Oh dear!!!

One of our sheep (imaginatively named.......Little Girl.....!) had got terribly woolly around her face to the point that she could not see at all. We got her in yesterday when Geoff came home from work and gave her a haircut......................................Poor thing......Yes she can see now...........but pretty she isn't!!!

Omar looked horrified..............small wonder she is the only ewe that hasn't dropped a lamb this season..............Poor thing.......we did laugh!

Nothing cosmetic is going to help her now...............!!!

Mind you....talking of daft...........surely you can't get much dafter then having a dog that fits into a plastic shopping bag!!!

Feelin' seedy!

Woke this morning feeling not the best after a big fun night of music, red wine and cooking!!! Well..........Geoff cooked (and played guitar whilst also cooking) and l provided music and a topped up glass! He created several wonderful looking dishes by the end of the night (early morning!) but no doubt isn't feeling the best today either!!

l luckily am at home to appreciate this beautiful sunrise and captured the sun trying to push its way through the heavy fog we were surrounded by till late morning.

It never fails to amaze me how it lifts and clings (sounds like a  bra ad!) to the hillside 

Always stunning.........

It often feels like every photo should be a painting!!

Getting there!

Finally after lots and lots of food and TLC  l think the big boy is slowly coming good!He still has lots of weight to put on, but at last he is finally really starting to fill out. It's quite a challenge trying to put weight on a big skinny horse in the middle of a Tassie Winter! Expensive too!! So he has a good start now and hopefully in Spring he will blossom into an enormous boy! Here he is back on his first day!

Here he is this afternoon. A big difference l think?

Lots of rest and relaxation helped!

Chickens think so too!

And our lovely Toggles...............

And just a few photos of our lovely girls who have grown so big now!!

Done!!!

Geoff finished the roof of the shelter today!!  It's taken us a while but its aways difficult to find the time! So a Sunday off and the job is done! Still needs a bit of trim and finishing touches but the bulk of it is completed ! Now we line it (bottom half only) and halve it (plus the whole paddock) with post and rails to keep Max the little pesky critter away from the big boy at night time!! This is shaping up to be a difficult task as this entire area of the property has a massive rock shelf about 6 inches below the surface. Dig a hole and you hit it very quickly! Short of hiring a jack hammer we might be looking at the posts embedded in cement up on stirrups drilled into the rock which will be expensive and even more time consuming!!!

But that aside for another day...........well done Geoff.......now go back to work tomorrow!!

Poo and Imposters!

For quite some time now we have noticed some goats up on the far hills behind our place.They seem to travel about a bit then disappear for a while.  We are not sure if they are feral or not as there isn't a house over that way that we know of. Yesterday l noticed they had made their way right down to our boundary fence and were chomping on the Blackwood trees in the paddock! (From their side of the fence though luckily!!) Our three goats weren't  remotely interested and didn't even bother to head over there to say hello. No idea if they are males or females and l don't really want to go over to check them out in case they decide our place looks wonderful and follow me home!!! We shall moniter them...............................!!!

Our horse poo bags are selling very well! We have averaged just over $60 a week so far! Some people to come to the house to pick it up if the sign is out when we are home but most of it goes from the little pile of it we leave at the bottom of our road each morning!. We leave a jar there for the money and between 5 or 8 bags there a day and without fail this week the bags are gone by 5pm and the money is in the jar! It's great as it will cover the cost of feeding all the beasties every week and have some left over to put aside for the hay next year!

The wattles on the hillside are looking glorious now. Combined with the Crack Willow buds turning the tips of the trees red it's quite a stunning combination to look out on every morning! Spring.......... l can almost see you..............................

Egg Holders!

When Geoff goes to collect the eggs its always difficult to have enough hands to hold them and somewhere to put them when he gets to the back door.
He has found a novel use for all the little bird nests we have found around the place this last year!

Nancy!

She ain't the prettiest............... but the little calf is going great guns. She's a quiet little thing and spends most of her life sitting in the apple crate shelters we put in between the Pine Trees. Auntie Jack leaves her there for hours and hours!

 She was born jet black but is getting redder by the day....

 Her Mum looks like she is due to drop another!!!.............

We have called her Nancy after Geoff's Mum!