And I don't mean climate change! Altho it has been a nice mild, dry winter to date compared to last year!
We went out for Marcus's birthday in April and got to meet his girlfriend when she joined us for dinner, and it's now end of July and they're still together so that's cool!
Sadly we said good bye to Vada in May :( Heart breaking but he was ready, just like that, and he's now buried out on the driveway, first one to greet me when I get home.
Found a couple of lumps around Smokey's bum, typical grey horse type issues :( But since Woody turned up, Smokey has firstly gotten a bit jealous of sharing the load being ridden, which is GREAT, because now he can have his halter off out in the paddock because he actually WANTS to be caught LOL.
We have 2 new chickens as Bernie the Barnvelde went clucky again and she'd laid about 4 eggs in there so I got 2 of her own eggs and popped them under her and mid winter she hatched those wee babies out!!!! They are about 6 weeks old now and already one is as big and one slightly bigger than my wee bantam cross old ladies.
And exciting much?! Our first 2 lambs were born this morning!!!! Sadly Ramsses, the Damara ram, was killed by the steer (2nd bloody ram they've done in!!!) Had just let Ramsses out of the paddock with the ewes, he wanted out and back with the big boys, he was done! And the next day I found him unable to move lying in the paddock, the man came down with the gun and did the dead and checked out what had happened. He had a broken back :( So these are special little lambs from him and we'll potentially keep a ram lamb intact to replace him, same as we have a ram lamb from the old Dorper ram still entire too to replace him when he died, between the 2 of them we should be able to split the girls into 2 flocks and keep the boys away from their own mothers and sisters easily enough. Just really need them to be fully self shedding, don't want to have to be stuffing round sharing a couple of lambs when the mothers are all self shedding. The 2 newest Damara cross lambs look like their dad, very long legs and more of a goats hair type coat rather than a woolly sheep's coat, and one is the exact same colouring as dad with similar markings, so VERY cute!
I've been working a few days a week at a local vineyard up the road doing a bit of pruning and tying down, been nice to get out of the house, but sucked because it would be fine while I was working and then crap over the weekends and I have a new horse to ride, so very happy that their is only another 2 days work left to do, especially now babies are arriving!
And the last week has been stunning weather!!! What I shifted to Blenheim for, sunny days, frosty mornings, no mud!!!! So this weekend was beautiful, got Woody and Smokey ridden yesterday and took Woody for a hack down to the river with Tracy and her boy Max and neither of them set a foot wrong, was a lovely ride just to get out of the paddocks and no pressure of working Woody like the lessons have been. Good for the soul today's ride was! And bless Tracy got her phone out and took a pic without me even knowing so I have something to remind me of what a stunning day it's been <3 Cute lambs, healthy and happy, wonderful ride on an amazing horse with good company, just a perfect day!
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