This is the lovely bantam, she is such a sweet friendly hen and a great mum, she raised the 6 brown shavers we got last year as well.

Since it autumn and the chooks are moulting there are plenty of feathers arround. I found  a tail feather and a wing feather from this girl the other day and made them into earings.  mmmm cant work out how to load that photo…?.

I only have one photo and its not verry good, ill look for a better one tomorro, the other sheep in the pic, “lady” was very interested she helped big mumma to lick the lamb clean and stuck close all afternoon, she was a very attentive mother to pudge last season, maybe she fancys herself a bit of a midwife?

Look what the spring wind blew in!

Here are some photos i took yesterday…

The view from the gate, I always have a moment of utter contentment as i see this sight. 

Lizzie, our resident artist!

Ben’s beautiful fence.

Snowpeas snaking their way up a chicken netting frame, we had to sow them about 5 times to beet the slugs but they are growing beautifully now.

My best friend grandfather recently past on and i have inherrited his fifteen year old merino, her hooves are curly from living on rook free ground but im not sure how to trim a sheep’s toenails! she has the strangest bleet, like a soft laugh.

 This fantastic piece of machinery made short work of the hedge trimming!

Peace,

Jill

Imagine for a moment, a truck full of boxes of fizzy drinks. Think of the weight of them, the huge truck, idling while they unload, the petrol that is consumed to transport them from one place to another. Think of the technology involved in the dispensing machines that are being filled, the electricity that keeps them cold, the countless coins that will feed them. Think of the energy within each can or bottle, the aluminum mined and smeltered, the sugar that fills them from huge sugar cane plantations, worked by wage slaves, the cavities they will cause. Think of a worlds worth of coke trucks, fridges, cans and bottles and the billions of dollars worth of advertising to encourage us to drink it, billboards scattered over the globe. Then remember that this isn’t all we drink, think of the land deforested for coffee plantations, the acres of tea hand picked by children and grandmothers. The irrigated and over fertilized dairy farms that pollute our aquifers. The barley fields grown for beer, the glass bottles that are produced, used, and recycled, dumped, or broken on the footpath. Its almost impossible to conceive of the energy(electrical, human, fossil or calorific) and the resources involved in the production and distribution of things for people to drink when you consider that the only thing we need to drink actually FALLS OUT OF THE SKY!

So i resolved to drink only water!

…. or maybe water and vodka?

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 rustic wooden gate, and then we can turn the stables into a cottage with french doors…

Here he is! Straight out of their dreams….

Apache