GOODBYE TWO EWES.

This August Bank Holiday weekend was intended to be a break from sorting out things here. Dafad here just needed some purely personal time out from sorting out. Well the best laid plans and all that, things didn't quite work out that way but more on that another day.

The last few mornings have started off with clinging damp mist before the heat of the day.

Yesterday was the last morning that "the under gardeners" were to spend here and oddly enough they seemed to sense it as they were both very clingy and following me about.

Now, I know we should not anthropomorphise, but they indeed seemed to sense that something was different and were definitely acting differently from how they have been over the last week. I too felt rather sad to see them go but they had done their work.

The main apple orchard was looking wonderful, the trees neatly trimmed to "ewe head height" the grass looking suitably neatly manicured to sheep nibbling length and the apple trees had all their lower branches munched to ewe head height, so that the mower can easily pass beneath. The veg garden was looking well munched apart from the sturdier plants  and as for the dividing hedge well that had been well and truly thinned out at ewe level height so that one could actually see the wood bar the leaves and as I found out today, tidying underneath the overgrown hedge was one helluva lot easier. The did a tedious job (to me at least) which has been very neatly done. Bless them both!

I shall miss them eating all the fallen apples, a job I will once again have to do myself but at least they can go to feed my friends pigs, sweetening that future pork with ciderness.

Meanwhile in the last of the late flowers the bees and butterflies were busy gathering too.

All too soon so it seems, this lovely garden is reaching its peak of productivity, but at least as August reaches its close, the garden will be looking much better thanks to two ewes!!