It’s my favourite time of year again, the birds are singing, the bees are buzzing, the sun is shining, all the plants are in full bloom and the ponies are shedding their winter fluff to expose their shiny summer coats. We are truly blessed to be living the dream 🙂 …
Its been really cold but not much rain or pasture growth so far this winter. Ponies are all spending a lot of time in their winter pyjamas.
It almost looked like we may have had an early season break which would have been lovely as it has been so dry, hot and dusty. Even Trinity would like a break from the heat! Jackson, Wilson and Tessa are in the house paddock at the moment to take some …
Impressive cloud structure today with the late winter storm we had. Definitely appreciate every drop of rain that is going into our water tanks and watering our paddocks. Today’s was one of those eerie storms where it got incredibly dark and we had some weird Mammatus cloud formations all around …
It certainly is nice looking out over the paddocks and seeing heavy rain clouds like these.
It looks like season break is finally headed our way with enough time to harrow the paddocks. It means we lose the remaining standing hay, but also rakes up the horse poo, sticks and rocks to make it easier to pick up. Its a messy, dusty job, the car, house …
The days and night are cooling but it is clear with no rain in sight. The paddocks are bare and dusty and the water tanks are near on empty. Hopefully season break will happen soon.
A bit of a storm and some summer rain came through today, settling the dusty paddocks and a nice break from the heat. The ponies certainly appreciated the cool change 🙂
Miss B and I were out at pony club this afternoon when a massive hailstorm went through with gold ball size hail stones. We got them at home as well, there were still a heap of them along the road that hadn’t fully melted by the time we went home.
As much as we love the jarrah and Marri trees on the property when we get big storms and high winds, we always end up with trees down, and it is usually one of our favourites like this one in the house paddock over near the cottage 🙁 It made …