We've hardly been at the farm all year due to many and varied obstacles. Hopefully it will be different next year. We've decided that we need to get a caravan as the tent has turned out to be less suitable than we thought. I don't know where the caravan is going to materialise from but the goal is to have one by this time next year.
I have some photos to post from our last trip but I don't have the gadget to get them from the camera to the computer so I'll bung em up later on.
Right, so it's now later on and I have the photos available. They were taken on 15th November and they really show what happens when the we don't get up there often enough. Everything is overgrown and the thistles that Ray so diligently slaughtered have all come back again.
We expected as much but also expected to be able to knock them down every year, which hasn't happened this year. Thus the cycle begins again. These thistles will flower, set seed and bingo, another seed bank to contend with over the next 10 years. As the saying goes, "life happens"..
Ray slashed the grass down from around the fruit trees and into the pen a little bit, but didn't have time to do the whole pen.
We weeded around the base of the trees, gave them a good drink and mulched them heavily. We've not been back since then to water them but there has been some rain around Armstrong lately so hopefully they will be ok.
We plan to head up there this weekend (27-28 Dec) so I'll update again shortly.
Merry Christmas to all, and a wonderful and peaceful 2009 for all of us!
