This morning our first job was to work with Pete to move sheep. About 50 in the barn (that we had moved from a field into the barn yesterday) needed to go to another field 4 miles away as they have all now lambed. Pete did say ideally they would be walked to the field both because it can be done in one go and would take 90 minutes or so to walk the four miles and then keeps all ewes and lambs together the whole time rather than several runs (four in the end) with a trailer with an element of splitting up ewes and lambs for a while if they end up captured in different runs but the lambs are still too little to walk that far really so we did it the trailer way. This meant chasing a trailer load into the trailer, driving to the field, releasing them and then driving back for more. They are pretty stubborn sheep ;).We did the lot in about 90 minutes and four runs though and all the lambs got reunited with ewes.
Next we dropped Pete off to collect his tractor and Ady drove the 4×4 and trailer back. That got us to coffee o’clock.
The rest of the day was more bitty really – there was pasty and pie making happening inside but it was a lovely day and the kitchen is pretty cramped so I stayed outside with Ady. We did some hosing down a very dusty and dirty (although brand new) toilet and sink ready to go in the camping field toilet which is being built, cleared various rubbish, rubble, weeds out of the way to make the area look nice, took down some fencing and dug out some rubble to make a place to lay waste pipes.
Lunch was pasties 🙂 fresh from the oven – veal or pork and apple. Dinner was omelettes using the fresh eggs the kids had collected during the day.
The rest of the week is shaping up to look interesting. Tomorrow Ady is off to a market while I do some sausage making and meat packing; Friday I am off to market while Ady helps get the camping field totally finished and Saturday we are going to different markets as they do two, then it’s Sunday and Monday off.
Am wondering if they have a stand at the SW Festival of Food & Drink in Exeter next weekend – if so see if you can get down on the Friday – we’re planning to be there that day and will buy a pasty from you for lunch!
Comment by Sarah — 21 April 2011 @ 6:11 pm