Silage

Yesterdays silage start has now forced every tractor out on to the roads and fields. I hope not too many of my bees have fallen victim to the mower blades. I had planned to do a beehive inspection, mainly to make sure any chance of swarming is prevented. Hot weather is the best time to do this as so many are out flying and even the lazy drones, use the midday hours to take a casual flight just in case a young queen has taken the opportunity for her  virgin and sole flight of her lifetime.

However all sorts of other tasks needed to be done around the garden and will try to catch up on the bees in the next dy or two - the weather is supposed to remain like this though the east wind that was around yesterday will be back soon. The wing though is a godsend for the farmers as it is also very dry, unlike the west wind from the UK Atlantic.

Just before 5:00pm dashed over to the compost unit with a trailer full of garden waste and took the opportunity to buy a kilo of organic, UK made, Cheddar cheese. Also did my weekly Alps check for Pep in the UK, battling with Myeloma. She had been forced back in to hospital last week just a day or two after her week stay for a transplant. However got the news today that she was back home, the fever she had got had been stopped with antibiotics. So good news and the Alps showed their joy. The top left photo is a small farmer with his small grass loader.

Then popped in to the DIY in Ottobeuren to get Angie some sanding sheets. She has been attacking the wood framed terrace construction and had run out of sand paper. The other vtwo photos taken just outside Ottobeuren. The bottom left shows the Basillica in the background. Same field but from the opposite side -a field of grass being collected by a contractor with his large equipment. The field is the one marked on the map.

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