What else?

As well as bonding with the horse and cow and curing the sheepskin we have also mowed the lawn - would you believe this is the 2nd mowing of the year already - you can see how much it has grown in the past couple of weeks.

We have cut and partially put together the remaining 6 raised beds - to be finished next week

Poppy has finally come out of heat. Her training is proceeding, she is getting used to the horse and the cow and remains her normal energetic self.

The sheep and lambs all seem to be doing well. The great white wooly whale STILL hasn't had any lambs. We still expect she will, but occasionally worry there is something wrong with her rather than pregnancy as it seems to be dragging on so long!

Sambuca is getting in to spring by slaughtering pretty birds, a shame but she gets more rodents than birds.

The chicken eggs are still in the incubator. They are due to hatch in under a week. We will see!

We moved the Col's flock and Haiona from the orchard where the grass was starting to get a bit tired in to an enclosure in the unfenced area that will eventually also be orchard. The first enclosure has wire stock fencing and the new enclosure was the electric mesh fencing. Haiona obviously hadn't met this before and busted out before we had the power turned on (the sheep keep clear of the fence even if it isn't on for a while) so we had some jolly fun rounding her up again. It was a bit easier than when she escaped on the first day with us because she knows us now and knows she likes the food we are offering. However we messed up getting her back through the fence and she made a run for it again. In the end she broke back in just as she had got out by ploughing through the fence. We quickly powered it up and there hasn't been a repeat incident.