August on the farm |

Share the joy

I can’t remember ever feeling this acutely aware of the change of seasons. Perhaps it was harder to notice in the suburbs, it was more difficult to hear the birds, you never saw the baby animals or noticed the buds on the huge old trees which have been naked for the past three months. But the last week has been so full of life around here that it is impossible not to notice something brand new in every corner of the farm;

New blooms up the driveway

New blooms behind the playhouse

Bad-ass escaping chicken

I cannot be held responsible for this chickens life if she insists on running the gauntlet that is my murderous Shi-Tzu. He can only resist so much temptation.…

Louie’s other favourite past-time is barking at the loudest cows in the world. He barks, they moo. It goes on for hours AND I HATE IT but it is 100x better than listening to boy racers.

Lou is looking super stylee in his fluro orange, chenille knitted sweater, Mum bought it for lil Marl but she said it was too big, hmmmmm

The King of all Dogs - this one should be on a calendar

If he was an entertainer, he might be the construction worker from the Village People

"no-body's gonna break my stride, no-body's gonna slow me down oh no I've got to keep on moving!" - I could totally see him mouthing the words to that song as he was pulling his ears back for more speed

Fine then. You wont smile - I'll MAKE you smile

Ethan is having a few problems with Louie at the moment, basically stemming from the fact that Lou is a dog and Ethan WANTS to be a dog. It’s like reverse-racism, or species-ism I guess. Ethan loves dogs so much he just wants to be one and I guess Louie just isn’t living the dream as much as Ethan thinks he should be;