Walking on the bottom of the lake
“Torches!” Doc exclaimed as we were driving down the Hume Highway. “I forgot the torches.” Those of you who follow this blog regularly will know that just about every time we come to the farm …
the farm
Tom Roberts shearing sheds … who needs the Royal Easter Show?
I watched shearing today. Not at the Royal Easter Show – real shearing. In a shearing shed. In the country. Six sweaty blokes doing bloke work. I’ve never seen shearers at work before, and there …
Is this an official drought?
We’re back on the farm. Last week when Doc rang the farm manager about coming down, he said they were feeding sheep – they were in drought. I was gobsmacked (I love that word). I …
Flood or drought
I promised I’d put up some before and after photos of the Murrumbidgee River. This is what it looked like a couple of months before Christmas. This is one of the photos I have for …
The pick of the pics
A picture tells a thousand words, so here’s the story of our Christmas at the farm – from arriving in the golden glow of sunset, Christmas lights and Christmas beetles, millions of grasshoppers, Doc building …
Help me make our part-time farm life more sustainable
Now that we’re home, and getting over the “post holiday blues”, how did we go in terms of sustainability on the farm. First of all we used lots of water, about 600 litres, or 60 …