Our New Life in the Country: Sunrise and Tractors

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Sunrise and Tractors

Absolutely gorgeous sunrise this morning, the camera didn't do it justice (as usual) but it's almost there. With the farm being literally in the middle of nowhere we have a huge expanse of sky and to see it change colour so dramatically just takes my breath away. A wonderful start to the day.

As the sky diffused with light everything came into subtle relief, including Lovely Hubby's John Deere tractor, now in the final stages of its transformation.

The new hydraulic system , designed for this tractor and adapted by LH himself and with parts designed by him and manufactured by some of his friends in the business is almost complete. The front arms go up and down and all it's accessories can now be used to help us with heavy lifting during our move.

One downside, in my opinion, while he was working on the tractor in our landlords barn with his tractor specialist last weekend he spotted a set of forks (like off a fork lift truck) and made an offer to our landlord for them.......somehow fittings for them have now appeared on my kitchen table ready for painting!

I must remind him, we have friends coming for Supper on Friday, they will not be used to balancing the salt and pepper and their side plates on tractor parts!!

A new post over on The How Low Can You Go Food Diary.

Sue xx

8 comments:

Karen17 January 2012 at 11:20
Lovely pictures of this morning Sue.
Karen
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Linda17 January 2012 at 11:55
Tractor parts on the kitchen table, love it. OH will too.

I like your world, alot.
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Dee17 January 2012 at 13:42
Hey, I think your sunrise picture turned out great. It's absolutely beautiful.
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Stocki17 January 2012 at 14:51
Awww beautiful sunrise... my hubby has a passion for tractors too! We have a rusty heap in the shed (don't tell him I called it that)..I must take a photo so that you can show your hubby...boys and their toys eh! :)x
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Unknown17 January 2012 at 20:44
That sunrise is gorgeous - what a dramatic photo!
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Unknown17 January 2012 at 22:12
Wow! That sunrise is amazing Sue!

Sft x
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Unknown9 June 2015 at 15:54
Beautiful picture of sunrise....but really fall in love with the tractor pic...as I'm a fan of antique tractors .... lol :)
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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