Today

Not a great day for any sort of farming today, I just get going on an outside job and down comes the rain, sideways! Living on top of a hill has its advantages (views, wonderful, more than 12 miles in some directions over the Boyne valley) but the wind! While I waited in the barn for one shower to stop the turkey 'daddy of them all' (or possibly 'daddy of most of them', we wait to see who was actually the daddy of the two surprises), just stuck it out in the middle of the yard. He was probably right since it takes him so long to toddle anywhere (unless helped by the puppy) that the rain has stopped by the time he gets there. I have to make and take some special, favourite food for all the chicks down to them in their various apartments. Apart from the ones in the pic there are 11 peachicks with 2 mothers (safe in a big stable, the chicks are so small) and 5 hen chicks (safe in another stable with their mother, one of our fancy hens that wander the yard). This very special food is scrambled eggs, they go mad for it and it is very good for them.

There was to be a trip down the Boyne today from the Old Mill (just at the bottom of my road, by the Stackallen bridge) down to the Newgrange visitor centre. However, it has been cancelled because the river is too low. The water must be all stuck up on my hill.

When I venture out shortly I am going to photograph what must be our fastest running ewe, her lambs were born 7 days ago, 10 weeks after all the other ewes had had theirs! I also have to call to the visitor centre at Tara to see how book sales are going.
Fiona