Another really good weekend. Yesterday we planted the last poplar poles, and started building 2mx2m "compounds" for each of the silver birch, plane and oak trees (so as to stop the goats destroying them). With each tree needing 4 holes (to about 800mm deep), and another 5 holes for the poplars, that's alot of dirt needing moving, about 35 lineal metres! Armed with such a daunting number we hired a post hole borer, and got up really early so that we would have lots of time to do them as we had friends coming around at 2. Amazingly enough we had all the holes dug in less than an hour. There is a good side to having so much rain, but then there is always a down side, most of the holes filled with water by the time we went to ram them. Oh well, a job for another day. The posts are in the holes all ready, just keeping our fingers crossed for a few more days/weeks of pleasant weather (ie spring, albeit just past mid winter at the moment).
After giving up with the post ramming, I decided to finish (well start) the post and rail fence behind the water tanks which I started last september (see http://littlebush.blogspot.com/2005/09/sunday-day-of-rest-yeah-right.html), I don't think it's too bad, a post and rail fence inside a year!
And today, we moved the sheep from one neighbours place, to the others (I say we, I should really say Rex (the local farmer) did it with his dog, ours today were useless. The only other thing of note today was that I did a bit of pruning in the paddocks with the chainsaw, just removing low branches so I don't get hit in the head whilst driving around on the tractor.
Anyway, that's enough for today.. Next weekend we'll hopefully ram a few posts and have more photos of more lambs. Also this week coming I think Hollywood should drop her babies, so fingers crossed.
Enjoy the photos.
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