Of Plums and Haystacks

Some harvests have crept up on us unawares this year.

(not radishes, obviously)

We were bemoaning our bumper crop of green tomatoes. Then this late warm spell has done the job.

We don’t remember much fruit blossom but suddenly the plum trees are weighed down

Our job today is to get them before the wasps bore into every one

Looks like we will have to make even more wine

Part of maintaining our meadow is to mow and remove all the grass at this time of year

We are currently without pigs, who used up a lot of the cut grass to soak up their mud.

Now that the ducks have two feet of grass to root around in we need to find somewhere else to put it

We did, kind of accidently in the recent hot spell, make some hay which went to the rabbits. We should try harder next year.

Meanwhile we have decided to make a giant pile

and see who takes advantage of this new habitat

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