Archives for: August 2009

Settling In

August 19th, 2009
Slippery Jim and Angelina and starting to set up quite a routine. I admit it's mostly swim a bit in the old bath, have a nap, go for a very quick waddle between the shed and the bath, and swim a bit more. We have found that they are b… more »

More Additions

August 17th, 2009
We went to Talbot Farmers Market yesterday. Got soaked to the skin - twice. The rain's fantastic. It's tremendous. It's bloody wet. Still we came away with a few more additions: New chooks - Barnevelder crosses. Lousy photo. Things… more »

Officially Named

August 10th, 2009
After a little mucking around (which was really related to getting which is which of the white Alpacas sorted out), we've officially dubbed them with their names: Meet: Dalziel (Sorry the photos of Dalziel came out a bit dark - it's… more »

They've Arrived

August 7th, 2009
We've picked out 4 names, now we're just working out which name fits which personality - but the boys arrived last night. Into a gale force wind and some rain, but they survived the night quite well and today we let them out into the old pig paddock /… more »

Weather Posts

August 5th, 2009
Jan and Jude dropped into to see goings on today and Jan bought some photos she'd taken when they were here last - a couple of these are really outstanding - the way that Jan's pasted 2 photos together to create a panorama. more »

Ripping and Banking

August 5th, 2009
Ripping and banking's been a bit of a topic of conversation around here for quite a while. For a start we've got the back dam which is working a treat: And one that doesn't work so well (although this is an pleasing amount of water in it, giv… more »

Things have been happening - Raised Beds

August 4th, 2009
Just not much blog posting - but lots and lots of things have been happening. We've now got the "feature" raised beds into place - ie the redgum sleeper surrounded ones, rather than the strawbale / adobe (not whinging but it's been a bit to damp to sta… more »