Chookyblue........

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

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Happy 10th Birthday gmail.............i've been using you for atleast the last 7 years................

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Thursday, 27 March 2014

The view outside my window all day yesterday.....yep that is rain drops on the window..........and I heard it raining during the night...............but what a surprise I got this morning when we had 46mms on the rain guage...............with 2 mms yesterday morning and 10mms on Monday morning what a week..............Tuesday we missed out..............storms went either side of us............some got big falls but we didn't get even a spit...............

the biggest fall of rain for over 2 years............can't tell you when we had a week like this last..........but it makes you feel so good........especially when the falls start to add together.............

Oh happy days..............

the best news is we have had a decent fall at one of the properties that has been missing out.............

we have stopped feeding the ewes as we were running out of feed.............we swapped them paddocks to give them a fresh paddock to pick in..........still feeding the lambs but hanging out trying to work out what to do what we were going to get for feed.....were we going to get a decent fall...........we had some green but you would call a green drought.............looks good but nothing really there.............and it had started to go blue again dying.........

The cows here hadn't been fed hay for about 10 days either............

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The clouds are still hanging around this morning so maybe a chance of a little more.............we have some water running into some dams but a quick inch or 2 would run some water around now and put some water into some of the dams that are still empty...........

Update on the poddy calves............

I went away for a few days late last week and came home to a new baby.............

the one at the top of the photo..........he is a big calf.....very new but big.........long legs too......much bigger then Mini who we have had for about 6 weeks.............so I weaned a couple of others to lower the numbers and I had thought maybe a week or so to go and I would have been on the tail end of feeding poddies but now I will be on the job for another 6-8 weeks atleast..............yippee.............

Then on Tuesday they brought this one home........a few weeks older then the new one.........he has pink eye on both eyes so can't see.......he was struggling in the paddock......so home he as come...........the boys had caught him here to put medication in his eyes and we gave him a bottle of milk and he scoffed it down............so hopefully tomorrow we will try and get him onto the calf feeder like the others...........

with dome deaths etc I think we have 18 at the moment now..........

Hope you got some rain at your place if you needed it.............I know this rain event has been pretty wide spread.........but some were still missing out........hopefully your turn will come very soon.....

I still have to do the posts from GDITC but a lot has been happening here and I just have not had a chance to get to it..............but it will happen..........and I will get around to everyone's blogs too.............

Catch you later

Chookyblue

Monday, 17 March 2014

Friday evening............

I posted the pic below earlier..........usually Friday drinks is on the lawn.........but for the first time it was raining so we had to go down to the caravan park BBQ area............it's a great area with plenty of space for us.........we just take over the whole venue..........a few more to arrive when this pic was taken............

lots of fun and chatter..........

Kate trying on her new "hat"

All the swap gifts waiting to be swapped............

"Fake it, make it or bake it"......everyone joined in........thanks for helping out Ann and Sam.......

more happy girls..........

I think Shez was christening "Dory" here

Oh man I am exhausted.........it was a big weekend........

Catch you later

Chookyblue

Sunday, 16 March 2014

GDITC bloggers meet...............

Blog meets are just the best fun...............girls Day in the Country at Nundle is also just the best fun..........

So bloggers meeting at GDITC is out of this world..............

I love we are all sorts of ages, interests, lifestyles, city/town/country girls and we when we meet only because we have met online thru blogging it is just the best fun............no one judges you........you are just who you are and we like you for that.............thousands and thousands of kilometres have been traveled just for our group to gather together for 3 days in Nundle..........like i said all roads lead to Nundle...............

Here is everyone with the naughty girls who went missing included in the top left corner..........some people just don't listen..............lol............

Thanks Peg, Dale, Jenny, Lynda, ~~Cheryll~~ Dory, Maree, Susan, Me, Kerri, Kerry, Cheryl, Kate, Dzintra, Lea, Alison, Lynette, Fiona, Janice, Sonia, Ann, Shez, Sam and Dawnie

Actually just realise Suzie was missing too..........

we also had a few bloggers friends not in the pick - Miss Jules, Gail, Jenny and Maureen

gosh I hope I haven't missed anyone..............

But you made it the best weekend.........THANKYOU

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And saying "HI" to those lurkers out there who I met on the weekend - you know who you are..........lovely to see you or met you for the first time............

I know a few of you mentioned maybe blogging but it's too hard.............trust me is isn't and you can make the best of friends like I have..........

and GDITC has created a few bloggers...........Lea, Sandy, Cardygirl to mention a few..............

Catch you later

Chookyblue