Archive for October, 2009

I’ve Just Come Back From A Great Weekend

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

I really love my weekends away, I treasure them and look forward to them all the time.

But now it’s all done, my weekend I mean. And it was a great weekend? I loved it, though getting up quite so early was a little hard. Way too early for me to enjoy.

I got up at around 6 am, really early for me. It was very dark and it felt like the middle of the night. Wow was it hard to get myself out of that bed, but I got out because I knew that I had a good weekend to look forward to, and I did.

I had to get going on time to meet the other people, so I picked up my friend as faast as I could. But it took quite a while to get all his stuff packed into the car, we were stuffing things into every space we could find in the car.

And by the time we got there it was raining which was quite annoying. And we’ve had such good weather over the last few weeks to have it raining the same weekend that I go away is pretty annoying, but there’s nothing you can do about it is there? What can you do about weather really?

And when you’re camping in a tent the last thing you want to have is rain. Rain is the worst thing because when something gets wet it’s wet for the whole time unless it gets warmer again. Luckily the rain was heavy but when we were putting up our tent it eased off a little. Some good luck at least. And it was a long drive in the rain.

And along the way there were new speed limits and so we had to go slower than we would have liked which was annoying. (more…)

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If You Love The Outdoors You Have To Have A Boat.

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

I love the outdoors and get out whenever I can. I have a boat.

Just a small aluminum boat, about 10 feet long. Its got its own trailer so I can tow it behind the car, I don’t need to put it on the roof of the car.

Last week was the kids school holidays to I took may family, including my kids, away for a few days. 5 days actually at a small resort about 5 hours drive away. Unfortunately there was a really strong wind and heavy rain when we left and I thought it was going to be a rough drive but the wind dropped and the rain stopped after about an hour, the sun came out and it turned into a pretty nice day.

And it was a really nice resort and the kids loved it a lot. So many things for kids to do there. The killer of a good holiday is bored kids, if you’ve got bored kids then they aren’t happy, and if they aren’t happy you aren’t happy. But here there was so many things to do for the kids and they had a great time.

There really isn’t anything worse than bored kids to kill a good holiday. They get really grumpy and annoy me and as I like to read a book it’s no fun being hassled by bored kids all the time, and they really hassle if they’re bored.

But no bored kids last weekend at all. There was this huge plastic thing that they could jump on and they spent hours jumping up and down on it. How they can be so entertained with something as simple as that is beyond me but they loved it and they had a great time.

And there was this huge tv for them to watch in the games room and every night there was a kids movie to watch so they loved that too, they love movies.

And of course there was a swimming pool. I can’t believe something as simple as a swimming pool keeps kids entertained for so long but it does.

But back to my boat. I took it for several reasons. Firstly because I wanted to take the boat along with us, but also because I wanted to take the kids bikes with us too, and I can’t get both the bikes into the car. But theres no problems getting 2 kids bikes into the boat. Theres stacks of room in there.

So it was really worth taking the boat along. We spent some time on the river putting up and down looking at the scenery and having a good time. We stopped and spent an hour or so having lunch while the kids ate and had a swim. And we got to sit and read a book in the sun on the river bank.

And the small lake was great too. Last summer I bought an inner tube and rope and pulled the kids around with it so I brought it along this time too and they loved it just as much. In fact it was hard to get them off it. They just wanted to spend the day there. (more…)

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Cows Can Ground You, And I Love Them.

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Cows are the most wonderful animals, I love them heaps. Cows make great pets.

They’re big yet they’re so gentle. In all the time Ive had cows I’ve never had a bad moment with them. They aren’t aggressive at all and they are even tame enough so that mykids can pat them a little, though they don’t like being patted too much, they tend to pull back when you pat them. Just pull back a little that’s all you need to do.

The best time to pat cows is when you feed them their hay. They just love their hay, and when the grass growth is getting slow because winter is coming you need to supplement their feed with hay or something else like that. I have hay.

Now that means of course  that youre committed to feeding your cows every single day of the year. Once there’s no feed left in the field then they need hay each day without fail. So you cant just go away for a few days and leave them or they starve. So youre committed to feeding cows unless you make other arrangements.

I like to feed the cows too, but I like holidays as well so when I go away I have to make some other arrangements. This is how I do it when I need to.

I have various different fields each fenced off. 7 total. So when I have plenty of grass I lock one up and leave it with the long grass in it. Then when I go away I open the gate to that one and the cows discover that the gate is open and head in there, because they may look slow buy cows aren’t.

The cows aren’t silly, they know that there’s grass in there somewhere when they look through the gate  and see it so once I open the gate they’re right in there as fast as they can.

Then when I come back I send them out of that paddock and back into the one with no grass and I start feeding them their hay again.

Right after breakfast I feed them the hay. They get 1 1/2 bales of hay every day but if it’s too cold I give them 3 bales of hay and they eat the lot. And they’re not silly, they know when feeding time is, they’re waiting right out the front of the shed for their hay, and they love it.

In fact this morning I gave them 3 bales. But it’s getting warmer soon and the grass is beginning to grow and that’s good because I don’t have a lot of hay left any more. But that’s ok because I’ve got more grass coming so I’ll have more hay soon. (more…)

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