Posts for Grass

It’s that time of the year again where the cats and dogs in the neighbourhood start bringing in little chicks and ducklings. While a few of last year’s rescue ducks have returned sporadically throughout the year, they now seem to be returning in larger numbers…

Who likes the weather when it’s raining and storming outside? No one – well, maybe the odd people that are happy that their grass is growing, like us humans inside. Oh, and the ducks! The ducks love it.

Time to head into the valley and do some paddock maintenance. Checking fences and gates, continued to dig a drainage trench, checked up on the alpacas and moos, mowed some swamp grass and sprayed some other areas of swap grass. Chopped some firewood, loaded up…

Here’s the rain that is supposedly to end the drought.

Another summer has gone by and autumn came, dry and cold.

While we had no guests, have not been out to see any people and had no coffee other than the home made one due to COVID-19 lockdown level 4 and 3, we fixed a few things around the farm, moved animals around the paddocks and…

I have lost count as to what day we are in but it does not really matter at the end of the day. Life continues not necessarily as normal but almost normal. Feels a little bit like holidays at home with a bit of working…

We did a roundtrip down the hill for pine cone collecting, fence fixing, alpaca seeing and moo encounter.

Most animals stick to electric fences – our alpacas do not.

Spring soon will turn into summer and the weather during the day is already so awesome.

The weather has not been too amazing over the last couple of weeks.

Winter seem to have finally arrived. Frosty moorings with frozen grass. The was ice on the digger seat!