A busy wekend!

This weekend we got the big guns out into the paddock! It still was a massive job and took way longer then expected to saw, mow, slash and hack through the blackberries and reeds. It took 4 hours to not quite do half of the big paddock. Geoff still had to walk in front to peg mark out the rocks. There weren't that many but when the mower hit one the sound ricocheted off the hills like a volley of bullets! It was LOUD!

 A lot of the time he had his front end loader scraping along the ground in front so it hit the rock before the mower blades did so he could then very quickly raise the blades up over it! High concentration stuff! Anyway, what is done looks great. Now we just have to keep it down!!!

We moved all the sheep and cows out to the next paddock along at the weekend as well.Mainly to break up any worm cycle in the grass. They all love it as now they have the massive Macracarpa Pines to sleep under if it gets hot. And it IS going to get hot today!!! Perfect for our hay lying in the paddock waiting to be baled.

Animals are funny things though. Poppy and Blue get released into this beautiful big paddock full of grass and within 5 minutes they are up alongside the fence line watching me feed the geese and ducks!

Next minute l hear a commotion and find them in the goat pen! This tiny well trodden eaten down patch of grass surrounded by wire with two very indignant goats bleating away furiously with Poppy having a good old poke around checking it all out!! She certainly is an inqusitive little thing!!

NOT happy to have an impostor in their safe haven!