Days 356 to 365 of 2025

 Catch up to tidy up the year - 

Day 356 of 2025 —

Life on the farm continues - with no rain during December, the pastures are rapidly drying out and the cows will need some extra feed. Time to bring bales home from our runoff (where we harvested) and buy in some from the neighbour.

Day 357 of 2025 —

Lured into the shed, and then to the loading ramp and onto the trailer; the last (milk) feed for these four. Then out to the runoff to graze in peace for the next few years!

Day 358 of 2025 —

Trying to get myself organised for Christmas Day!

Day 359 of 2025 —

A delicious Christmas lunch at ED's.

Day 360 of 2025 —

In 40 years of marriage, I have never seen my husband iron a shirt!!!
Needs Must!

Day 361 of 2025 —

A wonderful day spent celebrating Mum's life.

Day 362 of 2025 —

A Small Boy in a Big Chair!

Day 363 of 2025 —

Prior to Christmas, ED shared photos of how Christmassy her Hoya were looking, with lots of plants and flowers blooming red and white all over her work (consult) rooms...... We arrived home to see one (only) flower...sort of looking Christmassy but a bit too pink really. 

Day 364 of 2025 —

Cousin time

Day 365 of 2025 —

A cute way to end the year!
McGeorgeous is now well settled into our family. Still shy with strangers (disappears under the house) but comfortable in the house and with the rest of us.

This blog fell apart a bit after Mum died, but thank you so much for following it during 2025 while I documented (mostly) our lives - mostly farm and family.

I want to concentrate on my main blog this year as I have many undocumented sews and things to share.

Who knows, I could be back here one day :-)
[*Joanne* and *Sharon* are continuing on with their photo-a-day blogs.]

'til next time
Happy 2026

Raewyn

Day 353 of 2025

Testing out the shiny new concrete....the 80 beef boys that I reared all waiting to go to their new farm.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn

Day 351 of 2025

When both projects I want to work on have cats sleeping on them...........

(So what do I do? Start a third project?!)

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 350 of 2025

Yaay - and now it's just these four babies that need feeding!

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn 

Day 345 of 2025

Finally we got the last 16 calves in for their pre-weaning 'sort out'.

And in 4 days time I'll be just feeding the smallest four!

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 343 of 2025

Up early to get the cows in for milking.

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 340 of 2025

 
Another rural scene from a part of the farm I don't usually photograph.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn

Day 339 of 2025

— A day of highs and lows for two cats —

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 338 of 2025

The beginning of another beautiful day.

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 337 of 2025

The cows just keep on walking until they find an open gate.

After morning milking.

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 334 of 2025

Hehe look at these two buddies, scritching on their poles in unison!

(Also, see how the kids arrange toys for the cats to play with!)

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 331 of 2025

Yes, I'm still feeding calves!

Just 16 to go.....here they are waiting for me to open the gates and give them some milk!!

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 329 of 2025

The two big bulls resting it up.

They've been on holiday since January!

Little do they know that our Artificial Mating (with a technician) is coming to an end and in less than 24 hours they'll be with the cows, finishing up mating for us.

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 327 of 2025

Happy cows after their afternoon milking.

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 323 of 2025

A driving day today and no photos from that.

Luckily a kitten was being cute and using his cat blanket when I got home!

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn

Day 312 of 2025

We've borrowed some sheep off the neighbour to tidy the orchard up.

It's always a pleasure to watch his dogs work with the sheep.

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 311 of 2025

 
There's a mob of calves in there somewhere.......

........ahhh there they are —

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 310 of 2025

I let the youngest calves out into the paddock and they enjoyed a good run!

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 308 of 2025

The calf shed is really emptying out now, as calving has finally finished!

(We had a false end to calving, when all the herd had calved, but then a cow labelled as empty and out the back took us by surprise and calved!)

These are the five youngest ones.

I'm still feeding calves out on the farm but as we wean more and more, those mob sizes are decreasing too :-)

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 306 of 2025

Early morning feed time.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn