And what a wonderful Christmas it was. Quiet, just the 3 of us here, but it was divine! I don't usually take "food photos" but I'm so proud of where we're at, everything on that plate came out of our garden or our paddock! I'm not a green thumbed person at all, so the fact that the vegies even grew well enough to eat is still just a buzz LOL and I'm learning more and more as I go.... Even the butter was made by us and the icecream for desert too! Proud of our efforts :)
Then my wood art arrived that I'd ordered back in July, the man put them on a white background and we put them up at the gate way. It might be my property but it takes 2 names to make it our home, so that is what that is, a combination of our names LOL. LOVE the horse! Love our entrance way!
And this little beauty I found on Trade Me and we picked up while we were up north, a vintage chaff cutter!!!! So cool! Just need to sharpen the blades up and it's fully operational and no more buying chaff for the animals!
Which leads beautifully to hay season, 2 paddocks we got in before we headed north, the last one we got in 2 days after Christmas and that is all we need to see us right thru winter, so no having to buy hay in! Excellent! Thought we might have gotten a bit more which would have allowed us to recoup some costs by selling some, but I'm sure we'll get more off those paddocks as the fertiliser starts balancing things out.
Weather has been "typically" unsettled for this time of year. It seems spring is starting and continuing later and later, so summer certainly hasn't really been in evidence yet, but still plenty of time to go and while it's not scorching hot and burning the grass off, we are living up growing more grass for the critters.
It's our 2nd Christmas here, but really our first one settled in and having made it OUR home and it's been wonderful. Very blessed!
Hope your Christmas enabled you to count your blessings, if you can't do it at Christmas at least, it's a bit of a wasted opportunity!
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