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:wave: Happy New Year everyone.
I hope everyone's year brings what they want.
I look forward to chatting on this thread and I hope everyone who lives in an isolated or remote area feels welcome here :)
Duchessa
11-01-2007, 21:12
Ooo I am going to jump on while the thread is short and unintimidating - I am a shocking lurker... :)
Happy New Year to you too Kazza and CONGRATULATIONS!! Wonderful news of the new bub.
We are shearing ATM but the team went home yesterday as a couple of the blokes had property being threatened by fire around Ensay. It is so shockingly dry. We are rather lucky as we destocked by about 50% or more last year after 2 years of drought and to renovate some pasture. But even with enough pick it is a struggle to keep the water up to them without them having to walk kms to get to it.
Kazza, please rub your belly for me - I have been trying to get preg again for the past 12 months with two miscarriages... I NEED me some New Year baby vibes (and I'm on my second two week wait in 5 months...)!
ToTeenyTots
11-01-2007, 23:16
Yes congrats Kazza - you will have your hands full !!!:laughing: But I firmly believe IMO that is good to have kids close together when they are going to be their only playmates. Tas and Bec are already starting to play together!. Till Bec crawls over Tashies "moos yard" the all hell breaks loose.
At least you aren't a thread killer like me Duchessa I seem to have a knack!
Hate to brag but we go 40 mm the other day when cyclone Isobel? came down!:smiliedance:
Bec is crawling and pulling herself up to standing now but she still cant sit! Bizare!
Anyway best of luck Duchessa
Cheers
Anna
Bearskin
11-01-2007, 23:50
Hi guys :) Happy new year to you all - hope you had a good one.
Congrats Kazza! Great news about the upcoming new bubs; hope all is well with you and your pregnancy.
Good to hear some of you have had rain; its a desert here. We bit the bullet before Christmas and put the rams in with the ewes; not sure how well the pg rate will be as there is bugger all feed but the ewes are in good nick at the moment. But market prices are up and the farmers around here are starting to restock as they are banking on it raining so things are busy with the trucks.
Dave, Zoe and I cleared out and went to Sunshine Coast for 2 weeks on Boxing Day; too depressing to sit here and watch it not rain. Was great to get away and relax; Zoe was great and ran everywhere. Went to Australia Zoo - Zoe ignored the roos, crocs, emus etc but ran up and cuddled the pet lambs on leads....whilst screaming "Baa! Baa!"
Good luck Duchessa - cross fingers that 2007 will be your year :hugs:
Cheers,
Michelle
Duchessa
14-01-2007, 20:27
Thanks Michelle and Anna!
We lost our shearing team last Wed to the fires - a couple of the shearers have property at Ensay and the fires are on their doorsteps. Might not be back til the end of next week - which means that we can't sell the cull sheep at the sale on Monday which means we have to keep them and the 800 we just bought for an extra few weeks... It is so tight at the moment (where there is feed there is a LONG walk to water and where there is water there is no feed) - bloody fires!! Poor shearers...
Yay for the rain Anna. I hope you got out there and got wet. Must be getting a green tinge by now?\
Michelle - your holiday sounds like it was perfectly timed and rather lovely. pml @ the sheep adoration! Probably thought they knew some of them :)
:kiss: thanks ladies for your wishes. Angus was wanting to do a lot more contract mustering this year. He still can but prob only til about June/July now. Hugh and I will just have to do more here. Feel a little better about that since we now have a newer ute. Yes, I will be very busy!
Duchessa I'm sending loads of baby dust your way, obviously I have loads floating around me at the moment and red dust I have all over my floors and kitchen table every morning, atleast the house can cool down over night! Yay, the joys of no air con :rolleyes:
Anna if you want to brag about getting 40mm :D go for your life!! Lucky duck. I hate sounding like a whinging farmer's wife but I just wish it would rain. I should be grateful we don't have enough on the ground to be worried about bush fires. Hope all's ok now D.
Bearskin we put our rams out in Dec too. :fingerscrossed: We do usually have a great lamb drop but the last 2 seasons the rain has been about a month late so by the time marking comes around we've generally lost quite a few. Here's hoping this year's different!
:smiliedance: I'm very happy to report we took 57mm out our rain gauge today!
I was getting quite upset yesterday as BOM kept saying it was going to rain since Wed. We only had a mm each day Wed, Thurs and Fri and on "The Country Hour" people all over SA- north, south and west of us had rains, things like 50,60 and even 80mms but now our time has come.
(Only downfall, sorry about the pun- I'm not complaining though- we're meant to go to my Mum's 50th tomorrow and nuchal scan Mon morning both in Adelaide and the highway's closed. If no more rain tonight we should get out on our road and the highway will be open :fingerscrossed: )
misskittyfantastico
20-01-2007, 20:25
Oh I've just seen this thread!
I have been absent for ages (see what being a mod does!:p )
I'm soooo glad for your rain Karen (I was actually telling John about Angus eating oreo filling today while we were moving sheep!
We are in the process of moving to Johns' Parents' house and it's exciting and awful.
Also Michelle and Anna - nice to meetya!
Bearskin
22-01-2007, 00:08
We got rain too! It has rained for 3 days on and off...not heavy but enough to start filling the dams again.
For the first time in over 12 months we were drafting sheep today and my boots got clogged with mud! It was great; Zoe loved it too as she hasn't seen much rain before.
She was so cute today in the yards, baaing at the sheep (we put her in a seperate pen! :laughing: ) and trying to climb up on the motorbike...I think I have a little farm girl tomboy on my hands. I'm a bit happy with that as I don't think I would know what to do with a girly girl...
All of our last season lambs (and a couple from the year before we found hanging around!) are going to market in the morning so hopefully some will get a good price but some of the second drop just look a little light but what can you do with no feed on the ground and lucerne hay at $400 a tonne and no grain to be had for love or money (and we have tried both :p ). Hopefully they can pay for our air con to be installed....that or a back fence for the (rock and dust) garden.
Hi misskitty :) Welcome to the thread. Hope the move goes well; I can see the two sides of moving in with your in-laws so good luck.
Karen - best of luck for scan tomorrow; hope you can get out onto the highway and have fun at your mum's 50th.
Duchessa
22-01-2007, 12:17
Fantastic about the rain! We had 36mm too, though more than half came too hard and we have a fair bit of damage to fences, silting etc... And the sheep got wet so the shearing was delayed AGAIN - last week it was delayed for 4 days by the fires, this week by the flood! A rather biblical shearing of the flock this year. We can do without the pestilence though...
Bearskin, we have some old bangers at the sales today - hopefully the rain will have picked up the prices a bit - we don't expect more than $10/head for them and they are in good nick with all their teeth...
Kazza, we had some friends staying from the Flinders Ranges area and they had over 6 inches in 4 days (in two lots) - I hope you have had a good soaking since your post. Good luck with the NT scan.
MissKitty, best wishes for the moving. My MIL is stomping around upstairs right now, going through stuff (hopefull just her stuff!) that she is storing in our (her old) house because she has too much stuff to fit in the new house... Moving SUCKS! Being a farming DIL SUCKS!!!! Did you ever listen to the series on MILs and DILs on Radio National? It was playing about a year ago and was VERY good. It is such a bloody difficult position to be in, especially if your husband doesn't get it. Mine is getting A LOT better now - now that he realises that MIL causes most of the tension, not me...
I bummed out again in the baby stakes, so now looks like Clomid - which sucks cos its an 8 hour return trip to my ob/gyn. It's hard to take being infertile after conceiving twins without a cycle after I came off the pill last time!
HI Guys,
Great to hear someone is getting some rain!
Not really good to hear about the fires however.
It is so dry here in CQ and everyday we have rain forcast to miss it every time....very dissapointing.
From where we are I can see the storms hit the mountain range behind us and go the other way:( .
Nice to see a thread for outback ladies.
Hope to chat with you all soon:wave:
*takes deep breath*:o
Well I thought I'd join you lovely ladies in this thread. I kinda didn't think I'd belong living 3/4 hour away from town...but a farm is a farm.
I am a born and bred country girl living and breathing beef cattle..then I made the big move to where I am now.......veggies:confused:
DP helps his dad run their small crop farm. Very boring in my books compaired to feral cows:laughing: But hey..I'll never have to buy a veggy again!!
So far to the veg farm I have added two horses and five bucket fed calves!! (I'm slowly working on more!!)
Well water is scarse, so not good for vegetables and we too seem to miss all the rain hanging around.
Well enough of my dribble..;) Hope everyone is well.
Nice to see you back Steph and a big hello to all the new members of our special little club! :D Bindi I haven't seen you on BH for ages. Remember other ladies from Remote or Isolated areas it's not just about agriculture, although it really must seem like that sometimes!
We went to leave Sun for Adel, highway reopened, and got all the way in to about a km from town and we couldn't go any further- very frustrating. There is a huge water course there that had pretty much washed most of the road away. But we went home and packed all our stuff in to big plastic crates, chucked them on the back of the ute and got out through our neighbour's property. So we got to the party at about 6pm, it was for lunch, and all these people were still there to see us, pretty overwhelming. We were exhausted and some of the guests were quite drunk and full on.
Scan went well.
We are in the process of moving to Johns' Parents' house and it's exciting and awful.
So glad to hear Steph that things are moving along now.
Being a farming DIL SUCKS!!!! It is such a bloody difficult position to be in, especially if your husband doesn't get it. Mine is getting A LOT better now - now that he realises that MIL causes most of the tension, not me...
I hear you D! My m-i-l actually calls me the dil too :mad: It sucks too when you have b-i-ls that have to have a say as as well. We often think working for someone else, not family, would be so much easier.
Angus understands how painful his Mum can be but he thinks I take it all to heart too much. But things are better now than they used to be. The fact that she lives 400km away helps :p
PS- I forgot to add all the best with the Clomid D. I rambled on for so long in the last post and I knew there was something I forgot to say, just thought about it then!
I just have to share my bad experience for the day as I'm home alone and have no one else to tell, til I ring Angus tonight at 9pm anyway.
**Just a warning, it's pretty gross so wait til after tea to read it!**
As I said Angus is away so Hugh and I went out on a water run this morning. Everything went well, all tanks full, all troughs in good order until we got to our Butler's paddock, well the Butler's trough to be precise. It was the second to last on our run.
There was a wether stuck in there, for some reason lately they keep pushing each other in the trough, not a usually a problem. But this poor bugger got himself stuck between Angus going out Sun and me today. His head and front legs were on the ground but his bum and rear legs were in the trough. Unfortunately and quite grossly an eagle I'm tipping had opened up his guts, so it was spilt through the trough. There were intestines and the contents of his stomach and sheep poo and blood everywhere- mainly in the trough though. And lots of flies, no maggots that I saw, thank goodness.
So I tied a rope around his head and legs, not an easy job to do without touching the poor thing, and tow him out and well away from the trough. I then had to clean all the blood and guts out of the trough, while trying to keep the dogs out of the water and away from the intestines!! :barf:
Anyway, that was my gross job for the week!
Bearskin
30-01-2007, 22:57
The poor sheep - and poor you! Wont be long until you can get Hugh to get out of the ute and get into those types of jobs :D
Nature is bloody cruel sometimes, isn't it?
I know its survival of the fittest and all that but that poor wether...
We bought some droughty sheep from WA one year (Dave and I had just started going out) and they were really weak. We lost about 30 (out of 600) and we found one on the fenceline without an eye. I assumed it was dead and I pointed this out to Dave so we could drag it out of the paddock and he said, "Its still alive." The sheep was so weak and poor it just couldnt stand up and crows had pecked his eye out.... Dave wanted to stand it up and give it a chance but I made him put the sheep down - bloody awful. I cried in the ute for about 1/2 an hour...not much of a farm girl then I can tell you!
As for the dogs - they just love it don't they! Then want to come up for a pat after rolling around in dead sheep for 10 minutes... buggers!
Bearskin that's a terrible story.
I was telling my m-i-l about my day last night, she wasn't very sympathetic as she's been there done that before and she said it's not as bad as when she had to put sheep down during the draught and she didn't have a gun!
Anyway it was horrible enough for me.
And yes the first dog to jump in the bloody trough was Sav our little terrier, who can't jump in the back of the ute so guess who had the job of lifting him up?!
Hi ladies..Kazza congrats again and I haven't seen you around the threads for ages!!
I hate it when things like that happen.....especially when know one is around to help.
oh and the dogs.......it's even worse when they drag bits of carcess back into the house yard!!:barf: :laughing:
well...still no rain for us:thumbsdown: so the crops aren't looking too flash at present! I keep seeing the water tanker pass our driveway (on it's way to a horse property near us) it's so sad to see everyone struggling at the moment.
Anyway..better story.............I had my scan yesterday. Everything went well (we didn't find out what sex!!) And FIL has brought us air-conditioning for the house. It's due to be put in this week!! YAY!!
Yay for you Bindi with your air con!
Also glad your scan went well. And you're getting a nice surprise at the end!
Obs rang yest to say my scan and blood tests came back high risk. Why is it always times like these Angus is away?
I've made an appt for the amnio anyway but we'll sit down and research everything a bit more and have a good talk- I'm sure it's nothing to worry about anyway- before we go any further.
And of course the date for the amnio is when we are supposed to start shearing!
I have to check waters over the whole place today and I just can't get motivated! Guess I'll get going when Hugh wakes up.
misskittyfantastico
01-02-2007, 15:06
mmmm Air condidtioning..yay Bindi!!
Karen - that story was, well, gross! - the joys of farming hey!:D
Sorry you got a less than perfect result, but I'm sure all will be perfect - it's just a pain to have something so unsettling to deal with especially with Angus away.
I'm in Perth today YAY!!! We are on a buy stuff for the farm house mission! Mmm, new whitegoods! I reckon we'll be in in about 3 weeks. MIL is away so life is noice.
Take care ladies xx
Duchessa
02-02-2007, 07:01
Karen, I'm sorry about your results... As if sieving intestines out of a trough wasn't enough - your dp has amazing timing. It is a hard dec to make re amnio. If you do go ahead, just make sure you have the most experienced practioner you can buy cos the risk depends dramatically on their precision. The results can be so skewed though - with my identical twins one was way outside - 1 in the high 2,000 and the other was high risk but with identical genes...
Miss Kitty, glad you are getting a break, and getting new appliances. yummy.
Bindi, veg farming would *nearly* be as bad as dairy farming! What are you growing?
Duchessa
02-02-2007, 12:23
ooo I am so excited - we have finally (after two months waiting and lots of cranky phone calls) got our satellite guys here installing the sat. YAYAYAY! No more 20 kps crappy dialup!
Just had to share that...
Duchessa: what don't we grow!!:laughing:
at the moment..mango's, pumpkins, cherry tomato's, grape tomato's, gormet tom's, asian greens....that's all I can remember baby brain is playing up!!
Well, it's a sad day here today.. One of DP's friends was killed last night. He came off his motorbike on a windey back road:gloomy: :gloomy: I didn't know him or his family that well, as DP works with him and the hours those boys worked left little time for meet-ups. He is leaving a young wife and children. He was a great caring person who will be missed in this community.
I just don't know how to help..I feel lost:crying:
Please hug your DP's tight, I know I will. He thought he was heading home to tuck his children in...accidents happen so quickly.
Sorry to be such a downer..I just need to get it out, as I don't want to worry DP. He's really upset as it is, and I can't help him.
Duchessa
02-02-2007, 15:54
Oh Bindi, that is awful - I am so sad for your family's loss. And yeah, I'll hug him tight - it is a wakeup call, isn't it.
Off topic a bit, do you grow sweet corn?
Bindi that is terrible news.
It's so hard when someone so good and with so much to live for goes isn't it?
Sorry, just had to go put my chicken pieces in the oven. Where was I?
Steph, everything sounds like it's going to plan then. I'm so jealous of you in town shopping :D
I'm dreading my m-i-l coming up over shearing. I'm not dreading the extra pair of hands but she just drives me insane.
D, it really is the actual amnio procedure that I'm scared about. I know it is most probably just a false alarm and I'm really confident that everything is ok, so much so I'm just about considering not going through with it. But then another side of me thinks well if I can find out I really should.
Anyway Angus is coming home tonight (:smiliedance: ) so we'll be able to discuss it properly together, especially after we have a read through of the info the Obs has put in the post.
misskittyfantastico
02-02-2007, 18:45
Hi all!
Bindi, that really is terrible news...it's so hard to try and process losing someone so young and full of life. You're in my thoughts.
Duch, YAY satellite! I am not stepping one foot permantly into the farm house until I have my satellite!
Karen, I'm so glad you get your fella back today - makes everything better.
Well, my Perth trip has been a disaster! John and I had a fight.....bought nothing (except for a nappy bucket!) but we are friends again and have decided we can get what we need in Merredin (half an hour from where we live) But we are staying in Perth tonight - we are too frazzled to drive home. Bloody stressful this moving thing.
Thanks for the kind words and thoughts :hugs:
well, we all feel better today. It still plays in the back of my mind, just the reality of losing your partner :gloomy: but anyway........
Dutchessa, we used to grow sweet corn....but don't now...I think we put more tomato's in this time??? And yay for satellite!!
MissKitty, too bad about the Perth trip...We did this not long ago, except replace Perth with Brisbane :laughing: and nappy bucket with McDonalds!!
I hope all goes well with the amnio kaz,:fingerscrossed: if you decide to do it or not.
doin'mybest
04-02-2007, 13:28
Hi ladies:wave:
It's been ages since i've posted in here so i thought i'd better drop by and say g'day!
So good to see you back in here Doin'MyBest!
MissKitty, too bad about the Perth trip...We did this not long ago, except replace Perth with Brisbane :laughing: and nappy bucket with McDonalds!!
Yep we have this problem too!
Angus starts getting up tight about 40km from Adelaide and isn't better til it's in the rear view mirror and we're going home :laughing:
He must have been sooo in love with me when we first met and he'd come down to see me in Adel every second weekend, he did that for over a year.Valentine
Duchessa
05-02-2007, 20:17
Kazza - it is amazing what people do for love (especially prior to having kids :p). Hey, have you decided whether you are going to have the amnio? It is a horrible decision to make.
MissKitty - bloody arguments! As if it isn't stressful enough. John and I had a couple of meltdowns during the past month but things are beginning to have a rythm again... There is an end to the tunnel - honest, it isn't a train... honest.
John went back to his day job today - first day working from home. He manages a company that breeds and markets sweetcorn all over the world (which is why I asked about the sweetcorn, Bindi - chances are, you or your hb might have even met him - it's a pretty small world out there...).
He and I managed to escape for the night to the coast - we had my mum and his mum look after the twins so together they managed to cover 23.5 hours (and counting :laughing:). Unfortunately we had to be back to the farm to unload new sheep and load old sheep. It was bliss to be together without them - sounds awful, but we haven't had time for a conversation for SO LONG! It was nice to catch up. Pity I wasn't ovulating ;).
We bought nice 1 y/o wethers for $20/head and sold the culls for an average of $19.80 :smiliedance: The fat ones got $30!!! Must be a dire shortage of fat sheep around.
Here's praying for a good autumn break all round.
Hey D, glad you had a nice break even if it was a small one.
I think I probably will have the amnio. Angus is going to do everything in his power to come with me. We both think it's also a good idea if I go to my parents with Hugh for a few days afterwards and take it easy instead of racing back here to a hot and stressful house with no air con to work during shearing. My m-i-l will be here and I don't need that added stress!! The other thing is she will be able to cook for me.
doin'mybest
06-02-2007, 13:15
:hugs: Kazza I hope everything goes well for you. Going to your parents afterwards for a rest sounds like a great idea.
Thanks W,
I'm still not entirely convinced about the whole thing. I'm pretty confident it is just a false alarm so I think is it worth a trip to Adel in the middle of shearing?
But being where we are I think if we were to have a Downs baby we really would need to find out the sooner the better.
I hope everything goes well with the amnio :fingerscrossed: Kaz!! At least you'll know for sure if anything is up and you can act on it now.
Duchessa...Trent's Dad grew sweet corn for YEARS!! No doubt you'd probably know them. I went for my ob's appointment today and everything is great :smiliedance: with bub and myself. (so much better than last pregnancy!!) The ob did a little ultrasound to check bub's heart and show dd the 'baby'. she kept looking at the screen, pointing to a section of fuzz on the screen and saying 'ummm..baby":confused: :laughing:
Oh and also...those of you who use cloth, what nappies do you guys use?? I'm converting to cloth for bub #2 and get stuck with SO many choices!!!!!!!! Hope everyone is doing well
Duchessa
08-02-2007, 13:15
Hey Bindi, great to hear about u/s. I used to love seeing the girls snuggled in there like two little broad beans in a downy pod.
As for nappies, I LOVE Nappies Covered nappies - you can buy nappy cuts and a pattern or do what I did and just buy her nappies. They are really well made, so darn easy to use, quick drying (I dry all mine over night) and inexpensive unlike some brands. It is a very subjective decision though, and people get rather passionate about it! Good luck.
Karen, all the best for the amnio. You are a brave and wise woman.
Bindi that's so cute, your dd at the scan.
I use mainly BabyBeeHinds one size fits all nappies (bamboo & hemp) and Very Baby- they are size specific. I also have some Cherubs Kiss Raphaels stashed for the new bubs.
Probably the best thing is to get a few different types and brands, most stores offer trial packs, and see what works best for you.
Duchessa
11-02-2007, 06:08
WHOOOOPEEE! We have had 82mm since yesterday lunch time. Just in the nick of time for stock water and as follow up for the inch and a half we had a couple of weeks ago. YAY!
Hope we aren't the only ones to benefit. Anyone else?
Wow- excellent news D!!
Especially as it's a follow up rain, that's fantastic.
We didn't have any and can't see any coming.
doin'mybest
12-02-2007, 13:52
Wow Duchessa 82mm - what a lovely rain!
Nothing in sight here. But we've got :fingerscrossed:
It started Raining here at 3pm and it HASN"T STOPPED (yet):smiliedance: :smiliedance:
It's good, steady rain to! Not drizzle!!!!!!!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bearskin
12-02-2007, 22:41
Aahhh you lucky buggers!
Dry as a bone here - as are the dams except one :( Bindi and Duchessa - go and stand in the rain for me and Zoe will you?
Sent our last season lambs and cull wethers to market last 2 weeks; bottom 400 wethers made average $51!!! Fat lambs made average $88!! Woohoo!! Now I might get a back fence, a garden of sorts and MAYBE some evap air conditioning.
I am absolutely begging for a back fence so Zoe can play outside without me worrying about her getting run over by a truck, tractor or motorbike.
On the downside, due to lack of water we have to sell my ewes as well :( They were a gift from Dave before we got married but we just don't have the feed or water for pregnant ewes. He promised me he would buy me some more down the track so hopefully we can get some bigger framed ewes next time; they had heaps of trouble lambing both years.
Zoe and I went out on the bike to check the dams and fix some fences tonight - she is so cute on the 4 wheeler!
Kazza - hope all is ok with the tests; they don't sound like a lot of fun so hope Angus is being a massive support for you. :hugs: to you.
Bindi - great to hear your u/s went well! Your DD sounds gorgeous pointing at the screen like that :)
Going for a ride in the morning so going to bed now, before I spend all night here! Dave coming home tomorrow arvo so he can 'check my fencing work' - thanks honey!I'm just a woman...
Duchessa
13-02-2007, 06:58
Bummer re the rain, Bearskin. But YAY on the price for your sheep! That is excellent.
Bummer re selling the ewes though :(
Though I am very envious re your ride in the am - I am desperately seeking a new ride, I have been horseless since I was 5/6 months preg with the twins and it is slowly sending me back to my natural state (lunacy).
I am desperately seeking a new ride, I have been horseless since I was 5/6 months preg with the twins and it is slowly sending me back to my natural state (lunacy).
I've got the perfect 2yr old gelding for sale *hint, hint, nudge-nudge* ;) :laughing:
Being pregnant (again!!) I have NO time to work the little fella :( He is the biggest sook around. So I'm really sad about him having to go.
Well it's still overcast today...apparently more rain due this afternoon :fingerscrossed: I hope so!!!!!!
We can't really do much here today.... Because the ground is too wet to pick anything.I'm not complaining just really bored!!!
ToTeenyTots
13-02-2007, 23:53
Hi all
Not a cloud in sight here! It has been foul really really hot but then it is summer so what do I expect.:confused:
As soon as the weather breaks, hopefully with some rain I am going to get stuck into the area I have tagged for my new horse yards. Well I intend to convert a part of the sheep yards anyway. It makes me sad to see all the yards and shed not being used but we have no sheep now just the cattle so I am going to modify for another four legged beast that costs not funds the operation!:laughing:
Kazza - I had to have an amnio with Tash. My scan was ok but the blood work was a problem so I went for an amnio. I read all the pamphlets before and terrified myself for nothing! It is not a bad procedure at all and it doesnt hurt and is over in 2 ticks. I know you must be concerned I know I was. As it turned out Tash has a chromosomal abnormality but it does not affect her at all. It is inherited form her father he has the same one we found out after tests on us. When I had the DS test with Bec she came back high risk but I didnt bother having the amnio as I assumed it was just what Tash and Mick have. She fine so I assume I am right. Anyway that is a longwinded way of saying Im thinking of you and if :hugs: . If you want anymore info on the procedure just let me know.:hugs:
Cheers
Anna
:hugs: thanks Anna,
I'm sure it will be fine too, it's the actual procedure I'm worried about, so to hear you say it didn't hurt is such a relief.
One of my neighbours has had 3 now so figured it can't be too bad :fingerscrossed:
We had some wicked looking clouds build up here late yesterday and some thunder but it all came to nothing.
:laughing: I even hung some washing out, put the sprinkler on and took Hugh for a walk to encourage it.
misskittyfantastico
14-02-2007, 13:25
No rain here.....dry and stinking hot! There's a clearing sale on that I wanted to go to but it's 41 in the shade and I've lost interest!
Hmm horsey girls hey? I'm really not - they scare the poop out of me - my "lovely" horse mad friends are working on Millie though.
Take care ladies xx
we did actually score a nice shower Wed night of 2.5mm but after our big rain in Jan it is worth something now
every arvo we've had a real tropical build up, Angus has gone to check waters today so he may find it's rained in some spots- fingers crossed
I'm taking Angus up to Broken Hill later he's got something in his eye ,for the third time in 3 years!!
He swears he was welding and had safety glasses, welding helmet and ear muffs on off all afternoon and he just did one really quick 2 sec job without his glasses
The amnio went very well,
it was just as you said Anna except it took a little longer as bubs put their hand up to the needle so had to wait a bit for them to move.
:fingerscrossed: everything is fine
I think it was harder for Angus to watch, he went very quiet and it even surprised him that he can mules a lamb or kill a sheep but couldn't handle seeing me with a needle in my stomach!
Great to hear the amnio went well for you Kaz.
:fingerscrossed: Hope all goes well with the results:fingerscrossed: and how did Angus' eye go??
Well, we've had a few good showers nearly every afternoon for the past week. My lawn is green again (well...it's not a dirt patch anymore lol)
It's been a good news week for me, firstly my SIL took DD's pony to a show for us (her second show ever) and won a 1st and 2nd in her two led classes.
Then mum came down (haven't seen her in ages) and suprised me with a new sewing machine for my (early) birthday present..YAY.
Also we're getting a new car!!!!!!!!!:smiliedance:
If all goes well we should get it either late this week or early next!! I'm so excited (I feel so spoilt!! I also brought three BBH nappies!!:o )
Well sorry for the gloat, but it's finally good to get something for ME instead of the farm!!!
Duchessa
21-02-2007, 19:57
I'm so glad it went well Karen - when do you get the results?
Bindi, that is exciting about the ribbons and the You stuff! Yay for you and happy birthday soon. happybirthday
It rained like buggery here again today (our 3rd round of flash flooding in a month :eek:) - dunno where the drought went??? Nah, not quite that good yet - none of the springs and soaks are running again but we can't complain - it is still the height of summer :p. We have so much feed coming on we really need to restock a bit.
I have to wait 2 weeks D for the results.
I could have paid an extra $200 and got the Downs results only in 2 days but you still have to wait 2 weeks for any other abnormality result anyway and when they said they'd need to take more fluid I said no!
ToTeenyTots
25-02-2007, 22:58
Hi
Glad the tests went well Kazza.
We have had 6mm in the last 5 days in 2 showers. I just looked outside, checking for fire with all the lightning, and it looks like the weaners are coping it . I hope so anyway cause a mill is not pumping and I keep moveing the buggers to the next mill and they keep coming back and standing at the trough looking at me. Mick home soon so he can fix it for them.
Hope everone is well
Cheers
Anna
My Obs rooms rang this morning at 8.30 to say amnio results report no abnormalities detected!!:smiliedance:
That was great they came in so fast- only 9 days I had to wait. Such a relief.
Thanks again everyone for your lovely thoughts and hugs :hugs:
They also offered to tell me the sex- 100% correct- as tempting as it was, and it was soooo tempting to find out, I declined.
YAY for Kaz!!!!!!!!!!!!:smiliedance:
Glad to hear everything went well!! All though I have NO IDEA how you declined to know the sex..If it was 100% sure, I would have HAD to know :laughing:
Well nothing really interesting has happened here. Just the usual daily routine. I have somehow managed to get 4 kelpie X Border Collie pups (thanks to my SIL :mad: ) and now they are at my place it's "Not MY problem" according to her!! :banghead: So I'm as angry as hell with her....and I have to find homes for the cute little buggers...grrrrr
The major problem is it's all veg here and there's not many 'cattle people'. Everyone else has pig dog's because that's all there is around here!! GRRRRRRRR........
ok my little vent over
doin'mybest
01-03-2007, 11:44
:hugs: Kazza so glad to hear that everything is ok:yelclap:
ToTeenyTots
01-03-2007, 23:10
Kazza I am so glad to hear that your results are fine. :hugs: That feeling of relief I understand well.
I found out the sex when I had my amnio with my first and we went through the rest of the pregnancy waithing for William John cause they told me it was a boy. The genetist (sp) had given his report, after all the tests, and his summary for the secretary to type and she made a typo of one letter when she sent it to my obs. He just read the summary. We knew we wre going to have a baby boy with a defect we just didnt know how it would appear. So needless to say after I gave birth ( to a healthy girl) and was busily heamoraging (sp again!) on the table the obs was panicing over this boy that was missing bits. Funny as buggery now but a little shocking fo all at the time:laughing:
Anyway that is my waffle story for tonight
Hope everyone else is well and wet
Cheers
Anna
That is a great story Anna! LOL
It was very tempting to find out the sex but the main thing is it's a healthy baby.
Bindi, sorry I never got back to tell you Angus' eye was fine. Apparently whatever was in there he managed to get out himself but it had scratched his eye lid and was irritating him. It was actually a lot better by the time I took him up there but we didn't want to mess around if it was damaged.
floggadog
04-03-2007, 00:38
Hi everyone:wave: , I'm not remote or outback but I am a long suffering farmers wife & a farmer when I'm not housewifing. It's acually refreshing to read all your posts and know some of what you're going through.
We farm 800ac 15km from the nearest town . We grow the dreaded Bluegum, run 35- -40 cows, I run our White Suffolk sheep stud & My hubby is a hay contracter plus anything else he has time for.
I'm farmers daughter as well, so I guess it's in the blood. Hubbys family were farmers in Wales before selling up & coming to Aus & my ILs live 200m away!!!
Hope you don't mind me following your thread.
Welcome Floggadog. :wave:
Well the puppies I mentioned. Two have gone walk-a-bout this morning and still haven't come back :gloomy: . We have looked everywhere!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid little buggers........and I had become SO attached to them :( I just hope we find them or someone else does.........Poor little buggers pick the hottest day to go a stray. The other two are all lonely without there little mates.
misskittyfantastico
04-03-2007, 15:58
Hi y'all!
Welcome Floggadog:wave: I'm not terribly remote either - I'm now 20kms from the nearest town of 500 people and 3 hours from Perth.
Bindi - :( for the pups, I hope they turn up....I totally get the the family off loading animals on to you - my BIL and SIL have so far "given us" one cat and 2 dogs...
KAren - I am SO PLEASED that all was well with your test, now you're free to just enjoy your little bump. You're also far stronger than I regarding bubbas' sex!
Well, my news is that WE HAVE MOVED!!! We had our first night here last night and it's good - weird but good.
Anyhow, hope you're all well
xxxx
Congratulations on the move MissKitty!!! How exciting!!!!!!!:smiliedance:
Well you'll never believe what happened last night....... We locked up the remaining 2 pups and our dog for the night. I was sitting on the computer and the dogs started to go off. We yelled at them (thinking it was a rabbit they saw) and something else started barking on the opposite side of the yard.
Trent went outside and it was the other 2 PUPS. THEY CAME HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! :smiliedance: :D
They needed a huge drink and were as hungry as ever, but they were fine.
I'd just love to know where they went. We spend ALL DAY looking for them and calling them. Then all of a sudden they turn up at 8pm!! YAY my pups are home
(no, I'm not attatched to the little buggers am I!!!)
:yelclap: Excellent news re your pups Bindi.
I would have been thinking the worst, ie they were run over or something, so atleast now you can relax and you know where they are.
:smiliedance: Fantastic news to hear you've moved Steph. It feels weird to remember back probably a year ago when you were discussing this move and it probably felt like it was never going to happen.
Welcome Flogga :wave: We love to see new people join us.
:wave: Welcome also to one of the mothers from my tele link up mothers group- Zaneybaby. I hope we see you around here more!
I kind of lost the plot Sunday and got in our car and left.
Feeling a bit happier now and I am home atleast.
floggadog
08-03-2007, 18:09
Thanks all for your welcoming messages.
Well it's been too hot here the last 3 days. 39deg on my front porch @ 6 pm last night & 35 in the house. The joys of a half baked farmhouse. We spent the day pouring cold water on ourselves & dripdrying. Baby Olliver played with a wet clothie but didn't sleep much so he was a screaming mess last night & the night before. The other 2 enjoyed the freedom of nakedness & the 5 minute sprinkler run.
Funny thing is, last Thursday it was raining so hard we couldn't go outside & the paddocks started washing. Can't win.
Our calves are making an appearance. We've helped one calve so far(which came easy)
Except the cow we had to shoot.(the mum of my twin heifers.)
The bulls were put in together last night & bellowed & fought for hours. DH put them into the paddock next to the house:mad: so we got even less sleep than usual.
Anyway hope u are all keeping cool.
Need to get hot babe off to sleep:wave:
Duchessa
11-03-2007, 20:36
Congrats on the move, MissKitty! I'm glad you are in there and settling. I found it was much easier to cope with afterwards than beforehand.
Welcome Floggadog. Hope the weather has cooled off for you and you get a nice wet autumn break. Sad about having to shoot the mother of your twin heifers (I am a mother of twin heifers myself - I feel like I knew her ;)).
Can't remember if I announced it in here, but I am finally preggers again and I don't think this one is going to end in tragedy, feel good and sicky sticky. I'm only 6 weeks but I'm pretty confident. And very happy. The logistics for the birth and antenatal care are a bit of a pain in the rear but who cares! I'm preg!
We have also had more than 12 inches since mid Jan (which is close to half our average rainfall), so we are in the midst of a second spring that will hopefully spill into the autumn break. We have restocked another 1000 head so things are returning to normal. Things are much more positive all round - wool prices have risen so much that our crutchings from Oct that we sold last week got the same price as our main line from last years shearing :eek:
Hope you are well Kazza and enjoying a more relaxed pregnancy.
just pm'd you D but I forgot to ask your EDD
Duchessa
12-03-2007, 09:50
First of November at this stage, though I haven't bothered getting a bloody test. Too bloody far :) It seems like only a couple of weeks ago that you announced your preg - can't believe you are half way through already!
Bearskin
16-03-2007, 22:50
Hi All :) Great to read some lucky buggers are getting some serious rain.
Kazza - great news re. the test. Must have been a huge weight off your mind but I don't know how you knocked back the option of finding the sex...I have no patience!
Duchessa - lovely to read that you are 6 weeks pg; I really hope all goes well and little one sticks for you :hugs:
MissKitty - bet you are glad the move is over and done with. Moving is so stressful; I've moved plenty of times and its always been a good opportunity to get rid of some **** :)
Welcome Floggadog -I'm not outback either; we live 15 kms from a town of 120 people.
I've been hiding out a bit lately; this drought is really getting us down. It hasn't rained here and we have sold nearly all of our sheep. I still have my ewes (and 400 wethers) but its so bad here I have 150 ewes and 4 rams on 390 acres with 3 dry dams and 1 half full dam and we are feeding them silage. I just keep thinking its gonna rain and it seems to pass us by all the time. Dave is away more than ever in the trucks trying to earn as much money as possible for when the quiet times come around. One good thing is that a few of the farmers around here are wanting to restock so we are carting heaps of ewes out of WA but Dave is away for 6 days at a time.
Dave and I have been looking at some much bigger farms in NSW; land around here is too expensive and the way the weather has been for the last 5 years dryland farming just isn't making the money it costs to buy the land. His dad wants $1000 an acre for the farm next to ours (we don't inherit farmland, we buy from IL's as its their superannuation) and we just cannot justify the cost per acre as to the potential income per acre.
One good thing about Dave being away; I don't have to worry about getting pg anytime soon :laughing:
Anyway, I am sure it will rain...it always does eventually! I just want to see some green tucker on the ground come May; those little lambies are going to need their mums to make some milk and my motherless lamb pen only holds 4 lambs at a time!
Cheers, Michelle
:hugs: Michelle,
I know how you feel. It's all out of your hands though and you just have to pray or :fingerscrossed: for some rain.
The last 2 years we've had heaps of lambs on the ground but come time to mark them they've dropped right off as there's just been no feed. But I'm being positive this year will be different :fingerscrossed:
Bearskin
20-03-2007, 11:04
UPDATE - its raining, its pouring.....my old man is snoring (or working :) )!!!!
Been raining since 2am last night and no sign of stopping!! :yelclap:
We are still going to sell our sheep but at least the money can be a damn good deposit on some more land.
BTW, my mum came up to stay for a few days and called me Britney Spears....she wasn't too impressed by Zoe and I riding around on the 4 wheeler...I told her I only go really slow and its just for fun, not work but she wasn't impressed. Funny coming from a woman whose husband used to let us sit on his lap whilst driving (I was around 5yrs old) and steer the car and that was in suburban Melbourne...how times have changed :laughing:
Dad grew up around here and he was taught to drive the same way; I still see one bloke with his 6 yr old daughter driving the ute around the paddocks while he feeds out the hay off the back - not very safe :eek:
floggadog
20-03-2007, 11:44
hi Bearskin, congrats for your rain:smiliedance:
We had 8 mm in a thunderstorm 2 days ago which was follow up to 10 mm over a week ago.(3 35-40 degree days inbetween.)
I must admit to riding around on the 4 wheeler with my kids, no helmuts etc. Yep one was probably under 2 at the time. And i've had my DSS drive the ute whilst feeding out hay. He was seat belted in in his booster and did a fantastic job.
So we're not the first & certainly won't be the last! Oh & isn't it funny how quickly parents forget. I wouldn't let my kids do half the things I did growing up on as farm.
Well today DH is helping put out a huge pile of mulch at a local sawmill. It's been smouldering away for 2 days & was either struck by lightening or spontaneosly combusted.
My children went to a new level of animal cruelty today. I have 7 9wk old chicks which Icounted up this morning & found 3 missing. I hunted for them & decided the fox had been.
When I came inside I said to DS 3 chicks were missing. "oh I know where they are" says he (he knows everything !) 'they're in the caravan.'
Where?
'Oh in the cupboard.'
I should explain the kids were playing in my storage caravan 2 days earlier & I had told them to get out & shut the door.
So we go to the caravan & there in the overhead cupboards in pitch black. were my 3 dazed chicks, dirty from the s*#t but otherwise OK.:banghead:
I was sooo glad we hadn't had hot weather & was sure I was going to hook out dead chicks from the cupboards.
One thing about my kids I never know what surprises await me.
Hope the rains find youy all soon & they keep on coming.I know I can't wait for the rain water tank to be refreshed with fresh water, it's tasting a bit gross ATM.
Hey ladies, yesterday I posted some pics from the St Pat's races in Broken Hill on Sat for the "Aug '07 to be Mums" and then I thought you might like to see them too :)
Hugh and me (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/StPats001.jpg)
Angus & I (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/StPats002.jpg)
Family photo (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/StPats.jpg)
Angus, Hugh and Uncle Henry (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/StPats003.jpg)(Angus' bro-wearing an op shop shocker suit!!)
Hugh was a prefect baby all weekend.
He sat in his pram and just looked around while we had lunch then had a sleep.
When we went out for dinner Sat night he slept in his pram. Hardly heard a peep out of him the whole time.
He woke at 6.30am Sun which would have been acceptable but of course it was actually 5.30am! But still I shouldn't complain too much.
doin'mybest
26-03-2007, 15:04
Lovely photos kazza. It's great to put a face to a name! Looks like you had a good time.
Duchessa
01-04-2007, 11:17
Good question! I have been very slack. I even looked at your lovely pictures a few days ago and haven't yet come back to tell you how lovely they are and how great it is to put a face to your persona! I love country race days and it looks like you had fun.
I am mixing with the Mexicans at the moment (in Tassie) visiting my father and stepmother with the girls (dh is back at the ranch but will be here next week). I have had a bit of an adventure together, driving close to 10 hours to get on the boat and juggling two two year olds into cabins and back into the car again the next morning for another four hours of driving. But they have been pretty obliging all the same.
Floggadog, I had quite a giggle about your chicken adventures :D
I'm glad there has been a bit more rain around. We have more feed then I have seen anywhere in Vic, NSW, ACT and Tassie in the past couple of weeks - yes I have been getting around. It is almost uncomfortable mentioning it in conversation with so many people really suffering. It is usually us in drought as we are in a very variable area.
Bearskin, that is a difficult situation you are in re selling and rebuying. I don't envy you at all. It is pretty cheap around our area though, approx $170/DSE. The last farm we bought we paid around $450/acre. I hope you can find a solution.
MissKitty, I hope you are enjoying your new home - at least making it your own, and your little lambies are surviving (yours too Bearskin). Give us an update!
Hey D,
you have been very busy!
I've been home alone so hence been on BH heaps.
I was laughing at you calling the Tasmanians Mexicans- that's what we call you Victorians! LOL
Bindi I hope you had a great 21st!
Duchessa
01-04-2007, 12:42
OI! Steady with the racial slights :laughing:
Anyways, we're border dwellers - our telephone and power is NSWelsh, so we can't be all bad :p
Hey Bindi, Happy 21st from me too!
Thanks for the birthday wishes ladies!!
Had a great day, and was spoilt!! :yes:
Also I'll remember my 21st!! (being up the duff and all:laughing: ) was on softdrink ALL NIGHT!! :party: (I wouldn't have it any other way!!)
Anyway I've been MIA for a week, had contractions last Sunday night (they stopped, luckily) so was shipped off to my parents place for a week of R and R.
Then as I was unpacking the ute this afternoon I lent over the passanger seat to get a shoe that fell between the seats and my feet slipped on the gravel and I fell and landed on my belly. So i'm sore and sorry and my mother has just informed me that I need a straight-jacket!!
Hope everyone is well and I'll be back to chat soon (I need to go lie down!!)
floggadog
02-04-2007, 14:26
Hi everyone,
Our farm is wet:smiliedance: our tank is collecting water, I can't get the washing dry & as long as this drizzle keeps up my DH will be a nicer man to live with.;)
Happy birthday Bindi, hope you had a good one & what a bonus, no hangover. Isn't it amazing what we think we can still do when heavily preggers. I have memories of gallumphing after ewes with lambing problems , my sheepdog almost shaking his head in disgust at my inability to keep up! Take it easy Bindi & :fingerscrossed: bub stays put til the due date.
Duchessa , well done you for handling your trip & the ferry ride. Getting in & out of the car is a bit of an ordeal esp. on your own with 2 littlies. Hope you're enjoying your time away.
Kazza, lucky you having a family day out. I'm envious. Looked like a beautiful day.
Well today I finished my Bouncing Back course which has helped me Bounce back from PND. I'm feeling heaps better than I did 2 months ago when I started it and am looking forward to a more organised and 'more focused on me' year! I'm currently waiting for Olliver to fall asleep so I can paint my NEW LOUNGEROOM. Sorry had to shout that one out, been waiting 10 years! Unfortunalty he seems to think itis not sleep time.
Anyway DH has been busy scooping dams along with the rest of the farming community. We lost a cow in one very silted dam a few weeks ago. So with that done I'm hoping he'll get back to finishing the house. DSS is coming for the holidays next weekend so life will be a bit more hectic. Easter will probably pass us by with little more than an Easter egg hunt and that boring task of having to eat chocolate:p .
Oh well Olliver is still refusing to sleep so I'd better save him from his demise.
.
Well today I finished my Bouncing Back course which has helped me Bounce back from PND. I'm feeling heaps better than I did 2 months ago when I started it
Anyway DH has been busy scooping dams along with the rest of the farming community.
:yelclap: well done Flogga- I hope you continue to keep feeling better.
We have a dam guy here at the moment, not really cleaning out any dams as they're all full (:smiliedance: )but doing some bank work and repairs on some that were damaged in some heavy rains.
floggadog
02-04-2007, 14:49
Thanks Kazza, I'm gonna do my best to look after ME a lot better than I have for the last 6 years. So onward & upward!!
Congratulations flogga:yelclap:
I hope your year is full of YOU time!!
floggadog
03-04-2007, 22:04
Thanks.
i'm gonna whinge about my hubby now...sorry...has to be done..
DH has just come home from a clearing sale & informed me that he's bought a header which for those of you with grain producing farms is nothing new but we've not produced crops of the harvesting sort on this property for 15 years. So big deal - except the header is 120 kms away on the other side of the Stirling ranges & his big idea is that he's gonna drive it home - comb attached and all. The guy he bought it from said it'd fit through the front gate so DH says 'great I'll drive home'. This is on top of the cr#p on the back of his ute with which he just wiped out the front gate ...again.
He's currently lying on the floor next to me explaining the header in great detail:banghead: . The up side is he only paid $500 for it & can resell it for $2-3000. I might let him use it if he's good. Hang on - now he wants to sell it before bringing it home.:eek:
Anyway I asked if he bought me the craft things I asked for ... heforgot... but it's OK cause he got me a header:banghead:
Ok I'll stop whining now
Wow, a header!
Angus and his bro came home with a Navara ute from a clearing sale near us once.
I nearly died but then found out Angus' bro bought it not the station- phew!
I hope everyone had a GREAT EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!:party:
I'm still indulging in good ol' chocolate:devil6:
well, no rain and no other news really from around here... My dad and brother had a story in the QLD country life!!:laughing: They also put down three boars and got water in each one!!! YAY!!!
What is it with men and bringing home their 'bargains'!!:no: (at least we all know we're not alone on that subject..lol!!)
I hope everyone is well, talk to you all soon!!
I'm taking Hugh to playgroup tomorrow-
it's about 45 mins away so not too bad.
I do know most of those going but there is one Mum from my tele link up Mother's group I've never met but talked to heaps so it'll be great to finally meet her and her very cute baby(I've seen pics)
I'm taking Hugh to playgroup tomorrow-
it's about 45 mins away so not too bad.
I do know most of those going but there is one Mum from my tele link up Mother's group I've never met but talked to heaps so it'll be great to finally meet her and her very cute baby(I've seen pics)
Yay for playgroup, Kaz!! I swear if I didn't go I'd be mad by now:laughing: :laughing:
Gee it's quiet in here
Kaz- How did playgroup go??
Floggadog- How's the header going:p ;) (only joking)
Well nothing to report (again!!) Apart from Tahlia's (DD) new obsession.....shrimp traps!!
Her granddad brought some and we decided to throw them in the dam and see if we got anything......we did!!!!!!!
Heaps of shrimp and a blue claws :yelclap:. She absolutly LOVES them!! Squeels and laughs when we get them out of the trap and has to carry the bucket everywhere and show EVERYONE.
Only trouble is, she wants to check them every couple of hours:laughing:. She's such a crack-up!!
I hope all the pregnant members are doing well and the not-pregnant ones (lol!!) are doing well too!!
:wave: ladies,
Bindi playgroup went well, 3 baby boys, 1 toddler boy and 1 toddler girl all played really well together and with the toys.
I didn't hear 1 cry, we were there from 10-2, and we all bought yummy things for lunch- pick the preg one!:D
It was great to finally meet in the flesh one of the mums from my phone mothers group.
Hugh had his 6 month shots finally- he's nearly 10 months- long story! His 4 month shots were the same- had them on a Thurs, everything fine then really grizzly on the Sat. I'll plan for it next time.
I'm here in the office supposedly paying all the accounts and doing March book work so I can do BAS but BH is distracting me :yes:
Angus is away still- pretty much coming and going. Where he's working is about 100km up the highway and I heard them yesterday on the radio while they were mustering. When Angus went out Sat to do our waters he flicked our house radio on to their channel (easier to do than on his broken button hand held) and forgot to put it back so I wake up yest to Angus on the radio-after he'd left about 4.45am- and panic he's broken down up the road! :laughing:
floggadog
16-04-2007, 09:41
Hiya,
Yes the header is going...nowhere:laughing:
DH still hasn't moved it. We've either got to borrow a comb trailer or drive it down 130kms of gravel roads to avoid the cops. Goody can't wait:cool:
On the up side we've had rain with followup so DH is drilling in some ryegrass & clover with the hope it may actally survive. He pumped another dam nearly dry yesterday(water went to the header tank) and pulled one of my ram lambs out of another dam the day before. We lost a calving cow in a dam a month ago.
I'm meeting up with my Bouncing Back group today so it'll be good to see how the girls are going since we finished the course.I'm going
ok just seem to be either really flatout or idle & unmotivated.
DH went to collect DSS last Saturday & broke down on the way home. They slept in the car for the night(no dinner) &were towed into the nearest town the next morning by towtruck.A young bloke wanted to tow them that night but it's automatic so they had to stay put.
Anyway Easter sunday babe & I drove 350kms to pick them up. They had been at the pub for 4 hours so I had to drive most of the way home again before DH was legal to drive:mad: Bl**dy men
Bindi- your shrimp (we call em yabbies) story was very cute! My kids are facinated by them as well.I'm always worried they'll get bitten!
Karen- I too am putting off 6 mth injections. Excuses are found regularly but I guess it will have to be done soon.Well done getting to playgroup. I'm never organised enough to go!
All the best ladies.
I too am putting off 6 mth injections.
I actually took Hugh to have them done early Jan but they weighed him and found he'd lost nearly a kg and had dropped from a very consistent 50th percentile to a jaw dropping 7th!!
Apparently he was starving. Didn't I feel like Australia's Biggest Loser Mum:( Poor thing, so there was no way they'd do the shots then.
The nurse got the Dr to come in and he asked for him to have a blood test just to make sure it wasn't something serious wrong with Hughesy.
So 3 blood tests and 2 months of iron supplements later they deemed he was well enough to have the shots. He was back on the 50th percentile after about 8 weeks too. Poor little man has to have another b/t next month and then it'll be time for his 12 month shots! He must feel like a pin cushion. He's a super dooper trooper about it all though- only 1 of his b/ts did he actually cry and even then the nurses all said that was nothing compared to some children. Lucky he doesn't get hysterical or I would too!
Sorry :ecomcity: I did say it was a long story :D
misskittyfantastico
16-04-2007, 17:00
Hey ladies,
Long time no chat.....just reading back to catch up on the news.
flogga - LMAO and wanting to cyber slap your DH - A header?! Thanks honey:rolleyes:
Karen - :hugs: and :kiss: to you and Hugh man.....not a fun experience I'm sure...playgroup is a wonderful thing though - Millie LOVES it, she just runs around kissing everyone!
I love the yabby story Bindi:D
We are frantically getting ready for seeding and actually starting to scratch some cereal crops in. We had a whopping 2.4mm last night. That coupled with our previous rainfall of 0.4mm is causing major stress and grumpiness among the man of the house.
I hope that everyone is doing well
Stephxxx
Bearskin
17-04-2007, 21:04
Hi guys :) Long time no chat!
flogga - having a chuckle here about the header; men and their toys are all the same. DH has been home for a week and bidding on motorbikes and tractors on EBAY. I keep deleting the emails to notify him he has been outbid...sneaky!
I've got playgroup tomorrow - Zoe loves it and its a change from playing with the farm dogs...
DH had a week off and has been an absolute honey (of sorts). He put in a horse shed, tie up area with cross ties, a new fence for a small horse paddock and a sandpit for Zoe. However we went through 5 slabs (party packs no less!) of Vic cans in 6 days :eek: with DH and his mates drinking every arvo whilst 'working' plus a bottle of port that DH and my Dad drank one night after dinner. DH was in fine form when he fell asleep at the kitchen bench and Dad had to carry him to bed; almost as good as when DH fell asleep at the dining room table Easter Sunday night in front of guests after drinking a bottle of red - he just cannot handle the drink and I don't know why he keeps going back for more.
We are officially sheep free (almost). After our rain we have had nothing since and all the green pick is gone. We sold all our wethers and only have the very pg ewes left which we were supposed to sell last month but cannot get a buyer so it could be another winter of lambing for me - I love it!
Both the trucks have been very busy but its only going to get quiet as soon there will be no more sheep and cattle to cart.
People in the city don't realise how bad this drought is in Vic - I went to the cattle sales and saw the poorest dairy cows...DH said they are all like that and the dairy farmers just have no feed, no water, hay is getting up to $500 a tonne and the state govt still wont release any more water but happy enough to spend millions on a pipeline to ship water to Bendigo and Ballarat for township use while dairy farmers here are going broke and letting cows starve - just my little vent!
Better go and do some bookwork- DH has gone back to driving trucks as he needs the break from the beer - he said his liver is now shot to pieces :laughing:
floggadog
17-04-2007, 21:52
Hi Girls,
Kazza- The biggest Loser Mum doesn't love her boy to bits & manage to help him acheive such awesome weight gains in a short time. You're human like the rest of us & babes all grow at different speeds (kinda like some lambs -doesn't matter what you feed em some go to fat , some go to muscle & some don't go anywhere:laughing: ) So well done for turning him around so quickly!
Miss Kitty - I passed that slap on!
Sorry to hear you've had no real rain as yet. Doesn't do the manmood any favours at all. I started to think up ways to improve my DHs' mood at the end of the day - letting him watch Alica Gorry on ABC news(sexy newsreader), suggesting places for liasons on the farm while he's working :devil6: , threatening to do a strip tease:laughing: . The newsreader seems to get his attention! What else can we do?? Can't make it rain so next best thing I say....
Bearskin - You are naughty deleting DHs' emails , but good on you anyway!
You did well, with all the improvements, may have cost a bit in beer but well worth it I say!
I agree with your vent - the city here (perth) is constantly trying to suck the water out of the country aquifers to feed the city. They should start living on rainwater tanks & make it last for the year. They'd have heaps of water if they knew how to look after it. No it's not just the everyday householders but they should be speaking out to stop water waste in their backyard. How I'd love to run my mob of hungry ram lambs onto one of their carefully manicured, fertilized & well watered parks!
Oh & amazed at the hay price but not surprised.
Not much happening here. Lots of sheep work to do - next week - Kids still on school hols.
Hope you all receive rain soon
Bye
Duchessa
20-04-2007, 14:03
Hello everyone!
It seems like ages since I posted in here, but I have been lurking... However, now that I am supposed to be sitting down doing our BAS somehow I have found the inspiration to post! And clean the shower, wax my palms, lick the floor etc etc...
Flogga, I had a good chuckle about your header too. My dh did the same with a roller last year (our third - but it was so cheap :no: poor ole bugger, these guys really need help). Hey, good on you for the Bouncing Back group. I really admire your courage to face your pnd and actively deal with it :yes:
Kazza, I'm glad your playgroup went well. Our "local" one (also 45 mins away) has just reopened after being closed for years, so I must do the same and trundle off one of these days - it is fortnightly but would do the girls a world of good. Hugs to you re your ordeal with Hugh - that sounds awful for you both. And forget that silly Loser Mum title, you can't pick it up that easily - the competition is pretty stiff :laughing:
Bearskin, I really hope things improve for you soon. Are you coping ok emotionally? Is your dh? It can be pretty hard and I just hope you are getting the space to keep yourself ok :hugs: I have to admit though, that the new shed and tie up area has me a little green...
Don't know if you saw my post but I lost the pregnancy last week at nearly 12 weeks. It was pretty sad but I am feeling ok and gradually getting used to the idea of trying for a fourth time... Dh was pretty good through it (while he was here, he is away again as per usual) and has managed to overcome his debilitating masculinity and give me some support...
On the bright side, my dog (who was shagging at the same time dh and I were when we got preg) has just had her 5 gorgeous little puppies - she is a black kelpie and he is a red kelpie and they are the two best sheep dogs we have had (him in particular) so they should be great little pups. There are 3 red ones and 2 black ones. Cute as pie.
We haven't had any follow up rain since our mid summer break so things are quickly returning to dry though we have quite a bit of standing feed still. It is nearly too late for an autumn break as the frost isn't far away now... ho hum.
Come back MissKitty!
floggadog
20-04-2007, 16:50
Duchessa, so sad your news of your loss of your tiny one. Big :hugs: of support to you. You guys must be really strong to go through this whilst not being together all the time.:crying:
Anyway hope you try again one day as you guys make cute babies.
Congrats to your girlie dog, at least trying to keep 5 pups under control will keep you amused!
Oh & if they're any good could you post one over here? Flogga has a loooooong way to go before he can even earn the title of being a sheepdogs toenail:mad: .
Twice yasterday he pushed the sheep over the crappy fence in the sheep yards and once through the gate that was held up with pure love & affection. Well maybe it was the fault of the sheep yard maintainer but still hes' a super pshyco over exuberant teenage maniac of a dog & I JUST WANT HIM TO GROW UP.
Sorry , I don't like sheepdog puppies.
His most amazing feat was the day he pushed 5 of my stud ewe lambs over a fence & then proceeded to chase one all the way to the sheep yards but instead of putting her in the yards he swam her across the dam, me following behind pushing the pram , dragging DS1 across the paddock yelling at the top of my lungs. Bl**dy Dog. That was the day he nearly went to the happy hunting ground for dogs.
But he's still here , showing the odd spark of brilliance, just enough to keep him alive!
Anyway, sorry to hear you too are still lacking rain. We're almost dare I say it , looking a little like a normal break. (hope I have'nt jinxed myself) However I would be willing to be a part of a nationwide rain dance if anyone thought it might help. Be funny to think of others outside at the same time , dressed in weird clothing or not at all, dancing for rain!!!
Following up is Miss Kitty off chasing mice?
or just plain busy?
Anyway must go. The famous two have apparently created a christmas, birthday surprise for me in the shed. Which roughly translates to - 'we've found the huge box of Xmas decorations & have tipped the whole lot out & spread them from ....... to breakfast. Goody.
Have a great day;)
floggadog
20-04-2007, 16:53
Sorry , thought I'd add I just looked up this page & it looks like I'm taking over. Hope you don't mind, tell me to shutup anytime, Just love being able to share what happens in my farming life with women who nod & say to themselves
"I know what you mean"
Thanx
Duchessa
20-04-2007, 18:52
Don't you dare shut-up! I love your posts, they always give me a good chuckle :D
And I shouldn't be chuckling but I so know what you mean re teenage sheep dogs. We have a teenage girl dog atm and I wish she would grow up too. Kelpies suck when they are young, hey? I hope the "spark" turns into a regular grass fire before he takes too many ewes swimming :D Maybe some of his exuberance will rub off on your sheep yard maintainer (not bloody likely hey, I spose he's too busy at the clearing sales)...
Fingers crossed for your autumn break, I'll join you in the dance so long as we don't have to put it up on Youtube...
And I hope you enjoyed Christmas in April...
floggadog
20-04-2007, 20:23
:laughing: :laughing: you're so funny!!!
My Flog is kelpie collie with a dash of hunterway for good measure. He was the quietest most mellow pup of the litter & totally put one over me.
He never shuts up. He's a talker & talks when we tie him up , when we let him off & when we have visitors, the only time he's quiet is when he's rounding up the chooks for the 34th time which clearly he's not supposed to be doing.
He looks at me as if to say, 'but I was putting em away - you let the kids do it!"
Bloody dog
No cameras for the rain dance - they'd break anyway! oooo wonder if we'd actually scare the rain away?:eek:
Ah & xmas was , well ...special & shall give me something to do tomorrow whilst the little darlings create some other wonder somewhere else!
Catcha soon:wave:
Bearskin
20-04-2007, 20:55
Duchessa - so sorry to hear of your loss. I dont know what to say really - I do know how much it hurts and just hope you and your DH are ok. Come here for a laugh or two :hugs:
Flogga - keep the posts coming; they are great and make me laugh espeically about flogga himself...he sounds like a classic teenage terror! Oh and I've tried the 'cheer him up' sex with my DH too but he has started taking advantage and playing on his moods just to get some more action - cheeky bugger.
Kazza - dont feel bad about Hugh. When DD was born she was 3148gms and was less than that 5 weeks later. :eek: MCH not too impressed and I felt like the worst mum ever. People kept saying, 'ooh shes little' etc but I didn't really notice because I saw her all the time but she improved with extra feeds and I am sure it didn't do any lasting damage.
DH bought his bloody motorbike on EBAY - sneaky bugger! Now we have to transport it down from Newcastle - but he has his chest all puffed out so hopfully this can give him something apart from work, work, and dust.
I wish it would rain - I'm not used to the uncertainty (being a city girl) and the fear sits in my belly like a rock hard lump. I'm not tough enough yet - but I'm better than I used to be! At least I dont cry when sheep die anymore, or name them...except for the motherless lambs! :laughing: We start lambing on the 15th May - praying for rain right now but I'm an atheist so not sure if my prayers will be answered. Better get DH to pray - he's a good Catholic!!
As for bloody dogs - took them all for a run tonight with DD on the 4 wheeler. Only one dog works (almost retired), all the rest are dole bludgers and my pet cooliexkelpie found a dead sheep (might have been one of the rams that was in with my horse...and mysteriously died after a hoof to the head I would imagine; I was in lots of trouble for that!!!) in one of the paddocks and next thing you know he's in the ribcage rolling around and dragging a leg behind him like he is king of the world....as we get closer to home the bike conks out and what do you know - out of bloody fuel. We were about 1km from home, and I had DD on the front of the bike so we start walking with the 5 dogs and they find another dead sheep in our neighbours paddock. Filthy buggers - then all up for a pat after rolling in stinking sheep.... Tie the bloody dogs up and get the fuel can, put Zoe in the fold up pusher and back to the bike. Gee those cheapo fold up pushers are cr@p in paddocks and dirt roads but it was the only one I had that I could tie onto the back of the bike!
I got a new client today for my bookkeeping business ; going to meet next week so i will see if I can help him. I've got more time on my hands now we only have the ewes to take care of so I can pick up some more clients. Word of mouth is the best advertising around here!
Went to playgroup myself on Wednesday - its gone feral so not sure if I'll be back. It used to be all farming women but they have dropped off and some new mums from town are showing up and a couple are feral - they are the reason DH calls our town 'Nashville'! I dont mind anyone coming bu cannot handle hearing 'f&ck' in front of the kids, screaming at kids at playgroup and hearing stories about how someones mum got spastic drunk and hit another car in the main street before trying to punch on with her ex husband....
Right I'm going - before I keep typing :)
I woke to rain, yes-what's that!?
I took out 3mm :)
I can't believe I'm so impressed with 3 blooming mill!
I checked out the week's forecast though-
100km West of here is meant to have 60% chance of 40-80mm :eek: Thurs and the place 150km East of here is forecast 60% chance of 10-20mm. So if we end up with something in the middle of those I'd be soooo happy! :fingerscrossed:
Hugh took a few steps last night without falling over, he was exactly 10 months yesterday. So I'm guessing he's not being held back in any way by our little set back earlier.
Flogga keep going! We all love your chatter and stories.
Bearskin, good to see you back!
Duchessa also glad to see you back in here.
I hope things are going as well as can be.
I did my BAS last week and had to keep double checking it as apparently we get some back!! I'm loving this diesel rebate on the same form!
Angus went away again this morning. He was home for a few days, including one day in which he went to a clearing sale.
He bought some bore casing, excuse bad pun, but does sound rather boring to me too!
But he did try to buy a 50cc motor bike for Hugh, it went for too much for us. His rules are though that our children will no way be allowed to start riding motor bikes til they can ride push bikes well.
Oh, funny story, one of my neighbour's son got a 2 stroke 50 for his 7th birthday in March and no one was around to help him fuel up so he did it himself- with brake fluid:laughing:
oh Bearskin-
that's terrible about your play group!
Do these women know where they are- ie-not the local front bar!!
misskittyfantastico
21-04-2007, 14:18
Hi y'all!
Sorry to hear about your playgroup bearskin - those mums sound like a really charming lot!
YAY for Kazza's RAIN!!!!!!.....I may have to resort to the sexy tea towel dance to cheer John up.... the uncertainy just does my head in at times - I'm not from the country either bearskin.....I have far too many named sheep:o
Funny you should mention mice Flogga.....I have been battling the pesky rodents. When we moved from town, our good old moggy was no where to be seen. I figured she'd found new accomodation and thought "ah well". That is until I had 2 mice run over my feet while on the TOILET! - I sent John into town with the cat trap and some people tuna the next day! Puss is now a happy farm cat and no more mice!
Also - don't move a muscle Flogga....I loike you...you must stay.
Duchessa, lovely to see you here - love the new avatar:D
Steph xx
Wow!! I stay away for a day and it's a hive of activity in here!!:thumbsup:
Well our underground water is going fast!! So count me in for the rain dancing (minus the naked part:laughing: I don't think the tomato pickers over my back fence would appreciate a 30 week pregnant, naked dancing chic!!:eek: )
We've got one farm pumping water to all our other farms (not good at all!!) So it's getting a bit stressfull around these parts. Especially when neighbours turn your boars off in the middle of the night....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!
Glad to hear about the rain Kaz, even if it's only a piddly amount and Yay for the Hugh-man's steps, he'll be running a muck in know time..lol!!
Dutchessa and Flogga, you both all ways crack me up!! Good for my weekly chuckle, gotta love you guys!!
Miss Kitty, we had the same problem with mice when I was pregnant with DD. I used to wake Trent up in the middle of the night (about 3 times a night..hehe!!) to take me to the toilet because I hated either running into mice or rats!! Thank-god we got rid of them pretty quickly.
Sorry to hear about your loss Dutchessa, glad your back though!! And glad to see Bearskin back (was wondering were you went to..lol!!)
Well no funny stories from me, and don't even mention teenage dogs!! Our male has just found his testicles and has decided to go wandering to the neighbours to check out some local action...not impressed at all!! Our neightbour thought it was pretty funny.
Well I'd better cruise, hopefully we'll see some rain soon!!
floggadog
21-04-2007, 21:35
Hiya,
Bearskin- You know you won't hear the end of his 'great bargin' for weeks (or at least if he were my DH I wouldn't). Make sure you get your moneys worth out of it.
Love your bike/dirty stinking dog story. Sounds like the sort of classic run of events that happen here from time to time.
Congrats on your potential new client (sounds dodgy:laughing: ), & you're right word of mouth, esp with farmers , it is THE number 1 form of advertising. We have found that in the stud sheep game. & yeah I'd give that playgroup a miss too. Infact I haven't been able to get myself to playgroup for 4 years now, too clicky for me!!
Kazza-Congrats for your rain. I always say any rain is good rain, DH always says 'may as well have not ........ bothered!!!'
Hugh walking at 10 mths, yay for you , a whole new world of playing chase the toddler!! & I loved the peewee motor bike story. Told DH that one & he said
'oh sh*t, that would have stripped the ??? & the ???(sounded important) his dad must have been spewin!'
Hi Miss Kitty,
Mice are on of my pet hates. I've now resorted to using Racumin baits & carefully elastic banding them to a stick or small bit of wood so the mice can't move them. Works a treat. They eat the bait & DIE. Rarely we have an ill mouse come out which needs to be disposed of. Just reminded me, last time I baited, I walked into the kitchen in the morning to put on the kettle & trod on something sort of mushy with lumps, Bloody kids I was thinking then I looked down . It was a dead mouse:eek: . Well I jumped 3 ft high & back all at once.YUCK. Oh & I've got a cat.
Hi Bindi - Sad when you get to the bottom of your water supply. We've not had to cart water for our animals for a long time, only for ourselves. But I can only imagine how depressing it would be to realise you've got to spend the next ??? months driving to the stand pipe every day. Oh & who says the rain dance has to be in the day? Although if your neighbours are sneaking about at night....
Sounds like you'll have to tie a big loud scary dog up at the switch, or better still set up some device that covers them in bright orange dye when the turn off the switch :laughing:
As for your saucy dog - ours went on the hunt for the girls for a good year or 2 before we got sick of it & had him fixed. He also had a slight problem with a barley grass seed which had traveled up his sheath , along the length of his penis & was found below his backside on it's way out. Anyway he made something like 20-25 puppies before he was cut!
As for me , I took the wonderdog (wonder why I've got him) out today to run in the unrooly ewe lambs. Thought I'd sort them for culls before the shearer came. Flog only put them through two fences and only split the mob 9 times! He even , after splitting the mob at a crucial moment, went right around 4 breakaways ( as I was flying back wards in the ute DS2 asleep under my arm,screaming GO RIGHT BACK!) Very proud of him. We managed to draft the girls, just me & him & we didn't take out one precious sheep yard fence or break one sheep!
Classic story of this pup. A few months ago I was sorting skinny ewes from fat and sending the skinny ewes out of the cattle yards into one paddock & the fats the opposite direction. Well , I sent this particular ewe into the skinny paddock & watched her wander off then called Flogga to stay & went back to sorting. 5 minutes later I look up & there is Flogga bringing this poor old ewe, puffing back into the cattle yards. She would have gone bit less than 400 metres when this young upstart decided I'd done the wrong thing & clearly he had to bring her back to me. Like I said before 'Spark of brilliance' mixed with puppy foolishness!
Anyway 3 questions now
- If any of you ladies train your own dogs do you have any ideas for stopping him from rounding up stock when we've finished work , short of tying him up, my current method?
Can I teach him to cast (go around the sheep)wider?
And , not to do with damn dog, Most of you seem to have hubbys working away, is this the norm or is this because of the drought? Just interested.
Oh & thanks for reassuring me, I loike you girls too :)
Have a great day.
Flogga it's pretty funny now I've worked out you live near Mt Barker WA- not SA.
The SA Mt Barker is about 30 mins from Adelaide in the hills and is basically now a semi rural residential area with a few hobby farms! I think there are still some farmers around who haven't sold out to real estate developers.
I thought that was where you were!:laughing: Everything makes much more sense now!
I took the wonderdog (wonder why I've got him)
We have a few of these 'wonder'ful dogs too, well one in particular- Angus keeps reassuring me he's just a slow learner.
Poor Barney was so close to being done away with as he wandered off a few times and Angus found him chasing sheep one night- he was very lucky but the next week Angus ran over him. My tough husband was nearly in tears going "I can't put him down" so $700 and 2 ops later we have to keep him now!!
do you have any ideas for stopping him from rounding up stock when we've finished work , short of tying him up, my current method?
I know what you mean. Barney does that a bit too. We tie him up or else we just have to keep a really close watch and make sure he's still with us- sorry not much help was I?
Most of you seem to have hubbys working away, is this the norm or is this because of the drought? Just interested.
Angus has always done contract mustering in our area, it's mainly because of the lack of contractors but it does work well as it takes pressure off the station in regards to paying wages- frees up money to be spent in other areas.
Has anyone heard from Tashiesmum- Anna?
She's been MIA for a while- I might try email her.
Anna if you're out there- I miss you! :)
floggadog
22-04-2007, 13:42
Hi Kaz, stopped for lunch &feedin the bub so I'm back on here again.
Yep WA is where I'm at. However we did drive past the SA Mt Barker in 2005. We actually stayed with friends near Loxton. Our friend was feeding his white suffolks on mandarins ,oranges & rocks at the time.Still is. Just the weirdest sight.
Our trip took us zigzagging across some of SA up through Vic to NSW , Narrandera, & Gundagai &up into the mountains far enough to play in the snow. Then down to Melbourne on the ferry , over to Taz for 10 days, Back to melbourne, straight over to SA, zigzagging again, Adelaide show & down the eyre peninsula then home. 10000km in 5&a half weeks with a 2 &4 yr old.
We spent 90% of our time visiting White Suffolk studs.
As for your dog , a friend of ours told us he had a dog which he'd given away cause he was no good. He reconned if you ran them over & they lived you may as well give up on them as only a good dog would die when run over!:rolleyes:
Does Angus muster on bikes or from air?
Better go Lindsay(DS1) is hanging for lunch & is talking nonstop:ecomcity: , can't concentrate!
Flogga that was a huge trip you did-
you've seen more of Australia than lots have!
Angus is on a bike- we get our neighbour to do aerial mustering on our place sometimes though. He has 2 Honda XR650s- he stocked up cause they stopped production of them, incase your DH is interested- apparently great for doing wheel stands:rolleyes:
Yes poor old Barney boy-he's a character.
He's like a drug smoking hippie and walks around going "hey man"-
he's a really big brown Kelpie and everyone's friend, he's not even bothered when he's covered in flies! He's like a gentle giant, a nice pet but just not that good in the yards, he'd be better at paddock work but he's too blooming big to go on a bike! I'll get a pic when he gets back from "working" away with Angus.
He's actually been run over twice- I:o backed over him very slowly in the Hilux(that was fully laden) when he was a pup and he ran away. I looked for him for a week then miraculously he turned up at the neighbour's place- I was very relieved as I felt terrible. He was fine when we found him- just a bit hungry.
misskittyfantastico
23-04-2007, 19:50
Barney sounds like a real character Karen.....I love the "working" comment. We have 2 kelpies (Brother and sister, both 8 now) Mickey is still an "ohboyohboyohboyohboy" boy and Rosie is missing a back leg and is the most pampered "working" dog I have ever seen!
Well, we had rain! 3.8mm and like you Kaz, I can't believe I'm soooo happy about that amount. John is grumbling...what's new?:rolleyes: ...the tea towel dance obviously left something to be desired!
Mulesing tomorrow - joy of joys.....I am supplying food and that's IT!
Hope all is well girlies
Steph xxx
My fingers are crossed for more rain for you Steph- after your sheep work's finished.
They have revised our forecast- no longer getting 40-80mm,
70% chance 5-10mm one end and 80% chance 10-20mm the other way- so again something in the middle of all that would be nice.
My bro is expecting 30mm over 4 days which will be nice for them.
Again- fingers crossed it actually gets here!
Bearskin
24-04-2007, 10:03
Hi!
Went to Melbourne yesterday for a meeting with the Social Security Tribunal - 7 hours round trip in the car for 15 minute meeting...Zoe was furious as she was just sick of being in the car. We had to come home too as Dave is taking sheep to Portland today and tomorrow.
Anyway - Social Security = b@stards
:banghead:
I sent my baby bonus forms to the office in Shepparton via post in late Feb 2006. Didn't hear anything back by May so rang them and so record of form/me or Zoe on file; refilled out new forms with Doctor and hospital and submitted them but was too late and now DSS wont pay me $3K. Apparently since I cannot prove I posted the first form off, then I am lying and the govt doesn't have to pay us the baby bonus. Its been going on for 10 months now....and yesterday was the appeal process. Will find out in 14 days so have my fingers crossed - its not about the money anymore, its the bl00dy principal of the matter!!!!! That's my whinge.
Glad I logged on here and had a great laugh about all our doggies....our old Kelpie Patch was the best ever truck dog but somehow (don't know how!) he survived being run over twice; once by Dave in the ute when Patch fell off the back and once on the main highway when Dave was unloading sheep and Patch cleared out. The old fella has 9 lives....but he has retired now. Poor old mate is full of arthritis as loading and unloading trucks is pretty tought work.
Buts how this for rich - Dave wanted a new dog as we have 4 dogs here that are my pets now since failed working dogs. He rang me one day from a big farm up north and said he had found the best truck dog ever and the farmer had agreed to sell him and do we have $1700....holy sh!t! For a bl00dy dog? Admittedly Slim is amazing in the yards and truck but absolutely psycho in the paddock but $1700?
All of you - hope rain finds you soon. We are expecting some Friday and Saturday but if Kazza has said that her forecast has been downgraded then ours probably will be too as Kazza - your weather probably comes from you straight over to us in Vic.
Kazza - I'm with you on the fuel rebate at BAS time. We use about 45,000 litres a quarter and that cuts our GST bill right back.
MissKitty - hope the mulesing goes well and the only job you get is to cook. Not being a country girl like you I tend to struggle getting blood all over me if I get the tailing job...thank god DH got a gas knife.
Flogga - your holidays sound like mine! We drive around and look at farms, trucks and places where Dave has loaded sheep, breeeders etc but its a great way to see Australia.
Better go - got a wedding on the weekend and nothing to wear. Still 6 kgs overweight from pg....I'm pretty slack :laughing:
Bearskin I'm not even going to try to imagine how frustrating battling Centrelink would be :mad: besides having to travel so far to do it!
I hope you win in the end. To me it sounds pretty simple really- you had a baby- have relevant signatures to prove it, just pay the lady like you did everyone else (like me, who had the money sitting in her bank acc when Hugh was 2 weeks old! Bearskin I wasn't telling you that to make you jealous just to prove the point- it's not that blooming hard is it!)
Our local carrier had a $2000 dog on trial (for some reason she had really saggy boobs and our dogs just thought she was so hot) and he was a bit unsure of forking out that much for a dog, but like I said to him- if you had to pay a person to that dog's job- that's pretty cheap wages $2000. Just make sure it doesn't break a leg!! He did get her in the end.
I really hope :fingerscrossed: we can send you some rain- after we've had a bit!
Enjoy the wedding- oh, hope the wedding's undercover incase all that rain gets there!
floggadog
24-04-2007, 12:10
Hiya, Well my kids went back to school yesterday. So it's just Olliver & me 2 days a week & the 2 boys & me for the other 3 days. I saved up all my housework for yesterday when it was quiet & instead I layed down with Olliver & fell asleep for 2 hours. Oh well , i'll have a go today. I took the kids to see the tree harvesting yesterday which started on our farm last week. One of the harvesters wasn't working so they got to climb all over it. They'll be here for about a month running 5 harvesters and 2 forwarders. And the neverending run of log trucks which will destroy my 12km round trip to the bus. They completely cactus the gravel road, but can't complain as it's our income:( .
So that means our sheep have less paddocks as all the fences next to the bluegums waiting to be harvested have to come down. Goody, right on lambing time. We moved our cows off of here last year when they were due to start.(Only 10 months late!)
Tonight I'm going join a class at the Rec centre called Body Balance , supposed to be Yoga, Pilates & Tai Chi. Really looking forward to this as I'll be child free for 1 and a half hours. This is because of my PND course, I'm allowing myself to do this ( strange saying allowing myself ) I would never have left DH to look after the babe before as I told myself he was too busy, but now I say
'He will be looking after the kids, no two ways about it'
So I'll let you know how I go!
We've got shearing & crutching on Friday. Our shearer is well overdue to do them but he told me last night he lost his license...again! So he goes to court on Thursday & is here on Friday.
As we have so few we have just this one guy who is/was a show shearer. He doesn't hurt or cut the sheep and is awesomely clean. Great for selling rams. We pay him well and feed him well but we don't want to lose him.
Anyway better go.
Oh & i agree, Centrelink does suck. GoodLuck:thumbsup:
Flogga I hope you enjoyed yourself last night and managed to relax, I'm sure your husband was fine too.
Our shearer is well overdue to do them but he told me last night he lost his license...again! So he goes to court on Thursday & is here on Friday.
Are they same everywhere??:laughing:
One of our's very nearly went to jail earlier this year for driving without a licence-again!
Oh I've got my husband home for a few weeks now!! yay
:smiliedance: I'm quite excited as we've had 10mm today, it was the most perfect slow spitting rain all day. It has been raining still since Angus last checked so :fingerscrossed: it keeps on going.
We are forecast to have the same again tomorrow :fingerscrossed:
Here's a pic of Hugh (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/rain.jpg)having a look at the rain.
Bearskin
27-04-2007, 23:26
We are raining here too! Hope it lasts; been heavy on and off for 3 hours and Dave rang and wanted me to go and check the rain gauge....not bloody likely at midnight in the rain and dark....i just hope the power stays on as we are prone to power cut offs during bad weather...
Got myself a black halterneck dress for wedding tomorrow; put the U bra on underneath and Dave has told me I'm not allowed to wear the bra with the dress....it did look a little too booby :laughing:
Flogga - hope the class went well; it sound great esp the no kids for an hour and half part!! Hope the shearing went well too - nothing like a great clean shearer but some of them are big ****os :laughing:
The first cut out I went to after working with a shearing team around here left me blind drunk, drinking bottles of Vic and a very upset Dave who banned me from ever working with the shearing team again...that was pre kids...now I only work in our own sheds and have to be appropriately attired. That means no singlet tops.
floggadog
28-04-2007, 10:00
Hi Girls, Shearing mostly done :smiliedance: . I had the whole day without the kids, even the babe wasn't in the shed! We had the ewe lambs shorn & started on the crutching of my ewes. Floggadog did nearly all the sheep work &only one sheep had a blood nose at the end of the day.My sheep have never penned up so quickly or with so little effort from me!
My Body balance class was great. My muscles were not my own when I finished & they ached for the next 3 days. So I'm back there next Tuesday & can't wait.
DH has had gastro this week , but I think it was something he ate as we didn't get it.He seems to be over his moaning & groaning now so life is a bit easier in that department.
Kazza - congratulations on your rain. You must be seriously (temporarily) relieved. Hugh looks a bit bewildered. Did he go out & play in it?
You too Bearskin. My DH has run out in the middle of the night to check the guage as well.I'm more than happy to wait for morning though:rolleyes: .
Your dress sounds saucy! So are you going without a bra? I don't know which would look would be better. The wobbly boobie look or the big pointy out the front boobie look. Either way , have fun .
Fancy your hubby banning you from those tight fitting, low cut singlets:laughing: . I worked in the sheds for a few years b4 meeting Rob & quickly became accustomed to the bike shorts-singlet look as well as the crude shearers, many
bottles of beer & many pi$$y cutouts. AAAhhh that was the life ! Never mind , I get to do my own rousting now, exept I have to look after my kids intermitently, do the penning up & do most of the sheep work as well. Rob ,mostly, seems to find some other really impotant job to do & only seems to have time for pressing. Oh & the days of the big cut outs are long gone for me:( .
That has got me thinking. What was it that you ladies did before marriage & kids?
I worked in the woolen mills in Albany as well as rousting . I was a twisting machine operator. This was my off season or 'I'm sick of the sheds' job.
Anyway better go & do the shopping, only 3 days late for that one. Oh that was the other thing I was thinking about. Those of you not 15 km from town like me must have to do HUGE shops. How often do you perform this mundane task? & how do you write your shopping list. (Clearly not out of your head on the day like me!! Always forget things!)
Oh well , Co-op is calling, bye for now.
ToTeenyTots
28-04-2007, 22:18
Hi all !
Its Tashiesmum here incognito. I felt bad for Bec just having Tashies name so I changed it.
Anyway I have just spent the last half hour catching up on what everyone has been doing. Seems like most are getting a little rain. We had 12.5mm the other day and I think a bit more in places so that is good.
It has been hectic around here lately and when I am home during the day the girls never manage to sleep at the same time so I havent had a chance to get on BH. But as I can see everyone is doing.. well has done what I should be doing right now.. the dreaded BAS. I have just finished our truck accreditation which is the biggest waste of time and paper I have ever come across. It takes forever to compile aswell. But I hate paperwork with a passion.
We have been moving cattle, marking weaners trapping feral cattle and the good ol' goat. The girls are totally sick of the car but its all done for the time being.
I worked in the sheds for about 6 months years ago and yeah I remember the good times and hangovers. I also remember how I felt the first week I started after spending 12 months sitting on my butt driving trucks. It hurt to breathe!
Anyway I just thought I 'd say G'day and I better get back to work!
Cheers
Anna:ecomcity:
floggadog
30-04-2007, 21:31
:smiliedance: Yay, it's raining:yelclap:
half an inch last night & a shower so heavy just now I lost my vsat connection!!!
Yipeee...
:wave: Anna- great to hear from you!
I was wondering where you were hiding!
:smiliedance: for your rain Flogga!
What was it that you ladies did before marriage & kids?
I was a dental assistant for 11 years.
I worked in Adelaide and for my home town dentist.
When I moved here I tried to pick up work in Broken Hill- even as a temp but no luck so I ended up doing a week a month the whole team on fly in/fly out to Coober Pedy and sometimes Oodnadatta- loved that as it gave me time away from the station and the restaurants in Coober are fabulous- hard to believe I know! I also used to fly out of Adelaide so I'd catch up with girl friends every month- Coober Pedy is no where near my house btw.
Those of you not 15 km from town like me must have to do HUGE shops. How often do you perform this mundane task? & how do you write your shopping list.
I try to do the shopping every 3 weeks, and that is hard enough for me to make our fruit & veg stretch out. We do go shopping whenever we actually go somewhere as well, we have a car fridge which is very handy too.
I do a list by writing down as I run out of things and then I'll go through my pantry and freezer the night before I do the shopping. There's nearly always something I'll forget though! Neighbours will sing out if they're going to town so that's rather handy if you need more bread or milk etc. If I get really desperate I can put in an order to a supermarket in Broken Hill and my mailman can deliver the groceries.
It is rather irritating when, like now, you get down to very little in your fridge and then someone from Elders, for example, says we'll be out tomorrow to talk to you about such and such- ahhh!
floggadog
01-05-2007, 12:17
Hi, really quickly wanting to put a photo of Alyssa & Lindsay in front of the harvester.
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/bluegums.jpg
Hope it works.
Kazza, will catch up soon.
:laughing: flogga..I love the pose!! What a cutie, definately NOT camera shy!!
Well...want to hear a story
The majority of our fruit and veg pickers (what am I saying majority for....ALL of our pickers) are backpackers, now nothing against them, but some are just bl**dy rude and very little english is spoken.
Last Friday it was so busy that one of the overseers forgot to move the tractor for them to offload their fruit in. So a little swedish girl decided to give it a crack:eek: (mind you this was RIGHT BESIDE MY HOUSE!!)
The tractor was left running :banghead: so she hopped on and pushed and pulled every bl**dy knob there was and went carrering backwards and nearly jack-knifed it!!. Hit the breaks and turned it off.
I initially got over my heart attack (and so did the two korean girls she nearly ran over) and went about my business. I made sure DD stayed the hell away from that side of the house and was mentally trying to remember our insurance numbers.
THEN she tried again!!! She jumped on with her friend this time and they were giggling and carring on, but thank god they couldn't get it started. So they started to twist and turn every knob and button.
I went storming over (from the washing line, with a pair of knickers still in my hand..LOL) and told her to rack off or she will break it.
(just picture me saying everything with large hand gestures..LOL)
Our convo:
"are you right?" - me
"yes, can't start machine" - her
"I can see that!! You'd better get off before you break it" - me
"yes" -her (as i turn around she starts kicking the steering column):eek:
"Oi, that's not yours to break, so rack off and wait for the boys. You're not supposed to be driving, Rusebeth is. You too dangerous. Kids play around here and you nearly hit two pickers" - me
"yes" - her (big smile)
well after trying to get the message through for 20min's. I gave up and went back to hanging up the washing. Luckily Rusebeth came back and caught her AGAIN!! He got the message through well and truely!!
Thank-god they are only picking around the house for another day or so.
Wow Bindi- how frustrating- and scary- for you!!
Flogga you do have lovely children!
floggadog
03-05-2007, 06:57
Hiya,
Bindi - That girl sounds a bit thick. Must be a worry having to trust incompetent strangers with your machinery , let alone having them work right next to the house. Good on you for bustin' her ar$e!
Kazza - What a life , flying to those places & dining out (after work of course). I would imagine you'd really appreciate seeing so many people after the isolation of the station.
And your shopping - must take you an hour to put it away. Do you have a coolroom as well as a fridge?
If I ever get to build from scratch I'm going to whack a cool room in next to the kitchen. Saw a house over east like this & thought it was a fantastic idea.
Anna - what wrer you carting when you drove trucks? And do you have a good market for the goats?
Miss Kitty - From memory you're in WA(or am I wrong??) Are you into growing sandelwood trees? I was watching Landline the other day when they were talking about them . We've considered growing them & might put some in soon. Didn't realise they produced seed so early.
Well we've had over an inch of rain:smiliedance: , the dams have started coming up above mud level & the tank water is tasting better already! The log trucks are getting bogged - empty.And it's damn cold which it should be but hasn't managed to do here for the last 2 years. (the stone fruit farmers will be happy!)
Here is my little tale of woe - Yesterday I had to leave the house in a great hurry as somehow I became very late for my parent teacher meeting at school.
That all went well but when I came home & walked inside I started noticing definent signs that the dogs had been in the house (rubbish bin lid removed etc. )so I put Ds2 on the floor , then went to put some shopping on the table when I noticed a chook sh!t on my table:barf: Turns out we'd left the laundry door open whilst out & the dogs cat & 7 cheeky (big) chickens had come inside & turned the place into a farmyard. I think every single chicken managed to leave a deposit! Oh & talking about deposits , the cows were in my yard this morning at 4am & left some pretty hefty deposits of their own! That'll be nice for the kids to play in!
Oh well , big day in town today so I'd better go & get ready.
Catchya soon.:wave:
Bearskin
07-05-2007, 15:25
OMG Bindi - its great people want to come here and work but talk about dangerous and possibly wrecking some serious machinery... Good for you for giving her a foot up the bum!
Flogga - that would have made a nice cleaning job with big chooks roaming around your house...little buggas!
Anna - good to see you! I agree with you that truck accreditations are painful; worse when we get audited every year and DH conveniently happens to be away and I have to sit with the auditors and go through 12 months of maintenace and weightbridge sheets...:sleeping:
Kazza - your job flying into Cooberpedy for a week sounded great. Must have been great to get away from the station every month - I love where I am but I had a whinge to DH lately about how he gets to go around Australia in the truck and I get to stare at the same paddocks day in day out!
Had to laugh at the question from Flogga about what we did before moving onto the farm...
I worked in CBD Melbourne for a few finance companies; wore a suit and Nine West killer heels every day, now its boots every day! I ended up becoming the Marketing and Operations Manager for a firm and spent a lot of time lunching with Rex Hunt and other minor celebs, taking clients to the footy/tennis/cricket in the box, dining out with clients and attending conferences and functions. I earned pretty good money too. Its been handy having the finance background as I can advise DH well now! I had my own investment property in Melbourne too but I sold that when I moved up here and put the money into our business. I applied to a couple of finance companies when I moved here but nothing eventuated and I ended up working on the farm instead and earned more money that driving an hour to work and back every day.
We had another inch last weekend and now everything is emerald green and all the tractors are out sowing. It hasn't been this green in 12 months or more so its a nice change. DH woke up sat morning and looked out the window (he had been away all week) and said, "**** its green!"
Drafting up the ewes yesterday to send the culls to market today and DD was running around in the pens; she would not stop chasing the ewes and every time I picked her up she would scream to be put down. I put her down, she chased the ewes and one turned and ran straight over the top of her. Hoof into the side of the face, a few tears then up and running again....she is a toughie.
Wedding was good - FYI Flogga I went braless but thats ok for me as I have very little in that area anyway! Some older bloke tried to pick me up in the pokies at Rich River where the reception was and I was shocked - I'm a mother now! Men cannot say that stuff to me :D DH got ****carted with all his mates and they planned a trip to Birdsville; just 6 blokes and 3 utes....all good when full of beer but in the cold light of morning DH said there was no way he was going away for 2 weeks on the grog when he could have 2 weeks away with his 'girls' so that was very sweet.
Wedding was funny too - nothing like a bunch of country fellas up on stage in suits with rum cans in their hands with the band singing 'Copperhead Road' and 'The Gambler'...now I know why I fell in love with DH! :D
BS- good luck with your sheep sales. We sold some pretty average wethers last week- who would have gone NCV had we sold them in Nov with our other sale sheep and did quite well. The fact that a lot of SA received really good rains about 3 days before was perfect timing!
I do miss working away, the dentist and receptionist I used to work with were such fantastic people- we worked in a caravan all day together and stayed in the same 2 bedroom apartment and ate together all week so just as well!
Duchessa
10-05-2007, 19:00
I've just got to interject here, (yeah, I know, I need to post a proper post) but Bearskin, I HATE "Copperhead Road" - dh used to sing it ALL THE BLOODY time at the top of his voice... I almost wish Steve Earl would drop dead and take all his so called music with him ;)
And some other song, don't know the name of it "There's a cold wind blowing down the 3 chain road tonight" - that is the only line I know, cos that is the only line dh knows, and he'd sing it OVER and OVER and OVER again, until I would scream at him to shut up.
Duchessa
10-05-2007, 19:08
Flogga, I love the pic of the kids! Are they pretending to be your naughty chickens? They are gorgeous :yes:
Anna, I hope you have finished your BAS. I totally sympathise - I am still getting last year's last quarter together as well as last quarter. Don't ask me how I got so behind :shame: My new year's resolution is to stay on top of it this year (see everything is nearly 6 months behind :laughing:).
I have managed to score a shetland pony for the girls. I haven't picked it up yet, but will probably go get it over the next couple of weeks. I'm not sure exactly who I am getting it for - talk about living vicariously through your kids! They are very keen, but only two, so I'm sure it's not of great consequence to them, but I'm extremely keen for them to be keen :rolleyes:
Bearskin
10-05-2007, 19:32
Duchessa - that song is Three Chain Road by Lee Kernaghan. Sad that I know it and I didn't even like country music until I met Dave and next thing you know I'm at the Palace in Melbourne seeing Lee play live... But dont get me started on hearing "Lights Coming over the Hill" by Slim - Dave loves it as its all about being a hard working truckie (who dies BTW but Dave just doesn't want to get it!).
We played the whole LK CD collection and the Best of Slim Dusty in a single cab ute all the way to Longreach one hot summer...before kid! Best trip of my life and that includes going to the USA for our honeymoon!
Good luck with the shetland; hope you get a good kind one for the kids! I had a young shettie last year and he was a turd but most are beautiful and gentle. Maybe you can take him for a few rides to test him out :D ?
I got the last of the very pg ewes in today for the agent to have a look - he offered me $60 for 3 yr old Merino ewes joined to Whike Suffolk rams...I said "No thanks; I think they're worth a bit more than that". So I'm very excited as it looks like another lambing season for me - starting in 2 days! Dave is a bit disappointed as he wanted to put our paddocks in lucerne this year but we can always do it next year....
I'm so lucky I 'made' my husband listen to my music. That's so selfish isn't it, but now the Alan Jackson & Tim McGraw (I think that's his name!LOL) cds lay around unused and Angus is happy listening to the Hilltop Hoods or Dallas Crane!
Duchessa
10-05-2007, 20:08
Not selfish at all Kazza - quite selfless, it is in their best interest sometimes :laughing:
Not selfish at all Kazza - quite selfless, it is in their best interest sometimes :laughing:
:laughing: yes D and it can only benefit our children!
Angus did look pretty funny getting around the Big Day Out in his usual check shirt, jeans and RMs but he had a ball!
misskittyfantastico
10-05-2007, 20:28
John and I are both sad Midnight Oil fans.....and we both know way too many John Williamson songs - long car trips as kids we think.
Neither of us are American country music fans - although I do have a John Denver best of:o .
And Johnny Cash....he has a beautiful series where he covers everything from Neil Diamond, to U2, to Nick Cave.
Oh, and it's JJJ in the header also.
Steph- I too love the Oils, I actually have a cover album by bands such as Something for Kate, Regurgitator, Frenzl Rhomb-doing MO songs and I really love that. And I voted for 10...1 in the Best Albums of all time!
I went to the RFDS clinic today (oh, Hugh and I were filmed by a channel 9 crew for a doco- this is after last year I was on Totally Wild at the same clinic) and I came home with some charity.
I was given a woollen jumper and beanie for Hugh some lovely ladies in NSW knitted and a Rabobank embroidered jumper for Angus.
I was told they were to be given to people in drought effected/EC areas and yes- that is us. I guess I've been guilty of the whole not accepting drought relief type charity as I always think it should go to someone else who needs it more but I think it did actually sink in today- we are those people!
.....and we both know way too many John Williamson songs - long car trips as kids we think.
MissKitty, I know this WAY too well!!:laughing: I still have 'flashbacks' of the 6 of us singing "We had a cat, his name was bill......." in the car going on christmas holidays!!:laughing:
I was a HUGE Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill......... fan, but sadly Trent HATES country music..So I am now a Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Rammstein, Evenescence kinda gal now (it's funny how if you listen to it long enough, you end up liking it!!) :rolleyes:
(it's funny how if you listen to it long enough, you end up liking it!!) :rolleyes:
:laughing: that must be what happened to poor Angus!
floggadog
12-05-2007, 17:21
Hi everyone,
Wishing you all a Happy Mothers Day for tomorrow.
Duchessa- to answer your Q , my daughter was not wanting to have her photo taken & had to be encouraged to smile. That was the result!
And as for all the music I leave triple j on because if I do put on a cd I get yelled at from behind to play Nina Simones' Troubles in Mind. My kids fell in love with this song & it's only just occured to me a few days ago that the song is about suicide:rolleyes: .
But I'm often bombarded with 70s music, jazz & blues and any other obscure music my sax playing hubby can come up with. (oh Renee Geyer, he just loooves her)
So after all that I've forgotten who I used to like. I can tell you that our wedding son was Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Into my Arms.
Well the bloody chooks broke in again yesterday & reduced my freshly baked loaf of bread to bran like crumbs mixed with sh!t on my kitchen floor. Needless to say, when DH came home my house smelt like Jasol kill the germs & smell the house out cleaner. So today we caught the 2 red rooster & took them up to the MILs fattening pen. Only 5 to control now:(
My week has been filled with sheep work . Last weekend We bought another stud to add to ours. There was already lambs on the ground & a few were a bit chewed up by foxes. A nice set of triplets , which are now twins as the pet had a run in with the tractor today. Anyway, ewes are dropping lambs & last count there was 35 on the ground.
My DD was sick yesterday with a temp & headache & was upset as she thought she wouldn't be able to complete her Mothers day crafts. But shes' bounced back with a vengance today dragging her Dad to Albany for some last minute shopping. Can't wait til she & her brother are old enough to cook unsupervised.
Anyway all the best for tomorrow
Mothers rarely get what they deserve:
On them is dumped the dirt of our dreams.
Their joys must be ours, as they serve
Hard time, which only our love redeems.
Each day your love and faith my days renew;
Rejoice, then, on this day reserved for you.
anon
Duchessa
13-05-2007, 14:50
Rejoice, then, on this day reserved for you.
anon
What bloody day reserved for us??? :laughing: My dh didn't even know it was mother's day today until someone wished me Happy Mday... He looked as sheepish as a fibrefarmer can :rolleyes: Last year was the same except he didn't know it was mother's day until I poured myself a champagne and toasted myself :rolleyes::rolleyes:
Hope the rest of you had a lovely special pampered day and didn't spend too much time shovelling sheep/chicken/cow/kid s*it!
:hugs: Happy Mother's Day to all too- even if it is nearly over.
I did a bit of shameless advertising here to ensure I wasn't forgotten. My very clever son :D managed to buy me some lovely perfume in Adelaide last week- thanks Angus:kiss:
And yes D- we had a few pooey nappies here today!
Flogga- I love Nick Cave and we both love Into My Arms. I saw NC & BS in Adelaide a few years ago and it was fantastic- I was blown away, very intense as you'd expect.
We had our local races & gymkhana yesterday. It was a lovely day for a change, normally it's the coldest day of they year!
misskittyfantastico
13-05-2007, 19:56
I luff Nick Cave too - saw him a few times pre Millie. He's fantastico.
Duchessa
14-05-2007, 11:46
I am having a heavy Sarah Mclauchlan and Beth Orton revival at the moment. I loike Nick Cave too.
floggadog
14-05-2007, 15:57
What bloody day reserved for us??? :laughing: !
My mothers day used to be like this too. Took a hissy fit to get a reaction & then it wasn't worth it.
But now I have my 2 secret agents on the job & if Dadda doesn't take them shopping he suffers yelling, tears & blackmail. And none of it comes from me:laughing: .
I still got covered in after birth as one of my lambs forgot to raise her legs for the 'big exit. But it was all worth it when DH made packet pancakes under protest & the kids gave me their gifts( which were more suited to them - Nemo bubble bath:rolleyes: ) But at the end of the day I was happy & it's only the second Mothers day out of the last 6 I've started & ended the day happy!
Flogga I'm glad you had a nice day Sunday- do tend to agree the Nemo bubble bath prob a bit suss kids:laughing:
I had a very pleasant surprise in the mail the other day- we got a letter from Elders saying we won Supreme Clip of the Sale for such and such sale on such and such date :smiliedance:
Angus tells me it's like a ute show and everyone wins a prize but I still took it as a very encouraging sign that us, our stud, our sheep classer and wool classer must be all doing the right thing:thumbsup:
floggadog
16-05-2007, 22:08
:yelclap:
Congratulations
Kazza & Angus
on your Supreme Clip.
Soak up the win!
Velouria
19-05-2007, 14:47
Hello ladies,
I thought I would post here instead of just lurking as I have been for awhile. Whilst I am not outback or all that remote I live on a small farm and have been enjoying very much your sheep/chook/dog stories as I can relate.
My DH and I live on a small (well I am sure tiny compared to some of you ladies) 23 acre hobby farm between Donnybrook and Kirup in the SW of WA - about 45 minutes from Bunbury. My hubby has an off farm income which fortunately has enabled me to stop working and look after the property. We only got married in November last year and up until Feb 2006 I was working in Albany for three years.
We are currently TTC our first child :fingerscrossed:, and have two furkids (Kelpie cross and a Rhodesian Ridgeback).
We have just started breeding Wessex Saddleback pigs and are expecting our first litter in the coming weeks, but we also have goats, dorpers, ducks, chooks and some odds and sods paddock sheep. Looking after this lot keeps me busy as well as oil painting and generally being a happy housewife.
Anyhoo I just wanted to introduce myself and look forward to chatting with you all in the future.
:) Jill
Bearskin
19-05-2007, 14:49
Well done Kazza! That is great news about the Supreme clip.
Welcome Jill!
Its been raining here for days; freezing cold and I'm over it already :) We need to buy a clothes dryer....but I'm so tight I'll go another winter without it.
Dave had a accident last week; fell off the side of the crate from the top deck unloading some lambs and knocked himself out. FIL and I had to drive over and pick him up and poor FIL had to take our truck to Coonamble for a load as DH was still really groggy/concussed and couldn't drive...silly bugger! Scared the cr@p out of me...FIL rings and tells me and I start crying (at the time we knew almost nothing, just that Dave was unconscious and an ambulance had been called) and FIL says "Just calm down now" in this serious tone so I hung up and rang my own dad and cried to him instead! Dave has been lapping up all the attention though - he has been resting up on the couch and silly me has been getting him blankets and drinks but thats all over now! They sure know how to play it for all its worth...
We ended up selling our ewes just before they started lambing so now in the process of obtaining grain to sow a wheat crop in. The costs are huge - we were talking about it today and working out the $ that those huge farms must spend in chemical sprays, pickling of grain etc when they are sowing 15,000 acres. Some friends of ours in WA sow about that each year. I mean we spend $1000's in fuel for the trucks but we have guaranteed income; the crops could fail, frosts could come etc and those costs still have to be outlayed...Its an eye opening experience.
Some acreage is for sale across the road from us in June at auction; been frantically getting finance organised so we can bid with confidence. The ground has not been improved for years and the fences are falling down so hopefully it wont go for anymore than $1000 an acre (at the most). Its a nice little 340 acre paddock with rolling hills and plenty of shelter and we have always dreamed of buying it but will have to wait and see on the price. :fingerscrossed:
Better go - Dave is calling out for a hot chocolate. You think he has a temrinal disease they way he is carrying on :laughing:
floggadog
20-05-2007, 10:02
Bearskin, so glad to hear Dave is OK. I agree with men milking it for all it's worth. I have a classic one in this house.
No lambing for you, & you were so looking forward to it.
We found one of our lambs dead in the paddock yesterday & the way it was lying I'd swear the ewe has layed down on it & suffocated the poor little bugger.
Good luck with the upcoming auction. I hope you buy it nice & cheap!
Hi Jill, nice to meet another WA farm mum.
Anyway, my pancakes are calling, gotta go...
Velouria
20-05-2007, 10:43
Hello Bearskin and Floggadog,
Thank you for your welcoming hellos.
I did have a giggle at your comments about your husband (not about his accident as that was just awful) but about how he is carrying on.
Last year (before we were even engaged) I played Folorence Nightingale to Chris (my DH) whilst he was recovering from having his appendix out. I know he was sore but he milked it big time - kept wanting me to wipe his brow cause he was hot or get him a blanket as he was cold, and even when he was almost fully recovered he was walking around like an old man (all doubled over and hobbling along). He really tried my patience in a big way!!!
I am off to a small landholders auction today in Bridgetown (about 45mins away) just for a sticky beak and to maybe buy some Silkie or Bantam chickens to add to our menagerie. Last year we went and weren't going to buy anything but came back with two roosters, two hens and two dorpers lambs - oops!!
I am only going to take $50 so I can't go mad.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Mrs M- welcome- how did you go at the auction?
We've got lambs on the ground- YAY
We were getting nervy as none were dropping but everyone seems to be now. Angus reported a maiden ewe yesterday with a lamb- now we just pray this year we have heaps of feed so we also turn off heaps of lambs, not just drop them.
Velouria
28-05-2007, 11:29
Hello all,
Dh and I have just come back from a weeks holiday in Albany to start us on the road to having a baby. It was so relaxing to be away from the farm for a bit (my parents farm sat for us) and we really relaxed and enjoyed each others company. :fingerscrossed: for a BFP in June.
I managed to restrain myself at the auction. For some reason it was more like a poultry auction than a livestock one, as there were so many roosters and chickens up for sale. I ended up paying $9 for a beautiful cream coloured Silkie hen (to replace one that died a few months ago), plus I got details of two people who would be interested in buying our pigs (once they are born). It was a pretty good day in the end.
I am starting to get a cold I think. Runny nose and tickly throat is not a good sign. I have to help with the fencing contractor in the next couple of days too as I offered my services to keep the cost down (rather than him using an offsider) I am regretting that now as the last thing I want to be doing is banging in star pickets and kneeling down in the wet grass.
Our sow (Pamela) is looking like she might farrow in the next week. She is off her food and spends a lot of time in her sty making a nest. She is also pretty big in the belly. Has anyone had any experience with pigs giving birth. We are novices but have decided we shall have minimum intervention in the process. She has birthed two litters before so she should have no problems:fingerscrossed:
I hope all is well across the land and that you are getting rain if you need it (who doesn't) and your animals are all happy & healthy.
Jill
floggadog
28-05-2007, 17:21
Hi , I'm tired.
Just thought I'd say that. Lambing is in full swing & they're popping out all over the place, I'm kicking myself that I wasn't harder on the drafting gate last year as some of the old bone crushers are really struggling to keep up. Still this year I'm going to have a big clean out & quit all of my older ewes, except my favs!
At the moment there's one lamb in a box by the fire & one at the ILs' trying to reunite with it's Mum after being frozen this morning. We had over 20 mm last night & it was cold with it. We've also got a rogue fox who has learnt to chew the tails off the lambs. Because I tail them on day 1 or 2 they can't feel the fox chewing. Well he got cheeky last night & chewed the head off a healthy lamb instead:mad: . Alpaca must have missed him. Anyway I'm gonna give him (the fox) a tummy ache tonite hopefully :devil6: .
Tree harvesting is nearly over so it should be quiet here again by the end of the week!
Kaz-glad your ewes are lambing! Ours are dropping alot of singles, probably a good thing for this season, but ram buyers looove buying rams that were born as twins.
Velouria- Good luck with your sow. I know nothing about them but sounds as though she'll be fine. Just keep your chooks away from her - our shearer has a sow that eats chooks feathers & all!
My thoughts today are with the family who's toddlers have dissapeared in the South West yesterday at a farm stay. I'm really hoping they've found them as they went missing yesterday morning & last night was a shocker for temp & rain , So my :fingerscrossed: for them.
Well I must go. FIL updated me on the reheated lamb. It's making alot of noise & the mother is 5 yards away just looking at it. Probably thinking -' Why have I done this again? I don't want more kids!':laughing:
My inlaws get more stressed than the sheep. So I'd better move it. 'Outta sight , Outta mind' works well!
Hope you're all receiving the rain you need.
Bye
floggadog
28-05-2007, 20:51
Thank goodness they found the little babes. All safe n sound. I can sleep tonite!!
Duchessa
29-05-2007, 20:58
Hi Ladies! I have been missing you all!
Flogga - that sucks re the fox. We don't lamb atm, we are only wethers but we keep the alpacas anyway as we are on the edge of the Snowy River Nat Park and have a lot of wild dog attacks. They are so good. Even on large mobs of 500-1000, so long as there are at least two of them with the mob they are ok. Though we were leasing a pine plantation and had about 2000 head in there and lost 250 in the three months between crutching and shearing - the alpacas just couldn't deal with the trees. Expensive lesson.
Do you run two with the mob? Apparently one alpaca will mob the sheep and the other will hunt the fox/dog.
How is Pamela going Velouria? Sounds like she is pretty close. A friend of dh's and mine breeds/sells organic saddlebacks - you probably know of her as she runs the Rare Breeds Assoc - Fiona Chambers? Nice piggies - tasty :D
Kazza - congratulations on the Supreme Clip! You are a supreme gal too :D
We have just sold the last dozen bales of our wool - it sold so well this year! It is *almost* nice to be paying such a huge amount of GST this month - at least you know something is actually coming in for a change instead of haemorrhaging money like only a farm can!
Steph, hope you are enjoying the moisture in the air xx
My kids are totally feral at the moment. I would love to take a day or so out and feel what it is like to get through a day without the screaming... I'm sure I have developed industrial deafness from SAHMing!
misskittyfantastico
29-05-2007, 21:09
This is the only thread on Bubhub that I subscribe to, and I still don't get here enough!
Howdy Ladies:wave: And hi to Jill, another West Aussie, lovely to see!
We got some rain.....I had to start a pathetic pity thread to get it though! John is seeding like a madman and life is bearable again.
Except of course for the feral aka Millie - Skye, there must be something in the air - I just wish she's STOP the crying/whinging/screaming!
Oh Flogga, I couldn't agree with you more. Those poor parents, thank God those kiddies were ok.
Take care all
Steph xxx
Duchessa
29-05-2007, 21:51
Except of course for the feral aka Millie - Skye, there must be something in the air - I just wish she's STOP the crying/whinging/screaming!
Maybe it is just the age - Millie, Bonnie and Freya are a similar age I think (2 & a few)? It is driving me rather ragged at the moment. I have to say it is the biggest downer about the twin thing I have come up against so far. Mostly I really enjoy it - I think it is even worse than when they were little babies crying at the same time. I feel like the piece of string in the joke, you know... I'm a frayed knot... *insert forced laughter*
Well, I have just finished putting the second coat of paint on our bathroom floor (the tiles will come with more major renovations next year or so), and it must be time for bed. Dh is away atm, as per usual. Wouldn't it be nice to have a wife to make your tea and warm the bed and paint the darn floor? She wouldn't have to be mine - any wife would do... Wives ROCK.
misskittyfantastico
29-05-2007, 22:00
Miss M is 20 months....I'm dreading 2! But yeah, "spirited" kiddies hey?
As for the wife thing? I would LOVE a wife. I was watching an interview with Sidney Portier (I didn't spell that right, I know) and he was talking about going to the supermarket, "I'm my wife's wife" he said. Sigh. I want Sidney as my wife.
Velouria
31-05-2007, 11:58
Hello all,
Sorry to hear about your kids acting up misskittyfantastico and Duchessa. I can comiserate as my furbabies have been shut in the house for the last three days as it has been raining and I have been starfished on the couch trying to endure this nasty cold of mine, and they have just been going manic. My 16month old Ridgeback, Harvey, has taken to going into our bedroom (he can open the door) and getting my undies out of the laundry basket and chewing the crotch out of them!!!! :eek: I have lost two pairs in three days and rescued another two from him. GROSS animal.:barf:
Duchessa..what a small world it is. Our Boar (Nugent as we call him / Fernleigh Dominator K458 as he is registered)) was originally purchased from Fiona by the guy we bought him from, and DH and I have been planning to visit her farm when we go across to Tassie (via VIC) later in the year. Fancy that.
On a related topic (Pigs Pigs Pigs is all I seem to talk about lately) we got a call from "Farm Weekly" which is a WA's largest selling rural newspaper, and they want to do a story about DH and I and our pigs!!!! Far out we haven't even had our first litter and already I have 2 prospective buyers AND newspaper interest. We are still undecided as to whether we shall do it as we really are novices and would hate to commit to the story only to have an unsuccessful birth. But still we are rather chuffed!
PLUS....we are going to have our wedding featured in Tasmanian Bride (Bridal Mag) later in the year!!! Its a case of not what we know but who we know that will get our piccies in the magazine. We had our wedding and reception on our farm in Nov 2006. Our photographer was the husband of Chris's best friend, who was also our Groomslady :confused: and they flew in from Tassie and stayed with us also. Richard (our photographer) has been advertising in the Magazine for two years and that is why he was chosen to have a feature, plus he is a fabulous photographer. The lady writing the article is a highschool friend of my SIL. What a mouthful!
Anyhoo it has been a pretty exciting week for us. I have the fencing contractor here at the moment digging holes and drilling things so we are finally moving ahead with our expansion of the pig area and relocation of our goats.
We are off to Perth on Sunday as my sister is having a dinner party and is going to announce her pregancy to the rest of the family! I am so excited for her and her DP. She had her first ultrasound last week and the baby looks freaky!!!!Happy and healthy thank goodness, but it looks like it has a cheeky grin on its face.:D http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/showthread.php?t=94318
Ta ta for now.
PS - misskittyfantastico -- Guess what I have been watching whilst recovering from this cold????
Season 6 and 7 of BTVS. I am a huge fan and it has been awhile since I last watched them and its so good to see the Scoobies again. Aaahh Spike - yummo. Long live the Buffster
misskittyfantastico
31-05-2007, 14:11
Oh Jill, a fellow Buffinator! We have a thread in the tv/movies section here - we are all total Buffy nerds. You should come and have a chat some time.
:wave: ladies, just a quick hello from me.
I hope everyone's still getting rain :fingerscrossed:
We've been having showers adding up to about 5mm a week for the last few weeks, I guess every little bit helps.
floggadog
06-06-2007, 15:20
Hi fellow farm women, life is a little quieter here on the funny farm as all our tree harvesting people have gone. Life is still toooo busy and I think I need to go & hide for a few days. But I can't.So things I've managed to get done ...
I managed to clean my lambing paddock out today & have made a new path. nearly all my lamb tagging is up to date, and my childrenare alive & healthy. Although if Lindsay doesn't stop doing what he is doing right now I may have to change that statement.
Lifes a bit low for me ATM. My mum has just started chemo for breast cancer which was cut out a month ago.(gee I've not written that down before:( ) and she's now in hospital on antibiotics to treat a high temp. She's OK but I don't think I'm handling it all that well. My communication with her has become very dismal, I think because I don't want to hear about her illness every conversation we have. But I know I have to. And on top of that our eldest nephew on my husbands side commited suicide a few weeks ago in England. He was 22 and we never met him:crying: . A beautiful boy who was his parents pride and joy. He suffered depresion from the age of 14 and had been unsucessful at his previous attempts. I talked to me BIL in great depth last weekend about his son & that conversation affected me more than hearing of his sons death. A fathers greif is one the most powerful things and it was all just too close to home.
Anyway sorry to bring the mood down, I just had to let that lot out.
SO...
Duchessa, interesting about the alpacas. You've given me more info than an alpaca breeder has ever given me. Those people need a huge lesson in marketing. We run one per mob. seems to 99% effective. Have a black one to. Hate him he roots anything that stands / sits still long enough. We think he's even suffocated a lambing ewe
OOPs have to go , bus run... talk later, bye:wave:
misskittyfantastico
06-06-2007, 16:58
Oh Flogga:hugs: I'm really sorry to hear about your mum. It is really awful when your mum is sick. My mum suffered from kidney failure and was on dialysis (she had a transplant and is all good now, but...) it absolutley sucked ar$e.....the uncertainty and the fear and the general blerghness. I hope that the chemo goes as well as it can and that they get rid of the nasty.
What an added kick in the guts to hear about your nephew. It is truly unfathomable for me to imagine how his parents must feel:crying:
I hope you can find just a few precious hours (minutes more like it) to just sit and have a wine and a choccie....Don't ever feel like you're bringing anything down - we all here to listen to each other and offer su[pport and cyberhugs:hugs:
Take care lovely.
floggadog
06-06-2007, 17:08
Thanks Miss Kitty, I've got tears in my eyes ( greatful ones)
sheep work calling now, will write more later:wave:
Duchessa
08-06-2007, 11:51
I'm so sorry to hear about your troubles, Flogga. Huge cyber hug from me. I hope your mamma is back home and healthy as soon as possible.
Duchessa
08-06-2007, 14:44
So excited! We picked up a little pony for the girls on Wednesday... He is SO CUTE! And they love him to bits.
He is just so quiet and sweet - he lets them paw him to bits, brush him, cuddle him, sit on him, pick up his feet etc and he just stands so still. I think I'm in love :D
floggadog
08-06-2007, 15:30
Duchessa, I can't see your pony
StormAngel
09-06-2007, 13:25
hi there,
I was wondering if i could join in with you guys? i'm not remote or outback but I am on the land in rural NSW!
It would be nice to chat with other mums on the land!
misskittyfantastico
09-06-2007, 13:43
Hi Jo:wave:
You're more than welcome to join our country lassies thread. I'm not remote or outback either - just married to a mad farmer (which I guess makes me mad by association:p ).
I hope all is well with you - have you had any wet stuff where you are?
Duchessa - I wanna see the ponnnnyyyy!
Velouria
09-06-2007, 14:07
Hello everyone,
Hi Jo and welcome - I am new here too and everyone is just lovely. Its great having other farm/country chicks to chat with.
Flogga I am really sorry to hear about your troubles and I hope things get better for you soon :hugs:.
Duchessa, that pony sounds like a dream. I have never had horses but I did hear that pony's in particular can be a bit bitey, so it sounds like you got a good one.
Not much happening down my way. Bit of rain during the week. No piglets as yet and I am beginning to think that Pamela is just fat and not really pregnant at all!
We brought our four Dorper sheep from the paddock into the house block this morning to do a bit of mowing for us and they are so cheeky they came up onto the verandah. One of them went so far as to put two feet into the house. Both of our dogs ran into the bedroom in fear, as she is a bit of a headbutter (we call her Molly) and they have learnt the hard way not to mess with her.
I spent a lovely morning catching up with the local vet who has got an 8 week old baby. Never having had kids myself or any family members who have had them, I am always nervous about holding them, but he was so good. He was a bit fussy to start with then did this huge wet F@rt and then promptly fell asleep! What a man!
I hope you are all well and enjoying the few days of sunshine in between the rain (if that is what you are getting weatherwise).
Cheerio
Jill
floggadog
09-06-2007, 21:32
Hiya,
How ya doin'?
Anyone in NSW flooded out? Sad about the washed away people, still my DH is sitting there saying
"I don't know what their problem is (as in the flooding) " He would be quite happily flooded in if it meant rain! Mind you we live on a hill.
I was going to post a photo of our pony but the photo has gone missing. So i'll have to go & track the feral down tomorrow & get another one.
Still waiting Duchessa:rolleyes:
Hi Jo ,welcome, these gals are great, you'll love it
here!
Velouria- I do hope your piggy wigs come soon. Maybe (if your sow is quiet , or asleep) you could rest your hand on her belly & wait for the piglets to wriggle. Hope the baby vibes work for you :fingerscrossed: .
Well my last few days has been filled with weighing & sorting ewe lambs, sorting pregger ewes, a bit of sewing & carting children from A to B etc.
Been crappy with my DH as he is sooo busy he has forgotten the art of communication , luckily I can come on here for some intelligent conversation that doesn't involve 'what's for dinner?' doh!
He sold one of my cows this week cause she failed to fall pregnant last season. She made a measly 78c/kg which as far as I'm concerned is daylight robbery. She was such a nice cow & clearly wanted 2 years between calves, I can understand that!
Anyway I have to go cause my kids are watching some unsavoury TV program & are sure to have nightmares.
Enjoy the cold, great for cuddling;)
Bye
Oh I forgot, does anyone milk a goat, if so,tell me more.
StormAngel
10-06-2007, 08:37
Thanks for the welcome girls!
There has been no rain here for about 2wks and then it wasn't much, but it has been enough to get the pasture going, not that that will do any good unless we get some follow up!
Floggadog - would love to see the pic of your pony, we have one too!
floggadog
10-06-2007, 09:17
I'd love to see all the ponies. (I'm a horse girl myself but ponies are rather cute in an odd kinda way)
When our pony first arrived my mare took off to the far end of the second paddock & didn't come back for 3 or 4 days. She was scared
s*****ss & it took at least a fortnight before she'd even consider being in the same paddock.
Silly bl**dy horse!
Duchessa
10-06-2007, 13:45
Ahh Flogga you crack me oop :laughing:
I hear the petrified of ponies thing. I was at a show as a teenager with my recently broken purebred arab beside the car (door open getting my hat out) and someone unloaded a pony behind us and he took off right through the door and completely buggered it. Dad made me use my pocket money to buy another one. Needless to say, my next horse was NOT an arab :D
I had two of our dogs off the chain this am to hunt some cattle out of the house paddock and when we had finished they got onto the pony!!!!! You have never heard such a diatribe come out of my mouth - they were lucky I had put the stock whip away - I guess they thought he was a little Angus calf :no:
75 c a kilo IS daylight robbery. It gives me the poops how little our produce is worth (even mangy ole culls like yours Flogga :p). Don't worry, there'll be another thread in here complaining about the price of meat shortly... HO hum.
Velouria, I hope to God Pammie is preggers! What a disappointment that would be. Can you get her preg tested or something? I hope you make it this month too - I am ttcing too, so I know how impatient one can get. Re the Chambers, I figured that you MUST know them if you have saddlebacks - it would be a pretty small world amongst Saddleback breeders. Do visit Fernleigh - it is a wonderful enterprise and they are lovely people. Nick and my husband go back many years, but I have only known them for a few.
Welcome jlk! I didn't think to tell you about this thread the other day when we pm'd about playgroup - not quite playgroup in here, but it is much more fun!
Apologies about the pony piccie. I thought I had it worked out, but I had to make the whole album public for you to see it and I'm a bit shy, still trying to separate public from private.
Duchessa
10-06-2007, 16:14
Roight! Here tis. (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/P1010025.jpg)
Duchessa
10-06-2007, 16:22
And just cos I love sharing photos (and I do expect some reciprocation here :D)
photo of farm picnic spot (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/CIMG0421.jpg)
photo taken where dh proposed, overlooking top farm
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/Twilightforweb.jpg)
dh looking very cowboyish with lil cowgals (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/CIMG0324.jpg)
me pregnant @ 6.5 months with the girls (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/SkyeBearportraitcrop.jpg)
Ok I think that is enough image whoring for one night!
misskittyfantastico
10-06-2007, 18:01
I'm not really a horse fan.....that pony looks pretty okay though - very cute, nice and furry, smallish....
And YOU! Duchessa! You smokin' hot lady you! That's a beautiful photo - and I love the one of your fella and your girls.
The country where you are is breathtaking....it's kind of the opposite here - flat and sandy...I'll go and look for some piccies to share.
misskittyfantastico
10-06-2007, 19:48
Okay....my turn at image errming.
My Favourite Pic
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m236/misskittyfantastico_2006/Millie%20Moo/DSC00135.jpg
Millie and me...when she was liddle
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m236/misskittyfantastico_2006/Millie%20and%20Mummy/StephAmeliaI.jpg
Not a good shot, but sunset at our place
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m236/misskittyfantastico_2006/The%20Farm/DSC00180.jpg
Millie in the yard
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m236/misskittyfantastico_2006/DSC00424.jpg
View out of our gate....dryyyyyy
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m236/misskittyfantastico_2006/DSC00417.jpg
one more image erm...ooh that nearly rhymes
Millie and her Dad
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m236/misskittyfantastico_2006/DSC00379.jpg
Duchessa
10-06-2007, 20:03
Phwoar! What a spunk your man is Steph :D And the shot of you and Millie when she was a bub is gorgeous!
Isn't it amazing how DIFFERENT farms can be - and to think, we all get lumped in the same hole. I love that dry flat country - such huge skies and simple lines. It must be very beautiful.
Thank you for sharing them - it is nice to get a bit of a picture happening.
Velouria
11-06-2007, 10:31
Hello all
Well in the spirit of reciprocity I have posted some pics in my Photo Album on my Profile Page (just click on my Avatar and then Photo Album in the toolbar at the top and lo and behold me in my dressing gown!!!)
I loved looking at your piccies Miss Kitty and Duchessa, it is really cool to put a face to the name and to see your bewdiful bubs (and rather spunky hubbies too)
My pics are mainly of my animals....but one day.....:fingerscrossed::fingerscrossed::fingerscr ossed::fingerscrossed:
floggadog
11-06-2007, 12:17
Fantastic photos. Everyones' backyard has something special about it. And beautiful families, but then I wouldn't expect anything less. Your Pigs made me laugh Velouria!
Ok here is our pony , Magic Jordan (jordi for short) name must have been a sick joke on the breeders part:laughing:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/DSCF4944.jpg
Here are our kids with Rob (DH)
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/2007Feb1060.jpg
This is part of our view from our house at the time of the Porongurup fires which basically burnt out the entire porongurups plus farm land
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/DSCF4118.jpg
This is Olliver & myself a couple of months ago
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/2726Mar07073.jpg
And a hay photo, gotta have a hay photo! This load was 30ish? tons of export oaten hay
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/2007Feb1242.jpg
This has made me realise how few photos I have of our farm. Most of my photos were either of the kids or the sheep!
Oh hang on I'd better put one in of my sheep.
These were our 20 sale rams that went to auction last year, they averaged $800.
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/06NOVEMBER029.jpg
OK that's all from me. Babe is asleep & I have a dirty house.
D your girls are gorgeous!- so are you and DH!
Your place is stunning.
I'm looking at Steph's pics now.
Lucky you Steph- you have roses! I have a few half dead geraniums!
You and J make a gorgeous couple- and with the cute Miss M a gorgeous family.
V- love your wedding pics! And your big piggies & goats.
We found a feral kid- not Hugh LOL- last week in our yard. We tried to save her but to no avail. I'll dig out a pic after I look at Flogga's photos.
Oh Flogga- how wonderful and green it is in the pony shot! Love the pony (&the DD!) What a lovely family you have.
Ok-I've dug out a few. Need to go for a walk with Hugh & the tribe of dogs and get some better ones.
In the yards at shearing last year (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/everything139.jpg) with ANgus' cousin Byron & our dog Willy- he's the helpful dog!
and another in the yards (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/everything138.jpg) with my m-i-l on the drafting gate, Angus' bro Ben in the middle and his cousin Byron at the back.
They do give an idea of what it's like here though.
Hugh in Angus' shed (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/Daddysboots.jpg) and on Uncle Ben's bike (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/UncleBensmotorbike.jpg).
Me with our short lived baby goat (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/goat.jpg) and 13 year old Daisy.
Duchessa
11-06-2007, 13:58
Oh this is SO much fun :)
Flogga your piccies are gorgeous! That pony is such a widdle cootie patootie. Your family looks absolutely lovely as do you, gorgeous shot! And a very nice line of sheep too - they look so edible! Noice hay - for export you say? I've read about your type in the paper, bloody whinging farmers complaining about people like you exporting hay :laughing:
Velouria - love those pigs - what chunkas. Your wedding looks like it was beautiful and so do you! And you look smashing in your dressing gown :p The farm looks idyllic.
Wow Kazza - your place looks amazing - like half the drive between Ceduna and umm... Sheesh, what is the town called at the border with the telegraph station ruins...? And you have orange sheep :D Ours go a nasty shade of grey. Hugh looks so bright and healthy and Angus *swee sweee-oooo*!
yeah D the pics in the yards prob aren't the best for having a look what it's really like here- in the background are holding paddocks- which of course get a bit of flogging over shearing (and as we all know last season wasn't flash :thumbsdown: )
misskittyfantastico
11-06-2007, 17:09
Gorgeous photos! It's lovely to be able to see you all.
Velouria - Love the pics......love the dressing gown:thumbsup:
Flogga - You have such a beautiful bunch! I love that shot of you and your bubba.
Karen - Hugh has gotten all BIG!- he looks so like you - he's such a cutie.
Farming, and the land in general is just so diverse isn't it?
Velouria
11-06-2007, 18:30
I love all these photos. Its so good to see the differences in our farms
Flogga - your Rams look like a fine bunch of masculine sheep, plus your Pony is a cutey
Kazza - I love Hughs sticky up hair, plus wearing your Dh's boots ...the cutest.
Duchessa - The picture of where your HUbby propsed could be on a postcard. The light looks so good and it looks really magical.
Now for a few more. I took these today so that you could see how green things are down my way
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z220/velouria_pics/DSC_2954.jpg
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z220/velouria_pics/DSC_2959.jpg
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z220/velouria_pics/DSC_2963.jpg
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z220/velouria_pics/DSC_2960.jpg
This is what happens when you leave the gates open...and yes I am in my PJ's AGAIN!
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z220/velouria_pics/DSC_2917.jpg
floggadog
11-06-2007, 19:40
Hi again, couldn't wait to see more pics & had to come on here again - I'm NOT addicted:laughing: .
Kazza, your place is amazing , I agree with Duchessa, it does look like the Nullabor.( I liked the nullabor) And beautiful sheep. They look so neat & tidy & clean. Oh & the little goat (poor thing)- probably would have grown up & eaten your half dead geranium. So I hope you buried it next to the geranium for fertiliser.:o & love the photo of Hugh in the boots!
Oh , sorry bout the green stuff in the pics, should've changed it to brown!
Duchessa- wish I could say the hay was ours but I forgot to mention we were the buyer not the seller. This is some of our hay - pure clover in squares for my sheep.:p Do ya want some??!!
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/2006November16028.jpg
Velouria- clearly you are, like me , a fashion slave. At least your pjs don't look like they have holes, or stains from baby lambs or sheep afterbirth...the things we do!
Duchessa
11-06-2007, 19:47
:laughing: Pjs and gumboots. Gotta love it. I don't wear pjs to bed so it is lucky we are remote :laughing:
Flogga, that pic of your yummilicious, nicely baled hay fit for horses (imagine feeding it to a bunch of mangy ungrateful sheep :D) is a bloody beauty! Check out the tractor! Bet that is your dh's pride and joy. Mine was just saying the other day that he'd love to get himself an old Fergie to do up... We need it about as much as you needed a new header *giggle*
floggadog
11-06-2007, 20:25
I'll have you know Duchessa that is a fine , english David Brown tractor that is 1 year older than my DH & his father purchased it new & brought it to Australia from Wales in 1969.( Oh DH is driving & his eldest bro Malcolm is with him) So I think the story behind the tractor means more than the tractor IYKWIM! And Bloody tractors, we have a chamberlain 306 waiting for a motor ,which is in the shed waiting for the tractor (clearing sale bargain...doh) & half a Nuffield here & the other half on someone elses property, not to mention the HEADER!!!
Oh & my sheep looove the hay, fat little pony isn't allowed the good stuff, only the ryegrass, capeweed mix which he can still get fat on!
Duchessa
11-06-2007, 21:08
I was deadly serious about the tractor! It is a beaut :D Dh would be most envious - I hope he never sees his dream machine rusting away in a paddock, cos I'll be a tractor reno widow. What is wrong with the ones that work already anyway? And the pic is a gem - you dh and dhdaddy look so happy.
StormAngel
12-06-2007, 08:47
Wow, love the pics, I should get my butt into gear and find some!
the little goat (poor thing)- probably would have grown up & eaten your half dead geranium. So I hope you buried it next to the geranium for fertiliser.
:laughing: so true Flogga!
Angus buried her far away from the house so the dogs wouldn't dig her up and drag her across the lawn:rolleyes:
Velouria
12-06-2007, 11:16
Thanks for the comments on my Profile ladies, made me feel all special :)
Flogga - I love the tractor, its a gem. Given we only have 23 acres all we have to show in the machinery shed is a Cox ride-on lawn mower! But it is red and racey looking (points for trying) http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z220/velouria_pics/DSC_7933.jpg
My Pj's, whilst they may not have sheep debris on them they usually have a mixture of pig drool and mud from being goobered on whilst feeding the pigs...I know I should get dressed before I do the morning feeding rounds, but there is something liberating about starting work in your jimmy jams (me...lazy...never:D)
I do have a picture somewhere of me in my Pjs, wellies, beany and my driza-bone, but I think we have all seen enough. Although in my defense, below is a pic of my Dh in his farm attire (daggy trackypants with next to no elastic, a jumper with some holes in it and his hockey socks - one pulled up and one down for that added touch of class)
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z220/velouria_pics/DSC_3150.jpg
KAzza - I agree with Flogga on the tidiness of your sheep. Thats how sheep should look! Dh and I have really amatuerish sheep husbandry skills and our sheep are the skruffiest bunch of misfits you have seen.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z220/velouria_pics/DSC_0009.jpg
As for that goat..erm..well...yes it was a bit skanky looking I must say. But at least you tried to keep it alive, although am I mistaken or was that a bottle of beer with a teat on the end of it in that piccy??? Is that some revolutionary kid food that I should know about, for when we have kids (of the goat variety that is)
Speaking of sheep, yesterday I had the local wool merchant (if that is what they are called) around to pick up our wool which we have been storing for over two years. Our sheep are primarily kept to keep the grass in the paddocks down and to make a little bit of $$ when we sell (although last year we made a loss as we had a few unexplained deaths in the paddock). Anyhoo we have no equipment nor skills at wool sorting etc so we just stuffed all the wool into garbage bags and chucked it into the shed as we didn't think it would be worth anything. Anyway to cut a long story short we were wrong and there is a local guy who picks up small lots of wool from farms like ours and then on sells it for you. We had to split the garbage bags and stick all the wool in wool packs and remove all the stained and daggy bits and we filled 4 packs. We had almost double that but the rest of it the rats were living in and had gotten damp so that is going off to the tip. So now I am eagerly awaiting a cheque in the mail. I have no idea how much we will get but we are pleased as we were just going to chuck it all away. Plus he told me how to do it next year and even said he would come round and show us next time we shear the sheep. What a nice fellow
He also commented that Australia has the lowest sheep stocking rate since 1914! I don't know if that is based in fact or he was spinning me a yarn but that is quite depressing if it is true. It makes me feel bad about showing off all the green we have down here when some of you guys probably don't have much at all. If I could I would send some of it your way.:wave:
Ok thats it I am going to refrain from posting anymore pics. I get a bit carried away when it comes to sharing photos I love to look at other peoples places and families and show off my own too.
Jlk - I would love to see some of your pics too.
Ps - Do you ladies have a name for your property? Flogga, your comment about the story having more meaning than the tractor made me think to ask. I was wondering if any of you had a story about your Property name to share.
floggadog
12-06-2007, 13:28
Hi ho,
Kazza, I was thinking you must have a really big belly by now,going on what your signature thingy says, how are you feeling & how many weeks left? & talking about babies, Bindi must be ready to drop.
Anyway,Velouria I had an idea about your rubbish wool, if you have fruit/citrus trees, use it as a mulch, It works wonders & the daggier the better. Also , I'm not sure about kids but we give lambs powdered full cream milk (mixed in water of course) & yes the beer bottle is the perfect feeding vessel.
Our farm is called White Rose. There is not a single white rose on it but the family farm in Wales was called White Rose hence the name here. We called our White Suffolk stud Rhos Gwyn Which loosely translates to White Rose. I mean could you imagine?
White Rose White Suffolk stud? Naaa!
anyway we sent of 27 ewe lambs to WAMMCO today ( the abatoir) and 35 ram lambs to Kattaning saleyards, All culls obviously. I'm very keen to get the kill sheet back from WAMMCO as we've not sent our white suffolk culls there before.:fingerscrossed: for a better price than the cows the other day.
That old tractor has caused some interest hasn't it? I'll have to post a side view of it. We actually start it by shorting out the starter motor (or something like that), don't tell worksafe, :rolleyes: .
Oh does anyone want a milking sheep? One of my ewes lambed late last night & she had a big udder with teats like a milking cow. So this morning I walked her & her poor starving lamb in & milked one side of her udder. She gave 3/4 of a litre & still had about another 250ml left! I'll do the other side tonight,. my MIL wants to make Beastings pancakes from the milk. They are rich colostrum pancakes made from the 2nd or 3rd day cows milk & are super rich & super yummy. Any way I think i'll just freeze it for future sick or orphan lambs. It's like liquid gold that stuff!
Oh well , enjoy your day, catcha soon,
Bye
Velouria
12-06-2007, 13:36
Me again,
Sorry not trying to hog the thread but I thought you might see the humour in what just happened to me.
This is a true story that only just happened honest...
I went into Donnybrook to pick up the mail and the postmaster (who I don't know very well and we have only been on a friendly first name basis for about 8 months) says to me
"I caught you in your dressing gown the other day"
WTF??? I immediately thought he must have seen my bubhub post but how could that be??
Anyhoo it turns out that he attended a clearing sale at the property up the road from us a few Saturdays ago. Dh and I were going about our morning chores (with me in my dressing gown as per usual) when all of a sudden all these cars came up the road. We live on a no through road with only a few local cars and the school bus each day so it was a bit strange to see all these cars go by (plus we had no idea the sale was on either). Anyway I was feeding the goats in the top paddock which borders the road (the road is higher than our property) and thus afforded all the passers by a good view of me in my dressing gown - probably with my mouth open trying to figure out why there was so much traffic.
:o:o:o
PS- Miss Kitty and Flogga (and any other WA gals) did you see the article in the West Australian on Saturday about the cow who has adopted two pigs (or more like the other way around). There is a really cool picture of these two fatties sucking milk from the cows udders.
Yeah V I have too have heard how low Australia's sheep numbers are down, so I think this guy was telling you the truth:D
Angus has gone to an Elder's do this arvo so no doubt he'll come home with a similar story- it's in their best interests to keep their customers happy by telling them stories like that!
Flogga I'm 32 weeks- and :yes: huge!
I'm starting to have trouble getting up & down.
Those pancakes sound interesting but yeah-I'd keep the colostrum. We've had prob 3 lambs die as they didn't get it and we can feed them as much as we like but 4-5 days later they just die.
Angus' cousin told me when you do a kill bleed the sheep and save the blood to a bowl. Leave it out overnight and the next morning the blood should separate with the clear bit on top. Keep that & freeze it- it's full of antibodies, apparently.
Then when you have an orphan you can inject the defrosted stuff in their cheek and it's supposed to help. Never tried it myself though.
Velouria
12-06-2007, 13:42
Hi Flogga
We must have posted at almost the same time as I didn't see your post until after I did mine.
Thanks for the tip about the wool scraps. We are putting in fruit trees next month and it will certainly come in handy as mulch.
I love the name of your Stud. Similarly our farm is named after the property that we had in Scotland (that is where I was born). My Mum took that name from the street where my Aunty lived in Australia.
floggadog
12-06-2007, 15:19
Kazza, do you have/need a colostrum recipe? Oh 7 interesting bout the blood thing, I'll have to experiment!
Thanks Flogga, don't need a recipe.
Yes I'd really like to try the blood thing one day. I'm not sure if A's cousin has actually tried it herself or just read it somewhere.
V- haha 'bout being caught in your dressing gown. I got caught in a singlet- I was quiet preg and it didn't fit very well- when our neighbour flew over!
Our property name is actually ridiculous! It is so long- our wool gets branded with name of our other block as it would never fit and it's horrible to spell over the phone as some of the letters sound the same- ie it's full of d's & e's & v's & b's!
StormAngel
13-06-2007, 13:26
Speaking of farm names - I need help, dh & I want to come up with a property name that is named after our beautiful sleeping angel, that we lost in January.
Her name is Storm Piper, I cant seem to think of anything, So can any of you ladies come up with something?
J-I'll have a think for you.
Here's some pics I took today- I went for a drive and took Angus his lunch.
It's looking pretty bare-we do still need more rain, same old, same old:(
I did see lots of lambs so :fingerscrossed: they and their mothers soon have lots to eat!
Up the house end (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/all224.jpg)
about half way down (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/all223.jpg)
right down the bottom (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/all222.jpg)
Hugh having fun (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/all217.jpg) & me having a cuppa (http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/kazcrawf/all219.jpg).
Duchessa
13-06-2007, 15:30
Look at you beautiful mamma! Your place is just beautiful Karen. Stunning. So is that gorgeous lil boy Hugh.
thanks D-
that is actually a Cruskit Hughesy is 'playing' with there
Duchessa
13-06-2007, 19:28
Kazza, I just saw your av and had a momentary heart attack - OMG she's had her baby!!! Gave me a shock before I read the little bit beside it :D
Ok, more from me :)
Looking from road in over the Snowy River gorge, (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/IMGP1492.jpg) river behind second "row" of mountains, farm is in the middle distance - faint patch of green in the upper middle...
Snow last year (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/IMGP1571.jpg) on top farm.
FISH! (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/JohnFish.jpg) found in the MIDDLE of bare paddock after HUGE 4 inch in 2 hour thunderstorm. I kid you not (about the fish). It was quite surreal seeing it lying there - in the middle of summer too.
Boxed sheep (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/P1010004.jpg) at January shearing year before last (check out the feed and compare to next photo from this year...)
Bonnie mustering (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/IMG_1077.jpg) her way :D Check out the paddock in the back ground same time of year as above!
Bonnie (our resident Lay Preacher) (http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/IMG_1019.jpg) doing a spot of healing... "talk in tongues, Hallelujah sister!!". Freya is yet to be converted.
floggadog
13-06-2007, 21:05
Duchessa, your place is stunning. i'm sure it still comes with it's own set of problems though. The fish thing is pretty weird! Makes you wonder how long it'd been up there.
And your girls are gorgeous. Maybe Bonnie was trying to absorb some sheepdog knowhow!
Well , Im peeved off as my camera spat the dummy last night & now i have to send it to Perth to be fixed. However, it may be a great excuse to splash out on a new camera with full SLR function! My last 3 or 6 tax cheques have gone on our house, which still isn't beautiful, so I may as well blow this one on something I'll enjoy using!
Had a quick break ... kids took cat into bedroom & left me with a 20 minute mess of everything that could come out of said cat short of blood. Hmmm:rolleyes:
Oh well I have to go. Need my hour of veg time before bed.
TTFN
Bearskin
13-06-2007, 23:07
Hi guys - long time no post!
I have missed heaps - love having a look at all your family and farms - its taken me about 45 mins to catch up on the thread :) Gee they breed some good looking fellas in the bush!!
Flogga - so sorry to read the news about you mum. I cannot imagine how hard it must be seeing your mum sick like that.
Welcome Jo :) I'm not remote either - i think I'm the only one on here from Vic and nowhere in Vic is really remote :laughing:
Kazza -you look great! I looked like a beached whale from 30 weeks onwards.
Duchessa - it must get mighty cold your way. I whinge when it gets to 3 degrees like tonight...beautiful country
We missed out on buying the land across the road; auction got started with Dave bidding against our neighbour. We pulled out at $350k; land sold for $420k to vendors nephew - works out to be $1400 an acre as 40 acres are owned by council as a stone quarry...bit rich for us!
Dave is coming back from WA again; another load of ewes for buyers over here. He loaded at Wongan Hills then Mukinbudin so will be home tomorrow arvo. He goes again to the west next week - there is such a huge demand for sheep over here, especially ewes for restocking and breeding.
Found a ewe down from the last load from WA; she had been down all night after a rough trip to Vic so rubbed her belly etc to get her balanced and propped her up. Got laughed at by FIL and sheep farmer from WA over for a visit. Went to work; picked Zoe up after work and put her to bed then went down the paddock to check the ewe. She had blood running down her face where a crow had pecked her eye...I hate that! Stood her up again and she just ran off...bloody unreal these sheep. Just when you think they are going to throw the towel in they surprise you.
So thought I would share some pics of our place to join in:
Our green paddocks
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/Gracie123_02/ZoeMay2007071.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/Gracie123_02/ZoeMay2007072.jpg
Zoe playing in our first puddle in 10 months
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/Gracie123_02/ZoeMay2007060.jpg
Zoe feeding our killers and rams
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/Gracie123_02/ZoeMay2007104.jpg
My other big fella - Jack
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/Gracie123_02/ZoeMay2007075.jpg
Doing a 'Britney Spears' according to my mother
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/Gracie123_02/ZoeFebruary2007064.jpg
Zoe being one of the boys
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/Gracie123_02/ZoeFebruary2007028.jpg
Our wedding day -I told Dave thats about as good as I'm ever going to look
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/Gracie123_02/Wedding074.jpg
I better go to bed...catch up soon.
Bearskin Zoe is gorgeous! And so are you :)
D-I can't believe how opposite our places are!!
Flogga get that camera going girl.
and still in one piece!!
It has taken me a good couple of hours to catch up on all the goss!!
Well I've been up at the folks for the past 5 weeks, as bub was wanting to make an early entry, so was resting up and getting spoilt. Only problem is that when Tahlia gets in trouble now she wants 'her nanna!!':rolleyes: :laughing: I have absolutly NO patients at the moment!!
Now I have two weeks to go and I'm sick of it!! I bet now I've had all these problems I'll go OVERDUE!!!!!:banghead:
Anyway I've gotta to say that everyone's properties look great (I love seeing the different country) but gotta love your place Dutchessa, it is truely stunning and Bearskin is one hot mumma:D (not to say that everyone else isn't beautiful!!)
Well I'll have to get my butt (and camera) into gear....all though me thinks that BIL stole...sorry 'borrowed' camera, so will have to go head-hunting!!
I hope everyone has a great weekend!!
great to hear from you Bindi-
I was wondering where you'd got to and then someone suggested you might have been having your baby- because of my baby brain I forgot you were so close
all the best with it all and I hope bubs comes on time!
floggadog
15-06-2007, 19:36
Hiya,
Bearskin, you the other one who's been missing...who else has been quiet???
Hey Bearskin - wanna know why that ewe survived?
It's cause she's a tough old sandgroper that's why!:laughing:
Oh & i much prefer your horse to our pony. Our pony took off flat out the other day, pigrooting & farting along whilst my old mare slowly,patiently cantered along side:sleeping: . I said to DD -' that is as fast as he goes:rolleyes: '. She was still impressed.
Kazza-my camera was boxed up & posted today. Personally I hope they write it off & give me the money, but what will probably happen is they'll say it was my fault & send me a bill. Oh well I'll have to go back to the 3MP camera.
Bindi-great to have you back. Hope u don't go over, especially if you're not enjoying it. & yes get the camera cause you need it for the NEW BABY!
Anyway, not much happening here. Had a few yelling matches with DH, trying to get into painting my nevergonnagetfinished loungeroom & office and that's about it.
I hear you eastern staters have had the odd bit of snow. Would that be you Duchessa?
Oh well, dinner is calling, Bye
Duchessa
15-06-2007, 19:57
Love your shots Bearskin - you are all gorgeous - far too glamorous for farm life. How do these boys manage to nab such a bunch of stunners? It looks like you are in a beautiful possie. Had a giggle about your story about the ewe - they are tough little buggers, but on the other hand, they can just up and die on you too! Last year I was eartagging some 1 y/o wethers we had just bought and the sheep I had just tagged slumped down (I was holding it's head) and I joked "Oh my god, I think I killed it" and tried to get it to stand up, but it was dead! Just like that. It isn't funny when our furry friends pass ;) but it was rather amusing at the time... Dh called me The Killer for ages.
Flogga, we did get a little snow around the traps. Not down to the house but the hills all around are shrouded in white. It has been very cold. We have also had an inch of rain in little dribs and drabs over the past week. We were getting to the point of needing it after not having any follow up on our late summer rains. Still got lots of feed though - more than enough, but need more moisture.
Welcome back Bindi! I've missed you and I hadn't realised how soon you are due. I'm glad you have had some help and have been able to rest, but I have to agree, grandmother fixations can be rather tiring :D My mum gets all the accolade from the girls and when I tell them of sometimes they cry for her!!!! Good luck with holding onto that bub until term - you are so nearly there now, you must be relieved.
Bearskin
15-06-2007, 23:35
Bindii - hope all goes well with the rest of your pregnancy and bubs stays in for a little while longer. I get the whole grandparent envy too - but its my dad who is the hero around here. He comes up for a few days and all I hear for 2 days after is "Where PaPa?" and "Want PaPa!" especially when in a tanti. Dad is an absolute sucker though - soft as marshmallow with us as kids and worse with Zoe. I actually caught him feeding Zoe a leftover saveloy with BBQ sauce for brekky on Thursday....
Thanks for the nice comps guys - trust me when I said to DH that our wedding day was the best I was ever going to look! Now I've got 2 months regrowth on my foils, live in work jeans and still carry about 8 kilos baby weight and when was the last time I shaved my legs??? :laughing: Who has the time for a full head of foils anymore and find a salon/drive 45 minutes to a salon and hope Zoe wont destroy the place in 10 minutes. DH couldn't care less though - he is a sweety. Oh - I was 8 weeks pg on our wedding day - oooh the evilness of being pg before marriage! DH's very Catholic family were tight lipped.....:laughing: And we are even worse for not getting Zoe christened...
Got 2 small mobs of ewes on from WA now - the buyers are keen over here I tell you and the agents are sh!tfighting over price and cartage. We are selling the 2 small mobs as our mate from Mukinbudin has found us some older ewes who have lambed before (those maidens we had really struggled their first year and I pulled heaps).
How sad is this? I saw the bloke who bought our very pg mob of ewes; had an in depth convo about how lambing was going and he loves them. Said he is getting heaps of twins and they are all lambing really well. I was glad the ewes are going well; Dave was just rolling his eyes and laughing at me but I don't care.
Dave got home from WA Thursday arvo; he has been out all day today and left tonight again. Thanks for that! Still expected all his washing to be done before he left and the look on his face was priceless when I told him the washing machine had broken down and perhaps his mother might like to wash his clothes....LOL or he can fix the machine we have. Nah - he was too busy buying a hot wash today so his trucks can be sparkling clean instead.
B/S- don't worry about not having Zoe christened- Hugh's going to hell:laughing:
Sorry it's not that funny but we decided not to get Hugh christened cause even though my family go to church (Uniting) and Angus was brought up Catholic we don't go to church ourselves and Angus is just about an atheist after 5 years in a Catholic boarding school, so we felt a bit hypocritical about the whole thing.
Angus' auntie, who is very posh and a very devout Catholic, came to see us when we had Hugh and asked when we were having the christening.
I said "we're not sure" to dodge the question but Angus said "there isn't one".
I will never forget her response:
"Oohh Annguus" as if Hugh is going to be brought up in a house hold of devil worshippers and is going straight to hell!
Bearskin
16-06-2007, 19:43
I'm laughing with you Kazza :laughing: Although I intend no insult or offence to any Catholic or the Faith itself, just Dave's family :)
David's nanna told me that Zoe must be cleansed of her Original Sin or she will go to pergatory/limbo if she dies.
David was an altar boy and quite a serious Catholic until me met me then my questions about the Church, faith and the world in general got him thinking and now we all 'have the mark of the devil on us' here!
David's mum brings it up every month or so; in the end I got a little bit grunmpy after MIL and SIL offered to arrange the christening for us and just take Zoe to church one Sunday. Thats when I told them it was none of their business.
They have given me booklets about Christening, offered to organise as BBQ afterwards, buy a gown, speak to the priest...
My attitude has always been, being that I am an atheist, if David wants our children raised within the church I will support him but the responsibility lies with him to foster that religous upbringing, such as take Zoe to church, arrange her christening etc and that put Dave off quick smart :laughing:
floggadog
17-06-2007, 18:23
I'm glad I don't have to deal with the whole religion thing. DHs' family are very down to earth. My FIL has been known to invite the religious door knockers in & systematicly dispute every religion based claim they make & back it up. So they don't visit him anymore. They come here instead :banghead: .
Bearskin-that's a worry, your hubbys rellies trying to do it all anyway. Oh & what is the original sin? I guess when they give you booklets you could thank them as you needed some paper to light the fire:laughing:
Oh & on the subject of looking like I did 10 years ago when DH & I met? Well i don't look that good anymore & even when I try ie:have a haircut DH looks & says
'Did you? Which bit?'
So last haircut I had my long hair cut off to ear level in the hope that he or my MIL would notice & maybe even be impressed. He looked at me & said
' Mmmm thats different, don't know if I like it'
& MIL said ' Who hacked your hair off? Did Robert cut it for you? Oh the hairdresser did it? I could have done a much nicer job cheaper too.'
AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
Yes I know I shouldn't have bothered but just sometimes....:rolleyes:
StormAngel
18-06-2007, 09:08
LOL @ the religion thing, bearskin I was 8 wks pregnant with miss 2 when my DH & i got married (my older kids are from a previous marriage) We were in trouble with his family (catholic) cos we didn't get married in the catholic church & then we didn't have the baby cristened either (by this stage they would have been happy with any church lol).
How was everyones weekends?
Velouria
18-06-2007, 11:43
Hi everyone,
I hope we all had a fab weekend. We hired a skip so spent the weekend clearing out our machinery shed and wool shed and we filled it up in one day. We are hoarders of so much junk that is for sure. Dh kept pulling out bits of paper and standing there reading to me things like his paycheck from 1998 or his university handbook :ecomcity::ecomcity:.
We are getting closer to moving our goats to the top paddock. The fence is up and muggins here spent Thursday and Friday putting all the offsets and insulators on. Man my fingers were so sore after that as they kept getting pinched between the fence and the offsets - fiddly things that they are.
I have given up waiting for Pamela to have her babies. I believe she is just a fatty and therefore I am putting her on a diet as of today. DH is going into hospital 2moro to have his gall bladder removed so I will get at least a week of being able to feed the pigs my rations whilst he recovers (he does the evening feeds whilst I do the morning ones).
Thats about it really. I became an Aunty again last week. My SIL had her fifth child called Jamie Hannah and she is a little sweetheart (we have only seen photos as they are in Tas). She has bright orange hair and really dark eyes, but looks the spitting image of her father. She was born at home not by choice but because SIL couldn't get into the car to go to hospi in time, but they both did really well.
Anyway I am off to the farm store now for some bits and pieces. We are hoping to vaccinate, drench,tag and de-lice our paddock sheep this week so I have to replenish our dwindled supply.
Ta ta 4 now
:wave:
Jill
Well ladies,
I thought I'd pop in and say it's all happening.
Our two new water tanks will be here by friday!!:smiliedance: (been having major tank problems and cruddy, dirty soup water:barf: ) The air con man came and fixed up the air con, so it's all warm and toasty now!! We also got our new car on Sunday!!!! I am so excited about it!!! I love it. Then.............
This morning I lost my plug and I've been crampy and having some minor contractions ever since!!(I just have to be careful as I have low amniotic fluid levels around bub, that's what all my other problems were from) So hopefully not long now and 'squishy' will make an entrance. (for the last two days I've been an emotional grouch and want to hermit myself from everyone, I just didn't want to jump to conclusions that something might be happening!!)
Will either be back to fill you all in or I'll be back to vent that nothing is happening...:laughing:
PS. I've just relised how scatty this is written and I've used way to many of exclemation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
StormAngel
19-06-2007, 14:16
Fingers crossed things are happening for you!!
floggadog
20-06-2007, 14:08
:fingerscrossed:
GOOD LUCK BINDI
HOPE IT'S A BREEZY EASY
BIRTH
& YOUR BUB
IS 100%
HEALTHY.
Duchessa
21-06-2007, 19:59
Wow Bindi! I hope you are enjoying your babymoon now and have had a smooth and easy labour/birth :fingerscrossed:
floggadog
23-06-2007, 09:28
happybirthday
TO ME.
YAY 32 TODAY
hi, it's my bday & so far only my DH & kids have remembered, so I'm announcing it here so you can all make me feel important:D .
DH is carting our cattle this morning & then he said we'd spend time together. So I'm wondering if we'll be picking mallee roots together or fencing together etc lol.
anyway I'm off to the top pub tonight for dinner with him & the kids (damn the breastfeeding) So I'll have a drink in celebration.
On the farm... the ewes are still lambing. I think I'll have to get organised next mating & put the teasers out to tighten up the lambing. It's going on for too long. Plus it's bloody cold walking around the paddock @ 10 pm & 6.30 am. Still it's worth it. My fav ewe was lambing late the other night at 9 pm so I left her til 11pm & still no lamb.
Well I helped her lamb and out came an 8 kg ram lamb:eek: . He stands half the height of her & looks like a 3 week old lamb without the bloom. If my camera were working I'd take a photo.
Anyway lamb marking is coming up in the next week or 2 but first DH has to fix the drafting race. Flogga pushed some new sheep down the drafting race last month in such a hurry they hit it full force & the whole thing on one side fell over. So now DH is trying to draft sheep down the drenching race which is too wide . In his last drafting effort he slammed the gate open at the same time as a 12mth old lamb jumped & knocked it clean out of the sheep yards. It took me a few minutes to get up off the ground after laughing so much. Anyway, I've said 'no more drafting til the draft race is fixed!'
My ILs have gone to Perth for 3 days & I have the job of feeding her chooks & cats. The list is long & extensive with meals worthy of dishing up on a silver platter. Even the chooks get special meat bits & she was trying to suggest that I feed her Guinea fowl 3 times a day. NOT.
So I'd better go & complete my good deed for the day.
Hope the pregnant members are looking after yourselves & leaving the farm work to the more able & those desparate for rain get completely drenched this week .
All the best...
Velouria
23-06-2007, 10:48
happybirthday
Manyhappyreturnsfor thedayFlogga.I hopeyou haveanicedinner tonight andgetshowered with lots of loveandattention (and pressies).
StormAngel
23-06-2007, 12:37
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLOGGADOG!!!!
Bearskin
23-06-2007, 12:41
happybirthday
Happy Birthday Flogga! Hope you have a wonderful day and get spoiled by your lovely family.
Bindii - good luck!!! Hope all is going well and bubs arrives safely.
Just thought I'd pop in and say ALEXIS JADE IS HERE!!
the day I wrote (19th she was born at 7.50pm) was the day I had her. Got to the hospital and in the next 1/2 hour she was born :eek: (kinda hairy as we live 1/2 hour from hospital and we gave the new car a great test drive on the toowoomba range :laughing: !!)
Natural labour (as I arrived at hospital at 9cm!! and didn't have time for pain relief) 6lb 9oz, 33.5 HC and 50cm Long. Feeding beautifully and loved by her big sister. A real content baby. Will fill you in on all the other details when I get some more time. Photos to come too!:D
StormAngel
24-06-2007, 16:01
Huge Congrats!!!!
Duchessa
24-06-2007, 20:03
Wow Wow! Lots of celebrations!
Congratulations Bindi!!! Well done on the perfectly managed labour - you don't want to spend too long in hospy :D Welcome to the world Alexis Jade you lil speed demon!
Happy birthday Flogga - I hope you had a wonderful evening at the pub with your dh and didn't spend your together time working (that does suck doesn't it?). xx
misskittyfantastico
24-06-2007, 20:08
Oh wow Bindi! What wonderful news. Welcome beautiful Alexis Jade!!!
Happiest of days gorgeous mumofflogga:hugs: I hope you were thoroghly spoilt!
floggadog
24-06-2007, 20:20
:yelclap:
CONGRATULATIONS
BINDI
:hugs:
YOU'RE A LEGEND
MAKING IT TO HOSPY ON TIME
& WHIPPING OUT A
BEAUT BABY
GIRL.
:smiliedance:
Bugger the farm photos, I wanna see the baby!!! I'm only a bit clucky. My cousin has fallen preggers with number 7 after her DH had the snip. Needless to say she's wrapped as she always wanted 8 babies but her doctor is NOT going to be pleased (she was medically supposed to stop at 4) Still I'm going to be content looking at your baby photos. Beautiful name too. Oh & I was wondering where you were, But geeze couldn't you have held out til the 23rd???!!!:laughing:
Anyway Thankyou Thankyou for your birthday wishes.
And I have to go now cause Robin Hood is on & I have to drool in private!
misskittyfantastico
24-06-2007, 20:23
:yelclap:
CONGRATULATIONS
BINDI
:hugs:
YOU'RE A LEGEND
MAKING IT TO HOSPY ON TIME
& WHIPPING OUT A
BEAUT BABY
GIRL.
:smiliedance:
Bugger the farm photos, I wanna see the baby!!! I'm only a bit clucky. My cousin has fallen preggers with number 7 after her DH had the snip. Needless to say she's wrapped as she always wanted 8 babies but her doctor is NOT going to be pleased (she was medically supposed to stop at 4) Still I'm going to be content looking at your baby photos. Beautiful name too. Oh & I was wondering where you were, But geeze couldn't you have held out til the 23rd???!!!:laughing:
Anyway Thankyou Thankyou for your birthday wishes.
And I have to go now cause Robin Hood is on & I have to drool in private!
I went to Perth and bought the series on DVD!!!! *sigh*
floggadog
24-06-2007, 21:09
Oh Miss Kitty you didn't?!:rolleyes:
Where did you buy it from?
That episode was a bit soppy but I loved the bit at the end with the sherrif strung up. LMAO at that one. Oh & when it finished I caught DS#1 sitting on a stool just out of sight so he could watch it when he was supposed to be in bed. Naughty boy. Still I did the same at his age!
Anyway Life on Mars is on now & I seem to have become addicted to that too.
Oh & it's trying to rain:smiliedance: ...
misskittyfantastico
24-06-2007, 21:17
I bought it from the ABC shop ($70:eek: ) Kmart had it for $60.....I KNOW we are poor and I KNOW there is a friggin drought on....I wanted it! *Stamps foot*
:yelclap: congratulations Bindi!
welcome Alexis Jade :smiliedance:
great work Bindi- hope my number 2 comes out something like that:fingerscrossed: (Hugh's birthday is the 20th)
Flogga hope you had a nice birthday.
Steph hope you had fun away.
I had a few days away- :fingerscrossed: my visit to the acupuncturist has this baby turning.
Hugh had a great time playing with his cousin- who's 9 months older- the boys were so cute together.
And Angus went camping with the dogs! He's still yard building down the bottom of our place- 40km away- so rather than be home alone and commuting he thought he'd camp. He had fun- stinky when he got home last night though!
floggadog
28-06-2007, 22:05
I just noticed that no-one has rated our thread - so I did - 5 star of course.
Anyway I wanted to tell you floggadogs' latest 'good idea at the time' moment
My DH lit the oxy to do some welding a couple of days ago & had only lit the gas , so the flame was big & yellow. Apparently (wish I was there) Flogga got a bit excited at the big yellow roaring thing , ran up barking & then bit the flame. Not just once but several times :eek: . bloody dipstick! anyway he spent the next 10 minutes sneezing & licking his hot lips.
Oh & my other bit of exitement this week - My big ewe Lollypop , called that cause she jumps every fence exept the cattle yards, had her third set of triplets in as many years a couple of days ago. I'll find some batteries & get the old digi camera going to show you these cute babies plus her last 2 efforts.
Kazza-howfar do you have to travel to have bub? or will you go there before you're due?
Miss Kitty-Did you get rain??? Hope you did cause at harvest time when you're at home alone & Millie is in bed you'll be able to pour yourself a BIG glass of wine and soak up Robin Hood to your hearts content:D
Flogga- what a clever Lollypop!! Yes post pics.
I'm having bubs in Adelaide so 4 & 1/2 hours away.
I wasn't going to leave til I'll be 38 weeks but we're lamb marking so thought I don't really want to be home alone and then cooking for heaps each day.
When I see the Obs my Mum will come up and pick me up and after I'll stay with her til Angus finishes lamb marking and we'll move to Adelaide together.
Angus in Adelaide for a few weeks! Can't wait! haha
We're so lucky, friends of ours (funny as they are my family's friends and Angus' family's friends-SA is a really small place!) have a beautiful town house about 600m from the hosp and my Obs rooms. It's also right alongside a small park and right behind an excellent shopping/café strip in Adelaide. They live in the country so it's pretty much vacant most of the time but it's so kind of them to let us stay there as I couldn't find a motel in a better location.
Duchessa
29-06-2007, 12:48
LMAO @ Floggadog's Floggadog :D What a classic - three times! And I thought I was a slow learner.
Kazza sounds like perfect set up for the birth. It gets pretty expensive when you have to rent an apartment for a weeks at a time, so that is great!
We are in the midst of amazing floods. We have had about 6 inches over the past 10 days with four in the last 3, but the floods are so huge we are completely isolated. Our driveway crosses what is usually a small river. It is now a raging torrent. We've been stuck since Tues night/Wednesday morning and had no power for 24 hours+ but back on now. I just picked up my new horse in the nick of time - got back on Tuesday arvo and the bridge was uncrossable only hours later.
YES! I have a new horse! Very happy with her.
Here's some photos of our drive way:
Before:
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/CIMG0381.jpg
After:
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/28-06-07Flood027.jpg
Team shot:
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/28-06-07Flood018.jpg
Max, Bonnie and I:
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/Imperatricks/28-06-07047.jpg
floggadog
29-06-2007, 15:12
Hooley Dooley Duchessa, can you channel some of that wet stuff over here??!!
Mischief
29-06-2007, 19:37
He's still yard building down the bottom of our place- 40km away- so rather than be home alone and commuting he thought he'd camp.
MY GOSH! Your place is 40km LONG? Are you kidding, how much land do you have?! :eek:
Apparently (wish I was there) Flogga got a bit excited at the big yellow roaring thing , ran up barking & then bit the flame. Not just once but several times . bloody dipstick! anyway he spent the next 10 minutes sneezing & licking his hot lips.
Oh & my other bit of exitement this week - My big ewe Lollypop , called that cause she jumps every fence exept the cattle yards, had her third set of triplets in as many years a couple of days ago.
HAHA about Flogga, Silly mutt! :laughing: Thanks so much for inviting me to your thread!
Oh, Clever Lollypop! When do we get pictures?! Triplets? Ive seen a few twins, but never triplets! WOW!
I'm having bubs in Adelaide so 4 & 1/2 hours away.
Oh my, and here I was telling Steven there was no way I would have another baby being an hour away from the Hospital! :D
Our driveway crosses what is usually a small river. It is now a raging torrent. We've been stuck since Tues night/Wednesday morning and had no power for 24 hours+ but back on now.
You have a beautiful family, and oh my gosh about all the rain! Your drive way.... :eek: Is the bridge still there?!!!
Mischief
29-06-2007, 19:47
Anyway, I better introduce myself! :D
Okay. Im Kat, 24yo mum of 1, Oliver (14months old), and 2 fur sons (Dozer and Drake our Husky X). Wife to Steven (29).
Hubby and I just bought 264 acres of bush and pasture at Hamilton in Tasmania. We know its not enough land to make a living off, but we have always dreamed of farming and this will give us our dream.
At the moment there is about 30acres of pasture, its ruff, but we are planning on plowing it and fertilising it, then doing a rain dance to get the grass growing so we can buy some calves.
We are going to clear the bush over the next couple of years and plan to turn all of the land into pasture so we can run about 60-80 head of Angus and/or Herefords and maybe a few sheep.
There is a small shack on the land, but we have no mains power (or any power at all for that matter), or water! LOL, however there are about 20 old rusty tanks there that are pretty much full, so we are going to run the water into the dam (empty), clean the good ones, and fill them up with town water until it rains again.
Our dams need to be made bigger, there are 4 of them, but they are all to small. There is some padocks that have obviously been cleared in the past few years, but have been let to go back to scrub.
WOW! There is so much to do! We need a generator for some power (until we can afford to build and get Solar), need to fix the guttering on the shack, need to connect the phone (yes amazingly there IS a phone there, but NO power...:p ), we need to clear 200 acres, etc....!
Any hints and tips ladies?! :D
Oh and we were suppost to settle today, but its been delayed until Tuesday now. :crying:
misskittyfantastico
29-06-2007, 19:54
Hi gals and HI Kat!!! So lovely to have you here.
I'm a bit over it actually...we had another 5mm...jsut dribbles. We're selling some of our ewes (have just weaned the lambs), the others are going to some rellies in Esperance to eat up their green stuff.
The inlaws are hard work, J is stressed and a lot of the time I feel I'm just not cut out for this life.....mope, mope, mope.
Ahh, I'll be right tomorrow, just ignore me.:D
Wow D!
Great photos- running water is amazing isn't it!
:wave: Welcome Kat- I don't really have any tips for you, everything was established when I arrived, but I guess hang in there- even when things feel they can't get any worse, they prob will :laughing: - but it'll all be worth it and good in the end!
Our property is really long, but not very wide. It's 320 square km, or 32,000ha I think that is- it is one of the smaller stations in our area though.
:hugs: Steph- read the advice I gave Kat! :laughing:
floggadog
30-06-2007, 09:57
wow Kat, sounds like a bargain:D
you know that at the end of all that work it will be a property you can proudly call yours & know you created it.
I too have a son named Olliver , double 'L' as there are a couple of second name Olivers in our family. He is 9 months. Sounds like you'll have plenty of firewood & maybe even the odd timber tree to sell.
Anyway here is Lollypop 2005
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/Lollypop2005.jpg
2006
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/Lollypop2006drop.jpg
And 2007 born on Monday. She's beside the house in a temp yard & I just tried to move her but she ran back to her maternity room. So I'll try later.
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u40/floggadog/Lollypop2007drop.jpg
Oh & how do you just put a word in in place of these links? I've seen Kazza & someone else do it.
Miss Kitty- I have similar feelings at times ie bloody farm. But I wouldn't be anywhere else for quids (or however you say it). I've been promised an end to the 360 day working weeks for 7 years (we've been together 10 years) & still can't see an end in sight. My FIL is the big stressor in our family, imagining worst case scenarios & he in turn stresses my DH who in turn stresses me.
The one thing we put in place to get back to us was to NEVER talk about farming in the bedroom. Our conversations are held when we're in bed & that is the only place we can escape what's outside.
I hope you have a good soaking this weekend & if not I hope u can catch a smile from your hubby , even if it takes a paddock strip tease:laughing: .
Kazza-enjoy your city respite & will you have internet access?Otherwise we're talking bout a month of no Kazza:( .
Duchessa-Where's the new horsey photo?
Mischief
30-06-2007, 10:18
Miss Kitty - Yes you are! You are cut out for this life. Life in Rural australia is as hard as its been for many years, you will get through this! :hugs:
Kazza - OH MY GOSH! Your property is HUGE! Do you have a name? Something STATION im guessing?
Floggadog - Lollypop is soooo clever! My goodness, 3 x 3 x 3....that is alot of lambs from one sheep! :) Such a smart mummy! The little lambs are beautiful! Oh and you are pretty cool too, you have such increadible taste in childrens names! *gives a big thumbs up*
LOL, we are trying to decide what to call our property, but so far no joy! Thinking about Sicamore Downs, as that was the name of my parents dairy farm in NZ. Or Balcairn, because that is the name of their other dairy farm, and the name of the town in NZ that my maternal great grandfather was born in.
I like the name Malleevista, but Ive been told cant call it Mallee becuase that is a CERTAIN type of scrub, not what we have! :D PARENTS!
Oh and guess wat...its RAINING here today! Not drizzling, but actually RAINING! Off and on, but RAINING! Can you tell Im excited!?!
We are going to our property again tomorrow for ANOTHER final inspection before we settle. Hopefully they have cleared out all the junk they left around the shack. When we did the inspection last week there was stuff everywhere. We would have needed to get several skip bins in to clean it out!
Plus the cows the said we could HAVE, have been sold, so the lawyers have told their lawyers that they either clear the rubbish away, or we are withholding some $$$ from the settlement to help cover the cost of cleaning it away. :no:
Silly us, we really should have made sure the cows were written into the contract, but we were too excited, and didnt think! We were planning on selling them to help pay for some fertiliser.
Mischief
30-06-2007, 10:24
Oh and Floggadog - You type the text you want to use as your link...
ie:
Lollypop Picture 1
Then select it (drag your mouse over it...)
Then you click the URL link (the little world with a sideways 8 looking button)
Then you paste your URL link there and save. And the text should become *active* :)
Mischief
30-06-2007, 10:55
Here are some photos of our land. :)
Entry (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l260/smith_kat/land3.jpg)
The "Pasture" (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l260/smith_kat/land2.jpg)
Love Shack (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l260/smith_kat/shack1.jpg)
Here "Chooky Chooky" (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l260/smith_kat/sheds2.jpg)
A Shed or Two (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l260/smith_kat/sheds.jpg)
Bearskin
30-06-2007, 11:37
I'm a bit late but - CONGRATS BINDII! Hope all is going well with little Alexis.
Welcome Kat :) Your place looks great; heaps of potential and I am sure you guys will do a great job. The names of your fmailies dairy farms are great - we called our place the same name as on the original title "Le Peyres" who were the original owners.
Flogga - Lollipop looks like a great mum; she is an absolute hero. Imagine having 3 bubs all at once? No way! Your story about Flogga made me laugh - 3 times he went for the flames...
Duchessa - loved the pics of your driveway before and after. Must have been a bit hairy being rained in for a few days.
MissKitty - you are cut out for this life. i know its hard; I was an eastern suburbs city girl all my life and there are days when I think, "I cannot do this anymore" then I see something fantastic like Zoe playing in the mud or showing her the wildlife around here and it all seems doable again.
Kazza - those weeks in Adelaide sound great for the lead up to your labour! Smart move getting out of there before lamb marking too :)
I've been staying away for a week or two (still reading our thread every day though!) as I have a secret that I'm not sure I can keep IYKWIM? We haven't told anyone IRL but we got a :bfp: last week :eek:
Not sure if I am ready for another one with Dave away all the time but obviously the Billings method does not work!!
I spent one early morning in tears telling Dave I don't think I can cope on my own, then got over it and now we are very happy but this pregnancy will go on for ages as we found out so early - I'm only 5 weeks pg. Last time I didn't find out until we were 8 weeks or so. Dave was pretty pragmatic about our situation and pretty much told me that I'm going to have to cope on my own as he is still going to be away most of the time and I have to learn to start asking for help from others....that really cheered me up I tell you.
Dave celebrated our pg by going out and getting a new ute - twin cab Rodeo. Sort of gives the game away a little plus I've stoped drinking coffee, alcohol etc and a few people are staring at me with that look on their face.
Now I've told you guys I can wait to tell everyone else for a fair while yet - I just had to tell some one!!!
Now I'm just praying its not twins - I have 39 sets of twins in my family and your chances increase as you get older too...everyone cross their fingers for me please!!!!
Better go - Zoe awake and Dave out and about showing off his new ute....men and their silly toys.
:smiliedance: Bearskin- congratulations :fingerscrossed: everything's fine and you'll do well- you've already stuck it out this far often on your own. :hugs:
Kat- your place looks gorgeous.
How exciting to be starting on your own.
Our property has the worst name! It's a Downs- Dev0nb0r0ugh D0wns Stati0n- you should see it if you look on an SA map- south of a town called 0lary. The other block we have is called Canew00d and this is what we use for our wool brand.
Flogga :laughing: I will not have internet access while I'm in Adel- will at my Mum's for the week. I think I might check out the local library and get on line there.
Mischief
30-06-2007, 12:15
Bearskin - WOW and CONGRATULATIONS! How exciting, and sorry for sounding stupid, but WHAT is the Billings method? :D?? Yes, ask others for help, you can do this.
Kazza - As soon as Oliver goes down for his nap I'm going to be trying to find your place! :) How exciting! Steven and I really dream of having a *station* of our own, but this is the best we can afford right now, and we are pretty besotted with it! LOL
The road its off is Th0u5and acr3 lan3, I think the 3 lots together probably came pretty close to 1000 acres, shame that they arent all still together! Then we could have called it Thou5and acr3 Farm :)
this is the best we can afford right now, and we are pretty besotted with it! LOL
so you should be too :thumbsup:
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