Spring..??

We had two days of spring sunshine after the flooding storms of last week when we got 70mm of rain in two days.

For the first time in many years I felt pleased to feel the sun on my skin and a small part of me actually felt happy about the approaching warmer days. Here in South Australia, winters just don't last for long enough, in my opinion. Oh yes, like everyone else, I love Spring, but that sneaky Summer plonks herself in the middle of Spring. Uninvited.  Too soon. Spoiling everything with relentless heat and dryness. This year however, winter is lingering on and on. It must be driving some folks mad, but not me.

Two days were spent in the garden, which had been neglected for the past couple of weeks while we were busy with bee workshops and all things bees.
The raspberry patch has sent up lots of new plants, so some went into pots and out to the Farmgate shop where they disappeared in one day.

At last I found positions for these hollow logs that I rescued from the firewood heap.  With succulents in them they add interest to some bare spots in the garden.

These five goslings are two weeks old and hadn't seen any sun until three days ago. 

I think I forgot to tell you that I decided to let Lavender dry off three weeks ago.  She wasn't enthusiastic about  coming into the dairy for the past few weeks and her milk supply was becoming less each day. Her due calving date is in mid December, so it's time she had a spell.
To be honest, I got really fed up with walking up to the top of this hill every afternoon to bring her down to the dairy. That's our home and the all the sheds down there at the bottom of the hill.
After more than three years of  milking two cows, managing their calving times so that we always had a cow to milk, I feel like a big part of my day has been given back to me. OK, that's the advantage, BUT, there's no milk, cream or making cheese. Milk from the shop is different. That's all I'll say on that matter.
So the pattern of my days is different now, for awhile, but the bee keeping part of life has taken over for the next few months, so the timing really couldn't be better.

Relocating a hive of bees that had taken up residence in a possum box. 

We brought the possum box home with us and used it for a project to work on at one of the  bee-keeping workshops.

Wild and wet weather is here again, daylight saving has begun, and summer feels a long way off in the distance.

I'm packing my tiny bag and will fly to Victoria on Wednesday morning to spend a couple of weeks with my favorite little girls. 

So you won't see me  here for awhile. My days will be full with walks to the park, stories being told, books being read to little girls who's arms will be entwined around Granny's leg or neck.  

I'm a very spasmodic blogger, but Jembella Farm on Facebook always has the latest of what's happening here and further afield if you ever want to go across and have a peek. As my attention span is so short, always dashing off to another something, I can snap a picture and post it there while I'm in the middle of the paddock, or up to my elbows in flour in the kitchen. 

Hmmm.... I'm still waiting for that slower kind of life to appear. 

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