Bean there.

I’ve a lot of catching up to do. Firstly the garden – it’s looking great, the vegetables are coming on and things are really looking good. George is fine, he’s fully recovered form his illness. The Pigs are back in their paddocks but they have destroyed all but three of our truffle trees. And lastly, the Bull is back from the river and living with his mother again – she’s really an old cow. The fly blown sheep known as Beryl is doing well, but I haven’t finished mowing the lawn.

Still no new camera! Waiting, waiting, waiting.

Old Ted, the Bin Laden look a like, from Dubbo is supposed to be coming down for a visit tomorrow – but I haven’t heard from him yet. Matthew and Fiona went to visit Maryborough – haven’t heard from them either; and the Western Australian Nomads are moving to Karratha. I can’t keep up with it all!

The Cook can’t cook at the moment because she hasn’t an oven. But, I’ll keep looking in the papers and see if I can snag another bargain. We are spending a fortune on biscuits and snacks for the kids (yes the kids, not me – the kids!) and not having a stove also means no fresh bread or duck egg pavlova’s.

On the weekend when we were out at Jerangle we had the best feed of fresh Black Angus Steaks I’ve ever had. The guys up there really have a great place and their cattle were in peak condition – better then what I can say for my pigs at he moment.

Our cow is looking good, the Cook put out one of her Biodynamic licks the other night and the cow just goes crazy over it. The sheep tucked into it as well, I suspect there could be some fine tunning to do to the recipe before it is perfectly matched to our pastures.

Speaking of the Cook, she’s over in Braidwood today at a Serrated Tussock field day, then on Friday we’re off to a Love Grass field day – she’ll be all weeded out by the weekend. Hopefully we’ll get a heads up on what the developing story is with controlling these pests – I bet they don’t discuss the organic options.

Today spic is from the garden, enjoy.

Birthday time!!

Party Time; young Ben had his birthday party this weekend so everything revolved around that – not everyday you turn ten.

Saturday was glorious weather, the cook headed off to Cooma for a morning of sanity and retail therapy after two weeks of school holidays. I of course got stuck into the chores, making up a week worth of pigs feed and lugging water to the sheep.

We finished the clean up that James began when he was here. The old pig pens have now gone and all the mess has just about been tidied up. The garden had a good make over with a good mulching and marking out for new spring beds.

The kids had their sleep-over which went well. One of the boys nearly picked up a brown snake – so it’s THAT time of the year again.

Sunday was bens’ party and apart from cooking and cleaning not much else happened – except the toilet broke – there’s always something!!

Today’s photo is of Beccy, I only realised on Friday that I’d talked about her but never put her up on the page.