Wow, what a busy weekend, it all started on Thursday with a very quick change of plans. On Wednesday evening we noticed the Possums eyes had an opaque coating on the cornea, so it was decided that she was to go to the vets on Thursday. Come Thursday morning she was nowhere to be seen (until we were driving out of the driveway), so I quickly put her in the bathroom, and we drove to work. The vet appointment was made for the afternoon, and it turns out that she might have a problem with her eye lids. Anyway, that was Thursday. Friday was Matt's wedding, so Steph and I drove down again, and of course, attended the wedding, which was a nice ceremony, and reception.
Saturday morning we had some shopping to do in town, and on Wednesday we managed to get a puncture in the Safari's back tire so we also got that repaired. Oh and we went to an auction at the hospital, we only bought a fan.
In the afternoon I fixed the bassinet with a biscuit joint, and started cleaning up the workshop, meanwhile Steph was working the horse. In the afternoon, we went to Trish's 60th birthday party and spent a few hours there.
Sunday was equally busy, started off in the morning, once more at Trish's to say happy birthday (as it was her actual birthday), and then we went to the Gladstone Horse Sports. quite interesting to watch, and there were also lots of cute ponies etc.
After that Steph and I headed down to the beach to fly the kite. The first 'cast' was uneventfull, but the second cast reeled in 2 red cod (one fell of in the surf) and a nice kahawai that we got 4 fillets out of and had 2 battered for fish and salad for tea, very yummy!
Unfortunatly I forgot the camera so no photos of fish..
Monday, February 26, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
An update.
Ah, another weekend. This one wasn't too bad, it started on Friday afternoon with a trip to the doctors for another checkup,and as expected everything is fine. As the 11 weeks till birth isn't getting any further away I decided that this weekend. I should make a start on the nursery and it's furniture. In the morning we got three sheets of gib up, and have another 2 to put up. Once we ran out of gib we went into town to pick colours for the nursery. In the end we decided on a neutral yellow for the walls and then high gloss white for the framing and sides of furniture, and then some bright outragous colours for the shelves and drawers.
The previous evening Steph and I had done some sanding and ther bassinet was ready for painting so on Saturday afternoon I sprayed the bassinet, but ufortunatly the stand it was hanging from fell over and snapped a dowel joint.
In the evening we watched a dvd and I did some more long exsposure photography.
Sunday was shearing day, around 8am,Steph,Andy and I moved our flock of lambs into the yards and I then helped John move his flock too.
Around 11am paul turned up and then by about 4 we had finally finished. At least we now got another 6kg of mohair to sell.
Other than that, not a great deal is happening on the farm at the moment, but coming up soon will be fertalising the paddocks, spraying off weeds (we have a lot of penny royal which I am going to kill this weekend.). I'm not sure if we are resowing a paddock this autumn or not, but the scarey thing is that trees are already starting to lose their leaves.
The previous evening Steph and I had done some sanding and ther bassinet was ready for painting so on Saturday afternoon I sprayed the bassinet, but ufortunatly the stand it was hanging from fell over and snapped a dowel joint.
In the evening we watched a dvd and I did some more long exsposure photography.
Sunday was shearing day, around 8am,Steph,Andy and I moved our flock of lambs into the yards and I then helped John move his flock too.
Around 11am paul turned up and then by about 4 we had finally finished. At least we now got another 6kg of mohair to sell.
Other than that, not a great deal is happening on the farm at the moment, but coming up soon will be fertalising the paddocks, spraying off weeds (we have a lot of penny royal which I am going to kill this weekend.). I'm not sure if we are resowing a paddock this autumn or not, but the scarey thing is that trees are already starting to lose their leaves.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
An update - finally
I know there hasn't been many updates recently, but not a great deal has been happening on the farm. But in an attempt to try and get this back up to date here is another post.
This weekend was quite a good weekend compared to the last one. On friday the kite arrived. I've gone and got a fishing kite, the basic idea is to use the kite to cast out upto 1000 metres of line, with up to 12 hooks. The idea was to go fishing with it on Saturday, but there wasn't even a breeze (well actually there was a slight southerly, but that's an onshore breeze, not quite what I needed. But I did fly the kite for an hour or so in the paddock to get a feel for the kit etc.
Other than that, on Saturday not a great deal was done, we finished the wood part of the tree protectors and fenced one of them off.
Sunday was better, still not enough wind (and going in the wrong direction) for kite flying, but all the same we went fishing, Andy caught a nice Kawahi, but other than that, there wasn't much action.
On the farmy side of things, we've finally sold our goat fleece, and the sheep have been moved back over to Julia's place for a couple of weeks, then they will go in the other virgin paddock.
I'll try and get back in the habit of posting on a Sunday evening...
This weekend was quite a good weekend compared to the last one. On friday the kite arrived. I've gone and got a fishing kite, the basic idea is to use the kite to cast out upto 1000 metres of line, with up to 12 hooks. The idea was to go fishing with it on Saturday, but there wasn't even a breeze (well actually there was a slight southerly, but that's an onshore breeze, not quite what I needed. But I did fly the kite for an hour or so in the paddock to get a feel for the kit etc.
Other than that, on Saturday not a great deal was done, we finished the wood part of the tree protectors and fenced one of them off.
Sunday was better, still not enough wind (and going in the wrong direction) for kite flying, but all the same we went fishing, Andy caught a nice Kawahi, but other than that, there wasn't much action.
On the farmy side of things, we've finally sold our goat fleece, and the sheep have been moved back over to Julia's place for a couple of weeks, then they will go in the other virgin paddock.
I'll try and get back in the habit of posting on a Sunday evening...
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