Its mushroom time!! Besides our middle son – Danny, the rest of us LOVE mushrooms. And we particularly love this time of the year when they are growing wild in the paddocks and we can pick them. This was yesterday’s collection, just from the paddock around the house where Pickles our dairy cow spends some […]
We have a couple of chilli bushes in the herb garden – a Jalapeño, and one of these below, I call it “mystery” variety. Its very pretty, as the chillies are quite short, and the whole bush is more of a ground cover than a bush. Danny has been keen to make some of […]
We had some wonderful WONDERFUL rain last week. It wasn’t a lot, only 17 mm, nearly 3/4 inch for those not up with metric. But regardless, it is AMAZING how quickly the paddocks are greening up. It has also given the vegie garden a real boost. I haven’t been out there a lot lately, just […]
Unfortunatly we had a massive cloud bank block the early stages of the Lunar Eclipse. We had set our alarm for 6pm (that was when the moon was supposed to rise for us here in Western Victoria) so we wouldn’t miss it. The kids and I traipsed up the hill, with the binoculars and the […]
Last Easter we bought Danny a rabbit. Archie already had fish (that’s a WHOLE long story for another day!!), and Jasmine had claimed the cats, so Danny thought he needed a pet too. Being Easter, of course it had to be a rabbit. My previous experience with rabbits was that they grew so big, with […]
It sounds idealic – eating fresh food you’ve produced yourself, looking over green paddocks, setting your own time table, maybe even slowing down your lifestyle a bit….. And it certainly can be like this, but there are times when things fall in a heap, and you wonder if all the hard work is worth it. […]
Well finally I’m getting some significant tomato harvest – I was so sure they wouldn’t ripen in time, as the whole vegie garden has been very slow this year. But I have managed to pick a few good handfuls each day for the last week or so, and they’ve been steadily accumulating. Besides tomato sauce, […]
Finally harvested the last of the corn yesterday. Feels good to have it all frozen ready to see us out for winter. Everyone in the family loves corn so its great to have a good supply throughout the year. Most of it we picked a couple of weekends ago, and my wonderful parents peeled […]
BJ is our bull – and yes you read it right – we gave him a pedicure! As you can see he is a big enormous black angus bull. He has been in with the main herd of cows since early January, and when we took him out we noticed he was limping a bit on his […]