13/05/2009
The chicken’s adventures have come to a halt! They are now kept away from the first fenced paddock with the wall and are resigned to the fact that they must stay inside the fences at last. I had the ducks, chooks and goats all together up until today. Lady and Carla have now discovered the chicken’s food is rather tasty and I guess the line about “goats eating anything” is true. They get quite annoyed with me when I stop them from eating the grain. I mean goats are meant to eat the grass and weeds aren’t they? So now they get separated from the ducks and the chickens. They don’t appreciate being left out of the feeding scheme. So at night I give them a little handful of cattle mix that I give to the cows to keep them happy.
T-bone has what I would call an ox picker permanently around him laterally. It’s a large white bird. Johnny doesn’t think we get ox pickers here so it must be another type of bird. No matter its name, he is enjoying the flies hanging around the cow and doesn’t stay too far from the black cow. Yesterday I was washing up the dishes and looked out to see the cows and the wild kangaroo’s interacting. It was amazing and yet again I wasn’t prepared with my camera. It would have been an amazing shot! The kangaroo’s looked quite aggressive and had there fore arms up ready. Nothing came of it and they eventually left.
The past two nights Johnny’s been working on the lounge. Using filler and plaster to fill in gaps. The builder that built this house didn’t finish off the sealing well so no wonder the bugs thought this was their hotel – nobody stopped them moving in! Slowly but steady we are moving ahead in the lounge. Now that it’s so cold in the evening it’s harder to want to work. One would much rather slouch on the couch and enjoy a fire and the telly instead.
Yesterday I ordered some stone and it was delivered. This weekend Johnny can lay the stone down and close up the gapping holes in the ground for the grey water system. I will be very happy to see this job complete. We got some more rain yesterday and our tank is overflowing again – yay!
I finally got around to buying my first fruit tree and I have chosen an orange tree to start off with. Hopefully this weekend it will find a home somewhere in the garden.
The chicken’s adventures have come to a halt! They are now kept away from the first fenced paddock with the wall and are resigned to the fact that they must stay inside the fences at last. I had the ducks, chooks and goats all together up until today. Lady and Carla have now discovered the chicken’s food is rather tasty and I guess the line about “goats eating anything” is true. They get quite annoyed with me when I stop them from eating the grain. I mean goats are meant to eat the grass and weeds aren’t they? So now they get separated from the ducks and the chickens. They don’t appreciate being left out of the feeding scheme. So at night I give them a little handful of cattle mix that I give to the cows to keep them happy.
T-bone has what I would call an ox picker permanently around him laterally. It’s a large white bird. Johnny doesn’t think we get ox pickers here so it must be another type of bird. No matter its name, he is enjoying the flies hanging around the cow and doesn’t stay too far from the black cow. Yesterday I was washing up the dishes and looked out to see the cows and the wild kangaroo’s interacting. It was amazing and yet again I wasn’t prepared with my camera. It would have been an amazing shot! The kangaroo’s looked quite aggressive and had there fore arms up ready. Nothing came of it and they eventually left.
The past two nights Johnny’s been working on the lounge. Using filler and plaster to fill in gaps. The builder that built this house didn’t finish off the sealing well so no wonder the bugs thought this was their hotel – nobody stopped them moving in! Slowly but steady we are moving ahead in the lounge. Now that it’s so cold in the evening it’s harder to want to work. One would much rather slouch on the couch and enjoy a fire and the telly instead.
Yesterday I ordered some stone and it was delivered. This weekend Johnny can lay the stone down and close up the gapping holes in the ground for the grey water system. I will be very happy to see this job complete. We got some more rain yesterday and our tank is overflowing again – yay!
I finally got around to buying my first fruit tree and I have chosen an orange tree to start off with. Hopefully this weekend it will find a home somewhere in the garden.
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