Archives for: August 2009
Settling In
August 19th, 2009Slippery 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, 2009We 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, 2009After 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, 2009We'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, 2009Jan 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, 2009Ripping 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, 2009Just 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 »
