I should be sleeping right now....

It's early at the moment & the house is quiet (well except for Eli who loves to get up early - that's why I'm staring bleary eyed at the screen trying to put thoughts into words from a mind that's much to fuzzy to make sense), so I thought I would take this opportunity to update. Sorry it's been so long. This week has passed in a complete blur. I have had so much on my mind. (As you can guess from the last few posts.) I still haven't gone down to get pics of the crop. We will be down there today as this weekend we have to totally eradicate any locusts off our property because in the next few days they will mature to adulthood & then they can fly & cause all kinds of problems for farmers all over eastern Australia. So this means we need to walk the paddocks that are effected & take notes exactly where they are so that our neighbour who is licenced to spray can come & spray them for us.
I've been meaning to answer a question as well. Mummy McTavish asked:I thought I must ask you what was your husbands background that he wanted to pursue the farming life and what brought about the move so far south, as in, what made you choose there against some other farming area?

For my blog friends I need to apologise in this area. I guess I forget that you don't actually know us, so don't know why we moved here. We moved because Dave was offered a great job in a local town. (20 mins away). He has quite unique job experience, and unless you know where he works this isn't going to make sense, but there aren't a lot of places in Australia that he can work so exactly in his field. We decided that since we had the chance to move to the country we would do it properly - as only we do. We have always dreamed of moving onto acreage, so we were actually on the lookout for 20 to 40 acres. Once we started looking, however we quickly discovered that the smallest acreages around are 100 acres (unless you want 5acs in town, but we didn't want to live in town), so we started looking at all the houses on "lifestyle blocks" (what they refer to for anything under about 500 acres). Consequently we found this place - sure it's bigger than the 40 acres (it's 240 acres) we were after, but it's lovely & we have great neighbours who put their sheep on for us, & since they do that they also look after us & guide us through pretty much everything that comes along. So Dave works full time at his job & then tries to do farm things in the evenings or weekends (yes he's really busy as he's also studying). For major things like planting, he takes annual leave.


Thank you for praying about rain. On Thurs we got 2 mls - not a lot, but enough to get us to this weekend where they have forecast quite a bit (although it's looking pretty sunny at the moment (please, please God send rain)). If the rain doesn't come, we'll cut our crop for hay early next week. Although it isn't really meant for hay, it's better than just letting thousands of dollars just sit there & go to waste. So we're trusting God on this one & if it doesn't rain we're praying that the hay will bring in enough so we can plant next year.

Anyway, I think this should have been at least 3 posts, so if you're still reading, thanks! I'll leave you with this cute pic - my daughter is very, very optimistic!!

Hope you have a great weekend!!