Wandering the farm this morning

I havent managed a walk around the paddocks for a while but it was cool this morning and I had walking shoes on! I need them these days. Mother pea hen and her one remaining chick was looking to see what nice things they could find in the orchard. Then I wandered around the ponies, still some in the close paddocks, inquisitive foals, a stallion and some of his mares, these were all the Welsh Mountains. A rather nice Welsh Section B filly foal and one of the dead trees. Product of a combination of drought and the cows. People always say it is the horses that ring bark trees but here it is more likely to be the dairy cattle. Wretched things we have to be so careful not to put them in the paddocks for too long when they are looking for roughage. These trees are getting on a bit but what really didnt help was the succession of bad years with no rain for periods of months, not weeks. It has been such a pleasure this year to so far have mostly mild days and a bit of rain, not enough as spring was so dry but the lower temperatures have been wonderful. I am back in now trying to do some repairs on clothes, trying a bit of hand stitching to see how much longer Johns yukata will survive. Warmer weather is due by the end of the week.