RoseCat (& Mobifolks) -
Apologies for the delay in the next instalment, but the Iveragh was graced with one final week & 1/2 of summerish weather before the rains and gales of Winter begin. And don't quit until next March. So I've been busier than a one-armed wallpaper hanger on his very own pogo stick . . .
For those of you with interest in the pleasantries and elegance of The Rural Life - or
"close to the Dirt, even closer to the Bone, and right over the Edge" as I like to put it, here follows most of what has been keeping me jumping . . .
Harvest and store carrots, onions, beets, spuds, squash etc.
Clean up outside garden for winter; top off cold compost pile.
Plant winter veg in Polytunnel for "the hungry gap".
Clean chimneys and gutters.
Spade South side flower beds & plant spring bulbs.
Dig out head of kitchen drain sump & redo drystone curbing.
Build and install new door to cowshed.
Build and install cribbing in cowshed for peat storage. Load the next year's worth of peat.
Clean, check, weatherise well pump switchgear.
Move and rewire overhead lights in barn.
Build larger workbench in barn.
Plant Hydrangea hedge along driveway.
Plus a list of five-and-dime stuff as long as my arm . . .
And the concrete block for finishing up the root cellar is being delivered tomorrow morning.
The above is in no way an excuse, but a comment on the reasons you can expect me to disappear for periods of time from the Internet map (thus Mobi).
Comes with the territory (and I wouldn't have it any other way!).
R'gds,
John