it isn't because nothing has been happening....
far from it!
We've just been preoccupied with other things...
trying to recover the potager...
keep on top of the mowing...
fat chance of the latter, but the potager is now looking a lot better...
but the soil is still almost unworkable.
When there has been a break in the interminable rain, we've been out in the garden....
and, as a result, getting behind on everything.
There also haven't been the opportunities to take many photos...
other than flooded fields and meadows, grey skies...
and rain.
At one point, we even recommenced feeding the birds...
Then, the meadow...
well, only the side nearest the house can be mown with the ride-on...
the other half, towards the river will have to have the attention of Betsy in the first instance... once I can safely get her onto there without damaging the meadow soil, the machine or myself.
I mowed a very large area with Betsy...
to use for the cucurbit "maggot" and to clear a hunting area near the owl box...
I managed to get some off before the rains came...
but the rest, all the loosest stuff anyway, is somewhere near Nantes!!
That which remains, muddy as it is, is still in a very shallow pond!!
I have managed to get to.... paddle to in reality...
the owl box camera trap... and there has been plenty of activity...
but, as I have no idea of how to get a video onto "Blodgja" that is visible on all platforms...and not just Windows, you'll have to put up with stills!
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| This is Madame... at 5pm one afternoon... having some rest and recuperation... and, probably some fresh air... the stink in there must be awful!! |
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| And this is M'sieur... around 10pm the following evening... he's brought a nice fat vole for Madame and the sprogs... it is either in his right claw... or on the platform... in the video that followed, you could see him pick it up... in his beak, before entering the box. |
