  9. Do you sit down much, another busy day for you.

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  10. What a busy day, one job leading to another and another, you certainly accomplished a lot of things. Always love reading your blog, it's so interesting

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  11. Well, you've more than earned your day off at the Smallholders'! Gosh, what a busy and productive day. There's always something to do when you have livestock.

    Looking forward to meeting you next Weds. Is 10 o'clock OK with you? I have brought back the looms but wait for it, they're in bits, so I will rely on your expertise to help reassemble them!

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  12. What a brilliant idea to charge the batteries 'in situ', I'll remember than one for future use :-)

    I really fancied going to the Smallholders Show, but we have too much going on here at the moment, and with LH only being here at weekend to oversee the building work we are having to stay put ..... cue lots of sulks!! I shall have to see about booking that lovely little cottage again for the right weekend next year :-)

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