Tuesday 25 August 2015

Late start to Harvest, so been a busy bee...






The above pics are of the dawn of another fine summers day,  but i don`t think we have had one days weather the same as the next for a few weeks now!,  not a lot of rain has fallen but it has come down a hell of a quick, last Saturday evenings thunderstorm was quite spectacular,
It has greened up the hill at work, but slowed the main harvest getting started,  a local Agronomist i know said this years harvest is 2 weeks later than usual.  Not enough sunshine apparently...

Some pics yesterday  show a typical August sky of late...








Had last weekend off from cycling as needing a rest,  third weekend on in a row at work, and although only a couple of hours then home for the rest of the day, 5am alarm calls start to catch up,  and running an 18 hole Golf Course and Driving range with only two staff for the last 5 weeks as we have all took summer holidays has been hard going for the three of us... Then there is also the machinery, some of it is on its knees now and daily breakdowns are time consuming and moral sucking...but the wages keep coming in so keep on grinding...



Still life goes on and soon it will be September, my favourite month scenically in East Lothian...
The local Deer cannot wait and are jumping with joy... :)


Not so the Moles that are active after the recent rain.  This SAS Special Ops Mole took a week and 9 traps to catch!...  57 this year caught...



Still working on the house and all painted now, floors now lined with plywood and waiting on Vinyl flooring, i want it all done before winter, depending on what happens i may sell up next year...

Pumpkin Pugsley`s wheels were laced up at the weekend...





And Man-Cave floor repainted...


A break one evening and a visit to a neighbours garage,  social cave activity here out in the sticks...





And finally yesterday evening after a dry windy day the Combines are out!, harvest has started already with Winter Barley, now Spring Barley and Oilseed Rape. Had a lovely couple of hours cycle out on the Surly KramPug soaking up the warm evening air, harvest gold scenery, and sunset...

















Then home to sit in the garden, enjoy a cider before turning in...



More soon...

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