After the rain...

Its always amazing you can water and water but nothing is ever as good as the rain. We haven't seen a lot of rain here this year so the last month has been great with a few days each week wet and its meant to continue in that pattern for some time....according to the weather man anyway.

Living in a small country town everyone has an opinion, one I like listening to is the older people in towns opinions of the weather pattern. See, we are all of the told the weather patterns have changed blah blah but when you talk to the oldies 70+ they will tell you there have been times like this before and locals here are predicting more rain with floods in February. I guess time will tell, it will be interesting to see.

The rain brings with it issues of its own, we have so many of these little guys no sooner do we think we have collected them all when more fly in to take their place!

It seems we may have a fungi issue too?

Then there is all the grass and weeds that grow!! Look how high that grass is and the weeds in the garden beds isn't much better :(  I started weeding it yesterday afternoon and did a little more today, the rabbits LOVE eating whatever I pull out....looks like they will be eating well for a while :)
 

Those HUGE tomato plants in the first garden we plant are finally doing something other than growing taller...look at these babies!! Can't wait till we start getting some tomato's nothing better than home grown, the store ones are so flavor less :(                    I LOVE tomato's can just eat them like apples YUM!!

 

The corn you could hardly

see last week have grown 

about three times as big after

the rain!

We will have the first Zucchini any day now.....might make a nice quiche with it and our fresh eggs YUM!! Can't wait. There are lots of little ones growing and lots more flowers just starting. Quiche is great for lunch or dinner, hot or cold with salad. Is so cheap too when your eggs are laid fresh daily and you grow your own zucchini, we just add whatever else we have on hand. Its always a hit!!

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Meet some of the Family - Furry Friends

I thought today I'd introduce you to some of our family. Some people were a little camera shy and others LOVED the camera...don't we all know people like that?!

 

This is Thai, we bought her about 2 months ago, she is aprox 4-5mths old. She's a cutie and was the second of three rabbits we now have.

Ninja is also a black rabbit but he was camera shy today. We have had him for 12mths now. He's not as placid as the girls, I think he's a bit shy.

This is Muay, we have had her for about 6 weeks now, she is aprox 4mths old. She's such a sweetie!! Look at those ears .....so cute!! She loves cuddles and always runs to get your attention as you walk past the cadge. Such a poser for the camera too.

This is Rufus, who is also a poser!! He loves everyone's attention and makes sure if anyone else is getting some he gets some too. Rufus is now about 8yrs old. He loves just hanging in the yard with us or his animal friends. He can fetch the ball problem is he doesn't like to, so he goes and gets the ball looking all keen then hides it so you can't throw it again hehe  Needless to say we have to watch his weight as he's rather lazy and loves his food! Sounds like some people I know, what do they say about pets being like their owners?



All of our animals get along so well, the cat is often seen either in the chook house or sitting with the rabbits playing. The cat and dog chase each other around and crash tackle each other and the chickens sit on the top of the rabbit cadge. I've spent hours some days just watching them all playing, they have given us some good laughs along the way. Here is a photo that explains just how much they all really do love each other.

How cute is that??

       

We have a cat too, his name is ALF he wasn't around when I was taking photos but will try to get a photo tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll cover our feathered family members.

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