Things To Do On A Thursday

Yep, you guessed it. The day starts with a walk. Personally I think light exercise is a great way to start the day, leaves you feeling refreshed and ready to tackle what's ahead. Speaking of which, first task for the day was moving the rest of the preserved goods and the alcohol stash out of the pantry. What did this teach me? That we are in dire need of a wine rack!
I then spent the rest of the morning battling with where we live. It was study time and what do you know the internet data allowance was used up so I was trying my hardest to achieve something with glacially paced internet and a computer that decided not to cooperate. Four hours later I think I managed to achieve something. 

What to do now? Oh, that's right, we got to push around 1500 wethers back over the road and through a large expanse of fenced off bush. Why? To avoid letting them get into any of the canola. 

You can vaguely see the freshly crutched boys wandering through the bush here. It's always interesting as the bush has branches and stumps and rabbit warrens hiding all over the place, and if the sheep decide they want to get into the parrot bush... Well that's it! There's no way to push them out with just a bike, it's to thick and prickly. It's times like that that I wish I had a chopper or a plane overhead like the stations I've worked on. The upside to bush mustering and checking a few fences on the other block? Pictures galore! 

The boys happily heading into fields of yellow cape weed. 

The canola is losing its flowers now.

Leaving the block sheep free for 6 weeks so the worms die off on the pasture means there's bulk pasture! Great for the sheep, not so great for knowing what you're about to ride over... Helmets are definitely a necessity!

The most permanent creek system we have. It can be interesting on this block as it gets very wet in places, one has to be aware of getting bogged at all times. 

Sun orchids

My favourite little white flowers. These pop up in the wetter pasture/bush land areas. 

These purple flowers have started popping up all over the place. There's nothing quite like seeing bright flowers all over the farm. :)

Spider orchids are still out.

Even though they're dying off they still seem quite majestic. 

Lots of pink triggers!

The infamous roo paw, such a different plant but very striking.

And to finish the day off, beer o'clock in our 'alfresco' dining area. 

Friday will be a day in the city so I won't bore you with that but I hope you've come to understand how diverse any one day on the farm can be. There are always other things that crop up and there is never a shortage of things to do!

P.S. I forgot to mention that when we lamb mark we don't physically mules the sheep. We have been part of a few trials to do with how we can better help the sheep. Fly blow is a huge problem but as an enterprise we have chosen not to put the sheep through mulesing anymore.