Monthly Archives: April 2012

Since the rain had stopped and Keagan had met the girls, today was Baxter’s turn.Unlike Keagan, Baxter didn’t find the girls interesting at all, he totally ignored them, not even a glance at them.

After this he was then lucky enough to have a run in the common, stretching his arthritic legs in a nice run that makes him happy. Unlike his brother he’s not phased by the horses anymore as he’s run the common for as long as we’ve had him. (going on near 5yrs.)

Simon took a walk to the allotment and took Keagan with him, he did great on the walk there and Simon said he enjoyed it quite well. He met little humans with short legs, other dogs and HUGE dogs with long legs, (the horses in the common they needed to walk through). SO he gets to the allotment and meets the girls, he did very well and didn’t bark at the or even try to go after them, he put him nose tot he fence and sniffed them.

Simon took Keagan again and he was just as good with everything, including humans, dogs and the HUGE dogs again. But he went with us in the car once and when they went to the coop to put them away for the night he barked at the girls, this isn’t acceptable so it’ll be a little while until he is taken back to see the girls.

As you have seen we were able to get some nice bricks from the buildings being torn down next door. We now have then lining paths and such on the original half of the allotment. It makes the allotment look nice, and now we’re able to see what is where and the paths look better over-all. The potato plots and strawberry plots have four bricks on each corner to outline them, the rhubarb is fully in its own outline as are the onions and garlic.

The greenhouse has also been moved from the far end of the tubs to the front of the tubs right next to where we have our chairs and table. It’s nicer and almost safer there as it is fully tied down and everything has also been tie-wrapped together so the four shelf stack is wrapped to the other shelf for more security.

The carrots in the tubs are slowly growing but very drowned in water with all the rain we’ve been getting, so with their little tops coming up I can only hope that they continue to grow as I have the multi-coloured carrots in there and I’m excited about that and hoping that they grow and we get some purple, yellow and white carrots!

In the greenhouse I have corn started, melons, butternut and spaghetti squash, brussle sprouts and finally a mix of something! This is because the greenhouse took a tumble before and I saved what I could that was growing and put it all together in a crate. SO it could be more of the above or something completely different, but I can’t wait to see what it is in the end and can only hope it grow healthy once in the soil! You can tell I know more about the greenhouse because Simon puts a chair in there for me to do what’s needed, and the carrots are knee level for me to plant seeds, so I’m in control of those two things in the allotment.

And there was a beautiful day we spent the whole day there and both got a nice tan already, I’m darkly tanned and Simon in a light tan, even my fingers got tanned, all without the help of pre-tanning lotion. I just can’t wait for the rain to end so we can get out there more again, sit in the sun and just breath in clean air.

We are now getting two eggs a week, a near white one and our usual brown egg. This is great as we now are getting two eggs a day and they taste great especially as egg sandwiches!! We don’t know who our egg layer is, but it could be Purdy, Charlotte or Cluck-Cluck. Each day Simon needs to fight with Cluck-Cluck to get the eggs from their nesting boxes, she screams at him as if to say,’Leave the egg alone and nobody will get hurt!’ I find it rather comical but in fact it’s something you don’t want to happen, you don’t want a broody hen. So it’s going to be a hunt to figure out who’s laying the white egg. Give us time and we will figure it out sooner rather then later!