Hey ye all!!
Life is good here. Must be the dirt under my fingernails that give me a charge of life, when I clean them 4 times a day! I am cutting edges on the lawn with a steak knife atm and then it will only need a little clip every week, after that. Have established a very well manicured lawn and garden so far. My Vegies have been awesome and so need to plant my winter crops of Broc, Cauli, sweet peas, spinach asap. I try to plant stuff that costs a lot. I have onions and leeks that will be ready really soon.
The chooks have started to lay - have 5 chookies and 3 are only productive atm - I thought they were all the same age when bought - but they were not
Isa Browns they are - soon will have around 35 eggs a week, which I will be able to give most away or trade with
Have mainly been eating seafood and vegies and chicken these days. After making friends with the Steers grazing around here, I have no yearning for a beef steak that I once did. I can still eat Chicken, because they totally piss me off, when I let them out for a scratch every afternoon and then they destroy my new crops .......... I just need to be one step ahead and foresee where they are going to scratch and do their stuff.
Joy is an amazing farm dog. She has taken on the role. She rounds them up! Chooks and Cows! Yesterday, the Steers broke though a gate and it was like mayhem. Around 60 steers were all over the place - munching on my neighbours front and back yard, her veggie patch, in the feed barn ripping up stuff they should not - trying to get in our yard - ripping the lilli pilli fruit of the branches, almost on the road, shitting everywhere etc etc etc. Thank goodness they did not have guns! Anyway, Joy rounded them up to where they should be within minutes. So Proud! She wants to be on the farm payroll
It has been 6 months since I have landed here. To think that I had no idea where I would be living and thought that a swag was going to be my home was really scary. I put out for something good and I got it. I am very thankful.
This week, I have had at least 4 people say to me how well I look and I am happy for that feedback. It was a really bad place I was living before - but now, well, I am happy to head out every morning with my steak knife in hand, to manicure the gardens (that I don't not own) but to just give something back to make everyone admire and like.
Life is good here.
Love to All xxxxxxx
If not SUR, PUMP? That would be a great experience. Wonder if any of them are working tonight? He might have a photo opportunity. 
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