Hot, damned hot

Well it's been roasting hot the past few days, and still the hay is in the paddock... the contractor had a mower break down on him so that put him back a few days and now it looks like rain on Tuesday so I can't see it being cut before then. Had a wander around the paddock yesterday and there is still plenty of green in there so hopefully the rain will also do it good and who knows, this time next week we might be baling. Hope so....

Oscar and I went to a cross country practice day yesterday, with Ellie and Spyke, Sarah and Em and Rachel was riding Bert. All four boys were great, Oscar was very relaxed about it all (we've had hairier rides in the forest...) and did some lovely jumps. We only did the baby sized ones so he wasn't really jumping properly even but it was good to get him out on a course and have a play. We even went in and out of the water and he was doing this fairly happily on his own in the end. Got some pics too:

Grim determination over the world's tiniest jump

Jumped nicely after walking over this the first time and then did a lovely canter afterwards. That's Bert's butt in the background.

He was quite curious about splashing in the water in the end. That's Ellie and Spyke in the background.

I also have some video of us jumping, will attempt to edit that soon and put it up.

Vege garden going great guns, we've got zucchinis coming out our ears so have been freezing them. Lots of tomatoes coming on now too, and the peas are pretty much finished.

The pigs and cow will be back from the butcher this week so need to have a clear out of the freezer before then.

Not a lot of other news apart from it's hot, damned hot...

Today's weather (as at 5.3opm)
Humidity: 68.5%
Barometric pressure: 1003hP
Temperature: 28.5 degrees
Rainfall: Nil