Well I have become a grandparent again.....
Skinny Saanen and Jill (our oldest mum) have given birth to 3 kids. We now have 2 more females and a male Saanen goats. They are soooooo cute and they have names already. We have a black and white one born to Jill and her name is Patch. The boy and girl are born to Skinny and their names are: Daisy and Stretch. The boy has such long legs and sometimes does not know what they are for and falls over all the time. We have Cindy to give birth yet and I think that she will have 2 or more as she is enormous at the moment poor thing. Jill is a brilliant mother and always has been, Skinny on the other hand needed a bit of help. We are getting our solar panels delivered and installed this friday, I cannot wait, we should have a considerably small electricity bill for the block when they are installed. The shed is almost finished at last so that means working on the next project, the poly tunnel and permanent chook house. I did not mention in the other posts that when I was at the Campbelltown show a reporter came up to me and asked me some questions about the property and wanted to put us in the paper. We have a three page spread in the Tasmanian Farmer magazine which is put out by the Examiner in Launceston. It was all very exciting and a really good article came out of it. It also paid off Dukkah wise as I have got new customers and quite a number of people have come up to me at the market and said they read the article. How chuffed was I...... The boys went up to the snow on the weekend as luckily for us it is practically on our back door step. They had a ball and threw lots of snowballs and went for a bush walk. This bushwalking wore Bodie out which is what he needed. If he is worn out it means that he has no energy to chasing my chickens, little ratbag. Well better go and do some more work. I have three more vegetable beds to prepare and paint so that I can plant more things to sell at the market. This is a bit of a process as I have to prime them with primer, paint them inside with bitumen paint and then spray the outside a couple of times with black rust proof paint. They then have to be taken up to the block and filled with compost and soil. Today I finished resawdusting the vegetable area with sawdust from the local saw mill. I collect this every week and gradually I am sawdusting the onion and garlic beds that contain 640 bulbs of garlic and about 1000 onions. I have another 1000 red onions propagated and nearly ready to be planted. I have to whipper snip the orchard as it is getting a little over grown and re fertilise al
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