...springtime....

...and the land needs attention...

...the top 2 fields are done, but the final one - the 'pony paddock', the one that gets the maximum hoof-fall needs some serious harrowing,  and this is the weekend to do it, because the grass is growing fast.

My neighbours land, Boob-tube Lisa's, was being farmed last night, through the night.  Tractors with their lights on working all night in the dark.  It reminded me that time - like land - can wait for no man.  I need to get out in the Landy at the weekend myself and see to my paddock, with Placebo playing to keep me in rhythm.

You'll see from the photos with Min modeling the deep hoof-shaped ruts, there's lots of hard divots from rampaging Trakehners - I will work this to the extreme, re-seed and make this a perfect surface for growing healthy grass.


As you can see Tom and Henry are very proud of their grazing.

.... Coco, get off my land!  

...spring is coming...

..the birds are singing, and the boys are happy x

The days are getting longer, and the grass is growing.  All change at WW.   I'm waiting for the land to dry out before I can keep Tom and Henry out 24/7, which is what they like. 

As you can see from the photos, my pasture is going to need a lot of work to get looking and growing beautifully again.

There's still lots of mud about for rolling fun, and the horses are enjoying every moment.  Tom is losing his winter coat now, and though I keep repeating a cautionary note to him and say it still might snow, he's having none of it!

Henry doesn't care either way, as you'd expect.

January news at WW

Tom&Henry ...

...and how they're not really interested in hedgerow planting until they can pull them out of the ground and run around the field with the plants, playing tug of war!!  True story, I often find the plants, root and all, with the bamboo cane and the rabbit proof tube far off in the fields....

January activity at WW has been mainly dedicated to planting more hedgerow: hawthorn, hornbeam, field maple and a few apple trees.  Tom and Henry are mostly disinterested, but they do like pulling the newly planted trees out of the ground and running about with them!

We had trees down in the storms, and a further cull of those likely to fall, so spaces in our boundary hedgerow gave me an opportunity to plant more trees.  Its hard work, but its all to improve the environment for Tom and Henry (they love to 'prune' the plants), and the wildlife too.

Here they watch as I load the wheelbarrow with the plants and equipment, did they offer to help?  I think you can guess the answer to that!