A new calf too!

We are calving. Betty, who is at Kate and Sim's, had a bull calf the other day.

He is a lovely Murray Grey calf, and both mother and son are doing very well!

We also had a pie baking day at Sim's today.
We made about 150 pies in Sim's oven - lots of pastry rolling...
Here are some photos

And the finished pies...this is just one tray of 40 pies after cooking.







And here is one photo of Gran and I after we cleared a whole heap of Banksia rose from the side of the house...check out the heap on the trailer.

More piglet news

We had a "super" runt in this last litter of piglets.

Here is a couple of photos of Johnno holding it so that you can get some concept of his size.

Sadly the day after this photo was taken the really small piglet died, so Nicole has eight piglets - four boys and four girls.
 The chooks really enjoy being around the piglets too!!

New Piglets!

This morning, we went up and Nicole was in the process of having her piglets - 8 so far and a couple of still born, a big job!!

So here are some photos - the first is this morning, and the others are later today
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Nicole is very pleased with herself!

Here is Johnno with the piglets and the next photo is Johnno and Chindi...there is no show without punch!!

 

Finally me with Nicole, to try to give you some idea of how big she is!

Rain, Rain and more rain!

We measured 46mm at 7.30 am, and it is still raining at 12.38pm.This is our creek and the billabong - the post behind Andrew will eventually have to be cut out, so that the flood doesn't pull the whole fence out.

The creeks haven't been this high in the 15 years we have been here....Spring Creek is over the road, and there is water, water everywhere - up to the fence at the bottom of the garden, and the BOM has just issued a major flood warning for the Sevens Creek and Castle Creek at Euroa. All very exciting, but we are pleased to be here and not on the flats. We'll post some photos once we have downloaded them.

Meanwhile, Alisoun is happy in France after just 6 days, although recovering from the very long school days (8am-6pm). She won't know herself when she gets back here and resumes our 6 hour school days!! But she sounds well and happy.

And Nicole, one of our mother pigs, is getting larger and larger...piglets due soon, and we have separated her from Paris and Anthony.  She likes the extra attention! Makes her feel quite special!