Skip to main content

The week just gone

 The chickens have been laying an abundance of eggs, changing there laying spots to keep us on our toes.
 In the middle to haymaking the weather changed unexpected it caught out a lot of farmers, a short heavy shower put farmer J back a day needing to re turn the grass to dry it out.
 Not as much hay has been produced this year unlike last but as we still have 19 big bales leftover we will have enough even covering a couple of months should the cows need feeding earlier this year or later into the spring.

 The veggie patch is looking weed free (more or less), I am enjoying my time caring for it catching a few hours here and there although this week has been a tad hot for me.

I'm impressed with the shallots and onions I planted not so of the Jerusalem artichokes that have reappeared, and I thought I had removed all those tubers.


The first home produced meal  of summer. lettuce and herbs for a salad, new potatoes, rainbow chard and french beans went with a rib of beef, with berries for a summer pudding. A belated Fathers day meal as Miss F wasn't around last weekend in Toulouse preparing for her last exam, she now has a masters in Art. Five years in french schooling she managed to conquer the language followed by five years at University she is now ready for the real world. Well done Miss F, we are proud parents.


 On the hottest day, Saturday farmer J decided to clean the hanger out of cow poo. It was needed to be done before this years bales are put away. With a lot of the moving being done by the tractor the difficult to get to bits of edges and corners had to be done by hand, literally as it was easier to pic it up than use a fork, It was very hot sweaty work as me and miss F helped. Now its emptied the rest of the hanger needs to be tidied to make way for the bales of hay to be stored.

I made a batch of cherries soaking in sugar and alcohol. In the supermarkets here a special alcohol for steeping fruit in can be brought cheaply, not to be drunk neat its a bit disgusting in the past we've made eau du vie which is also good, especially with prunes.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Happy cattle

For five months the cattle have been eating hay twice a day but today was their time to go back to pasture, they were more than ready. With two loads in the trailer going to La Contie the rest, the naughty but nice ones stayed at La Singlarie. Calves are on green grass for the first time following the herds around. Now for Spring time jobs to get started - so much free time for farmer J. Fencing, tidying around the farm, getting machines ready for hay cutting, getting the gites gardens ready for Summer and a new bathroom to fit, his feet won't be touching the ground.
1 comment
Read more

Rabbit proof fence

In the hope of not loosing anymore greenery in the veggie patch today was spent today taking down an old fence which was put up around eight years ago. As it had a few holes in it this could be where  the rabbits are getting through. On the other side of the fence a chicken run was constructed were table chickens grew to a really good weight until we got a batch that had been, what we think were contagious with Mareks disease. Subsequently we stopped using it for chickens putting a litter of pigs in the area to get them use to electric fencing (which they did). It has been left empty for around 18months now with Gorgon and the girls have made break trough's through it last year gaining access into the veggie patch but now there's a lot of weeds. On the other side of the veggie patch is another old holey fence which has now got the recycled one that was taken down put in front of it, new posts and a trench dug to lower the wire in, earthed up and stones put on top
Post a Comment
Read more

Parisot lake

As it is a holiday today here in France (Bastille Day) we took the afternoon off an popped over to Parisot lake for a walk with Sorrel. It has all changed, since the lake was emptied and cleaned up this year you can now swim in it, as well as inflatable toys to play on, a life guard, bikes to hire, a new fenced in play area for small people and a total spruce up. But there is a price we were charged! 3 euros an adult, which I guess is OK if you are using the facilities but Sorrel didn't fancy a dip. The cafe is still open but that would of been too much for Sorrel to cope with being so close to people and music so we opted for a bench to sit on in the shade before walking around the lake. Sorrel opted for being Billy no mates and laying by herself, if be it for a short period of time before bikes and people went by. We are now waiting for the free firework celebrations over the chateau tonight - if we can stay up that late.😃
4 comments
Read more