Sheep rodeo

Saturday 19th September: Warm and sunny. We spent the whole day working hard at the new house. Steve set up some electric wires and used Peter with a scoop of sheep nuts (see photo) to lure the sheep and goat into a fenced area to drench them and clean up the sheep's backends. The next hour was entertaining. It all started well with the sheep and lamb being caught and blue drenching stuff squirted into their mouths. Steve then managed to catch Mummy Sheep and sit astride her while he combed her clean. During this time the lamb escaped three times - once under the fence, once under the gate, and once OVER the fence. On each occasion he dashed over to the security of the goat, who acts as his aunty. Of course the goat had escaped first and was merrily munching any and all grass she came across, with us shouting and waving our arms to try to guide her back into the right paddock. We certainly would have been an entertaining sight for anyone watching! The end result was Mummy Sheep: drenched and clean; Lamb Chops: drenched; Giddy Goat: not drenched but having a great time!
After lunch I did some more work on my veggie patch and put in potatoes, yams and garlic. All them were growing in my larder so it seemed a good idea to put them in soil and see what happens.
Just as we were preparing to leave we heard our neighbour driving his sit-on mower cutting grass the other side of our fence, about 50m from our house. Unbelievably, a stone was flipped up from under his mower, zipped across and smashed a window in our house! Lucky it didn't hit one of the children, really. We even found the stone in the broken glass to prove it! He had a spare pane of glass and has taken it to a glazier to have it fitted this week.