Sorry for yesterdays post, Ive read it back today and it was a little on the downbeat side wasnt it... It doesnt really reflect how I was feeling, I was I suppose, a little fed up with the weather , and that came through in my posting.
Things are not all doom and gloom, although our money situation is a bit tricky at the moment, we are still hanging in there... we've plenty of food growing in the garden, I just keep popping stuff in everywhere, I have a 'no bare earth' plan for this year....luckily I had loads of seeds and stuff so its cost me almost nothing...
It costs us very little to actually live... we have enough put by to pay the electricity bill that came the other day, we still have a lot of food stores, water is free, it just mmeans we wont be able to go anywhere as fuel is our major expense, so if this isnt updated for a while you'll all know why... but we manage, we always do...
We have two helpXers coming for 12 days the end of this month and more planned, so lots of work to be done... luckily again it costs us next to nothing to feed a few extra ...
On the up side...
We have a new family near us.... one we dont tell the neighbours about... a small family of deer, Rik saw them earlier in the year and now we've seen then a few more times, a male, female and a young one... beautiful... we have a wooded valley at the bottom of our land with a stream , they seem to have made that their base, they move around but seem to come back reguarly...
We are off collecting wood again, the stove is insatiable. even at this time of the year...
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