Autumn morning

It was so lovely this morning that I rewarded myself for finalising my accounts (October mini-goal, tick!) with some garden play time with my furred and feathered friends. The cats were sunbathing on the top of the wood store, the chickens were digging through fallen leaves, the dog was making sure everything smelled ok in the garden & the field next door and I started cutting up some logs for the stove.

It wasn’t long though before I had visitors in the woodstore. Fluffy bummed visitors.

Saw horse, I HAVE CONQUERED YOU.

But as soon as she’d surveyed one level, she craved more exploration….

That part of the woodstore doesn’t have a roof and it’s under a thick holly tree, so I had visions of her jumping up and scampering through the branches — and me getting very scratched trying to get her back out again. So I lured her & the others to the other side of the patio, to do a little weeding for me while I got on with cutting some kindling.

I left them under the watchful eye of Carla-cat (who had relocated from the woodstore to another equally sunny spot away from the noise/dust) …

But they didn’t respect her authoritah and were soon off exploring again. Blue didn’t think much to John’s coop – too few perches, not enough nest boxes – but did poo on the window sill to leave her mark.

They also explored the greenhouse and were rather excited to find a few dropped tomatoes:

I do hope we get a few more of these sunny and fresh mornings before muggy winter kicks in :)

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