Catch Up

Well, it's been a while, and there hasn't really been any photos for quite a while, well that's about to change (no not because Connor is born, he's still hanging on), anyway, where was I, ah catching up on the news to date. OK so to start, ah, it's only been a week or so, that's not too bad, anyway, since the desk has been made, I've worked down there for a few days, which is quite good, it's not uncomfortable and quite a good environment to get down and get things done, so that's cool. Other than that, the only other stuff has happened today and yesterday. Yesterday Steph picked up (bought) a new ram for the princely price of $30, got him home, and he made our ram look a bit silly, as he knew exactly what and who to do, so unfortunatly since we're low on lamb, the ram met his maker today, what a little shit he was...first of all, last night I put him in the paddock at the back of the house, and this morning, he wasn't there (he was in with the Alpacas). Not a major I just moved him back. Ok, sounds good, well this afternoon just before I was going to "do" him, he decided to jump the gate, go through the fence into Rex's place, and then jump the next gate into the driveway, barge through a fence into Julia's, head up the dry stream into the next paddock, barge through another fence into Christines (I was thinking at this stage of popping him off from a distance!), and then Alex and I managed to gently push him back down into the paddock of Julias, from which exited in the same manor that he went in, straight through the fence, over the next gate, and then over all then fences in the yards. At this point, we thought we might have had him, but he left just easily as he got in, and then proceed into Rex's big paddock!. I was more than willing to pop him there (I even had Alex get the rifle!), anyway, whilst Ken, Steph,Jules and Alex we trying to stop him going to far up the paddock, I grabbed the "Super Crook" off Rex's bike (I want one!, oh, and a super crook!) and opened the gates into the wool shed, and headed off to join in the fun.
He tried barging through the sheep netting into Jule's big paddock, at which time I went for his legs with the Super Crook (and missed, see I need one so I can get more practice), and then we managed to herd him back into the yards, thankfully he wasn't to worried that none of the gates were open, and he headed straight inside. I ran for the gate and swung it shut, but as it shut a pissed off ram came out at around 4ft off the ground, aiming squarely for me! What could I do, I just turned slightly and caught him like a bloody big rugby ball! Ok so that sounds so well controlled and professional, trust me, it was nothing like it, and really quite bloody stupid! Anyway, I wrestled him to the ground and we put him back into the wool shed to let him calm down.

Oh, in the excitement of writing that little episode I forgot to mention that I had my jeans ripped off me by a horny goat!! OK, a bit of explaination needed there. We brought all the lambs,ewes, rams and goats in for drenching and foot trimming, after drenching the lambs, checking the ewes and rams, I crutched the goats, and trimmed their feet, but whilst I had one on it's back it got her horns into a hole in my jeans, and proceeded to move her head lots (oh by the way, this is right by my crutch, I almost had a "crutching" too!) The side effect of this was a massive hole in my jeans, oh well, everyone now knows that today my underwear was color co-ordinated with my T-shirt (by chance!)

Anyway, back to rammy, after a hour or so of settling down, I did the deed, and now he is chilling out in the meat closet.

Ah, now for some photos

Another few jobs off the list

Well, its been a busy day, but we've managed to cross a few more jobs off the list, which is always a good thing.
First thing this morning, I started investigating what was needed to install the new window catches for the nursery, it turns out that the holes that the old catch used, is the same as the new one, but the screws are not quite the same, so I spent a short while filling the old holes in with plastic wood (only to redrill them tomorrow morning). After that, I assembled a cheapy bookcase from the Warehouse for all our uni books, otherwise the spare room has no space for Jenny!
Once that was done, the next job on the list was putting the top on the drawer unit for the nursery, thankfully that was only 4 screws, and another off the list. Then came the harder stuff. I needed to make a desk, big enough for me to work on (programming work), so I had 2 sheets of MDF, and after measuring up the office (tackshed), I decided on 1m by 1.95m, which is a good size.
It took an hour or so to build the desk and assemble it, then came power and net cabling. Thankfully I had some cat5 that was just long enough, and now after an entire day, the office is all set up (will still need decorating and insulating at some point, but there is no spare cash at the moment for that).
So, still no photos, to tired to plug the camera in, some have been taken, just can't be bothered uploading yet! Maybe tomorrow.

Gees, I'm knackered

Well, that's today done, the handles are on the dresser unit, the top is done for the drawer unit, the door is hung, the sheep, goats and alpacas are all in the paddock I sprayed out on Tuesday morning (oh on Tuesday morning I sprayed the paddock out, found a fantastic way to wake up, I was filling the spray container, and managed to get a splash on my face, so I just turned the hose pipe on my face!

Anyway, dinner is close so I'll post more tomorrow.

Things coming along nicely

Well, 2 days into the holidays, and things are looking good. The nursery has carpet, and even some furniture (photos later this evening), broadband is installed, and I'm even starting to get my workshop back! For the last few weeks it's been overrun with nursery furniture!
I've also started on the office, and hopefully I'll build my new bench tomorrow and move in then.

Steph's doing well, can't wait for Connor to get out! Oh and we bought a stroller today, so that's us almost ready (equipment wise).

Till later.