Wow, we’ve had some rain, streams running down the fields, the ford at the bottom of the lane huge and giant puddles on the road to Tiverton. I wouldn’t want to drive through those in the dark. The alpacas look terrible but seem perfectly OK. It is warm. Quite miraculous how an apparently filthy alpaca turns into a beautiful clean one with a couple of days of sunshine.
We have a gigantic branch from the very old ash tree down. It is balanced about six feet in the air on two of its minor branches. No way we can tackle that until the weather dries up. Still plenty of wood for 2015. The winter 2014 log pile is already looking very healthy out in the yard. As you know my log shed is my pride and joy although we are working through it now with the log burner in the office and the house.
Lots of indoor work for us as there are all the accounts to do, the UK Alpaca stock check to complete, a production plan for 2014 to sort out and Alpaca World magazine to write. Slightly more pressing is the campaign to replenish our marmalade supplies. We are out. But there were Seville oranges in the market yesterday and I bought the Co-op’s stash of preserving sugar so I am ready to go.