Our two broody bantams have successfully hatched 10 little chicks between them, The lovely mumma hen has 4 that are from our own chooks and the crazy black and white frizzle has 4 silver spangled hamburg and 2 chinese silky chicks that my darling friend Michelle picked up from willowbank wildlife park.

I have a job on fridays, delivering lettuces for Mike down the road, and he has a huge stack of metal hoops to make mini tunnel houses, there is a wire clip that fits over the hoop and the plastic just slides between them, ill add a pic in a few days. So he has [...]

A beautiful little lamb was born to “big mumma” the sheep today. we toasted its auspicous birth on the first day of spring, over home made carrot birthday cake after dinner, Lizzy was happy to share her birthday with the lamb but we didn’t give it any cake dispite Miryns sugestion to that effect.

I only have [...]

The day dawned with torrential rain and wind but glowed with sushine by mid morning, I did have to deleate 530 spam messages when i signed on though! some people obviosly have nothing better to do. so im afraid youll have to sign on to post comments from now on sorry. Its so wonderful [...]

Their here! the first of the dafo down dillies are blooming, soon our whole front paddock will be awash with sunshine yellow blooms!

First Daffodilles

Chris and Jill used the apple tree prunings to finish Matthias’ brushwood fence arround the berry garden.

Now all we need is a little [...]

My friend Tammy has just answered the girls prayers and lent us her beautiful Shetland Stallion, Apache.

Here he is! Straight out of their dreams….

Apache

its been blowing nor-west for nearly a week and the snow is creaping back up the mountians, its so warm! well comparativly… but beautifull sunny days and some signs spring may not be far away…

the first spring flower!

And shirts come off… 

Having a yarn and a jam on the deck in the sun

I just found this collage i made in the summer, it just made me smile! winter has its joys, i will not deny it but i am looking forward to another beautiful summer in paradise!

Summer of 08

..and then we put it down again….

The projest today has me a little confused, I think Matthias better discribe it, or maybe you can guess what we were doing?

First we dug the earth up…..

 and then..

Well that looks absoluty weird… what the heck did i do? just when i think i am getting the hang of computers…..

We finished scraping down the old Haelan Farm sign and painted the lettering anew, i found an old tin of “danish oil” to protect the rest of the wood and it looks great! now who wants to dig a hole for the posts and we can stick it up at the gate!

Claire and Matt [...]