And Here's Our Newest Edition...

SHE, sits safely amongst the weeds and believe me, I coudn't get any closer than using the zoom lense because mother was just a nose away guarding over her new precious little girl.

I tried to get a closer shot and check the sex of our new little one, but mother cow pawed the ground whisking up dust and loudly snorting, so I said, "Okay, you win"... and walked tentitively backwards and away from cow and calf.

Notice the newborns ears are pointing backwards at this moment. That is because her mother was starting to panick at my approach and the calf sensing that I may not be a friend and was getting ready to run over to her mother for safety. With my retreat the calf went back to relaxing and all was well again.

Nature truly is amazing.

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The First Of This Seasons Calves Have Arrived... Easter Sunday

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Well, today we were preparing for the coming Winter. The clocks were turned back one hour last night for the end of daylight saving.


Yesterday we started clearing away all the fallen trees from the roadside boundary fence - 27 fell down this year, what with drought and hot temperatures from the ongoing drought it was a shocker of a year. So, it's out with the chainsaw.

These old trees landed on our front entrance fence this year.

Below is the view of the fallen trees from the roadside. Yes, we have almost five kilometres of dirt road to get to our farm from town.

I was inside clearing away old clothes, books, items of computing -  found a really old Sega game console and games - out of date and not much use to us but maybe for someone, so off to the Salvos (Salvation Army) with those. I managed to fill the boot of the sedan and all the back seat. Just shows how much clutter you can accumulate over ten years. All the stuff not thrown last clean out was thrown this time. I'm getting tougher!

We had an afternoon tea out in the paddock with Zak and Benson- dog, and the cows. On the way back to the house we spotted our first new calf for the Autumn calving season. We haven't gone up to see if it's male or female yet, as we like to let the cow and calf alone for a few days before photo sessions begin. ;)

Looks like it might have been born Friday night - explains why Zak-dog started barking from two 'til five am keeping us awake for most of the night. We were cursing the dog but didn't realise he might have actually been trying to tell us something. Dumb humans...

Photos will be up of the new calf soon.

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And, here's our baby boy - Storm...

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Storm was born on the property in August 2004...

He's our baby boy.

Affectionately Storm is known as
'Storm In A Teacup'.

He's so cuddly...







And he's the Daddy of these guys...

Views across the farm...

Looking back at the house and stables from the top of the hill on the south east corner of the property...

The property has not been this green for around 8 years. Drought has finally started to (hopefully) go away.





You might spot Zak and Benson in these photos (somewhere)




















Over this hill (to the right or East) is Mt. Buffalo. To the left is Lake Hume and further over to the left (I guess that's North) is what is known as the three sisters. Fantastic views from the top of this hill.

It's All Fun And Games until Zak Dog Ruins My Bucket...

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Game on!

Seems it's all fun and games around here lately.

Not much work going on...

Yelp! It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye...

 

 

Since when did, white dog, have this much energy?

Since, NEVER!

Mine! All Mine!

Where'd everydog go?

Shhh! Don't tell, Zak...

White dog's out of the race!

Disclaimer:
No actual white dogs were harmed in the making of today's blog. This dog may look dead (like characters in one of Audrey's novels) but in fact, Benson, white dog, is breathing.

Okay, go on then, believe what you want to believe...