phase 1 of building
another beautiful sunny day at the farm.
here be one of the walnut trees in the corner of the orchard with the posts in place for the sons' treehouse.
today, made new concrete posts to keep bastards from turning over our verge and drive.
pulled up the carpet in our bedroom and skipped it.
cleared out another bale of plastic bags from room next to the chicken house.
god only knows what the poly propeleyne /polystyrene (small plastic balls) were used for back in the day but we've had to skip roughly 300 empty plastic sacks that have been in 'storage' for probably 20-30 years now.
found many more ratties.
had last night's lasagne for lunch by the (not open yet) pool but the sons decided not to eat it.
so they haven't had any lunch and haven't been allowed any snacks.
z is wailing 'i'm hungry' to which i answer in almost the exact same words my parents used to tell me: 'should have eaten your lunch then'.
hamilton is crying almost all day and all night.
as jezabelle and ruby have disappeared.
we THINK they've both gone to secret locations to sit on and later hatch eggs.
either that or the foxy-loxy has had them.
mrs.perou did see ruby make a brief appearance in the chicken yard apparently.
and i'm more knackered than yesterday.
but good manual labour knackered.