MONDAY THE 28TH OF SEPTEMBER
A cold , dry day and ideal for the main jobs of the day trialing in Shelbourne park and Kilkenny. We need fish so that will have to be collected. We have a delivery of red mills racer on its way. We have loads of supplies to order. We will change a few beds and give the place a tidy up and later today we will update the dog for sale page.
TUESDAY THE 29TH OF SEPTEMBER
As we are doing the journal at 10am we have a storm on its way we are feeding all hounds early in preparation for the bad weather. I had another search for meat and tripe off our suppliers as its very short in Ireland and if I can get any I will head straight for it. I need windscreen in a 222 van so we are waiting for auto glass coming out, we need all our waste away and bits and pieces from the vet.
WEDNESDAY THE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER
A wet morning but I think it will fare up. We had a storm overnight and a tree fell down onto the gallop so we will have to cut it up and repair the damage. We are getting a bit of meat today of our supplies which is badly needed but the shortage won’t last much longer as the weather is getting colder. We have a bit of swapping around to do with pups , saplings and we also have a mother and pups to put into the big rearing sheds.
THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER:
We are doing Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sundays journals on Saturday afternoon. You always know when were busy as the journal is the first thing we neglect. On Thursday I got the oppertunity to get chicken and factory tripe so I headed stright over to get that. It was top quality and it was badly needed with the shortage of meat. We got a delivery from Red Mills. Our load of paper is now put back to Tuesday as the Liverpool ferry is full which created more problems as I had to go to Kerry on Friday to borrow 20 bales of paper from a friend. We hunted and galloped hounds which took all day.
FRIDAY 2ND OCTOBER:
We got our waste away and we needed food for pups so that had to be collected from the supermarket. I had to drive to Kerry to get 20 bales of paper so we could get the beds changed. The weather was terrible with the weather and rain. It took an hour and a half to get through Adare on the way down and two hours to get through Adare again on the way back. It was a nightmare of a day. We couldnt do anything with hounds outside as the rain was so bad. It was a day for getting them fed so they could all return to their houses. On a positive note Swift Vicki who lives in the house with me and is 15 years plus old and has never been eating as well.
SATURDAY 3RD OCTOBER:
Its been a nice day but it has been cool. We got more meat this morning so that had to be collected. I had to get a service kit for the 2022 van so thats off to the mechanic for the service. We got all the beds in all the kennels changed. I have muzzles to collect this afternoon. Weve also had all the hounds checked in preparation for schooling next week.
SUNDAY 4TH OCTOBER:
I havent put the open race runners and winners on this week. If I get a chance I’ll do it Sunday afternoon. We’ll do all the paperwork, tidy the website up and hopefully get the beds changed in the garden paddocks.