http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz Living the dream Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:45:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ The new year is here and now is the time to take stock of the old and reflect on what may or may not need changing. First the unavoidable, the schoolwork. We managed to finish up all our themes from last year and so will be starting a new theme when ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2010/01/out-with-the-old/ About 4 weeks ago we got our new batch of pigs. Two Large Black male weaners whom we named Laurel and Hardy. How lovely for me yesterday, Bevan got up and did all the morning chores, while I just lingered in bed and read a book. Can't remember the last time ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2009/12/laurel-and-hardy-have-an-adventure/ This year I decided to spend money to save in the long run. So instead of buying rolls and rolls of wrapping to just be thrown out after christmas, I decided to start making gift bags. I started out making just a couple for Bevans birthday, and went on to make ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2009/12/no-more-wrapping-paper/ With all the rain we got over Winter it was painfully obvious that we needed a floor on the milking bay.  This would solve at least two problems - the cows would no longer be knee deep in mud while we (ie. Sharon) were trying to milk, and they would ... http://www.dreamforthree.co.nz/2009/09/enhancing-the-milking-bay/