Well Hello There Fellow Hivers!

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It's Wednesday Mah Dudes!

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I've grown quite fond of these walks, it has a way off clearing out your mind and usually when I do the walks I can sort of have a mid week recap of whats going on.

Now this week started off, terrible to say the least but I'll be trying to see some positives in it, no better way to bring some light into your life. I took some photos after the incident we had on the farm on Monday afternoon.

Let me start off by saying I've a lot to be gratefull for.

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For those of you who have seen this before knows the story but for those that don't...

Monday afternoon we had a fire raging on the farm and that in it self isn't good news, especially when you have animals on the farm and those animals are dependent on the land to survive, well most of the lands were burned down. Not all of it but most of it, but at-least we still have some grazing pastures left and to top it off we didn't lose a single animal. It was still a terrifying thing to have experienced.

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After we managed to extinguish the fires one might think that the worst is over, well the worst really was over but the work wasn't done yet. All across the farm there were these spots that still burned and smoldered. Now for fear of the wind picking up slightly and sending a few embers into the air and having them land on a unburned patch of field, well let's just say we didn't want that to happen now did we.

Myself, my brother in law and my uncle went on the hunt for all these little spots where the horsedung was still very much in a smoldering state.

Most of these were very noticeable and really stood out so we dealt with the biggest of them first, like this pole caught up in the wires still burning away slowly. That's a hazard of-course.

The horsedung was the most, there were hundreds of them still burning away and it was hard at first to spot them but as soon as the sun dropped a little bit and the wind stopped blowing they stood out nicely.

I didn't think to get a photo of all the dung leaving smoke trails behind, it would have been a great depiction of what I meant but that's gone now.

It actually had some beauty in it, even though the whole situation was terrible. Literally everyone I know would crap on my head for this but The Aftermath was actually very beautifull, especially with the smoke trails on the farm.

Yes I know how this might sound. 🤣

The thing that really boggles my mind is that some places where the fire went over there are untouched grass.

Like in this photo, it's very obvious that the flames went over this spot because the dung is burning still and in my mind the dung would take longer to light up than dried out grass, or am I wrong?

By the time the sun set we managed to clear out most of the spots that still burned but we still had some left none the less.

Ironically we unintentionally walked all around the farm in a circle like route so for us to go back home we had to cross over where all of the spots were still smoldering and if we did that at the end we would be at home.

It really wasn't that bad at all, it was a little tiring to say the least but it wasn't bad. I had good company and a great view considering what happened a few hours earlier.

What made my day, if anything was able to make my day after such an event was that I only really noticed the insane amount of wild animals that we had on the farm, more bucks than we knew and a wider variety of birds than we first thought there were.

That's always great isn't it?

This was certainly a sight that gave me a lot of joy!

We still had our tortoise! We've received about four over the last three years where people "donated" them to us, I don't really want to use that word because it wasn't donated it was given to us so that they can have a stretch of land to tread on without the fear of cars running over them.

Well we've always wondered what happened to them as we don't cage them in, we just let them roam free. Tortoises are unique, they tend to go back to where they were born or where they were taken from, no matter how many miles away it might be. So the fact that we still had one left here was amazing to me!

No, the rest didn't burn in the fires, we walked over every inch of burned field and we didn't even find a rat that got burned up. Amazing right!

Well, here's to the Good Old Tortoise that made it through the worst of the worst and unharmed as well!

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Dated 05/07/2023

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