The Weekend

Well, I said I would try to do a blog entry, and because the weekend was so productive, it deserves one. Yesterday morning we brought the sheep up, and split the adult ewes off, and put them in with a neighbours ram "Biggles", who is a big black faced boy, so hopefully next year, they will all have twins, and grow fast...The other lambs went over to Jenny's paddock with our other lambs, hopefully they will finish off quite well, they certainly are growing well (almost ready to slaughter now). Devilspawn and Winston have been put in a small paddock together, we're hoping Winston does his "thing" before we get him turned into sauages. Before we did all that, Steph worked Markissa and has a small ride bare-back, and I chainsawed up a big pile of timber that has been waiting for chainsawing for 2 years!, now we have even more lawn to mow.
Speaking of mowing that lawn, Steph started mowing it yesterday but the lawn mower fell apart (the gas tank fell off!), so this morning since the tractor had the mower on, I cut our back lawn with the tractor, 3 passes and it was basically done!
Yesterday after all the stock were moved out of the paddocks, I went over them with the mower, and they now look really good, the grass should come away quite well.
In addition to all that we even moved the big tank off it's stand and onto a dolly so we could redo the stand.
Then today with the tank away from the wall we decided that we should decorate, we went into town, got some test pots (for the stand and the wall), and then proceeded to strip the wallpaper off, we got one wall done!

Also this weekend, I made rubharb chutney (very very yummy), Steph was two lots of devilspawn wool, I've carded four batts of devilspawn (so now just waiting for Steph to make something with it).

I think that's about all this weekend, plenty in my opinion...

Till later.

Shearing day...a few weeks ago

  

The decorating starts

  

A bit lax

Well, as Amy pointed out I've been a bit lax on the old blog, last
weekend Steph and I went to Tauaranga for a 80th birthday party which
was good. We got to catch up with both Steph's parents and mine.

This weekend we intend seperating our sheep for breeding, and starting
to goat proof some of our trees (hopefully it's not too late).

The turkey is still sitting on eggs in the driveway!

We'll see how I go this weekend on the blogging.

Previous few weekends

Well, I haven't posted anything for a while, things have been pretty busy around here. After getting back from Melbourne, that weekend we had to shear 23 lambs, plus help with our neighbour with his. Unfortunatly we discovered that we had a little bit of flystrike (this is where fly land on the poopy backsides and lay eggs hence maggots!). The shearer removed the maggots on the lambs, and I treated the area with flystrick powder, and that was that. We decided to check the rest of the flock (our old ewes and their lambs), once more there was a little bit of flystrike starting, but on our neighbours ewe whom we grazing here at the moment, there was heaps, and she is a VERY big ewe. We ended up we me sitting on her whilst she was laid out on her side, whilst Steph did the deed around her backend. This is one of the more unpleasant jobs.
Oh and on Saturday we also got the goats shorn. Once more they are funny looking things!

That basically wraps up all the stock work, but other things of note are that we currently have a turkey hen sitting on some eggs beside our driveway. We found her when Strider pounced on her!!! Thankfully she was a bit too big for him to kill with one bite like he does with chooks!

Hmm, what else is happening..The big tank is all empty, and I'm starting to get the bits together to create the dolly to move it (so we can decorate that end of the room).

Hm, thats about all at the moment. I'm considering getting broadband soon, if that happens, then expect to see more photos!.

Till Later

Matthew