{"id":165304,"date":"2025-03-31T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/is-this-the-start-of-spring\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T01:35:09","slug":"is-this-the-start-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=165304","title":{"rendered":"Is this the start of Spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-77358\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>It was a beautiful Spring day.\u00a0 You could almost hear everyone breathe a huge sigh of relief while they watched the back of winter start to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I have mostly been concentrating my efforts on the electric fence, which the sheep are determined to ignore or destroy \u2013 they\u2019ve discovered that the inner field to the track is full of lush grass.\u00a0 They have no respect for my carefully built fence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77368\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And this is the ponies\u2019 ration of \u201cgrass\u201d (and I use that term in its briefest sense) for the following week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77367\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And yet everyone seems to be managing perfectly well on less-than-nothing.\u00a0 How is that even possible?\u00a0 The old ladies are long since lost interest in their diet and live in another field during day light hours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77366\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And this is Stourbrough Hill that towers behind my croft \u2013 173 metres high and an ancient place.\u00a0 A group of Neolithic stone \u2018knives\u2019 (4000 \u2013 2500 BC) all measuring about 15 by 10 cm, were found on the surface of peat (now in the Shetland Museum). I find that fascinating and remain ever hopeful we might find something lying around!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77365\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Our garden is full of daffodils and my heart is lifted by seeing the beginning of all the colour that will follow.\u00a0 It has been such a long and difficult winter, you have no idea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77364\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the boys came in for their haynet at 3 p.m. (which was really 4 as the clocks went forward last night).\u00a0 I thought it would be a battle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77362\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But the mud is the same as ever and I am pathetically hopeful it will start to dry over the next week and keep going\u2026. away.\u00a0 Is this it?\u00a0 Is this the beginning of Spring?\u00a0 Yes, please.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77361\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-47143706-77358-67e9f14d9b822\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=47143706&amp;post_id=77358&amp;origin=myshetland.co.uk&amp;obj_id=47143706-77358-67e9f14d9b822\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-47143706-77358-67e9f14d9b822\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/category\/myshetland\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MyShetland<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/is-this-the-start-of-spring\/\" title=\"5:56 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-03-30T17:56:39+01:00\">March 30, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/author\/francestaylor\/\" title=\"View all posts by Frances\" rel=\"author\">Frances<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful Spring day.\u00a0 You could almost hear everyone breathe a huge sigh of relief while they watched the back of winter start to leave. 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