The past week

I finished my wall hanging project for my show and tell at the spinners and weavers group I belong to. I tweaked  this pattern adding more stitches and rows and a pair of ears. The only animal eyes i could find were 

€4,60, a tad expensive so I opted two black buttons. The frame was found at the recycle shop , material needs to be tweaked a bit to make it tighter but I am pretty pleased at the way he has turned out.

On the farm sadly disabled chicken passed away in her sleep, she was pretty old and had a free range life so a nice way to go in the end. Three of the cattle went down with foot rot, caused by a bacteria found in the soil which enters via a cut. Makeing their feet painful to walk on and swell so a course of two antibiotic injections for each has cleared it up. Being organic antibiotics is not what we normally use, the last being back in Dec 2012 so we are pretty lucky to have a healthy herd. To stop more cases they were moved to a new field and touch wood no more foot rot.

The piglets are now seven weeks old, eating cereal and munching weeds and apples.They can be seperated from mum at eight weeks but as Sandy has not lost any condition from feeding them they will probably stay with her until ten weeks.

Farmer J found a bargain, €30 for this tank. If it can be cleaned out it will hold water for the veggie patch.

Mushroom foraging lead to no ceps but rather a lot of trumpet de morte. I've dried lots in the dryer for winter in casseroles and soups. Chestnuts are beginning to fall, a job for next week to collect for the pigs which love chestnuts lots and lots.