Well I haven't posted anything for ages and I liked this image so here we go!
In another couple of weeks it will be time again for the January Photo A Day. I wonder if I could challenge myself and get the rest of last January's up before the new January's starts???!!!!
Here we go again. I know I haven't even finished uploading last January's photos! I do have them though. Will make it my New Year's resolution to finish 2010 whilst I'm at 2011's!
Rockie doesn't know what he's in for. His father refuses to look at the camera now and actually turns his head the other way. I'm thinking Rockie will be up to similar antics by the end of the month.
he has many...cheeky, clever, naughty, confused, loving...this is 'resigned' because I contained him to capture that face in his emotion of the moment to enter him over at I Heart Faces
Remember Jackie after her escape from the bush fires?
http://mamajugs.typepad.com/milkinggoats/2009/03/index.html
Somebody asked me how she is doing. Her paws are as healed as they will ever be. Sometimes we even see her streaking across the front yard - not as agile as she once was but it makes you stop and look in wonder. Mostly she walks stiltedly around on the timber floors or the paved areas. But she seems happy and even allows this sometimes:
this spring. We haven't had so much rain in many, many years. My kids can't even remember so much rain in their lives! And cold! We had the fire still going up until about a month ago. Things in the garden are so much slower than usual as well. The raspberries are usually abundent right now but they are green as can be...but with much promise of a bumper crop. And talk about lush - there is such lush new growth every where you look.
Those burnt out forest areas are covered in tree seedlings up to 2 metres high! It makes your heart sing when you compare it to not so long ago.
We've had floods as well. The creek well and truly broke its banks a few weeks back.
The downside is that weeds pop up and grow like crazy in the veggie garden.
I've been told it's going to be a wet summer....I think that's good? As long as it's not a wet and hot summer.
Spring school holidays means catching up on some horse riding.
This would have to have been one of the longest, coldest, wettest and pretty much most miserable winters that I can ever remember experiencing. The poor horses still have their winter coats, we are still dressing like it is winter, dragging wood in for the fire like there is no end in sight not to mention my poor magnolia that usually bursts its buds in early August has only just this week started to do so.
I won't deny that we will eventually be thankful for all this rain - the price of hay will plummet for once and we can stock up again but I'm not sure the fruit tree roots are feeling the love right now. The ground has been sodden for a couple of months - the goats tip toe over it but much prefer to peer out from their house and only venture out for feed or to bask in the occasional ray of sun that may find its way through the never ending cloud cover.
Give me a few months and I'm sure I'll be complaining about the relentless heat and the never ending need to water the gardens once again!
