I was Mrs Post Office this morning as Jinty is off for a few days. On the way down the hill I discovered a dead chick – mysteriously without a ring which is very odd as we ringed all we had released… It had blood in it’s beak and when Ady investigated further it was quite bruised so appeared to have been squashed. Nothing had eaten it so we suspect probably our geese of treading on it, hopefully in a non deliberate way but they have been known to kill things by ganging up. We’ll keep an eye on things but the birds generally seem to be shaking down ok together and establishing pecking orders between the species and the old and young. Hopefully this was a single casualty.
Post Office was pretty quiet – Neil and Dougal came for a bit, Ross called in, Ali popped by for a chat. A few tourists were around too. Ady came down to bring some laundry, take some stuff to the freezer, collect some other stuff and walk back with me. While he was with me Fliss, Ian and Kim called by for various shopping. I finished up Post Office and we came home for lunch.
This afternoon’s job was finishing the final panels on the fence which we did, but inevitably took a little longer than expected. We debated and considered various options for the door which is now the weak point in terms of preventing birds and deer getting in and think we have sorted it but it got late and midgey so we abandoned it for today at about 630pm. It had been really breezy all afternoon but suddenly the wind dropped and it was midge hell. I am still itchy now.
I made dinner, Ady rang Chris, we watched Lost. I had another bash at connecting a new printer we have bought for making labels and posters but it’s one of these clever ones with a higher IQ than mine so I messed about for about half an hour which is my limit for things I don’t understand or have sufficient interest in to try and learn before packing it up for another day. Life is too short to get frustrated with things I can’t do. Ian has offered to help so I will have one more go, maybe tomorrow, and then take him up on his offer.
A student came up to the croft earlier, she is doing her dissertation on Rum and some sort of mapping project. She asked if she could come back up to ask some questions so we agreed on 11am tomorrow. Thursdays are a bit of a dead day really with the Sheerwater boat trip right in the middle of the day so that should not be too much of a drain on our time. Tomorrow after the Sheerwater, midges allowing, we should get the gate on the veg cage. I have been looking at stuff we can still sow this late in the season and am feeling very excited about growing stuff again now I know it is safe from the deer and our birds as I have lost too much crops to them this year and lost heart rather.
I spent some time down there weeding today and clearing up, it’s going to look great once it’s all done.