http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com animals, permaculture and self sufficiency, queer life, community, contemporary farmer's almanac... Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i live on this farm, quietly, peacefully. i love my animals and i am happy and feel blessed to be living amongst family - queer, environmentally conscious, communal, harmonious. anyone who has been reading this blog for a while will be aware that i do not own this farm, but that ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2009/09/18/litigation-gone-mad/ It’s really damn hot. For winter, it’s hot. Too hot. Disturbingly hot. This morning I drove past a tabloid sheet that pronounced today the "hottest winter day ever". I felt every degree, arm out the window as i drove. Last time I ventured into the bigbackyard to blog I was ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2009/08/31/dry-cracked-earth-vale-miss-pretty-jumping-bulls-and-a-large-egg/ i seem to have lost track of times and seasons. there was once apparently some order to these things. wet seasons, dry seasons. i recall a year hence we were rained in for months from december through to february at least. heaps of us. going crazy but laughing alot. this ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2009/04/04/the-rain-through-the-glass-doors/ … to take care of before returning to normal programing… I’m looking for a farmhousemate. I figured this would be as good a place as any to post my needs in that regard… I’m looking for a farmhousemate Timeframe: April - earlier timeframe negotiable NOTE: I AM REALLY HAPPY TO CONSIDER SHORT TERM FARMSTAYS/URBAN ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2009/02/21/some-business/ Blogging is a strange art. To publish or not to publish? Who will be reading this and should i care? Who’d have thought that blogging about calves and gardens would create such dilemmas. And yet… here I am… having not blogged in an age, worrying about this and that. I ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2009/01/27/nearly-bran-nue/ It seems that Heavy Weather is back with a vengeance… Brisbane has been trashed by freak storms for days on end. We’ve had ceaseless rain for 2 weeks, now punctuated by blazing days with a hint of the storm to come rumbling on the horizon. Yesterday, after a very very ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2008/11/21/the-calf-nursery/ Writing this blog has been one of the most pleasurable things I have embarked upon in recent times. This began as a way to chronicle the life and times of… and also as a challenge to myself, usually a writer of obscure poetic melodrama, a challenge to write in a ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2008/11/07/life-is-change/ I’ve been feeling somewhat out of sorts, a little estranged from the sustainable living aspirations and ethics that underpin this whole life project. A little unproductive and certainly overwhelmed by the amount there is to be done, and perhaps a little immobilised by that. The Dairylad works as hard as ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2008/10/20/the-falls-in-spring/ I’ve been meaning to write an update about our herd and general goings-on in farmland, and today seems appropriate, given that our herd lost one more member today. We’ve said goodbye to Tippi, Sunny and Hinimoa, and today we said goodbye to Luka, sadly. i’ve been inside for most of the ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2008/09/25/luka-is-an-angel/  So I mentioned in the last post that Charlene has a new job. She’s still a dairylad, just changed venues. It was not a choice she would have made given different circumstances, and it was certainly nothing to do with dissatisfaction at Briarose dairy. Charlene drove the equivalent of a ... http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com/2008/09/03/the-noxious-yellow-carpet/