Sun. 25th Nov. ’18
Posted on 25/11/2018 by under
Welcome to autumn…..well ok,that was about three weeks ago, most have fallen off now, such a shame as it looks stunning. We seem to have lost a few windows under there somewhere……thought it was getting a bit dark indoors!
So how are we keeping then? all good I hope, I’m still hobbling about, back on two crutches mostly as things are not improving…….we’ll get it sorted eventually I expect……patience needed…huh!
All’s been fairly quiet here at ‘funny farm’, everyone has been moved into different fields as we have a bit of grass again following the little bit of rain we had, mind you there’s no water in the pond at front of house yet and that is usually filling up by now……shows how dry we still are.
The girls having a chase in their new field.
Our neighbour Tony lent his digger to other neighbour Michelle who then came along and dug us a nice little trench around the bergerie in Park field that often floods when we have heavy rain, took them all of about an hour and a bit to dig out,put in a pipe and backfill it…….job done!
Now just need some more rain to see if it works and keeps the water out, it’s gotta help though…..please!
At same time the memsahib and I are slowly digging out by hand the floor inside as it has raised about 150 mm(6 inches) during the last few years with the compacted deep litter from each winter and even short arse me has to duck to walk about inside some of it now to avoid banging my head! It’s quite a comical routine for me trying to work this, I started balancing with one crutch and trying to swing a pickaxe with the other arm to dig out bits at a time but kept getting in a muddle co-ordinating the swing,missing hitting the crutch or my foot but usually dug out the bit I was standing on,loose my balance as that crumbled away and drop both crutch and pickaxe whilst flailing around trying not to fall over! Got it worked out now, ditch the crutches,they just get in the way, stand braced,legs apart and gently (gently?!) nibble back a foot at a time with pickaxe, use pick as crutch to step one pace sideways,repeat procedure until reach wall, shovel up rubbish into wheel barrow to clear for next row ……….err, Question, have you tried wheeling a wheelbarrow when you are on crutches?…..I’ll leave that one with you, all ideas greatfully received ’cause I’ve not worked out that one yet!
Still in the bergerie area we’ve been making a few more gates to tidy up the back yard…….
……..well, I think they are quite good, and they do tidy the place up a bit!
Sorry, that’s it for now, short one this time, will catch up again soon, promise.