Daisy cutting

Following a tip-off from Markus earlier this week, Angie and I had planned to take the day off and drive over to the village of Burggen, about an hour from here. Every year they hold a "Rosstag" festival weekend including a parade of around 300 horses mainly pulling carts and carriages reflecting the role of the horse at the turn of the last century. "Ross" is the old south German, Austrian, Swiss word for horse. "Pferd" is the common word - "Gaul" is the word for a nag!

However, with the sun rising, my hopes of a day out were dashed by Angie's 10-minute sermon on all the jobs that needed to be done before the rain comes as forecasted for tomorrow.

So that was my day, more hen housework on the rear side. As evening came realised I hadn't taken a photo all day so quickly snapped the geese before they went to bed. Daisies (the white/yellow flowers) are called "Gänseblumchen" in German - geese flowers (diminutive).

Although the five geese knew each other it took them a week to sort out the pecking order. The original two with whom I was getting on very well with, have now cancelled that relationship and now follow the trumpet calls of the "bump on his head" chines goose leader. Plans are taking form to maybe do something on a larger scale next year. Could also mean two of the biggest grey geese will only enjoy the green grass for a couple of months!!!