So much to do!!!!

I don’t know whether I am coming or going sometimes. There is so much to do and only me to do it without exhausting myself and paying for it later! So as we have had such weird changes in weather lately it is impossible to plan ahead. I have been taking each day as it comes. When it is cloudy I can work outside and when the sun is shining I can sort things inside.

Sounds perfect until you realise you had planned to do a lot outside and can’t. For some unknown reason I keep doing this which means when I do get the right weather to work outside I go crazy and end up exhausting myself.

So these past few weeks I have managed to get another fence panel up - bearing in mind these panels are three and a half meters long and nearly two meters high. Ok so luckily they do not weigh much but they are very bendy when you pick them up. Unfortunately when I took them out of the barn and put them alongside the house at the end where the fencing was I did not think at all about them being upside down. Having managed to put one up - upside down - I then realised. So now before I can even think about moving the panels into line for the fencing I must first turn it upside down - this is not very easy and in all honesty I don’t know how I did it but I did and will add a picture of it as it stands, fixed on one side and being held up on the other side by the tree ready for the next panel.

I have also managed, thanks to my farmer friend Javier who cleared the edges of my fields, to transplant my squash and melon plants, although to be honest I do not know which is which at the moment. Time will tell. I put them into large buckets and set them up on top of the cardboard and grass cuttings alongside my fencing - picture added. I really had nowhere else to put them as they use an incredible amount of room to grow and they were totally unexpected as they came up from what I thought were complete failures - thrown back into the compost - when I tried to sow them twice before. So funny from nothing growing to suddenly having over fifteen plants coming out of nowhere. So I am not expecting the unexpected, which is also why I do not know if they are melons or squash lol,!!

Oh nearly forgot I put plastic sheeting to get rid of the grass around the back of the two barns to allow for better access - I have put pictures of before and after - the plastic is four metres wide and I think I went along about ten meters - did not measure but it was not easy, especially covering all the edges with grass cuttings and the middle with twigs I had taken from my plane and sycamore trees earlier in the year. All in all quite exhausting work really, ha! ha! - but so much fun and satisfaction when it is done. Love it.