The turf is all home. There is comfort is having a shed full of fuel as we approach the winter. This will heat our cottage, provide hot water and do much of our cooking over the next six months.
The children had been busy yesterday helping me collect mushrooms after school.
The fields are full of them. I made and am still making large amounts of mushroom and courgette soup for freezing.
We have lots of courgette and maturing pumpkins in the veg garden.
The piglets are very cute and hardy now. They get out of their yard through the gate and ramble around the field and garden exploring until Sally sow calls them back with her grunts.
They are great fun to watch. Soon they will have grown too big to fit through and escape.
The children are back at school and I'm back at work part time. Our home has became hectic is the mornings and quite during the day. Life is moving on!
The cow has dropped milk production as is expected for this time of year. In the next 4-6 wks she will come in off the land and stay in her cow yard for the winter. At Christmas we will dry her off. She is due her calf in March.
The bees are doing well and are flying everyday now. The ivy and heather is starting here and they are bringing in loads of pollen to build up for winter.
I will have less time to update the blog but I will update it :-)
