Lucky Us

How lucky are we? Tonight the family teamed up to give the MOML and I the afternoon's chores off so we could watch a special hockey game.

YD has worked hard and in the last two seasons, has made the Womens Premier grade team for her club. This year her team made the finals and tonight was the night of the big game.

Son-in-law took over in the shed, and son was in the calf shed, so we showered and sped up the drive before anyone could change their mind!

It was a great game but sadly the final score did not for our way -

ED and family were there too. Miss Lily decided she needed a selfie with Ganma -

And was mesmerised with her wee cousin Isobel -

Rounded off with a nice meal in town before heading home -

We were so appreciative of being able to get away for a few hours.....we quite enjoyed our wee date!

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn

Day 21

Day 21 of my August blogpost a day challenge

Just a quick post tonight as it's been busy day.

I finished stitching this Holly Jolly block this evening - 

And as I walked back to the house tonight, I spied our pile of milk powder in the shed. This is what the older calves are now drinking - it always amazes me that we get through this heap in a season -

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn

A chilled day —

Day 20 of my August blogpost a day challenge

It was a fairly relaxed sort of a day today.

We started with another frost!!! That's our third heavy one in the last few weeks; it's a bit of a record for us here in Northland!

But it morphed into a lovely day - I enjoyed my lunch in the sun —

These 30 oldest calves moved into the ranks of Big Calves today as I put them on once-a-day milk feeding. 

They're eating lots of grass now and I get the problem that if I'm feeding them twice a day, that some are full of grass,etc, that some don't drink, so the others drink too much and then they get poo-ey tails and it's a bit of a messy cycle. Easiest to put them on once a day which also encourages the grass eating. They get a more concentrated milk feed so don't lose out that way.

Anyway, that's 30 less to feed in the afternoons now - yaay!!

Our calving has really slowed down in the last week, 3 calves in 5 days I think BUT last night 8 new calvers came in so I had 8 babies to teach to feed this morning! That took a while and all of a sudden the calf shed seemed overflowing. (When it gets to 40 it starts to feel a little crowded.)

These are the new ones —

I had some lovely sewing time this afternoon. I continued on with the Summertime Quilt I chatted about yesterday; I laid out another new block and sewed yesterday's unfinished one in conjunction with the new one and got them both finished. 

The family so far —

I need 2 more of these blocks.

And I had time to tidy up a few more leader-ender HST for my as yet undisclosed quilt! Very scrappy and nice easy sewing —

Funniest tail of the season award goes to this calf —

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn