My heading is “a normal day”, though with Scotland being the hottest place in the U.K. that for a start does not make it a normal day.
Jan has started her annual task of painting all our sheds & gates with fence paint, beginning with the double gates. Takes her a while, mainly due to the changing weather & the fact that she normally ends up with more paint on herself than on the wood. I am not allowed to touch it, just removing & replacing any wire netting that is in her way, such as the gates on the driveway.
My task today was lifting the ferns that have run rampant throughout the garden, a few are attractive, but when they start growing out of the dry stone wall, they have to come out before it collapses the walls. Hard work, so this afternoon I had a break & went fishing on the village clubs lochan. Hard work in bright sunlight & a stiff breeze, managed one more for the freezer though. I have so many places within the National Park that I can fish as I belong to a total of 4 different clubs. But I can see the one I fished today from my house, but to get to it I have to go round the river so it’s about a mile, but well worth it.
Last night I looked out on the field in front of the house & saw a pair of hares. Grabbed my camera crept out in the field & got within 50 yards & snapped the attached shot.