Symmetry

The countdown begins! And the scrounge for money too...

We bought our tickets to Europe this past week. One entire month devoted to the ol' continent I've hear about so much through my life. Lets see how it goes! As a student my finances have never really been over 3 figures (that is the hundreds in the savings account, not hundred thousands) so I admit this is gonna take some motivation to accrue any wealth in the next 2 and a bit months but we'll see how we go!

This weekend my other half and I devoted a day to beginning to fix my parents fence in preparation for two Dorpers, names already picked, Peggy and Pearl. Since I've left home (me and my animal influence) mum has actually begun to shine as the next animal caregiver. I guess with dad working full time and the last child left at home finishing her studies, mum has lost her role of cleaning up after the rest of us.

So anyway, we have so far strained 4 wires on a length of only about 60m of fence that cattle demolished in the last couple of years. Luckily my horse was happy to stay close to the house and lost his desire to jump fences, otherwise he'd easily have been lost.

The wires haven't come out very well so just imagine beautifully straight, strained wires.

It is only about 60m BUT look at the slope. Not the easiest to run wires up and down. It was actually pretty fun (as fun as fencing can be). We worked well together and saw a visible result at the end of the few hours we worked at it. Next weekend we'll get on to finishing it with the netting and probably only a top line of barb (in the UK it seems barb is generally shied away from but if you're next door neighbours consists of a thousand odd acres with a wild herd of cattle roaming about I'm not gonna risk my stock losses by only having plain wire and netting on it).

We did of course have our trusty helpful hounds with us.

I'm not your typical 20 something. My great weekend consists of spending time fencing to save for a big trip with my other half treading on dogs getting under my feet.

Oh and I forgot to mention locking Dingbat up AGAIN because her metabolism is just too slow. The poor girl, though it would help if she joined in with the games the other two play, galloping around the paddocks.

Once my battery gets close to running out I'll be off to move them back to the big paddock again because where they are now is close to running out of water. It's not been a good year for rain. It looks green but there's very little water around. With one of my other jobs (spraying weeds) our regular water holes where we fill up are dropping a little bit more every time, some smaller ones dried up completely. This is a sign that even the springs are doing it tough.

Here's hoping for some heavy downpours in the future. If/when we move out of town it might be worth considering buying a good big tank to hook up just in case we get any overwhelming showers over winter to safeguard for next summer.

I guess at least hay is fairly cheap at the moment....but for how long...