Rainy day ramblings...

Don´t you just love the sound of rain on a tin roof....the pitter, patter, pitter, patter that just relaxes you & makes you want to forget all your responsibilities & just stay in bed all day!! (Give me a warm quilt & a good book...).
Well we´ve been getting bucket loads in the last week - & no one´s complaining. In fact for us it is perfectly timed - you see we finished planting (well everything but the firebreaks) last Monday (not yesterday-week before). The rain really seemed to set in that evening & we've seen rain each day since them (with the last couple being almost non-stop)!!!
The only reason I hadn't posted earlier is because I didn't actually have any pictures of the tractor doing the planting - I was going to wait til Dave sowed the firebreaks, but that may be a while as things need to dry out first...

...but anyway here he is looking dirty & wild - like a good farmer should!!! LOL - he's actually reading this over my shoulder as I type!! (Being the attentive husband that he is he just added..)

Planting is really exciting - for us it´s our second year & so we have a tiny bit more knowledge than last year (you couldn't really have less -LOL). Here it´s also described as the ¨biggest legalised gambling¨ ever - you see it´s dry ground planting - we rely on God for all the moisture in the soil to keep the plants alive (no irrigation around here) - in fact it´s really all about faith that God has our best in mind (easy to say, but very difficult at times to believe - especially for our neighbours & friends who have seen many bad years all in a row).

This is from standing on the combine - gives me a few metres more of height (any extra would be useful, I'm kinda lacking in that department!!)

So we planted the way we´d planned with 50 acres of triticale (we still had some seed left over from last year) & 80 odd acres of barley under sown with clover - the aim of this is to still get some income off the paddock, but then to establish pasture so we can buy some lambs in & fatten them up quickly ( of course I´d LOVE to add a jersey cow as well...and maybe a piglet to the list....hint, hint Dave!!). (This is the barley seeds (red) with the clover seeds on top - I thought they looked so pretty lying their with their contrasting colours (actually caused from different seed inoculates).)

We know this is early days & the season still has a long way to go - but we sure are thankful for a great start!!!!
As for tomorrow, well we checked the forecast this morning (Dave does this every morning - he is becoming such a farmer!!) expecting it to say rain - but to our surprise it says:
Wednesday Forecast: SNOW & Wind!!!!
It will be interesting to see how these poor ex-QLDers handle it!!! (Even the locals are surprised at the forecast as they haven´t had snow before). - we keep thinking it´s a mistake, but it´s actually changed from snow & rain!?!?!? Sunday before last was such a pretty day!

We shall see (in the meantime our heating bill is going through the roof - but at least we´re warm & dry!!)!