BLESSED SPEEDY

Well winter has well and truly arrived with some very cold mornings and plenty of fog too! We have, thankfully, had some rain which is needed - we are not as desperate as some for it but really welcome what we have got. Here's a pic of the cows and outside the dairy the other morning - it was super foggy, a real pea souper and the fog only lifted for about an hour in the afternoon and then it was back again. Tomorrow our heifer AI program starts (one of the most exciting things for me ) and fingers crossed they all get in calf. I spend quite some time choosing bulls for them with the aim of breeding great cows - Id love to have a whole herd of red and white holsteins but I doubt we will get any red ones this season as I havent chosen any red factor bulls - mainly because the black and white ones are just that bit better, so compromise! Ive also finished a table runner from left over quilt blocks and I think its turned out pretty good - this will probably go in my gift cupboard. Th...

OK so Ive been a bit MIA on my blog but you know what - thats totally ok! This year I have been promising myself I wont be a slave to expectations, and as a people pleaser that is really hard but I can do hard things and do this sometimes - well hopefully more often than not. And just because I havent done updates on here doesnt mean I havent been busy! On the farm the calves are almost weaned so not as many to feed and given I only do the calf feeding every second weekend its awesome to see their progress - note Buster the supervisor in this pic! And AI (artificial insemination) time is almost upon us - this season we have a fancy auto draft now that will (apparently) draft out the cows that are on heat and needing to be AI'd Fingers crossed it works as well as its reported to however Im sure they will be teething issues. And yes its now winter so very cold (a couple of mornings have been minus degress so not fun) but we did manage to sneak up to Queensland for a few days to visi...