A day at the farm…
NB: new camera and an amateur who doesn’t read the instruction book – sorry if pics are ordinary!
Drafting ewes and lambs through the yards.
Jackeroos having to hold hats in wind.
Crutching the ewes (taking the mucky wool from their bums so they don’t get flystrike in the summer), husband waiting to go into pens to drench the ewes (so they don’t get worms). Blurred image…
Husband drenching.
Our newly trained rousabout, my son’s partner. She got down amongst it quite happily.
An older rousy, thinking ‘the shed is too damned hot and I’d rather be writing the next part of G3 or lying under the willows’.
All finished and done and lambs and ewes back together.
Love this pic – lambs in the lilac.
Looking through the barn up the hill. Barn dam with a case of red algae which we have to scrape off. Biiiiig job.
Old farmer, young farmer, old bull, young bull!
Old Dog waiting at the farmhouse gate for me.
My daughter’s very own Red Dog.
Young Dog and Red Dog at the backdoor.
The wind finally dropped and allowed us to have a quiet and restful BBQ at the end of the day to celebrate daughter’s birthday.
Awesome pics! Who reads a “how to book”? Hmmm…still trying to figure out some mysteries on my new cell phone after 2 months of not reading the “how to book”? ; )
Lynn, I’m supposed to download some PDF or other which will explain the intricacies. Seriously? I just learn by the seat of my pants. Phones? Gaah! I still can’t text! Might be a good thing.
How very very beautiful. It breaks my heart that you have lilacs – SoCal is too hot for them and I miss them terribly. Picture of Old Dog and Red Dog is lovely. And the first picture looks just like Nugget’s Map!
Thank you, Pat! We have lilac lilacs and white lilacs and fortunately they have grown too tall for the sheep to eat! The paddock the sheep are in in that particular pic is a very small one we call the Diet Paddock because my horse used to go in there when he was too fat. We put the lambs and ewes together in that paddock and a slightly bigger one so they could mother up again after their time separated from each other. Any bigger and they tend to lose each other. Not good. The Diet Paddock is ostensibly what’s left of the original garden of Camden Homestead which was a historic home tragically burned down in the ’67 bushfires. It has a massive mulberry tree, irises that are now feral, pines here and there, an elderly pear, a windblown 100 year old quince tree, and the ruins of the old laundry/bakehouse. Old Dog hates being at the farm since Milo died, she had a post-grief fight with Red Dog and has never got over it! As of Saturday, both terriers are now banned from the farm until Autumn because of the prevalence of snakes.
I love your photos Prue – especially the one looking down the driveway, the lambs in the lilacs (I LOVE lilacs) and the one looking through the barn doors up the hill – who needs to read the instruction book – your a natural!
Thanks Bec – I figure if I use the camera as much as possible, things will click in eventually. The manual is a downloadable PDF – who wants to do that? My main problem is my hand not moving when I am using the zoom lens and then remembering to change from zoom when I go back to normal shots. We’ll get there!
Lovely photo’s Prue.
It looks quite green now.
Very green and quite good length of pasture this season, Bollyknickers. Our lambing percentage was so high though, that the pasture will diminish very quickly. Probably just as well with summer coming, the thought of bushfires becomes more prevalent after the last few major ones (Canberra, Victoria, Tasmania and now the dreadful fires in NSW). From now on our grasses will flower and then dry off until we have that amazing sight of shivery grass as the wind blows over it…
Loved the pictures. You have wonderful shots – the countryside is beautiful. And, always enjoy pictures of the animals.
Thanks Ann. The countryside is at its best right now. Won’t be long before it changes to Aussie gold. Our stock is very special, it becomes hard when things go wrong. It’s a hard-hearted farmer that doesn’t feel a pang when his stock suffers in any way at all. It’s why our own animal husbandry practices are as ‘best practice’ as we can make it.