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Jilleroo its been good not real heavy but enough to soak right in, than a couple of days of sunny weather than the rain again all up over the week & a bit we had over 10" of rain was much needed

This is what we woke up to & started driving in not that heavy The lake on the side of the road is normally a paddock flat From This on our way to work To This in 5mins Love all the rain we've been getting This is the creek that runs right through the middle of our place normally very...

Painful as it was to put her down you did the right thing, we did the same with our cow "Mother Mary" she earned her right to die on the farm & we were happy to let her. Its always sad to say goodbye

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Thanks we're fine now

We're all good here the closest the fires got to us was about 10 kms as "the crow flies" to the south east of our property. If the wind had changed it may have been a different story. not worried about fires coming through the mountains as we are in a valley with 2 properties between us & the...

Here we call them "Grey Nomads" but I do get it now that I live in town & we have our business busy hectic times either at work or on the farm its good to get away for a weekend. We have a VW LT 46 van that we slowly turning into a camper very basic at the moment bed, camp kitchen, bbq & yes a...

Thanks Jo, we haven't been home to the farm for a couple of months I never get sick of looking at all the pics the 1's I posted are some of my favourites :D Love the snake (not)

Thanks I know he will I also know how much he hates being tied up comes from being always tied up before we got him I'm very protective of Rock because I know what he went through before he came to us.

Just got off the phone with my parents my dog Rocky (border collie x kelpie) has come through his surgery with flying colours he was somehow ran over with the quad bike & shattered his back leg, the x-rays showed no hope of it mending & being 8yrs plating it would have been a 50/50 chance of...

Thanks for the tips we have at least 8 months to get 1 ready for the hams although I may be asking for one before so I can start practicing I do like smoke chicken so may be cranking up our bbq to do some :)

We'd only started rearing our own pork in 2010 The first were way too salty we wanted them smoked & didn't find out until after that he didn't do smoking the, bacon was also way too salty which we learned later he does the same way as the hams. The last 2 we got done (oct/nov'11) the hams are ok...

Thanks Jo that is kind of what we're looking at building I did see 1 on the net that was made out of an old freezer

After the crappy way our butcher did our ham this year we've been talking about building on of our own just need ideas on size for a family of 6 (us 4 + my parents) don't know how often it's going to be used each year but I'm willing to try anything once & the curing times for weight Cheers Jane

Thanks its good to be able to get back on the forum & slowly catch up on whats been happening around the world hopefully now I can get back on here every couple of days or so for a look see Jane

Well its been a long time since I was here last & a lot of things have happened since than, several floods later 1 of which took 3 of my Miniature Horses (14yrs of breeding gone) I now have 2 left, Learned a lot with my beef cattle still have my Scottish Highland cattle - although its only the...

Rain, rain, rain & plenty of mud & flooding everywhere locally a bridge on the road between home & dairy is about to go under for the first time since it was replaced in the 1960's. 2 weeks ago we had 200ml that was good filled all the dams up & gave the creeks & rivers a good flush out. We've...

I can so relate to no.25 My mother has put the curse on both me & my brother... its the reason I haven't had any children of my own yet I know what I was like growing up :help:

Yep very happy it has made the 30 acres of lucerne sit up & shoot of, it doubled its growth over night just from the little rain & is now ready for baling hopefully get that off next week Its hard trying to buy presents for the family I got my parents some CD's, Buddy Holy for my mother & Slim...