Meet the Bellas

Our most exciting news this post is that we have some new members of the family! Meet the two Bellas. Clarabella and Annabella our Braford heifers. They were bought from Loo's neighbour John and transported on the back of Pat's ute in a cage. They are so gorgeous and very tame. We are feeding them some dairy meal once a day to entice them to the fence so we can pat them and get them used to being near us. They are very good and after a week they are already coming over when we call them. We got them to keep the grass down in the paddocks as slashing with the tractor is too annoying.

We are also preparing to bring home some laying hens so Paul and I did some stable renovations! he he he We converted the old stable into a chook pen with a big run for them. We should have them soon.

My Vegie patch was thriving and I even managed to mulch it. But THEN.... the birds came and started feasting on my seedlings so up went the fruit nets Loo had given me. They are doing their job well for now. Hopefully in the future we'll be able to build a more permanent green house with netting to protect future plantings.

The fruit trees are all composted, fed and mulched and the banana trees cut back. Unfortunately we were a bit over zealous with the banana trees and accidently cut down one of the fruiting trees :( Hopefully the baby bananas will ripen and won't go to waste.

On the family front the girls are doing really well. Hannah loves her new school now and asks me almost everyday if today is school day. She so loves her kitty kat and treats her like a baby. Most of all she loves going to the beach in the late afternoons and running through the shore and getting totally soaked and full of sand.

Ailey is just a little cutie. She is really starting to talk more and can now dob on Hannah. he he he She can say things like "mine, push, no, Hannah" mostly all in relation to some fight they have had. It's very funny to watch Hannah's horrified expression when she realises she can't be sneaky anymore! But they are playing well together mostly and they like looking at books together in their rooms, playing with their dolly prams, playing picnics outside or just generally running and jumping around outside. Ailey thinks Hannah is hilarious most of the time and Hannah loves the adoration.

They both also are getting on very well with their cousins up here. Hannah and Annaleah go off in their own little world and play nicely most of the time although Hannah is so bossy that it nevertheless ends up in tears! Ailey LOVES Korey and Korey LOVES Ailey. They are so drawn to each other and spend most of their time together playing with the dog or the cat as they both also LOVE animals.

Finally here is one of our little tree friends who sits on our citrus trees. There are quite a few of them about and they are about an inch long. Very cute!