A surprisingly cool summer - so far. A fair amount of rain and all, which has meant some extra mowing as everything is growing at an impressive rate. Lots of flowers as well as weeds so lots of butterflies too.
Along with keeping the wilderness in check, a bit, we’ve continued doing things to make the place more des-res. First up was an actual gate on the entrance to our water mine 
Hopefully it will keep any lost ungulates from committing suicide in our drinking water...Most of what we've been up to have been things that have languished unfulfilled on our to-do lists for (ahem) a while. A useful, if not beautiful addition was a hatch in the fence behind the log store - 
OK, a bit of a trashy effort, but it works and will make lugging wood into the store a bit smoother than either lugging all around the back yard or poking it through the roof - necessitating the temporary removal of a few tiles...
The cool mornings are ideal for walking Scraps and Bugs down to the Lake, nicely still full due to the ongoing rains. Bugsy enjoys herding schools of fry and swimming while Scraps argues with things like tree roots (well it might be a deadly eel, eh?
And here at the end of the month we woke up to discover that our solar water heating storage tank has, um, problems. This is bound to get expensive, watch this space…
