Geoff and l have been doing a bit of work recently on the strip of land in between us and the Rivulet. It's all Crack Willow which grows and cracks and falls...grows, cracks and falls. The result is the Rivulet becomes a swamp with no real direction as it weaves its way amongst the fallen trees. Beautiful but ghastly stuff! Part of this area is in fact ours but over time the trees have encroached to such a point that the original fence lines have been pushed back to keep stock out of the mud and the land gets lost. We can't do a great deal, but we try to restrict any new growth and clean up the dead stuff that rots and falls on the ground. We have helpers too of course............
And the dogs although Lilli would rather not walk!!!
The goats love it and immediately get stuck into the sweet bark on some fallen Willow saplings
And time for a frolic!
This is in fact what we think is our original boundary post. Lost in the swamps! Toggles does her bit to eat the blackberries off it!
We have cleared a lot but it's now getting too damp to make anything burn...
Toggles displaying her usual love of fire!
Much better......
We can peep out and see the house now!
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