The race is on Australia
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – so there!
But the spring strawberries are ripening just fine 🙂
The cumquat, lavender, bayleaf and rosemary patch is coming along sweet
cumquat may
life goes on
Buttons the calf will chew on the issues and ponderate the cruel nature inherent in life itself
The alpacas are more concerned about the state of their hair on a windy day
Merlin is getting very nervous with the approaching weekend.
Saturday is the annual shear for our alpacas, so get ready to say goodbye to the long locks (oh, and it’s the election #eek)
photo from googles images
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September 5, 2013 at 2:34 pm
Remember when shearing the alpacas that they had nothing to do with the election and should not suffer the brunt of you anger. 🙂
September 5, 2013 at 5:52 pm
hahaha I hear you Charles but no need to worry – I am not personally doing the shearing – they are off to Ivory Park where many alpacas are getting done on the same day 😉 by a professional shearer.
September 5, 2013 at 2:52 pm
cumquat may….he he…
September 5, 2013 at 6:00 pm
hey, what are you doing here – hahaha 🙂 good to see you are keeping a close eye on the election from far away Bulgaria Dean
September 5, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Well said Gabrielle love the pics. Yes all our Alpacas are going to feel naked and cold this weekend. We have 4 coats for ours and 5 getting shorn. What a decision who will miss out.
September 5, 2013 at 6:01 pm
coats! where did you get them from Sandi? I may need to improvise – don’t want them feeling chilly in their nakedness 😉
September 5, 2013 at 4:09 pm
I feel for the alpacas but know they are in very safe hands. They are so cute.
September 5, 2013 at 6:02 pm
I feel for them too Helen – my nerves are frayed just considering the whole scenario (I am a very wussy fake farmer)
September 5, 2013 at 7:53 pm
These pictures put a smile on my face Gabe… and I need to smile in the face of what will most likely take place this Saturday…
September 6, 2013 at 9:42 am
gotta smile at something Graham #sob
September 5, 2013 at 11:24 pm
Love these photos!
Your cumquats ae so different than the one we get from Florida, they are tiny like olives and sour and bitter. Yours look like oranges.
You can grow anything, lucky you 🙂
September 6, 2013 at 9:45 am
Thanks Ben 🙂 We do have a great climate for growing fruit here – the area is a food bowl and there are groves everywhere – mainly avacado, macadamia (a nut), sugar cane and just about everything else. These cumquats might look bigger in the photos than they really are (about the size of a small plum) but they are bigger than I am used to (they are sour as well).
September 6, 2013 at 5:10 am
Rudd and Abbott will be seen by historians as destructive spoilers. But if we look at their respective policies, all we can hope for is a miracle where Labor wins but Rudd loses his seat! Now wouldn’t that be something!!
September 6, 2013 at 9:47 am
That would be pretty good Stafford but I can’t imagine it happening – I think Labor is going to lose in a landslide and goodness know how history will look on Abbott (can just imagine what he is going to do in the next few years but he could end up making Margaret Thatcher look like a saint 😦 )