Farm stuff........

Lots of bits............

Saturday every place we went there were water problems.............this was the biggest mess.............the cattle had got into the house yard and busted some pipes............and then they had a great time playing in the muddy water.......

While I was waiting for Mr Chooky to load something on the truck I was looking at this silo and thinking there is no way they would build silos like this now days with these sorts of steps........but I thought they were pretty cool........

we've had lots of BBQ lunchs on the weekends............

I grill some vegies too.........one day was steak another marinated chicken............

Sunset......

a real treat on Saturday night was a ring around the moon..........if you look closely it barely fitted into the photo.......but in the sky it was huge and so clear.........

last night I finally busted the echidna that I knew was wandering around.........here he was hiding under the shrubs...........

when I woke at 4am I could hear a little lamb bleating yesterday morning...........It sounded like a tiny lamb.........how I could hear it so well I knew it had to be close but where from................

Anyway once i got up i looked out and could not see anything..........

But as I was about to leave for work I could hear it bleating again and I finally found it..................look see right there at the Chookshed gateway........sitting on the path in the sun.............

so cute...........so new.......not cleaned up (licked clean by Mum) properly but dry..........

here it is tonight next to Baa..........Baa has grown so much and was having bunting games with the calves when I got home tonight...........I thought the calves were being mean to Baa but no Baa was being the bossy one and also trying to jump up onto the calves with no luck.........

I've had regular double yokers being laid by the chooks..........tonight though someone must be in a bad way as look at the massive gooey thing............whats inside resembles an egg or several.........it was dark so not sure if one of the chooks is dead now but if they are not dead then they sure would not be feeling too good tonight after laying that........

Catch you later.............

Chookyblue..........

The pets......

Finally I have some pics of the 4 babies together that you can see much better.............

just getting them onto the feeder.............much quicker gets them all done together...........Moo is on the right.......Herry 2nd from the left...........other two no names still..........

an early start to help with some mustering.................

That all went fine until the cows arrived............we ended up getting the cows away.............

Had a bit of a road block on the way to town work.........

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....

Shit happens.....

I actually don't feel like I am stuck in a rut at the moment I feel like it is a crater...........there is so much going on..........varying from very ordinary to really crap..............losing a special family member too..........

yesterday the Stock agent was looking at some of our stock...........

Sadly today we loaded these babies plus more onto a truck and they were sold...............there goes our income for the next 12 months for less they 1/2 of what we would get later.........beside the fact we would be keeping some of the heifers (girls) as breeders but things are pretty bad here as i have mentioned............there mums are not doing so well so if you take the calves away there food needs drop quite a lot.............

Also going today which I have mixed emotions about are the poddies from last year............we have kept a couple of heifers hopefully for future milkers..........sad to see them go they are so quiet and some like a pat BUT the 2 biggest ones keep jumping the back fence and getting into the garden..............they garden is pretty bad at the moment with lack of water but seriously the "pruning" and "fertilizing" they were doing was too much.......

We've only had just on 3 inchs for the year so far............

thats for 7 months..............

our average rainfall is 21-22inchs..........

Funny thing is that Goatie aka Black Betty and Lamby think they are cows and went to the yards and spent the night in the yards with the cattle..........they were so funny.........sorry about the terrible pic.......lucky they still have a few friends...............

anyway no need to comment I really don't have much time to answer and its all to miserable anyway..........

Some of these posts are really for my records but it is also giving people a glimpse of life on the land..........

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....

Droving..............

A few weeks ago I traded places with one of my brothers..........swapped cattle for cattle..........instead of being in the yards pregnancy testing and mustering I was on the road droving..........

long time readers of my blog would know I have spent many days on the road droving..........but this was just a one off day............

and whiling away the hours besides keeping the cows in line I did some stitching...........that is until you get too grotty..............Baby wipes are my friend......

Just some pics from the day playing with my camera.............

playing with my macro lens......

Swapped utes with my brother........he had a chair in so I got to sit out in the sun for awhile.........it was a glorious day..........pretty still...........i got a block finished but I can't find the photo of it and another block.........

long straight roads......plenty of these in my neck of the world..........

amazing skies.........

a couple of dogs........if only  I could remember their names maybe they would have been useful.......

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

How to move a mob of cows..............

this is the reason why we had to move the cows urgently...........

another buggered dam..........those  mud flats are gut deep on the cattle...........

the water in the middle is not much at all..........just a thin layer on the top..........

Put a bale of hay on the back of the ute...............

hungry cows come from all directions.............

they followed me all the way into the paddock..........

they try and eat before i have even cut the bale to put it out..........

Look at all the mud on there  legs..........even the calves........

bits of hay flies around and it looks a bit like snow of there heads........

Then finally the cows in the paddock that you joined them with get the news foods on and they come running from way down in the paddock too............

Some of the kids belted galloways............

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

Tonne......

I loaded 1/2 of this and I unloaded all of it on my own..........and that is about 1 tonne.......yippee.......lightest 16kg and the bags 25kg............

lets think of it as my weight training.........

these are all the lick blocks/feed supplements for the cows and sheep.............like I said in the last post I wrote about them its like their vitamin and mineral supplements............workout done and dusted well before lunch.........

feeding the poddies..............

it's hard to get a decent photo of them when they are hungry........

Here I am with some of the neighbours waiting for a car rally..........

Here comes the first car............

more coming thru the creek............

some stopped and had some cake with us but they were a little late as they had to do a detour............so they had to head off fast.....

We might see them again soon for a dinner............

it was -3 here this morning and the day was nice but OMG tomorrow is supposed to be 26deg..........

Enjoy your weekend.............

Catch you later......

Chookyblue.....

just another day..........

An old church in my travels..............it's interested me for years.............

still standing which is amazing without care............

Still has a metal cross emblem above the front door.............

Late again coming home...............but so worth it when you get views like this one.............I had to stop and take a photo.............

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....

Bible Verses for This Do, Remember Me

This Do, Remember Me

by George W. Frazer

"This do, remember Me":
O blessed, living Lord,
What depths of grace we now can trace
In that most precious word!

About Jesus in Luke 22:19-20 And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, �This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.� And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, �This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood."

When darker grew Thy path,
When o'er Thee loom'd the cross,
With nought down here Thy heart to cheer,
Thou didst remember us.

Jesus said in John 12:27 �Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, �Father, save Me from this hour�? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.� Then a voice came out of heaven: �I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.� So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, �An angel has spoken to Him.� Jesus answered and said, �This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes. Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.� But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.

"This do, remember Me":
The sword about to wake,

Prophesy about Jesus in Zechariah 13:7 �Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the man, My Associate,� declares the Lord of hosts. �Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered; and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Thy sweat as blood upon the stood
When Thou the cup didst take.

About Jesus in Luke 22:44 And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.

John 18:11 So Jesus said to Peter, �Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?� 

There on the altar bound
Wast Thou that night of woe,

Hebrews 9:11-12 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

When man's dark hour and Satan's pow'r
Their deepest gloom did throw.

Isaiah 53:7-8 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth; like a lamb that is led to slaughter, and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, so He did not open His mouth. By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

"This do, remember Me":
Oh, deep desire of love
As round Thy soul those waves did roll -
The wrath of God above.

Psalm 88:7 Your wrath has rested upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

Romans 3:23-26 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Made sin upon the tree,
What blackness veiled the sky -

Mark 15:33 When the sixth hour [noon] came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

What torrents, dread, bowed low Thy head
As Thou for us didst die.

John 19:30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, �It is finished!� And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

"This do, remember Me":
Oh, what a savor sweet
For God above - for man, what love -
In all Thy work complete!

Jesus said to God the Father in John 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. 

Now gathered round Thyself
With heart and conscience free,

Matthew 18:20 For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.�

1 Corinthians 11:27-32 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep. But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world. 

O Lord, once dead, our living Head,
We do remember Thee.

Colossians 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, �This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.� In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, �This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.� For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord�s death until He comes. 

Bible Study Bookmarks

Free Printable Bookmark with Bible Study Suggestions

Have you ever felt overwhelmed when you read the Bible?  With so much to look for, you don't know where to start.  If you want a bookmark that can remind you how to find helpful observations from Scripture, here is a free printable.

The concepts are based on the book Living By The Book by Howard G. Hendricks and William D. Hendricks.  That book is great for understanding how to explore God's Word.  It gives pointers on the different types of observations you can make, the methods of properly interpreting the message, and how to apply it to your theology and life.

I've used a much plainer version of this in my Bible and for my Sunday School students in the past. However, I redesigned it so that it would be easier to scan it and quickly remember the ideas you learned.

This bookmark can be used on its own, but it is best used as a review of Living By The Book by Howard G. Hendricks and William D. Hendricks.

Click here to print the bookmark.  They are in a pdf and download three to a page and should be printed double sided on card stock. I also recommend using a guillotine paper cutter if you have one available.