A New Dawn
I almost cannot describe the sense of relief I felt when I walked out at sunrise this morning […]
Ridiculously Cold
The animals spent all day trying to stay out of the strong southerly wind and catch any sun […]
Mum and Baby
I was thrilled to see the mum and baby kangaroos in the forest when I was walking the […]
City 24.6 – Country 4.6
Although we got slightly more rain than we did two weeks ago, once again the city got 20mm […]
New Growth
These mornings have a softness to them. For the last few days, there has been light cloud cover […]
Lime Vanilla Sherbert
That is the beautiful scent of the flower on our new Magnolia Kay Parris, you don’t even have […]
At Its Best
The Property looks at its best at this time of year with the green irrigated summer paddock contrasting […]
Here Comes the Capeweed
After only 8.5mm of rain a week ago, the Capeweed has started sprouting. This is our most […]
Marching Through March
Bipod used to be tripod. He lost one of his legs when we did the controlled burn 2 years […]
Sprinkler on the blink
The sprinkler looked nothing like this when I turned it on this morning, the water was barely trickling […]
Preparing for Winter Pt II
It seems strange to be thinking of winter on a 31 degree day, but a couple of cool […]
Preparing for Winter
We moved the hay from the open bay into the feed shed to protect them from the main […]
Finished Fence
The last jobs on the fence were attaching the mesh to the star pickets, running the top wire […]
New Knot
We watched a video on YouTube to learn the figure of 8 knot so we could attach the […]
Rain Stopped Play
We were rained off the goat fence, so Brad disappeared into the shed to weld some plough discs […]
Fencing
We rolled out the 8/90/30 mesh and it is 5m short! or more realistically, the boundary is 5m […]
Survival
The young guineas survived their first night in the wild. I was very relieved to count all 14 […]
They Flew the Coop
I thought this image was a good illustration for today as the young guineas decided that they didn’t […]
City 20 – Country 1
We are still waiting for our first real downpour of autumn, the forecasts keep changing and the rain […]
Ready for the Rain
They are forecasting 10-20mm of rain for Sunday, but the latest chart from the Bureau of Meteorology shows […]
Snake Skin
The snake has either grown almost half a metre or we have two. I found the snake skin […]
One of Those Days
The power went out when the I was in the middle of baking bread, running the dishwasher and washing […]
Autumn Dew and Cockatoos
There is a real change in the air as we move into March, the mornings are cooler and […]
Another Millimetre!
I was excited to get another millimetre of rain this morning and happy that I had mowed the […]
Relief
After a week of 30+ days (not much fun for Brad digging post holes with a shovel) we […]
The Reason
This is the reason we are living in this beautiful place. Brad got back into surfing about 8 […]
Perfection
I was tying a string line to the star picket so we could line up the corner assembly […]
Mondrian-esque
We had rolled out the green extension lead and the blue hose to fire up the concrete mixer […]
First Box Strainer
We are putting up a good strong fence round the goat paddock. When we did the horse paddock […]
Entente Cordiale
entente cordiale (French) – a friendly understanding between powers: less formal than an alliance. The 2 tribes of guinea fowl […]
Awesome Clouds
Coming back from feeding the birds at 5.45 I was awestruck by the clouds. They made the sky […]
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 […]
Starfish
This massive melon escaped the first weeding mission 2 weeks ago and had developed 3 large melons on […]
Perfect Timing
The rain started just as I drove the mower and spread/spiker back undercover. We were going to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Get Away From Our Dam!
The flocking Martins made short work of seeing off the crane that tried to come down to the […]
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