I'm Back with a new Gadget

This is my horse called Buddy! And he was a bad boy! well Dave thought he was.





It has been a week and I have been all over the place doing all sorts of things. I had a great time cooking at the Health Resort and it was good to catch up with old friends. The weather was beautiful and the company was great. I bought home some organic oranges and I hoping to make some marmalade yummy! I missed the family and animals so it was good to come home, the lambs have grown and are running and frolicking in the paddocks. While i was away Dave told me that my horse Buddy got out and the neighbour down the road rang him to say he was eating the grass on his front lawn. Dave walked down there and got him and when he was walking back all the neighbour's horses ,cows and goats came running up to their front fences to either watch or cheer Buddy along it must have been so funny and because of the commotion Buddy thought he would start prancing around and look at everyone with his head up, tail sticking out acting like some prized stallion hehehe Poor Dave !

Jess worked in the shop for me while I was away and she had some of her male friends come in and rearrange the furniture as a surprise for me, well it was definitely a surprise it looks great and she put a lot of effort into it. My counter is now near the front door and a cool breeze blows in and it will be great in summer.
I had my photo on the front page of the local paper last week (oh my!) . The RTA will be re-doing the round-about which is right out the front of my shop. The people are really pleased because the road is in such a bad state and it is the entry to the main street of the town. The road is uneven with many dips and ridges and many large trucks use it as well as tourist with caravans and horse trailers.

On Friday we had to drive to Orange to get our new truck serviced we have only had it for about 8 weeks and have already done 10,000 kms in it. Then yesterday we had to do a delivery to Wagga Wagga and did another 825 kms. The drive was really nice we drove through country towns and the fields were so green and there were so many crops of canola so there was yellow patches here and there.

And the Gadget I have just installed is a new widget, FEEDJIT . I read about it on Rhonda's blog http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com/ Like Rhonda says it is interesting watching people roll in over the world, not that anybody really knows about my blog as yet but it will be interesting to see who does watch. If anybody is there just click on it and watch.

The camel is called potato it belongs to a customer of mine, Jess and I actually pass him nearly everyday as we go to work, we never new his name up till a few months ago so we use to call him Alice ( there is a children's song about a camel called Alice who had two humps) . The reason I have a photo of Potato is that I do not have my photos on this computer because Jess in her changing everything around has swapped computers and my photos are on the other computer.
I will have to update photos later !!!

Do what you love!

I am off next week for three days to Bilpin Health Resort www.bilpinhealthresort.com/ It sounds fantastic to be able to lay back relax and be pampered, have healthy food, a little bit of yoga, a walk through a pine forest, a massage and facials (someone pinch me please). I will be there but as a cook, I will be making the meals for the ladies that will be going there. I have know the lady that owns this retreat for quite a few years and I help out when she calls me for a hand. I really enjoy cooking and pampering people it gives you a feeling of contentment. Plus it will be a change from farming and working in our furniture shop but I know after three days I will be itching to come home !

The 1st !

The 1st of September was spring and a beautiful day it was, we had 50mm of rain the day before and everything was given a good soaking. The paddocks will start to show their new green shoots the dams have been topped up our water tanks have been given an urgent top up. The mornings are getting lighter and the evenings getting longer I can't wait to be able to come home from work and head into the garden and potter around the yard

Another 1st is my daughter and son in-laws 1st wedding anniversary. They spent the weekend in the city they dined at the Centre Point Tower which they thoroughly enjoyed(http://www.todi-media.com/sydneycentrepointtower.php) and went to see the amazing Cirque du soleli
(http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/theatre/cirque-du-soleil--dralion.aspx)
What a weekend to remember!

The kitchen is coming along, Dave took off the bathroom door which at present opens onto the kitchen but will be moved to another section of the house , I know it sounds strange but we are renovating as we live in this house. I remember a house we renovated once Dave was doing the bathroom and I used to work night shift and I came home late one night around 2am opened the bathroom door and nothing was there! No bath, toilet, vanity, shower and No floor . I felt like I just enter the twilight zone!!!! I just closed the door and went to bed!

Kitchen Renovations

Kitchen carcass
Leveling the legs

We have started renovating the kitchen and it is now taking shape. Dave built the cupboard carcasses out in the garage and brought them in and we adjusted them in place. That is me on the floor adjusting the legs so the cupboards will be level.

Dave is very clever and handy he has cut the cost on this kitchen renovation by thousands of dollars. The doors, side panel, skirting and top mouldings will be made out of timber which Dave will make himself .The bench top we will order from a kitchen place and I think it will be laminated or then again it could be granite, only because I recently found a company that has a lots of off cuts they can't get rid of and Dave could use them some how in the kitchen and also in other furniture he makes for the shop. We have also made wide drawers that will be just below the bench top to store our pot & pans and also crockery, it will make things easier for Jess or has a bad back and for Dave who has arthritis. It will be a fantastic kitchen with a huge walk in pantry where I can stock up on food and store my jams and pickles etc. I just love the big window that opens outwards so that I can see into the paddocks and the dam. You know life is simple and I feel blessed!

More Pics

The lambs are so cute! I love the way they jump with glee and kick their legs in the air. They are testing their mobility and agility as they stand on stumps and race the other lambs around the paddock until mama calls and then its a race back to her for a drink and a cuddle.

Where does the time go

About a month ago we had snow you can hardly see it but it did snow, not much but it was definitely snow. Apart from the snow it has been really cold here and one of the problems I haven't been at my blog is that we have had sick ewes and sick lambs. We had a few ewes just drop and didn't have the energy to get up and feed they were just exhausted from lambing and trying to keep warm. We penned the sheep and gave them extra feed and cracked corn to try to give them extra substance. The really sick ewes I gave a big dose of glucose and over a few days we saw an improvement. We did sadly lose some lambs because of the cold and their frailty. I still have one lamb that has pneumonia and have given it a few injections of penicillin, it is still pretty sick but is up and walking around and feeding.



Snow!!!! Dave couldn't wait to tell everyone!

Some people dont care

The Wombat

The wombat is a marsupial that digs burrows. It is about 1 metre long from nose to tail, the tail being only a couple of centimetres long. An adult weighs about 25-35 kilograms. Wombats are the largest burrowing mammals. A wombat is covered with coarse grey or brown fur, with a large head, a large nose and small ears. It is solidly built, with large claws for digging. Its body has a rounded appearance. Its back is hard and bony. This bony back is a useful defence against intruders in the burrow, as the wombat uses its back to crush them against the burrow wall.
The wombat is nocturnal, which means it is active at night, eating grasses, roots and shrubs. It stays in a burrow in daytime, though sometimes can be seen basking in the sun at the burrow entrance. It lives alone, except for a female with young.

Some people just don't care!

I live out in the country and some of my roads are dirt and you usually see wildlife about, anyway on my way to work this morning I passed a wombat on one of these dirt roads. Someone must have hit last night and just left it there. I drove up beside it and the poor thing was still alive shivering from shock. I don't know how badly injured it was but I did notice blood on the side of its head, apart from its faint breathing I say he was in the last stages of death. I felt helpless and knew I just couldn't drive off so I turned around and headed home, moments like these I felt I should have obtained a gun licence and bought a gun, but the thought of having a gun around would make me uneasy. I knew a neighbour that would willingly help this poor fellow out, so I rang the neighbour and picked him up and we drove back to the wombat and put him out of suffering.

It makes me angry sometimes when people don't care or want go out of there way to do the right thing. I know sometimes accidents happen when animals run out on the road and I know and have killed an animal instead of running off the road trying to avoid them. But to leave an injured or dying animal on the road is not right to my thinking.