Typing this in the paddock that's been ploughed for grain. The old boy is going around with the tractor and seeder. Every so often Michael and I top it up with grain. Exciting it is not.
Today got off to a slow start: it was freezing (as in, 0°C) overnight and every time I poked my head out from under the covers there was a powerful incentive to poke it right back again!
In addition to getting the seeder underway this morning we changed the feed-molasses drum.
I put a bucketful out to the cattle with the salt and Minavit from last week. They e been loving up on it all day since!
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Later
Sorry for the delay finishing this: battery died. We finished with sowing grain just after the sun went below the horizon and headed in as the air temperature began to fall.
Quiet evening: a warm fire and dinner were both welcome. I finally saw The Third Man tonight, on DVD. I think maybe I missed the point. All these years I've heard it described as one of the greatest films ever made, but to me it seemed like a fairly unremarkable thriller - competently enough made, to be sure, but not really memorable. Maybe I was put off by the zither music, which I found so overused as to be downright annoying.
Have some work lined up for tomorrow with The Gardener. Thank heavens for a chance to feel like a proper working man again!
More tomorrow.
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