Well to be quite honest this week has been extremely uneventful to say the least. It pretty much rained the first half of the week…AGAIN! But I can at least say that the last few days have been sunny and warm. So with all the rain early on in the week we managed to have quite the clean-up in the shop. Chris is a bit of a neat freak when it comes to that sort of thing so there was heaps of rubbish burnt and scrap taken to the dump. Perry was away at the tim...

So to pick up where I left off last week, I enjoyed a relaxing Saturday afternoon watching a movie and drinking hot chocolate. I then decided to take myself into town to the pub, which probably wasn't the smartest idea as I wasn't home until 1:30 and had to start work at 6:30. So there I was Sunday afternoon doing some odd jobs around the yard and feeling a little sorry for myself when Perry called and asked me to come to the bull paddock with the tractor becaus...

So after a relatively hectic week gone by of branding and frantically trying to get things done…this week has been quite laid back. I have had plenty of time to do my chores around the house including feeding calves/sick cows/horses/whatever else might happen to be in the barn or yards. We have been trucking out cattle again so there are once again fewer cow's to worry about. All the cattle get taken to pasture (adgistment) and are looked after there by 'cowb...

This has definitely been a week of wildlife action as I have seen lots of different critters getting around. The most exciting though was definitely the bear! I was driving down the driveway at about seven and was looking for some bulls that had been dropped off earlier in the day. I saw something black and thought to myself that's a funny looking bull and all of a sudden it dawned on me…it was a BEAR. It was about 100m from me and in some grass so I didn't re...

Well after 6 weeks I can't believe that I haven't talked about how awful the gates are here. Apparently they don't believe in gates that swing and they have what we call cocky gates. They call them wire gates here and it's hard to believe that they don't do something about improving these considering you can go into a paddock up to six times a day. Anyway they are probably even worse than our cocky's gates because they don't even have a lever on them like we do....