That's a funny looking Chook!

Look who we found stuck up on top of the Chook Coop.

 

Usually the Koalas around here perch themselves way up high in the Gum trees on the property, but yesterday we got quite a shock when we went out to feed the chooks. My little Elli spotted this Mama and Bubba resting on top of the coop, holding onto a Silky Oak tree. . . It was pretty special.  None of us had ever been this close to a Koala before, not even in a Wildlife park can you get this close.

 They both appeared and remained very calm, I'm not sure how long they had been there for, my guess was Mama may have been a bit exhausted, We really don't know how she go there and didn't know how she was going to get down either!

We could have reached out and touched them....

It was a lovely experience

  

It was late afternoon, we wished them well and hoped they would find their way down.

They were gone this morning. 

Thanks for the visit Mrs Koala, it was a lovely to meet you and your young one.

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.

 

Our Hobby Farm...Where it all began..

My husband grew up  on his families farm in Western NSW. He spent most of his early years farming Sheep and Wheat and playing Tennis in the court his parents had converted from an old chook coop.  
When we moved out to our little piece of green we always wondered what we would do with it all, all 5 acres of it!

 We brought chickens and a couple of children with us, we renovated the house and along the way came a few more chickens and a few more children. I established a small veggie patch and we chopped down a few trees and planted some turf to make a nice open green backyard for all to play. We often talked about  running a few cattle, maybe we would sneak a few lambs back with us from a visit to Gran and Pops Farm.   A  Pony for the children? 
 And it's no secret that I would LOVE  a Milking Cow. . .

For a while there  feeding my chooks and children was about all we could  handle. Then, almost overnight, It all happened. . 

 Hubby decided he would fulfill his dreams, he was ready to invest into his Favourite Hobby  'Tennis'.  And what a process,  In came the bulldozers, rollers, semi trailers, and more rollers 

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We couldn't be happier with the final product.  And oh so much fun we are having now spending lots of Quality Family Time on the court.  Hubby is coaching the kids now with the big kids doing after school lessons and the little ones lessons in the morning. 

 Look out Wimbledon . . . Here we come . . .