A Winter Fire

A warmish end of Winter's night so we decided to have a fire outside.

It was lovely sitting outside under the stars with the house looking so cosy and inviting up the path! Looking forward to being out here more!

Nearly Spring!

A few days to go and the amazing weather we have been having has triggered a bloom of early colour in the garden.

And bulbs of course.

Lots of beautiful bulbs..........

Eat My Hat!

Clips has 'a bit of a thing' about hats. Any hat! It doesn't matter if it's a baseball cap on top of Geoff's head or a straw hat ON my head or as in the case of this one.....sitting on the fence rail!

If it's designed to sit on someone's head.....................

He wants it!!!!

And by hook or by crook...............

He will get it!!

And wreck it!

This is the second hat of mine he has ruined. l would stop him if it wasn't so humorous to watch!!!!

New Phone!

Today l found (in our local Op Shop of course!!) this fabulous phone!!!! Isn't it great!!! It might as well have been MADE for Candlestick Farm and the second l walked in and saw it looking so.....................garish and glitzy on the shelf l knew it had to be mine!!!

Tack Room

Finished the tack room! Love it! Everything has a hook and a place. Walls are stained and floor painted.

It even has curtains to keep the Summer sun out!

We couldn't designate the WHOLE space to just harness so the end wall is paint, automotive stuff and other odds and ends

Wonder how long it will stay this tidy??? 

A few pieces to fill up the walls.

My old Harrods Grooming bag!!

And flowers..................

An old stained glass window that fills up the hole where the glass is broken!

And a few weird things............just because!!

Old broken hames hanging off the ceiling...............

And  a candle holder.....got to have candlesticks...........!!

l then got overly excited and extended the reno to outside the tack room! The shelving with the paint on it used to be out here, so now we were left with a blank wall. A few nails, some sheets of MDF and some lovely timber panels that Geoff rescued  from the bin at work (good thing Geoff is a hoarder!!)  and we made a nice little corner for our fire gear and excess gumboots!

We are getting there!!!

Hot Dog!

Last night wasn't particularly cold but Lilli for some reason wanted to sit right up under the fire. l put her bed there for a while and she snuggled in underneath the doors. Her head got almost too hot to touch!!!! Geoff put the thermometer right next to her paws to see how hot it actually was there. It got up to 35c (95F) before she finally moved away!!

Runs in the Family

This morning was hoof trimming day. All the sheep and the goats. Forty four little feet in all!! It's never very difficult and as time goes by they all get better and better at having them done. They don't love it.....................................but they tolerate it.

Most of them Geoff does while they are standing up. We wedge them into the corner with a collar around their necks and they stand there quite happily..........most of the time.

Except Louise..... Every time we put a rope around this ewes neck she throws herself down on the ground and dies........

Completely.......

Even when the job is done and we walk away she still plays dead. We virtually have to push her up to get her to stand again

Omar thinks it quite bizarre, (He is  the most impeccably mannered of the whole lot bless him as he really is quite enormous!!)

Treek doesn't get it either... she would rather they ran around so she can at least pretend to be a sheep dog,

Oh and then there is Little Girl...................same things.................dies............

Totally....................Collar off....... Walk away........dead sheep...................She also happens to be Louise's lamb from about three years ago.......................is there a pattern here???.....

And then we jump to THIS generation...........this is Little Girl's lamb from last year........Louise's grandson...............He didn't quite die............ He just sat................................

And sat............................................like a little dog at a Crufts Show......................................

Is it in the genes do you think?????

Snow

We didn't get any as we are not high enough but a lot of snow fell over Tasmania this weekend. This photo was taken by Clips's old owner. He lives very high up and cops a lot!

New buds on a crack willow. Stunning against the white

 Hobart......freezing........... .beautiful.

And our very own Huon River with Sleeping Beauty in the background.

Just gorgeous!!