I felt so much better last week that I was actually able to do some hard work for many hours on the farm. We were making silage (wrapped grass) and I had to use a digger to level off a large area to stack them one day. Then we baled the silage and I used a JCB telehandler and tractor driven wrapper to wrap and stack the bales. Good fun for the first three hours, then it gets you back. When the sun came out properly just before sunset we were still at it, by which time I had to wear a mask for the dust and my silly hat with 50 block sun protection flaps. But that was no problem.
A couple of weeks ago the hat again came in handy when we showed sheep at the Devon County Show. We were pleased to win champion in our class, and be judged by Adam Henson. (last year I was too ill to show)
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| I am on the right with the champion sheep called Apollo. My friend Susana is with Hilary's top ewe, which was reserve champion. A close contest. Both are rare primitive horned sheep called Manx Loaghtan. |
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| Adam chatting before he judged our group |
We also celebrated the Jubilee at varous local events.
We both feel that we are much better at coping if we do as much as we can, without over doing it.
