a SHEEP or two

Our Hobby Farm... Where it's all going ...
Time to stock the paddock

We are now officially Sheep farmers, well I don’t know about the official business, but we do have SHEEP!

Hubby and Annabel arrived home from a visit to Gran & Pops last week with his homemade sheep float full of SHEEP.  

Me, Annabel and our New Sheep

It was inevitable that we would eventually get a few up here, We enjoy going down to the farm so much, rounding up the sheep, lamb marking and shearing has always been a big part of our holiday adventures. With Gran and Pop starting to slow down a little now and the future of the family farm unkown, we thought it was time we prepared for our own sheeping adventures on our own property.

We have five 1st cross Ewes, 

Nancy, Beatrice, Eliza, Lorraine and Kimmy.

 Two  black and coffee coloured Lambs, 
Cappuccino & Mocha latté.

One young super studly dorset cross Ram named Earl 

and a young fat lamb which we have called Sunday Roast....
you get the picture...

Our 5 Ewes are only young but have spent quite some time with the Ram on the Farm before they were loaded up and brought here, what that all means is that Hopefully in about 6 months time we should have lots of little lambs running around the place, should be pretty cute, however I have been told I should not get too attached...  

Cappuccino and Mocha latté will eventually become mamas as well. 

Hubby gave them all nice looking haircuts before their journey so we shouldn’t have to shear them for a while yet, I think its 6 or 12 months, I don’t really know, I have a LOT to learn about these woolly critters  yet! 

They are a little bit flighty still and I have not been able to get to close to get some real good pics especially of Caps and  Mocha, all they ever do is eat and run away from me so I can only get snapshots of their buts...Cute hey! 

It's so nice to wake up in the morning and see the sheep grazing outside I feel like a REAL FARMER... Just gotta make ourselves a few pens now and build a little shearing shed down the back.

 

Happy Australia Day

Our Backyard BBQ

How to catch a Yabby...

 

This years biggest adventure so far would have to be 'Yabbying" at Gran & Pops Farm. 

All you need to catch your yabbies is a quiet afternoon and a Dam full of Yabbies... Throw in a  piece of  meat attached to a piece of string and once those yabbies get a smell of the meat they grab on with their claws. You drag them in and scoop em up... 

Catch em . . . Cook em . . .   Eat em . . .



Last night I had a dream....

Actually it wasn't a dream at all... I was on  HOLIDAY!!

We took ourselves on a little holiday far far away,  20 hours driving time… down into the Bega Valley, NSW to visit old friends…They live on a 450 acre property with 4 children a few cows, sheep and a couple of alpaca.  How envious we were as we drove through their front gate for the first time to see this vision…

Rolling Hills  and Green Pastures, Old Stables and Barns, Milking Sheds, Old Piggeries and the cutest little old laying boxes that you ever did see….

 

Huge fruit trees growing in the paddocks, Pear, Apple, Quince, Peach, Apricot
and 150 year old Oak Trees…

Mm mm Mulberries ....

This has to be one of the most, if not the most, prettiest place I have ever visited…It is an Old Dairy Farm with so much History and Beauty. I used to dream about living on a property like this...

Although I have to say now having arrived back home,  How much I truly appreciate what we also have in our backyard….it has only inspired me to work harder to achieve what I see in my dreams…

There will be more Fruit Tree planting this year, there will be larger Vege Gardens established, there will be new fences, and a new front gate, probably another shed extension…, a bigger and better chook coop (which is already under construction), plus cute little old laying boxes which I’m sure I can reconstruct myself from something around here, there will be new ponies for the children and maybe even a sheep or two…

My Kitchen and Cookery plans for the year is a never ending list…and My Craft Box is overflowing with many started projects.  

Big Visions…Small Steps….

      Thank you to our Very Hospitable Friends for sharing your life with us...