Bird of prey

The rain came during the night and stayed all early morning. When it stopped I dashed off to the agricultural equipment dealer in Ottobeuren to order some simple spare parts for Saturday's acquisition. Simple nuts and bolts but complicated for me to know all the different sizes Cat. 1  or 2 and loads of technical things I don't understand.

Then a walk around the towns forest with the dogs. On the way home stopped at the supermarket to pick up essentials. See the shelves are now full of all the Christmas cakes, chocolates etc! On the way home the heavens opened and seemed to put an end to my planned outing with the (cabriolet) tractor to farmer Franz. Luckily after about two hours it stopped, I dressed up in layers of clothes and woolly hat and set off. By the time I got to the farm, the sun came out and it even felt warm. Markus had already done the welding so he and Franz then sledgehammered my bent front loader hitch back in to shape so that I could fit the bucket again, essential if the new acquisition is to work.

Watched Markus taking a silage feed probe for a laboratory test to find out the quality. Means drilling out a sample of the entire 2-meter depth as it is made up of various layers of possibly different quality.. Flying above Markus is a large bird of prey - a plastic one which is hanging on the end of a long fibreglass pole and flies around as soon as there is a bit of wind - a modern-day scarecrow. The crows can take a liking to picking and scratching at the plastic silage covering .any holes cause rotting so important to keep them away even if the plastic is also covered by nets.

Finally followed by Franz who had the new acquisition on the back of his Deutz, we went to our place where Franz detached the item. Thanks, Franz and Markus for a great job.

Angie home late after doing her sport/spine workout. Her first day back at work after a weeks holiday. Seems the railways have got the repair work done so no delays and with the border restrictions in place, Munich station was relatively quiet but still parts closed off and manned by voluntary helpers for the few hundred that manage to get this far. At the weekend it was some 12,000 in 24 hours in Munich.