Looking at todays' weather forecast, it seems I may be able to start cutting hay on Thursday. So cut Thursday, rake Friday, leave Saturday, rake Sunday, rake Monday morning and start baling Monday afternoon. Finish putting them up on Tuesday.
Have a sneaky suspicion that both Dolly and Daisy May are pregnant. Gabriel, our Scottish Highland bull was pacing when she was in heat August 18, and twice I had to let her out of the Scottish Highlands' pastures after he'd (or maybe Doofus) broke the wire attachments to the posts bringing the lines down. If she comes back into heat tomorrow then not, but from her milk production, either Doofus has found the low back teat, or she's preggers. I'll have to wait and see, as I can't do anything about it. If Dolly is pregnant, it's with Gabriel, and I then hope for a boy calf for future meat. But so much for planning Daisy Mays' getting preggers 3 months before Dolly. I originally planned on Dolly getting preggers first, but with Doofus drinking more of her milk production I had to separate Eleanor from Daisy May, and don't have enough pasture to have 4 different lots. 3 is pushing it and I have to supplement hay in 4 different places - the horses need their own lot separate from the cows, otherwise they keep the cows from eating. Doofus was in with the Scottish Highlands this morning when I went to get the girls for milking. Took him 5 days to find a new place to walk through. I didn't go check on the fencing, just the lights on the box, and all the greens were lit so it's not bleeding off much electricity anywhere, meaning that there may be a section of wire on the ground, but not enough to stop it working. I can't say effectiveness, as with him walking through whenever he feels like it, it's not effective.
I'm still running a temperature, so being fairly sluggish on the farm, but this may also be due to the heat and humidity. Whenever I come back inside from doing the smallest of chores, my shirt is drenched and I'm panting. But, I can walk on even surfaces without limping, and the red squiggle up the side of my foot isn't getting larger, although it is still visible. Outside, I catch the side of my foot sometimes, so I'm careful. Still 6 days worth of anti-biotics to take, but I did get to go barefoot today. Would have lost my shoes for sure in the channel trying to head Daisy May off. So much easier to hose off dirty feet than fall over in the muck because your feet are stuck, and then losing them and having to feel around trying to retrieve them, getting your feet muddy in any case, plus having socks to try and clean.
It's so humid that I'm cleaning mould off the seals on the fridges every 3rd day ! The milking parlour has it's fair share on the plastic racks, and I soak the vacuum hose from the milker in bleach every week. It's also amazing how much dew there is. Even walking across the garden at 11 am there was enough to make my trousers' bottoms wet.