I should have been working on our manuscript, but instead I built a fence, fed the cattle, and celebrated father's day.
 2. cherries (taken in May)  3.  4.  5. Blanche and Ant feeding the calves. You have to put your hand in their mouth to slow down their drinking or the milk shoots past the first stomach. Ant's fingers were all cuts.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10. Garden tour  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17. The roses were spectacular  18.  19. The pond was in good shape.  20.  21. The gazebo, which needed a fence around the back so the rabbits and sheep could not get into the garden.  22.  23.  24. Thousands of stinging nettles had to be removed.  25. Tineke's garden, named for Con's sister.  26.  27. Onyx  28. Back to work on the gazebo fence.  29. Setting a fence post with the tomper.  30. We poured water into a hole to soften the dirt, but when I used the tomper to sink the post, it exploded with mud.  31.  32. Father's Day drinks at Julian and Liza's with Rupert and Blanche  33.  34. Four fathers (Rupert, Julian, Tony (brothers) and Bill)  35. Ellie (3rd from left), Julian & Liza's daughter, joined us.  36.  37. Back to work!  38. Finished!  39.  40. The "rambling rector" rose  41. Simon, Bill, Tony  42. Two year olds in the Six Acres pasture  43.  44. Soay sheep in the orchard  |