This was the scene at the farm on Tuesday...perfect you might think...except this field is our hay field...we are nearly at the end of August and our hay is still standing in the field waiting to be cut...not good news! With the jet stream having been sat over the South West of the UK for the whole of the summer, every other day we've had rain...which is a nightmare if you are trying to make hay. In July the local rainfall total was 4 inches! We need at least 3 or 4 days of fine weather and no rain to cut, turn and bale the crop successfully...and unfortunately the weather forecast until the end of August is not in our favour. This is the first time that we are looking into September for an opportunity...so please keep your fingers crossed because although we have some hay left over from last year in the barn, it isn't enough to feed the ponies into next year...and if we don't make it we'll have to buy some in.
On top of this, this week we had news that the two day Christmas event we were booked into has been cancelled - this was going to be a big fundraiser for us and we can't afford to miss out...we owe huge thanks to Thea and Lesley for coming to our rescue! Thea has managed to arrange for us to have a stall at the Wellington School Christmas Fair at the end of November...and Lesley was able to arrange for us to have a table at the Mind, Body and Spirit Fair in Honiton next weekend. The organisers of both events have offered us free pitches - thank you so much everyone, we really appreciate it!
Margaret's been making lots of jam sales this week and has also kindly donated a couple of haynets for the ponies. Ryan, Laura and Anne have all donated apples for the ponies. Archie did a good job of helping Margaret with all the pony chores on Wednesday.
Arthur's coming along so well with his ridden work...here's a little video from today that Jenny filmed for us...
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