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GOOD MORNING MONDAYS LINK PARTY

GOOD MORNING MONDAYS #28

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Here we are another week gone by and we are speeding towards May.  May is such a lovely month, winter is coming and hopefully some rain, the nights are really cooling off and the days can be bright and sunny or blurry with rain, either way they are good.

Welcome back to another Good Morning Mondays Link Up. I hope you have all had a good week and that you will face this week remembering to focus on God first and other stuff second.

I have had a quiet week at home, and didn’t achieve any of the sewing I wanted to do, but we did get all our school work and music practice done.

Our younger two children are playing a duet in the local eisteddfod in 5 weeks and they have worked hard to get the music together. We achieved this and now they are working at perfecting it and listening to each other. It sounds just wonderful and when I work it out I will put it up here for you all to see.

The children picked some more tomatoes and I did notice some more out there today so they will pick them tomorrow but I don’t know how many more we will get, but we will pick them happily.

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The were quite a few red ones and a bowl of green ones that I hope will turn red. They look good anyway.DSC_1306We spent some time with our friends Mr and Mrs H this past week, enjoying a quick meal together before the men had a meeting. I then sat with Mrs H and we chatted away for a few hours.

We discussed everything from schooling (she was a teacher) to cooking and recipes. She generously lent me some games that she had made years ago for her class that encourages reading and memory work. The children were excited when we brought the box inside and I am sure they are going to enjoy them this week.

They are going to join us for tea later this week on their way home from Mr H’s specialist appointment. Please remember them in your prayers as they face more testing, and scans.

We have had roaming piglet problems this past week and they seemed to always head for the main road. We had numerous drivers stop in to tell us and we finally managed to corral them all and get them sorted. This did take all of us out there standing in strategic places to stop them getting out.  They are now happy and settled with their mothers and are secure in their pen.

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Here they are having a good feed, I just love the way that stack in.

It’s been quite a cold weekend but my husband was able to get some work done on his work vehicle and the children were able to give him a hand, feeding wires etc.
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There seems to be a great pleasure that comes from helping Dad out and being with him.

Okay that’s enough, onto the link up.

Our top three posts this week were…

thmb5533fb8c29cb0Predator Control by The Farmer’s Wife at Grace Garden and Homestead
thmb55340814e50b34 Simple Steps to Stress-Free Homemaking by Morning Motivated Mom
thmb55341870a5117Room by room: The hallway by Jo at Stop…have a chat

and my personal favourite…

thmb5534f4a9918d3How Full Is Your Grace Tank? by Nicki at Showered in Grace

Thank you to everyone for stopping by and linking up, I really appreciate it and enjoy reading your posts.

This week coming is another quiet one for me and I am determined to get some sewing done and I am going to take some advice from Tracy at Our Simple Homestead and her Step by Step Cleaning Routine to try and keep the house in order. This was a great post and gave some great advice.

I hope you all have a great week and that God really blesses you all. May you be able to focus on Him and give your heart over to Him daily.


Pig Diary

DOWN ON THE FARM – PIGLET UPDATE

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Our piglets are a few weeks old now and I thought it was time to show you some more photos of the little darlings !!!

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Here are half of them trying to get a feed. When the mother is finished with them (not the other way round) she sits up and tucks her teats underneath her.

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The piglets are a little hard to contain at the moment as they are small enough to get through the panels on their pen.

They enjoy roaming around and seem to do this on mass. When one goes all go.  They wander quite a way too.

I am just glad that they are not into digging up our back lawn yet!!

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Here are the bigger ones in the pen behind. There is going to be a big butchering day hopefully later this month, so our freezer will be full of sausages again.

My husband is keen to make bacon and do some curing / drying of meat, so I will keep you updated on how that goes.

Until next time….

Pig Diary

MORE NEW ARRIVALS…

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They have arrived all 23 of them. Yes our two sows had 23 piglets between them. Wow what a blessing.

My husband had noticed that both sows had gone missing yesterday (Tuesday) morning and so when he got home in the afternoon the young children and himself went on a pig hunt.

They found them at the far end of our property under some trees and both of them had farrowed.

Amazing the timing that they both had piglets within hours of each other. Any way they couldn’t stay out in the paddock as there isn’t much feed there and we wanted to look after the sows now that there were heaps of hungry little ones to feed.

Proverbs 27:23 Know well the condition of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds.

So they lured the sows with a bucket of grain and walked them back to near our house in our old vegetable garden.

DSC_1049Here they are getting stuck into the grain, they licked the trough clean. You can see how dry it is, and how little feed there is in the paddocks. We had rain overnight, thank you Lord, so hopefully we will see this continue and some new growth start.

Then my husband went up with the children in his Rodeo and caught all the piglets and put them in the back and brought them home.DSC_1047Here they all are snuggled together in the back of the ute.  They are so cute at this stage (but believe me it wears off once they start getting adventurous).

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Once the mothers heard them squeal it was all on to get them out of the ute and into their new paddock. Then the mothers had to sort out who was who’s. Really!!! they all look alike!!!

DSC_1053After my husband made them a new shelter and gave them heaps of grass hay to settle into, we let them be.

No 2 son (7 years old) was given the responsibility to look after them and make sure the trough was filled with water. He was so excited that this was his job and he was going to be the pig man about the place. He was up at 5.30 am this morning to check on them, but I persuaded him to wait until it was daylight and to go back to bed for another hour or so.

These arrivals has really put the pressure on to butcher the ones we still have so that will be our job over the next month or so when the weather cools down a bit more.