The days are warm and sunny and the nights are still cool enough to have the fire on. It is heaven! Except spring is busy season. So much to do after a long and very wet winter. The wettest winter in Tasmania in fifty years actually.
We have another baby lamb. Ruby's sheep Butter gave birth, also to twins last week. We lost one of her twins as well sadly, but all is good with each surviving twin and we are hoping to have more twins next year.
The shearer came today and they were all shorn so they are all white and clean and pretty. Ruby named her baby Jesse, the husband of the lady who Dustin named his lamb after. So now my herd of sheep has grown to five and I have three more bags of wool to wash, card, dye and felt... or spin if I ever learn how to use the spinning wheel given to me by a neighbor friend last year.
I have tulips growing in my apple orchard and I am so proud of them. It is amazing how long they last in comparison to picked tulips you buy in a florist. The white ones have been in flower for weeks and are still looking good.
I grew red, white, pink and a deep burgundy colour tulips. The red ones opened before they actually grew tall. I don't know why that happened. Then the white and then the pink and now the burgundy ones are opening up.
I planted thirteen apple trees during the winter in this new orchard. They are all different varieties. It is kind of like a sample orchard. To see what grows well and what we like the most. The first to flower was the crab apple which I bought to help pollinate the others and also because they are so pretty. In fact, I have four other crab apple trees in my front and back yard just because they are petty in spring.
Under all the apple trees I have red, white and pink flowers, strawberries, thyme and some ground covers.
Last week I had a truck load of mulch delivered. Wood chips actually, from a friend who owns a tree trimming and removal business.
The wood chips are a lovely golden colour an smell great. The kids and I go out every day and spread a little more around and we have almost finished. You can see how badly we need them when you look at how thick the grass is on the other side of the fence. A few more days of shovelling and we'll be done.
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