Mum is hedge cutting and I think she should come with a health warning. She\u2019s using one of those hedge trimmers on a long pole and I really don\u2019t think she looks safe. The sheep are keeping well away from the fence on their side and we are keeping our distance on ours. We have a lot of hedges so it\u2019s going to take her a while. She got tired of holding onto the cutter after only a short stretch of hedge, but I guess she\u2019s got all winter to work her way round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been ranking all the apples according to sweetness. It\u2019s fair to say I\u2019ve got quite a discerning palette where apples are concerned. In a morning, I race out to my favourite tree to see if any apples have come down overnight. It\u2019s more important to me than going for a pee. I can do that bit once I\u2019ve bagged my apples. I would hate Ari to get to the good ones first. Mum caught him trying to take the one beautiful looking apple of a small young tree. Oh boy was he in trouble. Given he\u2019s already eaten the pears that Dad was looking forward to, I\u2019m guessing he\u2019d be very unpopular if he had that apple as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scarecrow plans are coming together. I have to say, it\u2019s not so much about the finer points of the theme and making the scarecrow look good. Mum is still at the very formative stage of working out what materials she has available to use. She is gathering the pieces together ready to start the building work during the week. She says she has a reasonable idea how some of it is going to work, but I\u2019ve looked at what she has collected and I\u2019m not convinced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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