Entries from October 2008

October 28, 2008

Feeling down?

Then find a sunny autumn day with blue skies and go outside and clear some land.

Even if it didn’t need clearing Well, I don’t have that problem – mine certainly does, and clearing it is the best tonic in the world.
The weekend was a washout:

in which I only managed to shift one [...]

October 25, 2008

Deep bed 2

– plus me! Posing on my fork.
( I did do some work too I promise you, while Lyddie was busy with the camera..)

Actually, quite a LOT of work, when you consider that plot was completely overgrown just 2 days ago. Now it’s clear of couch grass roots and everything, [...]

October 21, 2008

One – nearly – shedded shed

We spent the day shifting much of the remains of the top shed from the field yesterday, since the boys had pulled it down a few weeks ago. Here are some pics of the day:

October 19, 2008

It’s a beautiful tree

– and actually, the more things take shape, the more I realise its importance. I think that little willow tree is going to form the centre point for the expanse of green grass that will eventually (by next springtime I hope!) cover the first third of our field and surround the first two buildings. [...]

October 7, 2008

Not much news, but a lot of pics

We’ve been plodding along, slowly shifting the pieces of collapsed shed and working on the vegetable beds – clearing them and emptying the compost bins onto them in time for spring. The latest grass seed around the willow tree isn’t sprouting – I think we might have sown that lot just too late in the [...]