Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Flames and stuff
Unfortunately due to being very busy all day, I haven't had chance to take anymore photos, but today I managed to get all the branches from the 2 macrocarpas and the plum trees we felled a few weeks ago burnt, I started around 10am, and the fire was constantly fed with branches till around 3pm, and now it's raining!
Yesterday not much happened, we grazed the sheep, goats and alpacas on the driveway, introduced Monkey (oh, Monkey is back with us) to the buck, who quickly showed her some "special" attention!
Other than that, I can't remember what we did in the afternoon, couldn't have been that great!
Bit of a short post, but when not much is happening, there's not really anything to write about.
Hopefully next weekend will be a bit more interesting.
Yesterday not much happened, we grazed the sheep, goats and alpacas on the driveway, introduced Monkey (oh, Monkey is back with us) to the buck, who quickly showed her some "special" attention!
Other than that, I can't remember what we did in the afternoon, couldn't have been that great!
Bit of a short post, but when not much is happening, there's not really anything to write about.
Hopefully next weekend will be a bit more interesting.
Last weekend
Hers a quick catchup of last weekend.
What with winter being here, not a great deal is being done around the farm at the moment (just too damn cold, OK it is above 5 degrees, but still that's cold!). This weekend the main task was skinning/gutting 2 ewes that died (not our's thankfully), and getting them ready for cat food. Other than that, I did some target practice on Saturday morning whilst Steph went into Masterton with Julia to buy some new baby clothes as Connor is growing out of his. The target practice was quite good as I managed to hit the end of the milk bottle 10 times out of 10, at varing ranges from 30 to 125m.
On Sunday, I think we went fishing, wasn't very good though, oh well, that's fishing.
Hopefully today I'll get around and take some photos of various things around the place.
What with winter being here, not a great deal is being done around the farm at the moment (just too damn cold, OK it is above 5 degrees, but still that's cold!). This weekend the main task was skinning/gutting 2 ewes that died (not our's thankfully), and getting them ready for cat food. Other than that, I did some target practice on Saturday morning whilst Steph went into Masterton with Julia to buy some new baby clothes as Connor is growing out of his. The target practice was quite good as I managed to hit the end of the milk bottle 10 times out of 10, at varing ranges from 30 to 125m.
On Sunday, I think we went fishing, wasn't very good though, oh well, that's fishing.
Hopefully today I'll get around and take some photos of various things around the place.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Comparision
Just though people might want to see how Connor is growing, here are two of the daily photos, top one taken around 1 week, and the bottom was last nights.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Something different
Ah, another 2 weeks without a blog entry, well last weekend was a bit wet and yucky, so not much really happened (I think, I certainly can't remember anything of interest except having to do an autopsy on Gleep (one of last years lambs)).
On Sunday morning we discovered she was dead, so out of interest I cut her open to see what had caused it, her liver was very pink, instead of deep red, and her gall bladder was light yellow instead of flouro green, and she had leasions on her lungs. Since I had her open, I took the rest of the skin off, and turned her into cat food (only the muscle though, didn't use any offal).
Yep, I think that was it for last weekend, this weekend though, I actually learnt a new skill (not that it is really a skill, but useful all the same). It started off around Thursday with the fire in the lounge pushing lots of smoke back into the room every time you opened the door, I thought "hm might be time to clean the chimney", but Saturday morning we hadn't organized anything, so I rang a few local hardware stores and found one close that had chimney brushes. After a quick trip to Carterton to collect one, and then around lunch time, by which time the fire had died down enough to work in the fire box (the warmth of the residue heat was quite pleasant), I got the ladder and rope out and proceed to the roof.
To cut a long story short (it ain't that exciting anyway), I successfully managed to sweep our chimney, and in all it cost us $30, it would have probably been more expensive to get a guy out.
Then on Saturday afternoon Andy, Alex and I continued chopping up that gum tree we felled a few weeks ago, not quite done yet, but made a big dent in it. That evening, Steph and I (Connor was asleep so he slept in the car seat in one of the bedrooms) went over the Jules and Andy's for dinner. They have been here now for 12 months to the day, so we all thought a bit of a celebration was in order. 3 bottles of wine, a lovely roast Bob (one of the lambs that I dispatched), a very nice crumble, and then lots of cheese. In all a very pleasant evening, we trundled home around 11, and crashed out for the night.
I did manage to get out for a hunt on Friday evening, we went down to Joe's farm, and tried a new area, unfortunately we only saw 2 rabbits, and had 6 shots at one of them, but missed all :-(
Consequently Saturday morning I spent a few hours knocking over targets, still need more practice though, as always.
Then that leads us on to today, well it's only 9:20, and I sent Steph out into the paddocks around 8, I tried getting her out at 7:30 but she was dilly dallying. Connor sleeps for a few hours in the morning, so it seemed like a good chance for her to play with Markissa.
Hopefully this afternoon if the weather stays fine, we'll do a spot of fishing.
On Sunday morning we discovered she was dead, so out of interest I cut her open to see what had caused it, her liver was very pink, instead of deep red, and her gall bladder was light yellow instead of flouro green, and she had leasions on her lungs. Since I had her open, I took the rest of the skin off, and turned her into cat food (only the muscle though, didn't use any offal).
Yep, I think that was it for last weekend, this weekend though, I actually learnt a new skill (not that it is really a skill, but useful all the same). It started off around Thursday with the fire in the lounge pushing lots of smoke back into the room every time you opened the door, I thought "hm might be time to clean the chimney", but Saturday morning we hadn't organized anything, so I rang a few local hardware stores and found one close that had chimney brushes. After a quick trip to Carterton to collect one, and then around lunch time, by which time the fire had died down enough to work in the fire box (the warmth of the residue heat was quite pleasant), I got the ladder and rope out and proceed to the roof.
To cut a long story short (it ain't that exciting anyway), I successfully managed to sweep our chimney, and in all it cost us $30, it would have probably been more expensive to get a guy out.
Then on Saturday afternoon Andy, Alex and I continued chopping up that gum tree we felled a few weeks ago, not quite done yet, but made a big dent in it. That evening, Steph and I (Connor was asleep so he slept in the car seat in one of the bedrooms) went over the Jules and Andy's for dinner. They have been here now for 12 months to the day, so we all thought a bit of a celebration was in order. 3 bottles of wine, a lovely roast Bob (one of the lambs that I dispatched), a very nice crumble, and then lots of cheese. In all a very pleasant evening, we trundled home around 11, and crashed out for the night.
I did manage to get out for a hunt on Friday evening, we went down to Joe's farm, and tried a new area, unfortunately we only saw 2 rabbits, and had 6 shots at one of them, but missed all :-(
Consequently Saturday morning I spent a few hours knocking over targets, still need more practice though, as always.
Then that leads us on to today, well it's only 9:20, and I sent Steph out into the paddocks around 8, I tried getting her out at 7:30 but she was dilly dallying. Connor sleeps for a few hours in the morning, so it seemed like a good chance for her to play with Markissa.
Hopefully this afternoon if the weather stays fine, we'll do a spot of fishing.
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