These are the cows that Hayden and I’ve been feeding. There is nothing better than seeing your stock grab huge mouthfuls of hay and slowly chopping away, their eyes half shut. It’s the look of contentment!

It’s also a great way to know the hay you’ve made, is good, sweet hay that the stock will eat.

Sometimes, if there has been heaps of rain while making the hay, the moisture can effect the quality of hay, but by the way these girls are hoeing in, looks like it’s good hay!

I love shifting stock. It’s great fun just slowly wondering them down the laneway to the paddock or yards. It’s where I do a lot of my planning for writing and because I’m outside, right in middle of my inspiration.

It’s where I get most of my ‘light bulbs’ ideas. I never leave home without my scribble pad and pen and sometimes I find myself writing whole chapters in longhand.

The best thing about these laneways, is that I don’t really have to watch the stock.

They make there own way and because they are guided by the fences on either side of them, they keep walking, and I keep scribbling, until they reach an open gate and in they go!

Of course, the boss, (woof on wheels) Rex keeps an eye on me and lets me know if I’m not noticing something I should. Oh and by the way, Rexy is wearing a muzzle because we produce prime lambs.

If a dog accidentally bites the sheep on the hock, it downgrades the quality of the carcase. It’s not nice for sheep either!

Our dogs don’t bite anything (sheep, cattle or humans, in fact they’re more likely to lick you death than anything!) but they all wear muzzles so there’s no chance that they could slip up.

Well, guess what? there’s been more rain! Another 30 or so mm’s… really not sure what is going on with the season: at times it’s disheartening. But there’s always silver linings and this one is one of them!

We planted this sorghum crop about eight weeks ago and it has had the best start imaginable.

Harvest has been held up and today is a great time to make the most of the showery weather and spread some urea. That’s a fertiliser which is going to make this fodder crop grow fast and furiously.

Sorghum can be harvested as a summer crop, but as Anthony and my main interest is stock, with a little cropping on the side, we are growing it for food for the animals and sometime soon, we’ll put some stock into it.

They’ll now be able to enjoy green grass during the dry of summer.