. . . there's always plenty to do.
The brief misplaced spell of summer has been and gone, and the only reminder is the big stack of bales. But wind and rain (and there's been a lot of wind) don't keep farmers indoors. This week almost every animal at Strickley has been moved around. The cows have finished off the grass that was undersown the Triticale and are now in The Teapot Field. Groups of calves have been shuffled round and have new grass to graze. And we've sorted out the bulling heifers. The first group should be calving in summer and go into the herd (with a few to sell at the Penrith Sale) and the next group calving a bit later (with a batch for sale in the autumn).
School visits have stopped for now, but we're improving what we offer ready for next year. We're lucky having the wood and pond and have bought some picnic tables and benches for outdoor activities. There's also a pond dipping platform, which is ready to be lifted and lowered into place.
And whatever the weather, you're never more than a Click away from checking it out. We're now exporting the data to four different places.
The brief misplaced spell of summer has been and gone, and the only reminder is the big stack of bales. But wind and rain (and there's been a lot of wind) don't keep farmers indoors. This week almost every animal at Strickley has been moved around. The cows have finished off the grass that was undersown the Triticale and are now in The Teapot Field. Groups of calves have been shuffled round and have new grass to graze. And we've sorted out the bulling heifers. The first group should be calving in summer and go into the herd (with a few to sell at the Penrith Sale) and the next group calving a bit later (with a batch for sale in the autumn).
School visits have stopped for now, but we're improving what we offer ready for next year. We're lucky having the wood and pond and have bought some picnic tables and benches for outdoor activities. There's also a pond dipping platform, which is ready to be lifted and lowered into place.
And whatever the weather, you're never more than a Click away from checking it out. We're now exporting the data to four different places.
So, you can see all the latest details and historical analysis on put main weather page - updated every 15 minutes
Or read summary on the top of this Blog - updated every 10 minutes
Or see how we compare with the rest of the country on WOW - updated every 15 minutes
And we've joined Twitter. I've never really seen the point of telling the world the mundane details of your daily life, or reading other people' random thoughts. But partly as an exercise to see if I could, and to keep my brain active, I've set up our weather software to send a Tweet three or fours times a day (I'm still fine tuning the schedule). As each Tweet is limited to 140 characters, it's a slimmed down report. This is it's first day, so it's probably still a work in process. But if you're a Twitterer, you can "follow" us (StrickleyFarm) - but don't expect any non-weather Tweets.
2 comments:
I won't be following your weather on Twitter. How on earth can anyone say anything meaningful in 140 characters? It's following the news media, who seem only able to pick up on a story if it's in "sound-bites" (rather than bytes?). The weather, where you are or here in France, is far too complicated for such condensation - pun!
The touble is, I can't stop fiddling with the weather stuff, and have to keep trying something new. It was also prompted by New Hutton now having a Twitter account (though I'm not guilty of that). 140 characters is very challenging and the actual numer of characters used changes, depending on the words and numbers in the latest report.
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