http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz Living the dream Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:10:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This event has been in the planning stages for almost a year.  Today, after nearly two months of eager anticipation, Gemma (or Gem for short) has finally joined our menagerie. We first met Gemma when she was just four weeks old - very cute even then, as you can see from ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2011/08/gorgeous-gemma-joins-jack/ Yesterday was the day of for everything to happen. My car was getting a new motor, hopefully no more oil leak. Richard has very kindly offered to put it in for us, and even found us a very good deal on the now one. Thank you Richard. Our new little piglets were ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/11/it-all-happens-at-once/ It is freezing cold today, we have even had hail which is unusual for this time of the year. Anyway it is a good day do an update. Quite alot of things have happened here lately and although I have been meaning to come here and tell all about it, time ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/10/a-quick-update/ Yesterday afternoon, the first lamb arrived, and not from the ewe we thought would be first. A tiny little ewe lamb that failed to stand and so didn't get her first feed, or any other feed from mum. After about an hour I decided that intervention was going to be needed, ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/08/and-so-it-begins/ This winter has seen me needing to recover from a couple of injuries that have kept me a little limited in what I do. One was a broken rib and the other was a sprained hand. Both these injuries restricted what I was able to do outside, so I have been ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/07/being-creative-while-recovering/ Remember our first calf Liquorice, well he has grown up to be a lovely big boy. From this very cute lad - OK so he was always a big boy.To this boy. He spent the summer over the fence with the neighbours cows, talking to mama over the fence, and ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/06/all-grown-up/ My friend Maureen in Australia organised a pattern for a Sewing Tote Stable bag to be sent over for me to make. My first attempt was pretty hopeless, I seemed to be having a bad day and the instructions required thinking about as I made it. After scraping that bag I had ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/04/my-new-sewing-bag/ This is a follow-up to The Girls Get A Visitor. It's now been a week since Mr. Ram arrived and I'm happy to say that he appears to have settled in.  He is often seen sitting or eating with the whole group of girls, instead of just one or two. http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/04/mr-ram-settles-in/ Life here has just been ticking over uneventfully, which is often how we like it to be. We are still in drought conditions so no grass, although we hope that will change soon. While we wait, I have begun and new quilt, that I have found quite captivating. It is called a ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/04/my-new-project/ After such a poor lambing season in 2008 (two survivors out of 12 lambs), we opted not to get a ram last year.  Needless to say, this resulted in some reasonably fat sheet! This year we decided to take the plunge again, borrowing a ram for a few weeks.  Unlike 2008, ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/04/the-girls-get-a-visitor/