I was woken way earlier than I had planned to be up this morning thanks to Bonnie barking. Scarlett had let her out and she’d chased some deer off the croft but then chose to stand shouting about it for about half an hour. Scarlett and Ady were already up – Davies and I were up soon after thanks to Bonnie. Grr!
We all breakfasted and then went out together to feed the animals and check on the geese. The kids spent plenty of time cuddling them and handling them, our plan is to do lots of that to try and minimise any aggressive goose behaviour. At the moment they are still quite downy and very cute so easy to bond with. We turned off Mrs Chicken from the huge clutch of eggs she was sat on and returned just the marked four eggs – two weeks from now we could have chicks 🙂
Back at home we looked at the weather forecast and decided to get stuff done requiring the car the croft side of the river then take it back to the other side so collected all dirty washing and the power pack and dropped the washing off at the castle for a wash, took the power pack to the boat shed at the pier to charge up and collect tomorrow, put some stuff in the post for the morning and had a chat with Ranger Ranger Mike. Then back to the castle to collect the washing and have a chat with Ross and Alison before coming home for lunch and to hang the washing out. Scarlett and Bonnie came with us, Davies stayed behind making stuff for this weeks craft fayre.
We didn’t manage lunch as Ady and I then put a depth gauge in the river (since removed again) and Sandy, Joss and Meggie came up so we had cups of tea and chats with them for an hour then a later lunch. Ady did some strimming and the kids and I did some jewellry making. Then Ady came back and he and I sat down and thrashed out plans of action for the next few months, sorted some prioritising and targets and have some researching to do to get our crofting grant application form completed. That was a job well done and overdue so I feel good about that :). I made some bread and Ady went to drop the car off to the other side of the river.
Rachel arrived, having loosely arranged to do so on facebook on Friday night, armed with cider and snacks so we had a good old catch up while Sika (shared dog between her and Marcel, Neil & Lesley) enjoyed playing with Bonnie.
Rachel left and we had a lovely roast chicken dinner – so nice to have enough space and oven capacity to make a full roast dinner once a week or so, things we missed in Willow :).
Tomorrow sees most of the current off islanders returning home – Vikki, Fliss, Jinty. Midgefest meeting and veg box night. It’s just another Rumic Monday 🙂
Liking the Rumic Monday. That’s gonna stick around in my head until I fall asleep!
Comment by Michelle — 29 July 2012 @ 10:43 pm
ooh, chicks in 2 weeks… excellent 😀
Comment by Barbara — 01 August 2012 @ 9:30 pm