Saturday 25 November 2017

The end of Ag week..............

Why I don't want to be a farmer...........
when Mr Chooky is away everything happens...........
A quick check of the dam yesterday morning revealed this bogged sheep........
See how far that sheep got into the dam......
I drove over to the bore and the cows that buggered the water trough............
And emptied the whole tank.........I could not fix it but I could stop the water running out.........
Drove back to the house and grabbed Boy Wonder (who is out of action at the moment) I could picture myself slipping head over heals in the dam and I took him to drive me back to the house muddy...........
It was cool and wet and slimmy and I nearly fell a few times but managed to stay on my feet......I did manage to drag the sheep out........when wet they are so heavy and they get stuck into the mud too..........it is not easy at all.........
getting out of the dam was interesting..........my feet kept sliding back down.............But i made it out and got a lift home on the back of the ute.........hosed off on the lawn........
Running late for work with all these problems I was rewarded with pretty wispy skies...........even better in real life............
That's enough from me for Ag Day/week.........
Hope you enjoyed the posts and you thought about your connections to agriculture.............
Back to sewing posts soon hopefully......I have heaps to share.........
Catch you later..... 
Chookyblue......

Wednesday 22 November 2017

More Ag Day..............

Check out this article in The Land also known as the Bible by some farmers........
National Ag Day...........they even had a photo competition..........check it out here..........
Search the #agday or #nationalagday on Instagram...........

Catch you later...........
Chookyblue........

Tuesday 21 November 2017

National Agriculture Day................

It's an important day......National Ag Day....we all rely on Agriculture to exist............
there are many different areas..............

I'm at least a 4th generation farmer...........
yes every generation back to my great grandparents.............
on one side I think I am at least 5th or is it 6th generation.........
my kids are planing to be in the agriculture industry..........
I feel like this is you my readers peering into my world through the blog........
leaving comments or just stalking...........
but this is my part of the AG world that I get to share with you............

there are the mobs.............

There are precious cows...........remember Curly Pops.........

crops..............

glorious sunsets..........

stunning surprises to be found in there paddock when working..........

new life...............
death..............

floods............

more amazing sunsets..............

lots of hard work............

droughts...............

poddies to raise in bad times get to enjoy the garden.............
random great paddock lunchs...............
stock to feed...............

and occasionally selfies..............


How about you do an Ag Post this week!!!!!

What does ag mean to you????

Catch you later.......
Chookyblue.........

Monday 20 November 2017

National Ag Day/Week...........

Tomorrow is National Agriculture Day 21st November.............So i'm going to celebrate all week............
One of my favourite farm pics..............
So what can you do to join in...........

How about you do a agriculture post this week............

what does agriculture mean to you.........
what memories/connections do you have...........
you are all consumers so you all rely on agriculture to survive.......
Catch you later.......
Chookyblue.........

Thursday 16 November 2017

Views from recent walks.....

Not the usual......... Nice for a change.......
Catch you later.......
Chookyblue......

Tuesday 14 November 2017

It's all about the eggs.......

The Guinea fowl lay eggs in odd spots but this one I found in the dirt in the back yard...... Tucked under a grass butt.....lol
By accident I mean by scaring the guninea fowl out of the garden and the Guinea fowl in turn scaring the life of of me I found a new nest........tucked in the centre of some agapanthus......they love the Aggie's......makes great nest spots.......
Let's see if they nest there......
Finally the new arucana started laying her blue eggs except she missed the memo about finding a nest to lay in and started laying them on the ground.........clearly I go in there with my eyes closed as she had laid 12 eggs already and I had not noticed then scattered in the corner of the chook house on the ground......... So I had gone in there already 10 days (I miss an odd day) and not seen them on the ground........
 
Life is out off control.......
Oh I took some eggs to give a friend when I visited and scrabbled a few in the car.... Omg lucky it was not to bad a mess to clean up......But I will be packing then heaps better next time....... 
Catch later......
Chookyblue......

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Pink and pretty............

Pink and pretty was the order of the day...........
pretty pink cakes.......
I had the table etc all set up outside but it was just too windy so we ended up on the front verendah and inside...........
the jacarandas are in full bloom............
Yummy  date, walnut and caramel slice.............
missed the pics of the other stuff I cooked........
these big pink paper decorations caught the wind all afternoon...........
here are some of the ladies all pretty and pink.........
raised some good money with the Girls Night In for the Cancer Council and everyone had a great time...........

Believe it or not there were 451 lollies in this jar for the guessing competition...........
Oh and Lamby is teaching her lamb naughty tricks.......like how to get into the garden...........hhhmmm.........

Saturday 4 November 2017

The pets.......

OMG where have the days gone........
I'm sulking with the pets............all my buddies are 
at Bathurst Retreat this weekend............first time I have missed out........
They sent me pics of their swap presents last night :(
Look how much Lambies lamb has grown in a few weeks.........
Big Love.........
Still no where near enough rain to stop feeding..........
just about to start loading all the dirt from the dust storm out of my house and have visitors this afternoon...........
Girls Night In for the Cancer Council.........
think everything pink..........
Catch you later.....
Chookyblue.....

Wednesday 1 November 2017

A matter of minutes.....

The other morning I was up at "sparrows fart" and on the road...........
my reward was the sunrise.........
there was a hint it was going to be lovely...........
5 mins later...............it was trying to burst thru......
another 5 minutes later...........
this was to the right.........the colours are not truly captured but it is a stunning light that only last for a short  time..........
5 mins later again.........up behind the clouds.........the rays all shining out........
random rose flowering in my garden............
I love nature..........except for the dust storm on Thursday night..........I went away Friday morning so still to clean up.........it was so thick the dust is deep my friends...........bring on some more rain......
Catch you later......
Chookyblue......