Hi
Am feeling pretty smug at the moment! My plan has worked out perfectly for our 2010 grass cutting strategy. First cut in the warm dry weather at the the end of June produced 90 bales of cow rocket fuel. Then we sat back and watched the ‘standard’ farmers struggle with the wet weather of July and August where the rain came too frequently to make good stuff.
All of a sudden the rain clouds disappeared last week and high pressure provided us with the time we needed to cut our new growth – just as I predicted. Today this is being baled and stored along with the other 90 bales and hey presto, there you go!
Visitors to Scotland, now is the time to visit (or wait until next May). The autumn colours are just beginning to show and the weather at the moment is glorious. Granted the nights are getting darker appreciably earlier – around 9pm at the moment, and the early morning frosts have started already, but for the next six weeks the countryside will be studded with gold, red and yellow as the leaves turn.
September today and I am so pleased! The children have returned to school and normal service is resuming, so its back to my Spanish class next week and bliss, oh bliss Latin group starts again!
Have been in Warwick since last Thursday and yesterday I attended a Webinar given by two chaps somewhere in the US all about using Facebook and other Internet sites to reach out to the global market – not that my two books and our B&B are going to make us millionaires but it sure is fun trying. Tomorrow I am going to start on our new website which should be up and running soon to give us at least a fighting chance, although, for me, marketing is very much secondary to ‘meeting’ new people.
I love this new world where I can do these things – its given me a whole new interest and I have some good friends now met through these sites, mostly in the States but also in India, Australia and other faraway places.
The first of the new batch of calves should be appearing soon – another autumnal joy!
Take care,
Lxx