This week...

On the weekend I look after my neighbour's horses  and cat.  In the mornings I head on over and put the ponies into a new paddock for the day (they aren't allowed too much grass, because if they get too fat they'll end up foundering, which is kind of like really sore feet that keep causing problems).  In the afternoon I make up their hard feed (kind of like museli and porridge), feed them and put them back in their other paddock.

 I also feed Clydie cat and give her lots of snuggles.  She is a barn cat.  She is free to roam the farm and has a little cat door into a big warm barn where she has ad lib biscuits, water, the radio going and lots of different snuggly places to sleep.  She has always been a little wild and she doesn't like new people.  She greets you with a hiss before deciding to smooch :-)  However as the bearer of food, she rather likes me lol.

 Here are some of my critters that don't always feature on here very often.  Tui my cat, who is a little disgusted that I would choose to wake her by making noise when taking a photo.  Possibly her nights sleep was disturbed by me moving my legs or something, hence the need to find a sunny spot and sleep most of the day away :-)  The chickens, well they are just on bug duty.  Wandering around, finding worms etc to eat, looking lovely and fluffy in their winter feathers. 

And the big guy is one of our steers.  His name is Cooper and I have a real soft spot for him.  Lyall and I often discuss the fact that he is not going to end up in the freezer...A friend of our's often puts his two cents worth in saying they thought the same with one of their cows 'White Face', but in the end he became too lame to keep healthy so he did end up in the freezer.  And if that or a similar fate is what happens then so be it, but until then, this big guy is living the life of Riley here.

 

 This is a layout I did a few weeks ago, and it just needed something else.  Lucky for me, Vicki gave me the something else and with the adding of those two little wooden hearts I could call it finished.  Great way to use up those half sheets of October Afternoon labels.

 

 

The season's are changing and with that comes the time to tidy up the vege gardens and start planting for a bountiful summer crop.  Last week I weeded them and this week Lyall filled them up with compost, and we brought just a few punnets to get things started.  He had quite an audience when he was doing this...possibly as we often throw the cows silverbeet etc from the vege gardens over winter and they may well have been hoping that this would happen today :-)

Have a wonderful week people.