POLKADoT Farm

The life of a bale...

We have only 1 field left to bale into hay...so its been a busy couple of days!! We have also been making silage. There is so much hard work that goes into making silage, even after it has been cut and baled. It has to be brought from the fields in the large 6 bale spike, then a contractor wraps it in film to help the grass ferment into silage. It then has to be neatly stacked, until it is opened in the winter for feeding!!

Another wee thing I must note is my window boxes this year. I have filled them simply with begonias. They have never looked so fresh, healthy and colourful. I am really chuffed with them, so I will definitely be using them again!

Barby in the Hay Field

 
We are getting on with the hay which is great. We took a bbq down to the hay field tonight which was a nice change. Why does food always taste better when you eat it outdoors!?! Baby D has been getting very involved as well. I have been driving a tractor with him 'papoosed' round me, and he has also been paying lots of visits to the fields with Daddy's lunch!

My pretty pretty dasies

It's so lovely when the sun shines brightly, and livingston dasies open up their pretty little faces! I love the colours that they come in, they bring lots of happiness to the garden!

This burst of sunshine has also meant we have started to get on with the rest of the hay & silage. We have cut the hay, and tonight, we had a contractor in wrapping the silage bales. SO its all go!!

Rain rain go away

 

This photo was taken a month ago, when the weather was wonderful. It's sickening to see how the weather has suddenly changed, and on a farming front, we are wishing for dry sunny days so we can finish the hay. Unfortunately we just cut the head riggs of the field in June, as we were expecting dry weather to follow, but this has not been the case! Fingers crossed we get a good few dry windy days very soon before the crop of grass is ruined, and the quality of it drops!

 

Once all the hay is done, we're hopefully off on our hols down to Galloway for a few days before the start of harvest...its all go go go!

Raspberries galore!

Tis the season of raspberries! I am so delighted with how my rasp plants have performed this year.They are full of the little juicy jewels! This evening I made a delicious meringue roulade with them!There is nothing quite like the taste of home grown fruit! This little man was quite taken with them too!

It has been ages since I have blogged. I keep thinking..oh I must take a picture of this, and go and blog about it...but as you can see, its been over a month. My time has been mostly baby baby, though I have managed to paint a few jugs, and exhibit at a wee gallery, and fit in nice cups of tea and cake with friends. I have started another blog. This blog is for me more than anyone. It is called 'babies and wellyboots'. It is a diary of my days, weeks, months with baby D, and a way of logging all his developments and little adventures next to the hundreds of pictures that I take! I am still going to keep this blog going too!