Thursday, February 28, 2008
Connor's teeth
On Wednesday, Connor had another checkup at the dentist, and being a little one, they couldn't really explain "Open wide", "don't stick out your tongue" etc, so at the moment, they are not doing anything, and will check them again in 6 months.
We've done another lamb last night, and only 7 to go (2 does for salami's, 2 kids for chops, 1 mutton for roasts, 1 mutton for more sausages, and a hogget (not sure what we're doing with her). Saturday morning is when I intend dealing to the mutton and does. Then hopefully we'll be set for meat.
We've done another lamb last night, and only 7 to go (2 does for salami's, 2 kids for chops, 1 mutton for roasts, 1 mutton for more sausages, and a hogget (not sure what we're doing with her). Saturday morning is when I intend dealing to the mutton and does. Then hopefully we'll be set for meat.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Sausages
Things are never quite normal around here, take this for example, our bathroom at the moment:
Hm, unpleasant side of farming
Well, we're down to 1 paddock with grass, and too much stock. We were hoping to use the driveway to tide us through a bit longer, but the neighboring farmer beat us to it (first come first serve basis).
Oh well this evening I have two mutton and a lamb to cull, then tomorrow, it will probably be a few more goats (for salamis).
Such is farming, at least we're only doing it for fun, not our income.. (at the moment)
Oh well this evening I have two mutton and a lamb to cull, then tomorrow, it will probably be a few more goats (for salamis).
Such is farming, at least we're only doing it for fun, not our income.. (at the moment)
Sunday, February 24, 2008
A bit of a catch up
Well, it seems my blogging is becoming a bit more erratic...Not sure why, but it might have something to do with the fact that by the end of Sunday now we're both completely knackered. Connor has discovered the joys of moving (with great speed), and has also mastered the art of throwing tantrums.
So a quick catch up, on what's been happening around here. At the moment we're in the grips of a bad drought (we knew it was coming since winter 'cause we didn't get much rain then), but at the moment we've got too much stock, so I'm busy culling off any ewes and goats we don't want and turning them into roasts, sausages etc. I culled a kid yesterday, and was going to do our last lamb today, but my cold has developed and I don't think I'll be up to slaughtering this afternoon as it takes quite a bit out of you.
Our new vege bed is coming along steadily but slowly, the fencing is done, 3 beds are made and 2 are lined with stones for drainage, so hopefully it won't be too long until we have some compost in and start our autumn veges growing, hopefully photos soon.
One thing that has happened (on Friday), was I spent the morning in casualty with Connor. Around 9am I came up to the house (Connor was at a friends place being looked after for the day), when I got a phone call from the friend saying that Connor had got his teeth and chin stuck in a chair, and that the ambulance had been called, and do I want to meet them at the hospital. As you can imagine, I got to the hospital reasonably rapidly (infact beat the ambulance by about 20 minutes!). By the time the ambulance had got to Masterton, Connor had calmed down (so much so, he slept in the back of the ambulance). All that had happened is that his bottom 2 teeth had been pulled forward to an angle of about 45 degrees, and being the mouth, there was LOTS of blood. The teeth are still sticking forward, but he has another dentist appointment on Wednesday to see how they are going (at least it's only milk teeth). But needless to say, that coupled with teething 4 teeth at the same time (bringing it to a total of 8), has made for a restless week!
Oh the other news is that Steph finally let me get a new computer, our old one kept crashing and occasionally wouldn't read the HD our photos were stored on, as this was quite worrying (around 20Gb of photos), we got a new computer, a new shiney 20" aluminum iMac. It is such a breath of fresh air for computer, things mainly just work, the camera is great (Skype works so much better), and it's rekindled a bit of fun for me in developement, I had got to the stage ere software development was just a job, but with a different platform and a few other geeky factors, I've started writing another personal application, which is proving to be quite fun and challenging.
In other news, the hunting is still going strong, mainly hares at the moment, normally for cat food, but the other day I decided to make 4 hares into 5 salamis. It will take about a month before they have matured enough for eating..Just hope I can wait!
Till later.
So a quick catch up, on what's been happening around here. At the moment we're in the grips of a bad drought (we knew it was coming since winter 'cause we didn't get much rain then), but at the moment we've got too much stock, so I'm busy culling off any ewes and goats we don't want and turning them into roasts, sausages etc. I culled a kid yesterday, and was going to do our last lamb today, but my cold has developed and I don't think I'll be up to slaughtering this afternoon as it takes quite a bit out of you.
Our new vege bed is coming along steadily but slowly, the fencing is done, 3 beds are made and 2 are lined with stones for drainage, so hopefully it won't be too long until we have some compost in and start our autumn veges growing, hopefully photos soon.
One thing that has happened (on Friday), was I spent the morning in casualty with Connor. Around 9am I came up to the house (Connor was at a friends place being looked after for the day), when I got a phone call from the friend saying that Connor had got his teeth and chin stuck in a chair, and that the ambulance had been called, and do I want to meet them at the hospital. As you can imagine, I got to the hospital reasonably rapidly (infact beat the ambulance by about 20 minutes!). By the time the ambulance had got to Masterton, Connor had calmed down (so much so, he slept in the back of the ambulance). All that had happened is that his bottom 2 teeth had been pulled forward to an angle of about 45 degrees, and being the mouth, there was LOTS of blood. The teeth are still sticking forward, but he has another dentist appointment on Wednesday to see how they are going (at least it's only milk teeth). But needless to say, that coupled with teething 4 teeth at the same time (bringing it to a total of 8), has made for a restless week!
Oh the other news is that Steph finally let me get a new computer, our old one kept crashing and occasionally wouldn't read the HD our photos were stored on, as this was quite worrying (around 20Gb of photos), we got a new computer, a new shiney 20" aluminum iMac. It is such a breath of fresh air for computer, things mainly just work, the camera is great (Skype works so much better), and it's rekindled a bit of fun for me in developement, I had got to the stage ere software development was just a job, but with a different platform and a few other geeky factors, I've started writing another personal application, which is proving to be quite fun and challenging.
In other news, the hunting is still going strong, mainly hares at the moment, normally for cat food, but the other day I decided to make 4 hares into 5 salamis. It will take about a month before they have matured enough for eating..Just hope I can wait!
Till later.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
It's been a while
OK, I know it's been awhile (not since the big goat hunt), but heres a quick catch up, the weekend after the hunt was my birthday, which was quite a good day, Connor gave me a book on Red Deer hunting in NZ, and a fire starting tool (based on magnesium and flint), and a pouch, Steph got me a nice gerber knife , gut hook and a bore snake, and Steph's parents gave me a kite to replace the one that was left at Lake Ferry a while ago.
The weekend after we had a BBQ with some friends from work, and went on a hunt with Matt, he shot 3 hares, and they were good shots too. Then it's this weekend....more later.
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