The girls are settling into the new routine. Dolly is waiting for me at the channels' gate, with Daisy May hovering on her side of the fence. This morning I got them both out without getting my feet muddy :). Unfortunately, getting them back in means I have to get my feet muddy as I have to open the gate across the muck to guide Daisy May and not allow her to dash up the channel to join her heifer calf, Eleanor, so I hook the live gate to the cattle panel. Sometimes I can feel little shocks in the water in the channel.
When I took the girls back to the pasture the other day, Daisy May was licking the clay soil mound around one of the newly planted poats, so I went to Tractor Supply for 3 mineral salt blocks with selelium and 3 Rabon blocks, which I took out to the beasties tonight. When I drove home with them in Noddy, they were on the passenger seat as the back was full of dog food and groceries and the seatbelt alarm went off as there was 150lbs in the seat and the car thought it was a person sitting there, so I belted them in.
Gave one each to the horses, Parrot and Daisy May, one each in the channel for Dolly, Eleanor and Doofus, the 2 for the Scottish Highlands into the feed bunker, and then dropped a mineral block in for the sheep, together with a sheep formulated feed block. This makes me think I may need to look at minerals for the dogs and cats too. So nice to have the buggy back in working order.
Went and picked peaches with Jackie on Friday. They're still a little hard, so put the bushel in the basement where it's cooler to ripen. Haven't ever canned peaches before, but have read that they're a bugger to peel.
Picking a few little cucumbers nearly every day. Herbie loves them. Angie dropped off 4 huge tomatoes the other day. Thank you, Herbie adores home-grown produce and my tomatoes aren't ripe or ready for picking yet.
Looks as if we're going to get an apple harvest this year. Yummy, going to press a whole lot and make vinegar as I ran out and the bought stuff just isn't the same.
Watching the weather again so that I can cut and bale the 2nd half of the field to finish our the 3rd cutting. It poured this afternoon, and God willing, we get a fourth, and maybe even a fifth cutting, but the cold weather is creeping back in. Oh no, please not Autumn yet ! I still have so much to do. High of 74 today and it's currently down to 61 with a definite chill in the air.
Herbie is feeling much less pain. The anti-inflamatories from the Dr are really helping. He sleeps well, and although he's still twisted and bent, it's easier for him to move. Surprised him today :). Installed a new toilet seat on his loo, one of those soft plastic ones.