Mud Glorious Mud!

Work with the animals on the farm has slowed down.

It is back to the dams...and mud glorious mud!

The tractors drag the scoop back and forth through the mud until they find the bottom of the dam.

Then it is time to call in a little more horse power. 

BUT this horse power does not have hooves!

We are lucky that PopPop has his very own bulldozer. 

It is his most favourite toy on the whole farm!

It can move alot of dirt.

Look at all this mud.....

We just need to get it finished before the rain arrives?

A few steers left to sell, this afternoon they got a special treat of oats.

A treat for me too......a close up with Clover, Freckles and Curly.

More treats....a ride in a.....

WOOHOO!!!!!!

Dad has been preparing some paddocks for sowing.

 He has had to burn some of the paddocks because they have to much old dry grass for the  combine to sow through. As soon as it rains Dad will be busy sowing oats for winter feed. 

The weatherman says there will be rain this week. 

That would make us all very happy and once again very busy!

From Farmer to Fireman.

Not alot has been happening on the farm during the hot, hot weather.

We have been in lockdown. Trying to limit the use of anything that may start a fire.

That includes all machinery even the motorbikes and farm utes.

The days have been extremely hot and the wind just never stops!

 We had been lucky most of the week UNTIL....Saturday...when FIRE!

Dad is a member of our volunteer fire brigade....so he was called up.

Dad grabbed his fire gear and he was gone quick as a flash!

The fire was about 10 kilometres from our farm, but we were told to watch and act.

The wind is so strong and gusty it could take a fire anywhere!

Dad said that there were hundreds of fire fighters on the ground fighting the fire. 

A grader and bulldozer were also busy pushing up tracks to form a firebreak to try and stop the fire.

There were planes and helicopters dropping water on the fire too.

The fire burnt 435 hectares and sadly a few sheep and cattle were caught in the fire.

There have been some terrible fires this summer.

Everything is so dry. 

There is more hot weather forecast this week followed by some storms. 

Fingers crossed we stay lucky.

And hopefully very soon we get some rain to cool things down!