Tasty

Countryside is yellow, my bees are flying like mad trying to get as much pollen and nectar home before all the farmers get out and start shaving the countryside. As most will know, I am a general supporter of the farming community but do question the turbo cow/food/silage mentality, particularly in the current overproduction scenario and unacceptably low milk price. Meadows are mowed as soon as the grass is a few inches high and put in to silage bunkers or in our area, dried in the nearby grass drying factory, being turned in to grass pellets. Hay is the exception. In a few weeks after the fruit tree blossom (of which there is little here) there is very little in the way of flowers for bees.

Today decided to do an OAP walk and allow 30 year old Asyr to enjoy a bit of a walk and a few well earned dandelions. His 31st birthday is in June. I am posting this two days later and events may mean he doesn't make it! However today, he was his normal overkeen self. He dragged me through the forest and eventually one has to give up and let him walk freely. He knows that after the foest section, he gets out on to open fields and can overdose on still lush fresh grass and dandelions. There is no chance of him galloping off! OAP Flash (13 in August), OAP me (62 in September) have no chance of catching him and Luna couldn't care, she would join him for the fun of it.

As we got home and near the stables, a deer jumped out of the vegetable garden! Luckily nothing planted yet!

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