The view from my office window this morning! Gorgeous girls! Inquisitive ferrets Cousins Germinated seedlings Happy Thursday!
During January wonderful Cam had a real run at getting the chook pen finished – and we finally got there! I was so excited that we were working on it that I kind of forgot to get more photos along the way… But here’s Danny putting the finishing touches on the doors. Once it was […]
The vegie garden has been very slow this year. Admittedly we had very mild temperatures during spring and early summer, but I was sure that the hot weather we have had since Christmas would have made up for it. Normally I would have had buckets and buckets of Roma tomatoes by now, and plenty of […]
Our Arucana’s have started laying!! It is so exciting – we were away last weekend, and came home to one lone blue egg nestled into a nesting box. The next day there was none, but then the day after that we got two! It varied for a few days, but now we are consistently getting […]
My vegie garden has been a bit disappointing this year. My tomato bushes are loaded with fruit, but most of it is still quite green. I love to make tomato sauce, and was getting quite worried that my tomatoes wouldn’t ripen, before the weather turned cold. So I lashed out and purchased a 10kg box […]
For about 10 days in a row, back in November, Danny was out in the veggie garden raiding the strawberry patch. I didn’t mind at all, because I didn’t have time to pick them. Whatever he couldn’t eat, he brought inside, washed for me and piled them in bowls in the fridge. We had plenty […]
Our last lot of chickens have hatched, so we have six more little babies! Very exciting! Cam is wondering where all the chook feed is going to come from! And stating loudly that we better start getting a decent supply of eggs soon! I haven’t the heart to tell him that there is also a […]
Well we really had a huge run at the new chookpen over the Melbourne Cup weekend. The frame is well and truly taking shape. While Cam was welding new bits together, I was coming behind, and painting all the welds with an anti rust paint. I even had a bit of a go at welding […]
We have a fantastic array of fruit trees in our orchard. Apples, pears, cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches, apricots, figs, to name a few. The trees are about five years old, and they are starting to get a reasonable amount of fruit on them now. We decided it was time to protect them from the birds. […]
These are some eggs we hatched in our incubator. I ordered two dozen eggs on line, 12 buff sussex and 12 lavender araucanas. Was so excited when they arrived in the mail. Anyway three weeks later we had little chickens hatching, creating lots of excitement amongst the household. We had 13 hatch in total, […]