Catching the sun

I often think that one of the things myself and the chickens have in common is our love of sitting in the sun and being able to find a patch of sun to sit in.

The girls will find a patch of sun whether it is on a particular perch, the ladder, or on the ground. Wherever that patch of sun is they will move to it and sit there.

I love to sit on our patio, facing the chicken run and facing the sun, reading a good book. Recently we have been lucky to have some sunny days coinciding with half term which means a quiet week for us as there are never so many lunch bookings during holiday time.

At this time of year the sun disappears from the patio between five o’clock and half past five as it is then shaded by the trees but since we have had our new path I have discovered  that the corner of the path still gets the sun until seven o’clock. There is just enough space for one chair.

At six o’clock my husband brings me a glass of wine. I said that the sloping path wasn’t a safe place to put down a glass of wine. He came up with a solution. The redundant cowl from our chimney was on the veg plot as we had planted a chilli plant in it last year. My husband has now re-purposed it, once more, as somewhere to put my wine glass. Bliss!

Patio area

It’s six o’clock and only a little dappled sunlight is left on here. You may notice that one of the chairs is missing.

End of the day sun spot

This is my perfect spot to catch the end of the day sun. I face my chair to the sun if I want to sit  facing the sun or I turn my chair sideways like this to sit with my back to the sun. This way I get an even amount of sun all over.

This also means that on sunny days when we are busy I can still catch the last hour of sun that I would otherwise have missed from the patio. I just love this little corner in the end of the day sun.