Entente Cordiale
entente cordiale (French) – a friendly understanding between powers: less formal than an alliance. The 2 tribes of guinea fowl […]
Is it Safe?
I don’t have to chase the birds out of their cage in the morning anymore, but they are […]
Not so “Little Eagle”
This Little Eagle was soaring over the property for a couple of hours this morning. While I was […]
Red Onions
It was very satisfying pulling up the first lot of red onions. They show just how easy it […]
Free Food
In preparation for planting the broccoli and caulifower, I weeded the vege bed where the rocket had gone […]
Shade Trees
At 4-5m high, the trees are now tall enough to cast some shade for most of the day […]
Waste Product
This Jersey steer had no value as a male dairy breed and would have gone to slaughter at […]
Two Birds in The Hand is Worth…
At four days old the birds are steady on their big orange feet and eating all day. […]
Dairy Goats!
I had arranged to see some of the goats Koonac had available so we could choose our dairy goats. […]
Awesome Clouds
Coming back from feeding the birds at 5.45 I was awestruck by the clouds. They made the sky […]
Tolerating the Teenagers
Only one day after it was all out war between the young birds and the originals, they both […]
Yellow Rumped Thornbill
I knew I had found the correct bird in the field guide when it said, “Hops on open […]
Sunlit Silent Sentinels
I could see the sun rise over the horizon by watching the light stretching down the trees. The […]
Thank you Supernanny
Last night it took over 30 minutes to herd the 9 young guineas back into their newly fortified cage […]
Like a Blanket
A massive cloud band stretched overhead this morning looking like a blanket of cotton wool. It made me […]
Galileo Coconut Oil Thermometer
Yesterday morning I noticed that the coconut oil in the pantry was solidifying in little globules. It reminded […]
Martins Out, Crane in
I may be missing the Martins, but the Crane isn’t. Ten days ago he was driven off, but […]
Intervention
The keet had not made any progress when I looked in on it at 6 in the morning. […]
Martins no More
Two weeks after hundreds of Fairy Martins, were bathing and drinking in the dam, they have disappeared from […]
Starfish
This massive melon escaped the first weeding mission 2 weeks ago and had developed 3 large melons on […]
Friendly Frog
We were spreading sand and gravel at the front of the house when I saw some movement in […]
Perfect Timing
The rain started just as I drove the mower and spread/spiker back undercover. We were going to […]
Rain Gauge
This zucchini clearly shows the water stress as it developed over 3 consecutive hot days earlier this week.
Our World at 5.45am
There are some upsides getting up before dawn and the epic sunrises are one of them. We sit […]
Mowing the Meadow
I mowed the summer paddock/arena in preparation for fertilising tomorrow. I concentrated on the longer grass on the […]
Guard Dog
I had kept Shorty back when letting the birds out previously, but today, I just let her be […]
Lock Down at Day 25
I candled the eggs a couple of days ago and only 2 were fertile, so this whole incubator […]
Lined up on a Log
I had left the birds inside their cage for a couple of days to let the injuries from […]
Autumn Leaves
The last 3 very hot days have caused the Jarrah and Marri to drop some of their leaves, […]
New Pump Controller
We dropped the pump and controller into the ever patient Steve at Aquashed so he could bench-test them […]
Flare Up
We were at Brad’s cousin in Donnybrook and Brad noticed the column of smoke rising over the bush […]
Bathing Bee-uty
It looked just like a cat washing itself. It was sitting on top of a wooden post and […]
Young Guinea Died
When we went to feed the birds this morning, the one-legged bird was dead. I wasn’t surprised and […]
Fox Bites Leg Off Young Guinea
When I went to feed the young birds this morning, it looked like there had been a massacre, […]
Harvest
It feels great to pick your whole dinner out of the garden. Tonight we will be having zucchini […]
First Encounter
I let the young Guineas out for an hour again this morning. As happened last time, Murray did […]
Get Away From Our Dam!
The flocking Martins made short work of seeing off the crane that tried to come down to the […]
Wasps Nesting
The wasps are very active at the moment as they feed and seal their larvae into individual chambers […]
The Nights are Drawing In
It seems strange to think of shortening days as we face the second heatwave of summer, with 4 […]
Birds of a Feather
There must have been about 1000 birds flocking this morning. The sun was glinting off their pale bodies […]
First Taste of Freedom
I let the young Guineas out for their first taste of freedom this morning. I had opened the […]
Unseasonably Chilly
The Dam looked like it was steaming this morning. At 8.5 Degrees, the temperature is 6 degrees below […]
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