May Is Passing Quickly

May is passing quickly. Rain storms, rainbows and now the heat. Soon all the green grass will dry up and the hiss of summer will be upon us.The fields around us have been cut and turned into silage in those white plastic balls. One field is even being ploughed again!

My lovely friend, and father to two of my children, died. He was very ill and it was surely a relief for him to go, but it was so sad to say good bye. We picked lots of flowers from the hedgerows for his journey.

I finally have chickens! I ordered them from the builder's merchant, of course. Four little chooks. They are probably about a month old or less. They are timid. Bonnie is very curious and goes to look through the netted door every now and then. I have bought some 1'5m netting for the fence which I will put round the hen house. They are fine staying inside for a few days. It's very comfy with wood shavings on the floor and straw in the nesting box, which they nest in.

The garden is doing what they do in May... go berserk. I have peas, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, leeks, beans, beetroot, onions, broccoli, strawberries (not enough of them). The fruit trees are coming along nicely, too. It looks like there will be lots of apples and pears.

The earthen floor up by the windmill is drying VERY slowly. It has cracked but that's alright. I have started to rub it and burnish it and if the cracks persist I will fill them with a different coloured clay just for fun.

Here is a bunch of lentil bushes drying. Nearly ready to thresh them. (Good word 'thresh'.)

 I have waited seven years for this strelitzia to flower! Bird of Paradise flower. Isn't nature amazing?

The guinea pigs have gone wild. They have moved into the huge rose bush and love to hang out under the bench to eat tit-bits that I give them. I am thinking I may get a male one and see what nature does.... I love having them around.

And so life goes on for some of us.