Creeks Up!
My driveway looks like a river as the water rushes to the creek below. The family of roos stand quietly waiting for me to pass. The creek is up, not running too fast but it is impassable.Never ...
Eagles Tales
We are blessed in having quite a few wedge tailed eagles soaring in the skies above our property. Of course the recent mouse plague has been a god send for them! After the latest flood, Dave 1 ...
A Walk in the Wild
A few days ago we drove out to a back paddock as David had noticed a tree with an unusual mass of blossom. It stood near a dry creek bed, Rocky Creek, an old tree with bunches of pink and white ...
Review of ‘I Wonder’, by Allison Paterson, Illustrations by Nancy Bevington; published by Big Sky Publishing 2021. This review is hosted by www.justkidslit.com/blog and Books on Tour ...
September 1st…Wattle Day
When I was a kid, my family went for a short holiday to the Southern Highlands, and we stayed in an old hotel. One night was set down as a fancy dress competition and parade and some families , ...
Bee Creations
Dave 2 discovered them first. While checking on the cattle, he spotted a strange shaped object hanging precariously from the trunk of a towering white barked eucalypt. On closer inspection it was ...
Monday at Thistle Farm
The wind has dropped so we pull on beanies and coats and set off to move the weaners. Dave’s two dogs are keen to work so they leap in and out of the side by side when ordered. They keep ...
Lost Child The sound of tractors and rollers grading our road this morning, made me recall an event that happened many years ago. I lost my son… We were living in a town called ...
Just an ordinary Day at Thistle Farm
Today we had quite a day! We had 3 Daves here today, Dave my hubby, Dave 2 and Dave the Driller. Dave the driller turned up to say that his bore rig was bogged. We had 13 mls last night and ...