I'll certainly be pleased once all these wretched wheat fields are finished. It's boring, boring, boring. It's very disappointing to be losing grass fields and swapping them for this arable rubbish. I mean it's absolutely useless for feeding sheep on, and there's HOURS spent in tractors just going up and down, up and down. Still – only rolling left now and we can leave them be and get on with some proper work.
Skye's really enjoying watching the crops being planted – Daisy told her that less grass means less sheep and now they're both telling me that at this rate I'll be retired soon as well as Skye (who is still working on the resignation letter she and Daisy started last month). I haven't got the heart to tell them we've got more grass lined up for planting in spring! Ho, ho, ho – just wait till they see that, then we'll see about retirement (might even get some extra sheep if we're lucky)
Anyway, it looks like some of the cattle are ready to come in so we'll be spending some of the weekend getting the shed ready for them. They grumble a lot about the cold at night (can't say I blame them) and we're feeding them in the field now as well so they may as well be in.
More importantly, the ewes have been moved into grassy fields now ahead of the tups being sent out so I expect we'll be bringing them in soon to give them the once over. Good, good, something to look forward to...
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