I have been hand milking Charlotte for the past ten days and we have been doing OK for a pair of hand milking newbies. Actually the milking is the easy part – its a) getting her into the yard and then b) getting her into the crush that is the hard part! She seems to [...]
Spring is finally here, the days are warming and the vegie garden is progressing, although slowly as we are still having frosts every night. In an attempt to get a headstart with some seedlings, I have started some seeds in a makeshift coldframe – white polystyrene vegie boxes covered with clear plastic. The inside temperature [...]
As cold as it is, getting up early on autumn mornings in the country can be so worth it!
Like many other things over the hot dry summer that we have just had, this blog has been sadly neglected. Now that winter is hopefully on its way I do plan on updating this blog more frequently, as well as going back in time and adding some posts and photographs. Lucky for me I do [...]
Wow it has been a while since we have made any posts, seems it must be time to make a few updates. So what have we been doing? We have had our Dorper sheep give birth to 7 lambs in April and May, more info and photos soon. We sold our Dorper Sheep ready for [...]
Well here it is the day before Christmas Eve, this year has seemed to simultaneously stretch for eternity *and* move at warp speed…some days the contradiction really plays with your mind! I’m not sure if I can even remember what I wanted to right about since my last post… Settlement on both properties went smoothly [...]
Summer hit with a vengence today, 38degrees! But at least it is a dry heat rather than the sticky humid heat that Perth gets. Our split system air conditioners went in on Wednesday, just in time for the heat that is predicted over the next few days. Can’t complain too much, it has been beautiful [...]
With all the dramas this year, we wern’t up to taking the kids to the Royal or Kelmscott Shows, so thought a quiet little country show might be more our style this year Kids got to see the baby farm animals (we all think alpacas and baby goats are *very* cute), had a few show [...]
It has taken a while but we are now living in our new lifestyle home with much joy and happiness by all. After two truck loads over two days we are well underway in our unpacking with most rooms in the house nearly unpacked. The shed on the other hand has yet to be started [...]
It has been a long twelve months on the path of getting our property, but it has all been well worth it. News over the weekend and late today have confirmed our move to our new home in Boyup Brook over the coming week, which is what our blog here is all about, our new [...]