Sunday, quite a sharp night. Breath still puffing in the air at 9am.
The bull has moved on from chasing Annie, hopefully she is now pregnant. I put a note in the diary to watch her for heat in three weeks.
Mainly housework, vacuumed, tidied and mopped the upper floor. Four loads of washing. Caught up on emails. Had a nap, haven't had enough naps lately.
Jaffa's group found an unlatched gate and let themselves into the hay shed. Thankfully I fed the chooks about ten minutes later and was able to evict them before they did too much damage.
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Monday, an even sharper night. The frost was still all over the paddocks down in the valley at 10am, despite being in full sun. There was still frost in the shade in the barnyard after lunch.
Picked up the paperwork from the accountant, fueled up the car, bought builders lime and linseed oil to make lime wash for the fruit trees, picked up maize and barley from Stronach, filled a couple of scripts at the chemist, picked up yoghurt and salads, and dropped my car off at the mechanic at Branxholm.
Popped in to the post office to ask about the advertised job. They have minimum hours of 2pm to 5pm Tues, Wed and Thurs and 8.45am to 5.06 (??) pm Friday, with more hours possible filling in for leave. I need to tweak my resume.
The latest batch of Temu bits and pieced arrived and I charged and installed all the lights into the corner cupboard. They stick to magnets on the underside of the shelf above, are rechargeable and motion activated so they go on when I open the door. Really pleased with those. Also got a wireless charger for my phone, this slows down the wear and tear on the charging port, which is non repairable.
Geoff put a motion sensor spotlight pair up on the wall near the back door, lighting up the driveway. This will be handy for night time knock offs and visitors instead of tripping over dogs in the dark. I want one in the back yard too, to hang washing out by.
Most of the calves are well and truly old enough to wean, I have just been leaving them with their mum to try and keep the cow's weight down. But now the calving dates are approaching and cows need a dry period to refurbish the udder and build colostrum. So Freya, Zippy, Moose, Joey and Star are all in the barnyard with Flora, who is retired from breeding so can't be in with the bull, and will be the aunty. They will all get pellets along with their hay.
Everyone else is now out in the main paddock with the bull and will be on silage, as the larger group can eat a silage bale before it goes off. The sheep are out there as well, enjoying the opportunity to laze on the slopes in the sun.
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