Wanda, in front, with Walter and Tansy. Wanda and Walter are now 6 months old; Tansy is nearly 5 with not much more sense than she had at 5 months old, but she has a big heart
Dorper Sheep – CasperAstra’s lamb Casper, who arrived in June 2011, is but a flavour-filled memory in our freezer. As are Colin and Clive, born at the end of August 2011 from Abigail. Annabel had twin lambs, Cassie and Cedric, born the day before Colin and Clive, which we still have. We also have Cyril, who was born in mid November, mothered by a young but perfectly big enough, Beatrice (good old/young reliable Barry!) It really was a lambing season favouring rams; verified by many of our smallfarming friends. The only one we will be keeping (alive) from the 2011 intake will be Cassie.
Twin rams Colin and Clive, with proud mother, Abigail
Apart from that - we had our last bit of fencing done, which has certainly made things easier for us in that we now have seven paddocks and a couple of extra gates, as against four big paddocks we originally had.
The well went in so we can water the vege gardens and all the stock troughs (albeit with many metres of garden hoses joined together); we
now have shelter trees along the north and west fence lines of the house garden and orchard. Ten raised vege beds of varying areas ranging from 1x1 square metres; 2 x 1 sq. m. and two 3 x 1 sq. m were set up and filled, and what a joy it was to stand and leisurely hose. Lugging 20 litre containers of water up from the water race just a distant nightmare of the past!
We had no guests over Christmas and had Christmas Day away with family. However, the gigantic tree went up but this year we restrained ourselves and only put up about 2/3rds of the usual ornaments. Still and impressive display which we would not be able to have if not for retaining a 12ft ceiling height in our lounge.
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