Making Hay while the sun shines.....

....and boy has the sun been shining these past two weeks. Simply fabulous to have warm summer evenings, followed by bright sunny mornings. Sheep and lambs continue to thrive and as you can see, our two pet lambs have remained as friendly as ever. They were weaned off the bottle mid June, but still like to come and say hello if ever we are in the fields - be it to let us sit on them or just to get a lick of an ice lolly! Here's Ella to demonstrate with Jeremy Nom Nom;

And all this sunshine means the grass has been growing like crazy,  so we have made hay to be used next winter- it's all in the planning you know! Neighbouring friends and farmers came to our two fields on Monday to cut, Tuesday was turning time, Wednesday it was all swished into rows in time for the baler to come along, scoop it up and push out the lovely string tied small bales - easy to handle and perfect for our small Shetland flock.

The only down side was walking up and down the steep fields in the heat of the sun - but nothing that another ice lolly all to myself couldn't cure!