https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding daily 0.75 2025-10-14 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2022/2/13/to-catch-a-sheep monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2022/2/13/repairs-and-maintenance monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/d3d2276c-54df-4935-89ba-68bdc6133f8e/IMG_7789.JPG Come Shepherding - Repairs and Maintenance - Make it stand out The ewe at the back was the one I treated. You can see dark wool on the top of her tail, which is where the flystrike occurred. The blue tinge is extinosad spray to kill the maggots and prevent re-strike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/e8de6abf-7290-4ac3-b2fc-b726b8625c64/IMG_7791.JPG Come Shepherding - Repairs and Maintenance - Make it stand out A trough draining. You can see the line holding the float valve and level closed, and the drain bung. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2021/5/9/lamb-etiquette monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2021/4/10/shepherding-renaissance monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1618034000039-4VS1BYEJK0KVEJMQWQ5C/Grazing+Areas+Base+Map.jpeg Come Shepherding - Shepherding Renaissance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1618034689337-WXC072RQUEBJRZ1CVW5S/IMG_6976.jpeg Come Shepherding - Shepherding Renaissance A couple of lambs cozying up to the older named sheep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1618035005833-OLO4SAK1I8R31MW96OK6/IMG_7019.jpg Come Shepherding - Shepherding Renaissance Lambs feasting on melaleuca gibbosa (slender honey myrtle) a native plant I think they knew from their birthplace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1618035308771-6M8H05CREE8LVROOGM2M/IMG_1145.jpeg Come Shepherding - Shepherding Renaissance Long grass in the Basin grazing area in January 2020 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2021/2/27/go-slow-and-wait monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2020/2/2/a-sense-of-discovery monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1580619080005-4T4Q3I3X1SR0NER0TPCC/IMG_3052.jpeg Come Shepherding - A sense of discovery Elf, Vicki and Clara following me into the quarry in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1580618687872-ARECK6MX7R44T77WBLDS/IMG_6045.JPG Come Shepherding - A sense of discovery Day 1 of the Stone Soup Circuit—moving up this narrow track bordered by gorse was nobody’s favourite part of the day. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2020/1/10/stone-soup monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578716071045-EMU2NCN7D3P2MEY4VAIE/Sheep+in+lucerne.JPG Come Shepherding - Walkabout Stone Soup A nice patch of ryegrass in the Lucerne Paddock. I think that’s Vicky gazing at me adoringly. Or not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578714344399-SVBXT3DHF4SGMKRDXX7M/Stone+Soup+%231+10-12+January+2020.001.jpeg Come Shepherding - Walkabout Stone Soup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578716179599-Y7LTTER5CPJ6H0PTB4AY/Horatio+left+behind.JPG Come Shepherding - Walkabout Stone Soup Silly old Horatio made a last minute dash for freedom, instead of following the rest of the flock through the gate. We went back and convinced him of the error of his ways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578716232392-RX00X1YXHXHHDJVKRLKH/Nan+and+Pearl.JPG Come Shepherding - Walkabout Stone Soup Pearl’s selfie when we sat down to rest after temporarily giving up trying to move the flock up the steep hill. We tried again after this, but finally gave up and went home for our own mid-day rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578716282835-0EXEXWD93JY1IGZ8Q0P9/Freddie+scratching.JPG Come Shepherding - Walkabout Stone Soup Coming out of the tree reserve this morning. That’s Freddie scratching. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2020/1/4/wgw-bushfire-plan monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578296698817-PXFIQ6ISP0TDFTH3Y3EA/Rams+Hiding+in+Old+Man+Willow+panorama.jpg Come Shepherding - WGW Bushfire Plan The rams love this cool spot under old man willow, and spend the hot part of any day, including a bad fire day, hiding here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578296861208-PEW16FFTR5R35WOVKXPV/2016+fire+panorama.jpg Come Shepherding - WGW Bushfire Plan After the January 2016 fire. The dark triangles are tree reserves, which were scorched. The gum trees have since come back, but not the softer trees and shrubs. I have funding to replace them this coming winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578196684918-ULB4HTVB8O0UA117NL23/Jan+2019+fire+water+bomb.jpg Come Shepherding - WGW Bushfire Plan Water-bombing helicopter above the January 2019 fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578297549308-E7QRP4NLR99GAZ0L2P6Q/Jan+2019+fire.jpg Come Shepherding - WGW Bushfire Plan January 2019—this one started with a dry lightning strike. I was very lucky that the aircraft and local firefighters got in under control in a short time. It burned only a couple of acres, though sadly there were about 50 5-year old trees in the reserve where it started. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578297602265-BAPFTPNXJ616KAHSZFTT/Drinking+at+the+big+waterhole.jpg Come Shepherding - WGW Bushfire Plan Getting a drink before the day gets too hot. This is the same area that burned in 2016, looking back in the direction the burn photo was taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1578297657779-95EEYS8I2J2CAVB9GQOJ/firefighting+unit.jpg Come Shepherding - WGW Bushfire Plan My wonderful firefighting unit: 1500 litres (about 400 gallons) with its own dedicated trailer, pump, generator and fire hose. Comes in hand for watering baby trees, too. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2019/10/27/strategy-for-a-very-dry-spring monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1572756076542-DUJXDVI7ERSF28SL5YIY/IMG_5659.jpg Come Shepherding - Strategy for a (very) dry spring I was pleased to find this bulbine lily today—often in dry times they just don’t show up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1572754731900-DBOVU9IWV4IWVQHZTAVC/Grazing+Areas+Base+Map.jpg Come Shepherding - Strategy for a (very) dry spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1572755759333-O8CHIS9YKTK3TVCRTDAT/Spring+2019+Sheperding+Strategy.jpg Come Shepherding - Strategy for a (very) dry spring https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2019/6/23/the-fence-that-isnt-there monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1561276018863-W38XR63J7U1PVIC1FW8L/IMG_5411.JPG Come Shepherding - The fence that isn't there Freddie crossing the fence that isn’t there. He’s got such a lot of character! Hates Pearl, and does his best to stay right next to me—him protecting me or me protecting him?—whenever she is near. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2018/9/2/tree-herder monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1535875007020-F41VOEFUTBKLF58NR9VQ/IMG_2909.JPG Come Shepherding - Tree Herder The first row. Six planting days later, we had 1600 trees, shrubs and forbs in the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1535875959521-VOLP13TPG4GQASLRB2UB/IMG_2910.JPG Come Shepherding - Tree Herder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1535876207507-NDXSF6LEJSGRPOEC3XHB/IMG_2872.jpg Come Shepherding - Tree Herder If you look closely you can see the lines of tree guards on the nearby hill. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/11/26/through-the-lens-taking-a-summer-break-from-writing monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1511657106208-NH8Y2OAEDTS515X0DUTE/DSCN0005.jpg Come Shepherding - Through the Lens: Taking a Summer Break from Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1511657141507-QAYR7FAYRA6UE2WAVJ1F/DSCN0008.jpg Come Shepherding - Through the Lens: Taking a Summer Break from Writing https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/8/20/a-suitcase-is-not-a-proper-mother monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1503195080882-K3KTJ3JEZDN9OSW7NRUN/DSCN0038.JPG Come Shepherding - A Suitcase is not a Proper Mother Zac with Robert a few days after rejoining the flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1503194677078-4M10WM7XYE7XNLHY3BCO/IMG_1802.jpg Come Shepherding - A Suitcase is not a Proper Mother Zac "leading" the flock--really just following mama suitcase--from the Grass Gully into White Gum Wood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1503274674016-UNA8H3NUWPSKRAI15XLO/Three%2Bsuitcases%2Bexp.png Come Shepherding - A Suitcase is not a Proper Mother https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/7/30/kindergarden-for-zac monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501398172135-1RGBA3VIVGA1RGY5BQTO/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Kindergarden for Zac https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501398385007-L039WEQ968Q28A9CIRGJ/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Kindergarden for Zac Looking longingly up the hill--Clara is hiding Zac--you can just see his left ear. Johannes is having a chew on my pack, which I had to rescue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501398559459-UL0LXFM0AGKUVYXYGWNO/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Kindergarden for Zac At the yards, where I left them about 9 am. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501398622135-E4CKVP92714UUOSLZNYA/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Kindergarden for Zac Back with the flock. Zac is following me to the gate, Clara is just behind him, Elf is peeking out two sheep back from Clara, on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501398831127-8UTT569ANP9WKZR38FFN/IMG_1779.jpg Come Shepherding - Kindergarden for Zac During our break, Zac had the effrontery to drink from the dogs' water bowl and try to cozy up, first, to Jane, then Chance. Chance is doing his "I don't see you, therefore you don't exist" thing. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/7/23/highway-reserve-south monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1500777155562-9LERHIFJCFH60QLU83JJ/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Highway Reserve, South https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/7/16/the-mysterious-ailment monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1500190276717-78U63QJKPYDTIZDZYQ14/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - The Mysterious Ailment In the yards--you can see yellow tag 006 at the back, with her newly-grown white coat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1500190422513-D8CCS3JUUM2JHRPVDTBS/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - The Mysterious Ailment Heading out into the fresh grass of White Gum Wood. Delighted to be out of those blessed yards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1500190542753-H50BSK4SRHN6LB97DD96/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - The Mysterious Ailment Yesterday was much nicer weather, and Mr Davey, retired stockman, came out for a visit. That's Table Mt in the background, where Davey's family lived when he was growing up. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/7/9/winter-shepherding monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1499573912548-7UYMO9KD9H2JU1BFCNF2/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Winter Shepherding Heading across the steep hill in the Basin. Lots of luscious weedy forage here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1499573971615-AKRW41TX94QO0EAFTXHQ/IMG_1708.jpg Come Shepherding - Winter Shepherding Jeff (The Virginian) looking very handsome (and fully aware of it!) https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/4/30/zac monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1493530627894-WRBK1C12MPLA44KM9KV0/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Zac! That's Zac lying down at the top of the flock, behind a grass tussock. I paraded the whole lot of them past him, and no one claimed him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1493530756255-8BJE6APQYVIET1X6AQGW/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Zac! This isn't Zac--it was a simultaneous emergency. While I was watching to see if Zac's mama was going to step up, I heard another lamb calling from well behind me. He was stuck on the wrong side of a fence, so I doubled back to get him out the gate, mercifully nearby. He knows his mama is right up there calling him. The other emergency that happened in this same 40 minutes was spotting a fly-struck ewe. It's been 8 weeks since I jetted, and the weather has been incredibly mild--no serious frosts, even, so we're still at risk of flystrike. Happily, I managed to get her into the yards and treated, without much drama (after taking Zac home and getting him settled). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1493530988598-0TW1W151MTY1J02QRC7H/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Zac! Zac's first selfie, earlier today. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/4/16/easter-lambykins monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492308641268-660PM0C00DHCFRGU80XS/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Easter Lambykins A small "nursery" flock, with lambs perhaps 24-48 hours old. If you look on the ground in front of the she-oak tree, you'll see a group of ravens. With extra adult supervision, and well and truly on their feet, these babies are not at risk from the predator birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492308792137-20L475FEHF8F0GENU4GK/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Easter Lambykins A wedge-tailed eagle taking off when I startled him. He was feeding on a lamb carcass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492308937689-PS9ES6UCG7DKOA6G5RCC/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Easter Lambykins Eagles and ravens compete for food, and it's common to see a flock of ravens harrying wan eagle in the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492309026750-TYILQ8HUVKVFHIYYOAML/Eagle%27s+eye+view--Easter.jpg Come Shepherding - Easter Lambykins Sort of an eagle's eye view of the flock in long grass--taken from the top of the Grass Gully. At the top of the image, a lamb stands out quite well--white against the dry grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492309132589-0472LU6ZL865BVEFA6VC/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Easter Lambykins Safe and relaxed with mama and other sheep close by. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/4/9/lamb-surveillance-the-video-game monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1491695768740-ZG1F3CQ00NNXHCJK9IYA/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance: the Video Game https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1491695015946-ZSRVVI4N9F0EVHSPK5B8/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance: the Video Game The nursery flock--three of five. The other two are on the hill to the right of these. While the ewes tend to go off by themselves or with one or two friends to lamb, within 24 hours or so, they'll join the "nursery flock"--all mamas and babies (and best friends) for a few days, until the babies are strong enough to keep up with flock movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1491695109832-MBUI680ENL7QT2SYW647/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance: the Video Game The main flock on the hill. Because they were spread out so far across the hill, I couldn't sneak around on the left, as I often do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1491695133219-03DKIPJNJ6Q3Y3E9MHAU/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance: the Video Game Ewe with new lamb on the flat. She was NOT happy with me watching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1491695164811-WVK0ED1ZQ9KVKVCMJJ1V/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance: the Video Game Just born, on the rocky traverse that I often use to sneak around behind the flock. Oops! back up fast! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1491695339046-WWKSRVTVFZPCSFRIPHJ5/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance: the Video Game Fence line comparison--my paddock on the left. It's been very dry, and the effects of overgrazing are apparent all across the countryside. A good argument for keeping the numbers down! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1491695398958-HKFWJRI24MNF1XCOU1DU/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance: the Video Game A pair of juvenile flame robins near the main yards on my way home. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/3/26/lamb-surveillance monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1490514924927-7GPKCZHR6QCV06SLFS9V/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance The adventuresome laddie, watching me watching him. The ewe above isn't his mama--she has her own baby tucked away up there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1490515049662-RS7BDEB04Z52X938SVKE/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance This ewe was tracking me from long telephoto range, in an arc of 180 degrees as I worked to get around her without disturbing her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1490515133148-D04084TAL0HB37HH9FNT/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance This little one was only a few hours old. It'll take him weeks to grow into his ears. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1490515189459-U5LIQZRMD1FXI1X8RNNK/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Lamb Surveillance The only set of twins so far. They are now travelling, and resting, with the flock. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/3/19/born-into-long-grass monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489912048597-T0A1TRFFR2LV2H7PG3SP/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Born into Long Grass This ewe looking back alerted me to the two lambing ewes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489912102206-FT6ENW114L1DPUOZMXK2/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Born into Long Grass You probably can't see the two greyish humps in the gully below the rock pile. If you click on the photo, you may be able to make them out. This is the level of challenge I'm facing, as are the new lambs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489912229210-5QYXY10ENTV06AKFQ1KS/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Born into Long Grass Sheep's eye view of the eastern gate from the Grass Gully into White Gum Wood, before mowing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489912273566-7VM9EJQAHZ9V8CH71KN3/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Born into Long Grass ...and after mowing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489912327977-36EPZMU14U5FEK4JFWF7/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Born into Long Grass The Polaris with the little slasher behind it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489912401995-J8S9517QW5ECYTKOML8M/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Born into Long Grass https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/3/5/is-it-time-yet monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488689970702-GHDXKN3A2GDK4JJ1JM5U/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Is it time yet? Heading into the Back Gully. They made their way surprisingly quickly through the dense grass. They must be getting used to it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488690830886-D9FIZVB2DMLIYOAVKN7M/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Is it time yet? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488690148234-WO6KUG335EIQWABD19QQ/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Is it time yet? The waterhole in the Back Gully Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488690183720-LFZT387B18XRBFMFQAC8/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Is it time yet? A swamp hawk, or brown goshawk, watching for possible prey in the long grass this morning. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/2/26/settling-in-for-lambing monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488069687185-KEEID3GM7UJDJG4CS4ZG/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Settling in for Lambing P1: Galloping into the lambing paddock--such excitement about this fresh forage! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488070070372-TD7F2WUYHNRKFLY6FRMA/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Settling in for Lambing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488069791761-0RLN0WT8AJMNM0HZ3YMV/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Settling in for Lambing P2: I love the way the flock grazes and moves along--these two chicory plants attest to the light touch of grazing when there is plenty to go around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488069963804-MGVGCW749WOHX4KOMJQO/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Settling in for Lambing P3: Enjoying the green grass at the bottom of the Grass Gully's seasonal soak. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/2/13/long-grass-challenge monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1486973590846-7FF441E9CTQ7DZ70CF0S/The+purple+trail+through+the+Lucerne+Long+Grass.jpg Come Shepherding - Long Grass Challenge The track I mowed through the Lucerne Paddock earlier this summer. The purple flowers are lucerne blossoms. Dry speargrass with its sharp seed heads extends to either side. That's Old Cabin in the background, with the reddish cocksfoot grass cover. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2017/2/5/be-careful-what-you-brag-about monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1486272135678-VUMVNRPGYGUBM85BWG7S/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Be Careful What You Brag About In the Basin, enjoying a patch of ryegrass in the stream bed above the waterfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1486272344753-79B9I63HDMBIV0BB503D/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Be Careful What You Brag About Yesterday's mid-day rest spot: a large flat rock area, right near a water trough and at the top of the hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1486272445519-TUUEA48X9W0S35GW205Z/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Be Careful What You Brag About Pearl (foreground) and her mama Janie, resting in the one bit of shade near the sheep grazing the flat yesterday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1486273012828-HC0LUDY0TXWK5QFWJHSM/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Be Careful What You Brag About https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/barley-grass-blues monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388907444-4K3R0V9SM605HL007PQV/IMG_4340-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Barley Grass Blues The view through my windscreen on the Polaris as I started out mowing the lucerne track this morning. You can only just see the tops of the fenceposts among the speargrass, making it about chest high on me. I haven’t had the slasher out of the shed for two years! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388906099-9X53VXW9A4FUCL3NCIKN/IMG_1218-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Barley Grass Blues Nearly the same spot as the previous photo, this one taken in early November, to give you an idea of just how fast the annual grasses explode into tall, waving seed heads. That’s Difficult Girl out front of the “mothers-to-be” flock, on their way in to be jetted for flystrike prevention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388906698-SXJVR5FV88PKBI8SNH0O/IMG_1254-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Barley Grass Blues Grazing the willow tree water hole two days ago–at least a bit more diverse than the Racecourse Grazing Area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388904299-VUVTQ2T2ZSK94BVMJ8PH/DSCN0002-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Barley Grass Blues In the home paddock, behind my house. The revegetation area has LOTS of diversity, much of it trees and shrubs. They had a grand old time, and even sampled my volunteer sweet peas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388904101-NIML2REDVTQ1QW5Z6IZC/Barley-Grass-Blues-Oct-Nov-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Barley Grass Blues barley-grass-blues-oct-nov-2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388906314-1P8FI9WZ1JNUSNA0K1YZ/IMG_1247-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Barley Grass Blues Clara with the mothers-to-be, at the top of Old Cabin. The creek at the bottom below them is still quite wet, so as far as I know they never crossed it–just hung out on the drier hillside. The rams will be with them for one more week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388906998-ETDJD3VONHC25LSGIXZE/IMG_1256-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Barley Grass Blues Young Pearl (Janie’s daughter) got a bit of work experience while Chance is recovering from eye surgery and a nasty leg abscess. He’s well on the mend, but it was a wake up call that I MUST get started on shepherding training for the younger dogs! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/taking-shelter-9-to-22-october-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388893807-6IG4LKCB98X2Y29T8ACB/DSCN0004-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Taking Shelter Storms clouds up top. The sky has looked like this most days in October! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388903714-JR2K42586ZNWSN303DXC/Taking-Shelter-9-22-Oct-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Taking Shelter taking-shelter-9-22-oct https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388902200-4TGA3H7O7XXK8FF14IV9/IMG_1168-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Taking Shelter In the yards to draft off the ewes for “joining” with the rams. Going to try an autumn lambing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388902998-Z3WA4OO1RTHUTGE4I8EZ/IMG_1172-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Taking Shelter The rams are out–now we’re committed to babies in March! 98 ewes and 3 rams. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/higher-ground-september-21-october-8-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388899416-GCKZUQ8EAVYY6AYZ3CIW/Higher-Ground-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Higher Ground higher-ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388895700-2T26IWBWKI81U09LNUM9/DSCN0005-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Higher Ground P1: Me up to my shins in Curly Sedge Creek, which was a small rapid in places! This shot was taken after the waters receded a bit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388896997-K12RXFDVM2L1SA0RCYAF/DSCN0008-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Higher Ground P2: Curly Sedge Creek flowing into the valley beyond. You can see the standing water in the Road Paddock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388897601-2ZEQVOZF0WJ7Y7BR2VRX/DSCN0011-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Higher Ground P3: On the southern side of the property, above the Highway Reserve, the view across the valley to Table Mountain. This area and the one in the previous shot are the headwaters of the Jordan River, which flooded over the main highway south of here a few days later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388901299-CL7MQG0P2RKGWNLIHHYO/IMG_1137-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Higher Ground P4: A blue-tongue lizard (Tiliqua nigrolutea) hanging out in long grass. I nearly stepped on him because he’s so well camouflaged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388900298-CEBTWMV6RHDFSF6U9PPJ/IMG_1100-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Higher Ground P5: Gorse blossoms for morning tea, as we head down the hill for a trip into the Highway Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388900503-DJB5OI10RDIMPQHFBBUC/IMG_1120-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Higher Ground P6: Dogwood in bloom–the first I’ve seen since the planting 3 years ago. Admittedly, they were 3 very tough years for plants!   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388900744-00KKFBT2GM2WA2NGHCGF/IMG_1124-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Higher Ground P7: Onto the old highway, and heading for the she-oaks. That’s Horatio up front. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/pattersons-delight-september-14-to-21-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388903299-MF3LKTC5MWIWLMKTILS2/Pattersons-Delight-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Patterson's Delight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388897213-9Z580XU0TKZMDQIXXB04/DSCN0010-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Patterson's Delight P1: The same hill as in the video, but looking uphill. They’ve cleaned up the Patterson’s Curse down to the stalks, but left the geranium and thistles behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388892999-3HKF1SFV9BMIMVK8BKAQ/DSCN0002-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Patterson's Delight P2: First wild orchid sighting this spring–a tiny greenhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388893304-LN3RC0C9O3BX4RQMQ3X9/DSCN0002-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Patterson's Delight P3: Back into the patch of Patterson’s Curse on 8 October. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388896799-T4OBXYQY4UKQKKAPBUFV/DSCN0006-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Patterson's Delight P4: Swan family photo, 16 September https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/recovering-from-shearing monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388892798-LG9GHCAJYDJQ64VU1KSV/Recovering-from-Shearing-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Recovering from Shearing recovering-from-shearing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388887302-6PZ8NSX0QKZE88BOJTII/DSCN0002-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Recovering from Shearing P1: Part of the flock resting in the morning sunshine. They’re in the lucerne, I’m at the top of the hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388888898-MJ8P79KKM0W36PPVPCL9/DSCN0005-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Recovering from Shearing P2: The view from the lower side of the lucerne, looking up at Eagle Ridge, where I was sitting for photo P1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388889198-GB5FPSX0S10DVZ12DHK3/DSCN0006-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Recovering from Shearing P3: A freshly shorn Elf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388889412-HHX129U4IS639IZBECC6/DSCN0007-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Recovering from Shearing P4: Jeff (right) and friend https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388889900-LWF6504QGBTB0R6IFZQ8/IMG_1045-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - Recovering from Shearing P5: Another view of the flock in the lucerne from the top of Eagle Ridge.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388890199-I0H0OCRHTQM6B0MTN9YR/IMG_1060-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - Recovering from Shearing P6: Heading up into Waterfall Gully, just after the video V1 was taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388892600-60P8FC95YG9WKO4V35TT/IMG_1062-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - Recovering from Shearing P7: The gates at the top of Waterfall Gully and Eagle Ridge configured to make a loop out of the two areas and the lucerne. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/august-27-2016-last-shepherding-till-after-shearing monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388864223-4Z4C56GUNIKVK626FVWI/August-27-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Last shepherding till after shearing! August 27, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388885117-S2ENT0UMGP011271QVAZ/IMG_1033-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Last shepherding till after shearing! P1: Into the Road Paddock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388886414-KN5FXS810YKOZDO6SR84/IMG_1039-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Last shepherding till after shearing! P2: And into the yards. The rams will be first into the shed tomorrow. Done for today and glad of it. My feet are ACHING! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388887100-ZMQTYU90B7OIEXXSFM54/IMG_4280-Version-2-500x314.jpg Come Shepherding - Last shepherding till after shearing! A slightly blurry family portrait (it was just about sunset yesterday, and taken with my phone). Centre front: Chance (with the kong) and Janie. Joker to Janie’s left. On Chance’s right, Pearl, lying down, then left to right standing: Flynn, Blaze and Jax. Pearl and Chance are focused on the kong–well really on me, willing me to throw it. Janie is focused on Chance, Joker on Janie, Jax on Pearl, Blaze on Pearl, Flynn on Blaze. So it’s surprisingly easy to get them to line up for a family shot! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/august-24-2016-around-the-racecourse-and-into-the-lucerne monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388884700-YHBOA7RV71C49W1LL72S/IMG_1018-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Around the Racecourse and into the Lucerne Leaving my nice warm bed and snuggly kitty was not easy this morning. Skye was still under the covers when I finished running the dogs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388864012-HLPND3VFKORYPYOJCFH7/August-24-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Around the Racecourse and into the Lucerne August 24, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480388884940-3CCWERRZKZAPB3KFK80Y/IMG_1027-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Around the Racecourse and into the Lucerne P1: Resting up after morning tea in the lucerne. Back to the Racecourse for the rest of the day. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/august-22-2016-full-day-at-the-edges-of-the-racecourse monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1473580664433-A09VBG5N389DOFKL5EEL/August+22%2C+2016.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014140786-5HE71RL3XNL39JZ0NCLQ/IMG_1016-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse Just in case you wondered… This is how I stay warm for winter shepherding: 4 layers on top, woollies and insulated pants, insulated boots, WGW cowl (my design headband, beanie and hoodie. The jacket and pants go back about 10 years, and are still going strong. Oh, and keeping moving helps! Skye kitty keeps my chair warm for when I get home. All of which helps me be brave when the forecast is for possible snow above 700 m. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014105101-SBNC3KR6Q1Z10H9ENDUR/DSCN0002-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P1: Motoring through the lucerne, into the wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014109686-8UTWC9JIYF1840Y1JJ95/DSCN0004-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P2: Leo snuggling up to Clara. Having the green marks on their noses is helping me realise how often my specials are close by me, and each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014110595-469940EL22J6A6210C9Y/DSCN0010-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P3: See what I mean about the flow in the yards? The feed in the pens is being studiously ignored as they try to get past me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014114885-PNC03CKITVR7SLTXZYZ3/DSCN0014-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P4: Chance lying in a cloud of his undercoat that I just finished brushing off him. Janie thought the grooming was absolutely divine, but Chance just barely tolerated it. And, the “R” on my sock is not to help me remember right from left, only to distinguish which foot the sock goes on! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014115425-706EY9OO5ILFUNXCOH6P/DSCN0016-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P5: Ah. Another newly named sheep: Difficult Girl. She is ALWAYS at the back, and ALWAYS standing off the dogs. I’m going to keep her fleece this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014115887-DXK5U44HHMLZR2MXB6P9/DSCN0018-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P6: And meet Difficult Boy–very often found in the same position and with the same attitude as Difficult Girl. If I get a chance to mark him, I’m keeping his fleece, too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014119882-XDK72ZT1AGB7OJCMK2PG/DSCN0020-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P7: One of my favourite cabbage gums (eucalyptus pauciflora). It doesn’t look like much, but every year it sets an impressive amount of seed. Lots of my cabbage gum seedlings came from this tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014120383-G5972EI35YR00MBR773C/DSCN0030-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P8: These wonderful silhouettes are found beside the highway between Bagdad and my place–at least, I think this is the northernmost one. It marks what used to be called “Shell Corner”, where my road (the old highway) comes very close to the new highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014120686-4P57QOIVZ5KNHHO1UJV8/DSCN0034-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day at the edges of the Racecourse P9: Settling down for a well-deserved rest at about 3 pm. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/august-20-2016-near-the-woolshed monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014100634-O4MAQRY5N5VRXWGQAMK8/August-20-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Near the woolshed August 20, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014135587-0BCCGL6WPAZFU2R9AQ6V/IMG_1003-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Near the woolshed P1: We’ve been creek hopping ( the dogs and I) trying to get behind the mob in a narrow stretch. Well, actually it was more like wading… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014136007-MK59DZHC2NKQGG9C4F7Z/IMG_1005-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Near the woolshed P2: Hehehe. New fencing and gates on the laneway to the woolshed. Worked like a dream–today was the first try. I’m going to let them graze the yards for a little while, the leave them behind shed for the afternoon. It takes so little to make me happy ;-) p.s. the dead cars are NOT mine. That's my awful neighbour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014136385-U863X058MKRI7N9DXZVV/IMG_1007-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Near the woolshed P3: Trying to entice them up near the shed to graze. One down, 499 to go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014137195-JO7JR4CVN6H6Z9U27KBL/IMG_1009-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Near the woolshed P4: Annie with a nice big mouthful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014137686-HHHUO7OSYG2Y3LXYHPFX/IMG_1011-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Near the woolshed P5: End of the circuit. I’ll take them out of here later this afternoon. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/august-18-2016-grazing-the-yards-and-cygnet-bedtime monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014100467-80JUMCVMXPPWBHXXIYXL/August-18-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Grazing the yards (and cygnet bedtime) August 18, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014130900-19D8Y8XIGC9UUHUO89XL/IMG_0988-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Grazing the yards (and cygnet bedtime) P1: White frost start! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014131186-3CBETOQ4QA8WSC8WQN98/IMG_0992-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Grazing the yards (and cygnet bedtime) P2: Another tricky set of corners to navigate. Safely into the main yards. Phew! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014131985-MEONM8X5V2QR586XEAO0/IMG_0995-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Grazing the yards (and cygnet bedtime) P3: Jeff and his friends enjoying the long grass in the yards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014132585-3AKJNROUZHX032W5ZQW2/IMG_0997-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Grazing the yards (and cygnet bedtime) P4: Into the waterhole via the new gate. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/august-17-2016-cygnets-first-outing monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014104882-YR2CV8RWK9PGZTXKRJ1C/DSCN0001-Version-2-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - Cygnets' first outing! P1: The first sighting of the cygnets away from the nest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014100531-YCED0VXSGBH4K82LRPNE/August-17-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Cygnets' first outing! August 17, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014130486-26N7Y1795QPQM380ZTFU/IMG_0985-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Cygnets' first outing! P2: Enjoying the lucerne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014141286-QE6CFY71SPLTSV4D089R/IMG_4274-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Cygnets' first outing! P3: Flynn, one of the youngsters, with the flock still grazing Curly Sedge at about 5 pm. Photo is taken from the top of the Long Paddock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1473578932584-6GZ2UVQL8AD18336PO8O/IMG_0966.JPG Come Shepherding - Cygnets' first outing! The next generation: Joker and Pearl. We were out looking for a leak in the water system. Joker runs a bit too close to the back wheel--hence the mud freckles! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/august-15-2016-eeyores-patch monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014100443-8OSKJ1AY6MBS6Y9AV5LO/August-15-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Eeyore's Patch August 15, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014105484-9WNPA6Z7CMO1MYL9NW5L/DSCN0002-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Eeyore's Patch P1: Lunch spot, almost out of the wind… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014115136-VZQ9AMK4HWIEMUKS0HCG/DSCN0015-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Eeyore's Patch P2: Regrowth in the burned reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014116185-52AF316466HWPDPV6XLH/DSCN0019-Version-2-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Eeyore's Patch P3: Cygnets! Not yet visible without binoculars ;-) https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/august-13-2016-up-and-down-curly-sedge-creek monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014100619-HELJWDVBPW7SPNS2QESB/August-13-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Up and down Curly Sedge Creek August 13, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014126751-M2W8EVKT89CAF3MRMSCY/IMG_0953-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Up and down Curly Sedge Creek P1: Marooned on the south side of the creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014127105-RID7W12XHHXORPIHW5D6/IMG_0955-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Up and down Curly Sedge Creek P2: Vicki followed me across the culvert, and everybody else followed her. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/an-unexpected-pleasure-circuit-of-the-stud-paddock monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014100466-LP7TMZ2YX5ZWFMY58F8K/August-10-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - An unexpected pleasure: circuit of the Stud Paddock August 10, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014110384-HQJ21AQHR3HBEY19N9OR/DSCN0010-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - An unexpected pleasure: circuit of the Stud Paddock Stripping hawthorn berries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014110982-DM4BDBSA39X6CFELJPDP/DSCN0013-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - An unexpected pleasure: circuit of the Stud Paddock Janie picked the best spot of all for her mid-morning snooze! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014125582-AXOVN9SPZZUEO8DXJGK6/IMG_0947-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - An unexpected pleasure: circuit of the Stud Paddock Meanwhile, the flock is also having a mid-morning ruminate and rest. Some are still fossicking about while the others are lying down. (Fossicking means prospecting in Aussie slang. Sort of scratching around with no clear idea of the immediate goal, but full awareness of the long-term one.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472014126016-TAJ630THPYBT3BBGQNN8/IMG_0949-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - An unexpected pleasure: circuit of the Stud Paddock Our work for the morning is done. Heading home to do some chores ;-) https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2016/8/4/into-the-racecourse-grazing-area monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470295978737-A7SRPXJFNSA9LMJVVWMO/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470296047790-8I32IAH8P69HS2EIK243/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area P1: Moving the sheep today. First the rams into the Lucerne Reserve, off the Racecourse GA. They are loving it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470296149934-B4UYRV5HGXXOO1V8W24Z/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area P2: Definitely eating the bark--I watched them for quite a while through my binocs. That's Prince in the front, facing the camera. He's a bit of a publicity hound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470296326555-O4AK8XKJYIZRN4KQ1VWT/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area P3: Meet Jeff, newly named. He's been hanging out around me a lot over the last few weeks, and today I decided to come up with his name. He's a beautiful, big, handsome wether with impeccable manners and a gorgeous southern drawl (ok, ok, he would have a drawl if he could talk). I've just finished re-reading Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, who is the original cowboy heart-throb with all the characteristics I just ascribed to Jeff. While "The Virginian" is a bit of a mouthful for a sheep moniker, there is one place in the book where it comes out that The Virginian's erstwhile best friend Steve called him Jeff. So, long story, but Jeff it is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470296386576-496518ROGVHSC8XYXRC5/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area P4: Vicki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470296440838-L4PRV9K43FXMDVEGY1OP/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area P5: I couldn't resist the look on his face--and that's cutting sagg sticking out of his mouth! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/july-31-2016-old-cabin-into-waterfall-gully-full-day-circuit monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027573919-ISIAOG1UW9ZQTSVEDEJG/July-31-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit July 31, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027547916-TKMB5LIRVDMBZA4BPT0J/DSCN0001-2-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P1: Pickup. The hill with trees is in the Back Gully Reserve (we’re facing west). You can see there is still a lot of bare ground, something I expect to disappear as spring makes itself felt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027550628-CB3Y0EHK7YABIJMRUDYS/DSCN0007-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P2: The spring in Little Quarry Tree Reserve, and some of the baby trees. Table Mountain is in the background. The frogs were going wild! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027553018-EKI28ETRUGFK4KCF6OJH/DSCN0011-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P3: A pair of eagles escorted us for a while in the Grass Gully. I can’t resist trying to get a good photo, even though I have many in my files ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027553227-25F8W5VM3TB6S3VYWK76/DSCN0017-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P4: The Gang of Four leading the flock: left to right, Elf, Felix, Vicki and Clara. I just love this photo. I suppose the more accurate statement is: The flock following The Gang Of Four following me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027553721-L4IYKNIDXIEWNCEWWEG5/DSCN0023-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P5: Heading into the swamp. See? It does NOT look like a swamp from here, does it?? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027554318-BH8LDPVHSXFA2H5AESYM/DSCN0026-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P6: But this is a sample of what it was like all the way around that corner! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027556098-4NG31FI390DGJJNOOHDX/DSCN0036-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P7: After lunch break (and a short rest/ruminate for the flock), heading north through Old Cabin toward Waterfall Gully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027556620-27QQY4XTKIYP59X47BE1/DSCN0044-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P8: Enjoying some fresh growth just inside the gate into Waterfall Gully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027558520-PER1KXKEVRHR21UAVUDD/DSCN0050-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P9: The first rocky bit to get up the south side of Waterfall Gully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027559132-FWX3Y5M3CPT8H86HE4MS/DSCN0053-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin into Waterfall Gully-full day circuit P10: Spreading out across the hill face. They had moved all the way to the top by the time I ran the dogs an hour or so later https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/july-30-2016-back-gully-reserve-still monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027573528-6RX3C4DI1V9IPS3FQ6ZM/July-30-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve, still July 30, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027568127-Q6I5S35Y4KD9D4YJZZEB/IMG_0892-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve, still P1: Still in the Back Gully Reserve, which is great. We’ll mosey down the eastern side of the gully if we can. Beautiful day– no wind and sunny. Should be a pleasure to be out! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027569307-QUMQ1HUZVFZUZYLX7RTV/IMG_0897-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve, still P2: Snoozing in the sun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027568633-S1YD17JDURX3MKXSS19U/IMG_0895-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve, still P3: Clara looking very grown-up and lovable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027570226-JPCFI4FNGA0M3SCN8LS1/IMG_0899-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve, still P4: Resting again, on a nice, warm rocky bank. We’ll leave them here and let them graze back uphill at their leisure. As I’d hoped, they haven’t grazed this side of the gully yet, so this should keep them busy and content for the rest of today. Tomorrow I’m planning a full day circuit, since Monday’s forecast is not appealing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027550239-EA328SW54HMO3DEMP4R6/DSCN0002-2-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve, still P5: Peachberry heath just coming into blossom. You can see where I got the intense pink for the yarn colour! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-28-2016-blustery-day-in-the-back-gully-reserve monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/july-25-2016-old-cabin monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/2016/8/6/blizzard-in-july monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/july-17-2016-walking-on-water monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914351403-TI5TU133RBACLAWBJDYT/July-17-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water July 17, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914332975-FY7IG108D4KSHIF90Y0M/DSCN0002-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P1: My little native cushion plants with white frost icing. These are wet alpine plants, so they’ve been quite happy with this winter’s weather! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914335273-VFS5U6TJ96VRRA93OGVE/DSCN0009-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P2: Janie ready to go, with Joker in the background. The sun is just coming up, and I’m still having my breakfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914335491-1P0LP62V2ZTFG7TNZ9IE/DSCN0026-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P3: In the (wet) rank cocksfoot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914336476-10TU7C53CK5P2KML8DE9/DSCN0037-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P4: Elf looking adorably cute and shy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914337980-5DHAVUE4TPY6U8ORZ3II/DSCN0049-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P5: The view down into Old Cabin. You can start to get a feel for just how wet the the landscape is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914338674-7WNR123VOFZVJZQRW2W8/DSCN0053-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P6: Honestly, what is it about this particular log? They cannot go past it without 3 or 4 hopping up to play “king of the mountain”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914338878-CC4EXCI9DOFPGT7BF45Y/DSCN0074-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P7: The dogs and I were hunkered down behind these cutting sags having lunch more or less out of the wind. The sheep just to the other side were quite curious about us–they stood there watching for several minutes before moving off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914339174-9W35GYUDT6RDBG86S4Q5/DSCN0077-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P8: Having lunch in the foundations of the Old Cabin. The sheep seem to know that lunch is “king’s x” time: the dogs lie down near me, I sit down and get quiet and still, and they will often graze up very close. In case you’re wondering, I have my rain jacket sleeves over my legs and feet, to keep my toes warm while I rest them from being in my boots. And lunch was a waffle sandwich ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914340275-J9ILHVSU34HWO17OIMS8/DSCN0081-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P9: The lunchtime setup, with Janie looking adorably cute. The sags did a good job of keeping the wind at bay, and I did have a tiny little nap in the sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914341880-KHINJNSQ83CIYECPGLTR/DSCN0089-e1468732992377-500x506.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P10: Jumping the creek below the waterfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914341975-1EQ35LMMJ5YHBQTZ8L8R/DSCN0107-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Walking on Water P11: The creek just above the waterfall. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/july-16-after-the-wild-weather-into-the-back-gully-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027571319-EATA0TEXJEHTBSMD821Z/July-16-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - After the wild weather, into the Back Gully Reserve July 16, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027567833-24ISKEPBGSK167L70GLB/IMG_0861-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - After the wild weather, into the Back Gully Reserve P1: Coming through the top yards. Silly me, I left the gates closed to the southern part of the run, so they were waiting as far upwind as they could get! Now I’m letting them free graze while I have my cuppa. Beautiful day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027550427-VC6LSTNF8C2UO0NKA9T6/DSCN0002-e1468619606169-500x399.jpg Come Shepherding - After the wild weather, into the Back Gully Reserve In this image from the 2014 clutch, the swan pair is just ready for the changing of the guard–there is always one or the other on the nest, and the swap-over happens in the blink of an eye. The sitting swan has her neck out, pulling in nesting material, building right up to the moment she is off watch! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/july-9-2016-sneaking-back-into-waterfall-gully monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914352793-8E8GQKZPTO9ZVO31CRIU/July-9-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Sneaking back into Waterfall Gully July 9, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914332403-FQXZIY7AWF21WP30D74U/DSCN0001-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Sneaking back into Waterfall Gully P1: The flock heading into Waterfall Gully via the top gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914334880-L2BNB9YJ76WMWG7TY969/DSCN0008-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Sneaking back into Waterfall Gully P2: All seven dogs waiting for me to finish taking photos of sheep and get on with the run! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914349594-3WSRR8RFO9ZDY990E24R/IMG_4235-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Sneaking back into Waterfall Gully P3: The Polaris after it’s first bath in weeks–the built-up mud on the undercarriage was amazing! Now I don’t want to drive it anywhere, but as it’s the only vehicle that I dare take around the boggy property, it will no doubt be just as muddy in a few days. In the background, various bits of dog bedding hopefully getting dry in the first sunshine we’ve seen in days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914349878-LF62APDWZNXOEMTCKGLC/IMG_4236-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Sneaking back into Waterfall Gully P4: Having breakfast. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/july-6-2016-into-the-basin-grazing-area monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914352275-IILMVO55ISINW9CY1DQW/July-6-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Basin Grazing Area July 6, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914346377-3ZGDZ9NIQYT9JO7M32ZN/IMG_0852-e1467780933527-500x394.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Basin Grazing Area P1: The 3-way gate at the top of Waterfall Gully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914348189-ND33MX99TZ6WER2RS1HF/IMG_0854-e1467781094595-500x421.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Basin Grazing Area P2: Watching me curiously–the dogs are well back behind me, in the Polaris, so the sheep know they don’t have to do anything unless they darn well want to. That’s Annie on the right in the front row. Honestly, they made it clear they had no interest whatsoever in following me back out the gate. But they must have been watching, and thinking about it, because it didn’t take them more than 15 minutes at the outside to come poking over to see what might be happening at the gate! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/july-3-2016-white-gum-grazing-area-and-old-highway monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914351887-X0DCQM99VJ2DU7YLAAIM/July-3-2016-2-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area and Old Highway July 3, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914342415-0IXAGHEQ56O6GKW977V4/IMG_0796-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area and Old Highway P1: Heading lickety-split down the first part of the hill, where I had hoped they would be grazing peacefully. I think I’m probably trying for too much precision in getting them to graze down smallish patches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914342678-IJX036EO0XML53585XTJ/IMG_0816-e1467538796826-500x369.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area and Old Highway P2: Into the top of the Highway Reserve. I thought Table Mountain looked rather elegant with the big cloudy sky to set it off https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914343578-NYM9BZ1PLSRNJCNCHY0Y/IMG_0820-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area and Old Highway P3: Aha. I thought I had a leak somewhere in my watering system–that’s the float on the ground, which means the lever arm that would normally be held up, shutting the valve, is down and allowing the water to flow out continuously. Jeez it was cold, up to my elbows in the water! I’m glad to have the mystery solved–with 35 or so troughs on the property, it can be quite a job to find a leak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914344776-LDXAXHXG5WUBYY2T9NPA/IMG_0824-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area and Old Highway P4: A lovely little native heather on the west-facing hill in the highway reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914345675-TLGS7C97ZKOA71FXO53M/IMG_0831-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area and Old Highway P5: A decimated broom plant on the edge of the old highway. They pretty much all look like this now. The sheep are eating gorse as well, but not with the same enthusiasm–this is about the only stand of broom on the property, so maybe it’s like going to a fancy French restaurant, instead of the usual home-cooking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914345976-NC6UZMILB95686LKSB4I/IMG_0833-e1467539180916-500x352.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area and Old Highway P6: Climbing up into the she-oak grove. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-29-2016-waterfall-gully-via-the-basin-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914331874-XKFPA09MNWOREB20CGTG/June-29-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully via the Basin June 29, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914316074-W3WCDMLWMJBXWB3FQMS7/IMG_0762-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully via the Basin P1: A view of the Basin. The big water hole was completely dry in early May. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914316486-VWJVCQ3AVRUEHNGBWXY9/IMG_0772-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully via the Basin P2: Two very tired working dogs, resting on their laurels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914290671-F154NYW4RTIA3MNZX5YH/DSCN0001-Version-2-500x353.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully via the Basin The beginning of the 2016 clutch of cygnets! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-27-2016-brians-track monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027546819-BVEGXAT816A4I7HG7YK7/June-27-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Brian's Track June 27, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027542348-7N6RB9HL0T1B3UQSYJEW/IMG_4213-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Brian's Track P0: Readers of Saturday's post will remember I was worried about Clara's whereabouts, since I couldn't find her all day. Yesterday I did a "sweep" of all the places we'd been, looking for any sign of her--caught in gorse, or down for some reason. Nothing. Then, just as I was leaving the southern paddock of the White Gum GA, out of the corner of my eye I saw the missing group--about 50, including (hooray!) Clara and Annie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027542728-89TTCBVJIQ9Q09AKB7SG/IMG_4215-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Brian's Track P1: I don't know whether I was more pleased to see Clara, or she me! The group was "stuck" in a corner, wanting to go into the wind (fence) or uphill (closed gate). It took me about an hour to work them back to the main flock, mostly because, silly me, I didn't take the dogs with me. Clara likes to follow me, but I have to push from the back when I'm in the buggy. Clara does a lot of turning around and trying to come to me, instead of heading off with the others, so it's a bit of circular progress! That's Clara on the left, Annie on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027512358-NH9SQVR968LEY2RGSLVT/DSCN0005-Version-2-500x405.jpg Come Shepherding - Brian's Track P2: Two of our 3-eagle escort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027512530-B3BF1PD8RH3YRNMU81PU/DSCN0006-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Brian's Track P3: Starting up Brian's track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027512729-RPWJAH6I0CNDECM75R8E/DSCN0010-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Brian's Track P4: The top half of the flock through the worst of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027513121-X33XM70RIZ2HDA9Q85R2/DSCN0012-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Brian's Track P5: The second half of the flock nearing the top of Brian's Track https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027513552-2KQIWORM6V4EU1TZCOID/DSCN0013-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Brian's Track P6: Coming through the gate at the top of Brian's Track, into the far southern end of the White Gum Grazing Area https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-25-16-somewhere-in-the-white-gum-grazing-area-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027546618-UT7NT8C9CNYIVS8Q0LXY/June-25-2016-2-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Somewhere in the White Gum Grazing Area June 25, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027533118-CYZKIGD1WQF71UVAD4RJ/IMG_0737-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Somewhere in the White Gum Grazing Area P1: Into the north end of the highway reserve. That's ice in the foreground, despite the sunshine. Not warm. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-20-2016-droving-the-old-highway monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1471593102542-0DCEKD8K7R25AX6A9XPB/June+20%2C+2016.jpg Come Shepherding - Droving the Old Highway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912332579-VAMDI609ZPHU7UGY6YWC/IMG_4212.jpg Come Shepherding - Droving the Old Highway P1: Pickup at the top of the hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912324454-K1RPYFEC5V67ESCGTZRT/IMG_0652.jpg Come Shepherding - Droving the Old Highway P2: Coming down the steep hill toward the wet gully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912324623-Q8MBFAMCB1LACVTR2PCF/IMG_0696.jpg Come Shepherding - Droving the Old Highway P3: On our way back along the old highway--the are browsing blackwoods and she-oaks in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912324742-MRAXY5O2QZ187GTIAVRG/IMG_0702.jpg Come Shepherding - Droving the Old Highway P4: Winding their way through the gorse and up the last hill. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-18-2016-white-gum-grazing-area-into-the-highway-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912335042-PQ7AP3WAIWWJ0KICBDGU/June-18-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area: into the Highway Reserve June 18, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912323333-QPWY9EDPVOVBP2S2LCL5/IMG_0610.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area: into the Highway Reserve P1: One of my favourite springs, full and overflowing. This little tree reserve is quite a special spot, and I'm looking forward to seeing it grow up over the next few years. I tried to take a video of the frogs croaking, but whenever I got close enough to hear them, they quit! You can just see the sheep in the background--try clicking on the image to get better resolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912323752-H423X9TCXQU66S8X8L08/IMG_0613.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area: into the Highway Reserve P2: This waterhole is the leakiest one on the place! I don't remember EVER seeing it full. You can see the wet track through the gorse, where we're headed. May be too wet to cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912323860-50WOSGWRI3JAZUQQ2FEV/IMG_0617.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area: into the Highway Reserve P3: Albert braving a new water hazard--a little streamlet flowing down the gully, just under his hooves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912324120-LZ1HZ1S4OZJI9GSJC9H1/IMG_0620.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area: into the Highway Reserve P4: Having a browse of wattle. Oh, for the neck of a giraffe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912324279-FTHDSS6C2276LMI8ON04/IMG_0622.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area: into the Highway Reserve P5: Ditto the poor gum tree. Happily, they moved on fairly quickly and didn't do much damage. There are only a few of these young trees along this section, and I try not to let them get over-browsed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912324356-PRADSLYZN9V03CX8RLA8/IMG_0625.jpg Come Shepherding - White Gum Grazing Area: into the Highway Reserve P6: At the northern gate of the Highway reserve. We'll leave them here and head home. Hopefully, they'll graze back into the wind and stay in the reserve a while longer. Very satisfying circuit. And I just turned around to see them head back south--yes! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-16-2016-roundabout-trek-to-the-white-gum-grazing-area monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912334935-EC8SVMN6CU1NTYV07K33/June-16-2016.jpg Come Shepherding - Roundabout trek to the White Gum Grazing Area June 16, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912322741-T0BXH3IS0CF6W7LALOMJ/IMG_0607.jpg Come Shepherding - Roundabout trek to the White Gum Grazing Area P1: Pickup. That's about the only bit of blue sky I saw the rest of the day, until the sun came out for about 5 minutes just before sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912323032-IG74RWD6S4OV6SCT1OUE/IMG_0608-e1466066682162.jpg Come Shepherding - Roundabout trek to the White Gum Grazing Area P2: One of the 2 refusals at the water hazard. The general attitude seems to be one of boredom. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-15-2016-racecourse-bottoms-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912334679-NF29719R2DCFIINU6BRP/June-15-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse "bottoms" June 15, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912322436-IIZ4XKQ94UZ27D2UDZC2/IMG_0603.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse "bottoms" P1: Janie and Chance holding position as I walk to the flock. Oops, Jane just broke the "hold" to see what's taking me so long! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912322549-26KZQW1LTDE8U0I5BQSM/IMG_0605.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse "bottoms" P2: Pickup. With the dogs back 100m or so I can walk right in to the flock. Once I'm through the flock, I'll get them to follow with just the lightest pressure from the dogs at the back. At least, that's the idea ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912332579-MT5DNSA4RB26H7NWVS2X/IMG_4203-e1465887574230.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse "bottoms" Albert sizing up the jump... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912332581-L7Q02G51DJIHJIKE4T48/IMG_4204-e1465887482447.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse "bottoms" ...and over the top! If you click on the photo you should be able to see my two wonderful dogs lying down on the left, well back from the flock--giving them all the time they need to figure this out. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-13-2016-queens-birthday-shepherding-circuit monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027544518-D5SBXAKIMBHSXYQ9PILL/June-13-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Queen's Birthday Shepherding Circuit June 13, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027523629-7QB07DZJ04SAWW2YVMBR/IMG_0590-e1465806999581-500x378.jpg Come Shepherding - Queen's Birthday Shepherding Circuit P1: Pickup. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027524128-ADOKZ2F61JTKN9YIXS9E/IMG_0591-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - Queen's Birthday Shepherding Circuit P2: Following me in the Polaris near the gate out of the Lucerne Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027524527-8MCN4AWNGRJ1EQBYL4T2/IMG_0596-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - Queen's Birthday Shepherding Circuit IMG_0596 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027524831-5Q1U6XUIUGXFXYIES821/IMG_0597-500x373.jpg Come Shepherding - Queen's Birthday Shepherding Circuit P4: The Red Rocks Jerry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027539227-2UR2SP1LP5J22FES9ME4/IMG_4194-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Queen's Birthday Shepherding Circuit P5: Elf trying to find the end of my shoelace so he can untie it. Last time it took him about 10 seconds to get both my boots untied. This time, I kept moving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027539730-T2FEBBKDEONWXJQI4WYW/IMG_4199-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Queen's Birthday Shepherding Circuit P6: One of the better grazing moments in the yards. You can see by my shadow they are looking into the sun--not something they like to do. I guess, just like for us, it's blinding, and makes it hard to see any lions that might be lurking in the long grass ahead. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-10-11-2016-ahem-seriously-daunting-forecast monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027544127-YGXZ5CYPROGVGPSRIC76/June-10-11-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Ahem. Seriously daunting forecast June 10-11, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027537028-3KGF476TH18BVRVEFS1L/IMG_4165-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Ahem. Seriously daunting forecast Heading toward Curly Sedge and the streamlet. They were going well until they saw this: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027537928-JFMNQ1VYV6JKQE7L3W1V/IMG_4168-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Ahem. Seriously daunting forecast Then they baulked, and the lead sheep tried to circle back up into the flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027538227-WTHJQMIEYFUFARTTC6NL/IMG_4171-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Ahem. Seriously daunting forecast Finally, Albert came to my rescue and bravely jumped the stream, and the rest followed: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027538627-2C6F2JOG86S9RMRKRGYP/IMG_4172-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Ahem. Seriously daunting forecast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027536427-74B6537BZ1S63R61N0XT/IMG_4164-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Ahem. Seriously daunting forecast This storm over Table Mountain was threatening as we made the trek to the lucerne, but didn't get us after all. Just a taste of what tomorrow could be like! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027536148-676KXT5136VXFDYQCTGA/IMG_4163-Version-2-500x353.jpg Come Shepherding - Ahem. Seriously daunting forecast A view across the Lucerne Paddock to give you an idea of the topography of the sheltered area up top. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-8-rain-glorious-rain-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914332180-FFYIJ4MXR95OQH3XME4Q/June-8-2016-2-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! June 8, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914301073-MIUXJRB5HNYUBWV68UG6/IMG_0561-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! P1: Pickup. Definitely wet sheep! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914301411-TULKFLBA6B7V21N4G1F1/IMG_0564-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! P2: See? I told you merinos don't like wet feet! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914302074-R301A8X7TTZ1YKGNS7HE/IMG_0566-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! P3: Spread out and grazing well in the NE corner of the Stud Paddock. That's a native bush in the foreground--some of the natives providing more diversity here than the rest of the Racecourse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914302395-P0JR18D43RA3NRW73YTW/IMG_0569-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! P4: Our morning's work is done. No shepherding tomorrow--it's the vet's annual checkup visit for the dogs. Thank goodness Margaret does house calls! We'll be back shepherding on Saturday, weather permitting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914303476-34O4HB43OISHAYMVAANM/IMG_0571-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! P5: Couldn't resist one last shot. It's so warm, two layers and my everlasting cowl had to be shed before having my tea! Too nice to go back inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914296586-B2EWEXATG4VZMBF1DI0Q/IMG_0204-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! The sheep bogged in Swan Lake, late April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914295774-ZACGLAV9RQH0PZ86E03P/DSCN0018-Version-2-500x381.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! Not exactly the same angle, but you get the general idea! Taken Monday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914296173-IEOMAUCM097N41GJPLKP/DSCN0026-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! Swan Lake from my back door, using the telephoto lens, yesterday. The inlet stream is now overflowing into the Road Paddock, and you can see a small stream coming out of the bottom of the dam wall--I think it's a rabbit burrow. I'm a tiny bit worried about the integrity of the dam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914300279-8CAPHWKP7V4HTY6SBTPP/IMG_0551-Version-2-500x365.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! Looking toward the highway last Saturday.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914295396-2F4MI5SLI68E7TVGGVXY/DSCN0015-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Rain, Glorious Rain! ...and a similar perspective as backdrop to some very soggy sheep on Monday. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-4-2016-into-the-burn-area-on-the-flat-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1471603475398-6SSKW5P456MA3NOHY7MG/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Into the Burn Area on the Flat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914299186-RK9H9TGJLHYB8YROX5U7/IMG_0544-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Burn Area on the Flat P1: 7:50 Chance is ready to go to work, but I'm still inside keeping warm! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914299474-DZH9ASCPLQI9R6EPT6PQ/IMG_0546-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Burn Area on the Flat P2: Pickup. Or rather, lie down. They are having a mid-morning ruminate. We'll just sit down and have a cuppa and wait for them to be ready to move. I'm warmed up by the hike but reckon I'll be shivering before the sheep decide to move! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914299574-Q9IYGDAR8ZZX04DW26IA/IMG_0551-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Burn Area on the Flat P3: This is where we're headed--the big flat paddock between us and the highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468914318474-CPFX7ZA6GKJGDGFRNSG3/IMG_4150-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Burn Area on the Flat P4: Vicki leading the flock into Curly Sedge Creek. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-2-2016-campbell-town-show-prep-today monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027517728-KF546U2OGNNPJB8ARQ99/IMG_0534-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Campbell Town Show prep today White frost start https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027517928-90MI64TPKC3PSCF6RNLD/IMG_0536-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Campbell Town Show prep today Fleeces being judged at the Campbell Town Show https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027518028-O8YBRNHOEVD5DWNIH7XS/IMG_0538-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Campbell Town Show prep today More of the Show https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027518377-W9NIT204HSH3RAWVWGHF/IMG_0540-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Campbell Town Show prep today My lovely friend Sue judging the jams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027518434-32K8BQEDIXKKJ2F4R6CI/IMG_0542-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Campbell Town Show prep today The sheep section filling up... https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/june-1-2016-into-the-racecourse-grazing-area-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027535220-0DQ3G79MODHGLPEPYBGD/IMG_4135-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area P1: The swans looking totally unconcerned about the temperature or the proximity of me and the dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027543827-FB7EWMZ9B6UZBUSD5PCA/June-1-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area June 1, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027516387-5Z6L7W5TUUMLH62K8YET/IMG_0482-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area P2: White frost this morning--the view from my back door just before sunrise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027478627-3OZZIOZJ227JQ516HFAS/DSCN0002-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area P3: Three little monkeys on a log. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027486417-82VO2X21TB6QR9NXJ6Z9/DSCN0043-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area A baby wattle, with gorse making a safe home for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027504728-9UO0NY0M622OBUVZUNFD/IMG_0485-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area And here's what that baby wattle will look like in 5 years! Frosty in the morning. sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027486730-J0ETNGWPYSG8Z3OGXV6I/DSCN0044-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the Racecourse Grazing Area ...and a baby gum tree--don't know which, but probably a Black Peppermint, since that's the closest seed source. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-30-2016-back-gully-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027509646-U8QK0NYYKFC9DOPHMETC/May-30-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve May 30, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027478429-508N4V6ODA0VZ2H02B37/DSCN0001-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P1: Pickup. The sheep you can see on the far green slope are not mine--my boundary is where the reddish-brown grass stops. My sheep are in the nearer patch of old grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027481316-5GHN8P6PVBO8JO7BRJJS/DSCN0013-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P2: Grazing toward the end of the dense patch in the Grass Gully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027481829-R824DK0F1W1FT1J8DUUF/DSCN0017-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P3: The main reason I like to take the sheep to graze in the Back Guly Reserve is the diversity. This Spiky Bitter Pea bush (Daviesia ulicifolia) is always a favourite. There are perhaps 10 of them in a small area, and it's the only place I've seen them on the property. My theory is they occupy a similar ecological nice to gorse, and got out-competed, and probably over-grazed as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027483829-6PS52JFHP81YR5HHZP64/DSCN0024-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P4: moving across the southernmost hill. The native grassland section is on the right, and over the crest of the hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027484227-SFN85NLY8ZUI5JCHJB2X/DSCN0033-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P5: Down into the clearing in the gorse. This was one of the sunny moments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027484630-0LAUXBXKWPNOCBAY9EDP/DSCN0037-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P6: Dogs having a well-deserved rest in the sun. I'd just finished the second half of my lunch. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-28-2016-lucerne-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027509435-D7EN2B9ELZKLZEZVCMV5/May-28-2016-2-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve May 28, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027504127-H6IT2P7P6ZLYYT5C82IY/IMG_0467-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve P1: Pickup, a bit upwind of where I thought. Beautifully sunny, but a very chilly SW breeze. We'll have it at our tails for the first leg--heading into the Lucerne Reserve via the top gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027504427-VCHDHYQFXSXDARDDQIXX/IMG_0471-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve P2: Albert, one of Vicki's many boyfriends, enjoying some silver tussock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027504627-GZ8DFFPPX057PL3OVNTF/IMG_0476-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve P3: Time for a cuppa--for me and the dogs. We're hunkered down out of the wind and facing the sun. The flock is spread out through the lucerne. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-25-2016-northeast-basin-grazing-area-final-2 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027503628-EW4V2MTA9X9B8AP5V11V/IMG_0453-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Northeast Basin Grazing Area P1: Frost on my garden ornament at 9 am. Could be a chilly circuit! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027509318-TFTAKIGU9RPEF2ZSTZME/May-25-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Northeast Basin Grazing Area May 25, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027503827-JV58FEY1GYLMUR09SVD4/IMG_0455-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Northeast Basin Grazing Area P2: Ice on the little spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027503985-TVDL179QZYL72NFZ32P3/IMG_0461-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Northeast Basin Grazing Area P3: This is how long and dense the grass is they're grazing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027504019-CERL8JUGQ09ZJA5ODGQO/IMG_0465-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Northeast Basin Grazing Area P4: Heading into the NE corner of Old Cabin, noses into the SE breeze. Time for us to head home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027478627-3OZZIOZJ227JQ516HFAS/DSCN0002-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Northeast Basin Grazing Area https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027480627-LXTWP9AU7JXKQ7ALU1S1/DSCN0003-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Northeast Basin Grazing Area https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-22-2016-lucerne-reserve-full-day-circuit-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912314417-MKS1HD7R2S2CNPY3Y019/May-22-2016.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit May 22, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912291624-MT206E6LSPBIG1QI5A6G/DSCN0001.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P1: Heading into the lucerne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912292658-XAA3ON2KNY5320TIT6DM/DSCN0005-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P2: Grazing the older lucerne stalks as well as the new basal regrowth and the fresh grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912294520-D432Y3LBRQJX4PPVJ3T0/DSCN0016.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P3: After a couple of hours on lucerne, the native grass on the hill was apparently quite delectable--they took their time grazing up into the top of the Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912294937-EGDRLNKHJFXUIDVU03J8/DSCN0018.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P4: A favourite briar rose in the gully near the top of the Reserve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912295218-SHTIY2H3S17ADD20FFUX/DSCN0021.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P5: The dogs and I had a cute little visitor when we settled down for lunch--a fairy wren--either a female or a juvenile male. I missed the shot with three of them in it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912295716-8ADRN0PI82ANBST927WM/DSCN0026.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P6: And while we were waiting for the sheep to finish their mid-day rest, this gorgeous wedge-tailed eagle flew over to land on his totem pole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912297317-DPXBOV7WAHET9CXIYBWM/DSCN0043.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P7: First downbeat taking off from the totem several minutes later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912297733-6JAAVOCCKZJ54I0B0C79/DSCN0047.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P8: Horatio and pals checking us out as we snuck up the hill behind them to start them back down to the lucerne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912298134-A7WLUYF7SCBL5MTU70HI/DSCN0053.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P9: One of my old pets, Annie, in the long grass at the western end of the top of the Reserve. They were really enjoying it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912298049-FOQNDSTD73MULZ3AXE3S/DSCN0054.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day circuit P10: The last time through the lucerne before heading back into Old Cabin. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-21-2016-old-cabin-not-back-gully-reserve-final-2 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1471749151951-F8WTUZJEFREC588HBO9C/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin, not Back Gully Reserve Dogs ready for their morning run. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912314222-IO2EW0LRIG7GU2R0V8WZ/May-21-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin, not Back Gully Reserve May 21, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912309637-GTTQJA8SO2EWO59ITBCL/IMG_0436.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin, not Back Gully Reserve P1: Not a sheep in sight. And what I thought was southerly is actually easterly. So I'm taking a chance they'll be in Old Cabin. I'll be less than happy if I get there and I'm wrong! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912309846-FNM57LVONK3G7EFS61J0/IMG_0438.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin, not Back Gully Reserve P2: Yep, guessed right. On the slope above Old Cabin. Phew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912310065-Q5QU2PRYEFSP4KHFRI3L/IMG_0445.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin, not Back Gully Reserve P3: Worked sandstone foundation of what I call the Old Cabin. Sheep had a good, slow graze up to this corner. Now moving NW in the general direction of the lucerne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912310156-63T10WC38DO2WJCKRU2Z/IMG_0450.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin, not Back Gully Reserve P4: Prince, one of Vicki's many swains, with the flock behind him heading down into the lower end of Waterfall Gully. We're out of time for an excursion into the lucerne proper, but there's a patch of it down there. Then they're free to come back into the main grazing area when they're ready. Home for lunch now for me and the dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912298943-NWZGHUZBQ6HRU3DTZOUN/DSCN6264.jpg Come Shepherding - Old Cabin, not Back Gully Reserve The same clutch, all grown up and ready to fly in January 2013. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-19-2016-no-shepherding-today-storms-instead-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027481316-P0Q9BLJJOIUMXJANUYH6/DSCN0012-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - No shepherding today-storms instead Look closely and you'll see several sheep behind the screen of tall native speargrass (austrostipa nodosa) and wallaby grass (austrodanthonia spp.) Also a bit of cutting sag (lomandra longifolia) in the foreground. I took this with my telephoto when we were up in the top of the Lucerne Reserve on Monday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027487527-0904HAG6KVWDLGNDCCMS/DSCN4979-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - No shepherding today-storms instead A summer storm in December 2010. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-18-2016-back-gully-reserve-final-2 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912316238-VOKZ8FCW8JJRT1B5Z5S5/May18-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve May18, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912309083-YWGBZGEE6WYCBENBJ84N/IMG_0412-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P1: Pickup, right where I was expecting them. I must be late, as they are lying down waiting :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912309341-WLQMCPAK1M2ZOPTXSAWB/IMG_0424.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P2: Grazing down into the native grassland on the steep slope, southern end of the property. The natives have survived in places where even the most determined farmer couldn't plow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912309543-Y3U590A8613XUJQ4WJU8/IMG_0429-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve P3: End of the track for this morning. There's a water trough hidden in the gorse toward the back of the flock, but otherwise this is a dead end--impassable gorse ahead. We'll leave them here to graze back out of the Reserve at their leisure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912296516-EF9S6PLJXC0JPZTAAKS1/DSCN0034.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve A photo taken in January 2015 in the Back Gully Reserve. I was still quite a novice shepherd, and this was a pivotal moment for me, when a ewe stood and regarded me with interest instead of immediately moving away (I was sitting just a few feet from her). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912295916-5YXUXCCXMTO247I535PQ/DSCN0029.jpg Come Shepherding - Back Gully Reserve On the same day, about the same time, these two wedge-tailed eagles watched us for nearly an hour, just overhead. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-16-16-lucerne-reserve-full-day-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027507570-TVFHF9B8LV94HWVHP77M/May-16-2016-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day May 16, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027506628-A78Z11MT3FV95ARK1756/IMG_4113-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P1: Pickup, just on the southwest side of the fence. I put the dogs under the fence, and they are bringing the flock to me at the gate (so I didn't have to hop the fence myself ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027478928-5F7KCOMI7ODU3OKOMCF6/DSCN0002-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P2: Coming down into the first stretch of dense grass. Compare this with the grass in P1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027506728-ZEF0EJ5UNJ5OZ2DOGSYC/IMG_4116-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P3: I'm SURE this must be an Alice daughter--those horns are so distinctive! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027480987-TEYWHVLGV001T9OZVXQU/DSCN0005-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P4: Into the second stretch of dense grass. This is the leading edge, and they are quite serious about eating! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027481116-5W2GQT88N0O0UFX29IHM/DSCN0010-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P5: Around the side of the hill, through the native grasses (gone to seed, and looking beautiful in the sunlight), above the lucerne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027483726-26HAF7CU0G20G3H77ZEY/DSCN0022-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P6: For once, I was walking along with my camera around my neck, instead of safely tucked away in its waterproof bag inside my pack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027484126-4CXUPY8NQX9PPZE514YN/DSCN0030-e1463385389952-500x410.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P7: Mama, Papa and Junior? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027486326-LKENO4DIFG6O8IN5W4KB/DSCN0042-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P8: Our brief lunch spot. Most disconcerting to watch your charges disappear over the hill when you've just taken your shoes off and opened up the sandwich container. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027506820-3BPYNZT6TEOAP1LC8KZW/IMG_4121-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full day P9: In the far southeast corner of Old Cabin. They spread out here to graze quite contentedly, so we left them there. They were still on the move when I ran the dogs an hour later. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-14-2016-waterfall-gully-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027507344-JOLCSGUTWQ8RD563R4XN/May-14-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve May 14, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027498527-4J1N9D53K2BD6K83U4AZ/IMG_0377-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve P1: The drop-off into the waterfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027498827-198CZGJWD1U74MNBGT5O/IMG_0379-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve P2: Pickup on the ridge above Old Cabin. An unexpected easterly breeze has given us a head start. I think I'll take them widdershins around Old Cabin before heading up the gull https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027498926-ABEUQZT7K1104UKYDQ07/IMG_0381-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve P3: Vicki checking out the iPad. I actually had to back up to get this shot--otherwise it would have just been her eyeball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027500528-9PLSBF1NRWW0XF4ETOXF/IMG_0383-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve P4: ....also the pack. I have just removed a section of elastic cord from her mouth, which she was quite determined to eat. She and Leo are forever pulling on my pack straps to get my attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027500719-MDPQIKRHE4YIOTPZDH4T/IMG_0385-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve P5: Heading east in Old Cabin, grazing slowly and enjoying the fresh forage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027500902-J1I5XL6JXS3K2P7SK6BS/IMG_0387-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve P6: Grazing NW now, as the wind wings around to the forecast northwesterly. Still in Old Cabin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027480717-55KIK7HZHXZD391JPTZV/DSCN0003-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve While I can't yet figure out how to recapture the Instagram videos here, I did catch this eagle on the ridge above us while the dogs and I were having morning tea. Telephoto, of course! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027500990-RJ4L7CZJ5RL4GX5UL19M/IMG_0402-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve P7: Heading across the hill at the top of Waterfall Gully. The gate up there is open back into the Basin Grazing Area, so we'll leave them to it and go home for lunch via the lucerne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027501029-L55PTU3WO5EKNTLHB4Z8/IMG_0405-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve P8: The mole cricket. He's about 2.5 inches long. They spend most of their time in underground tunnels, some of which are specially constructed to amplify the mating "call" of the male. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027489619-UY8PDMU5B5MUNECS1GGF/IMG_0004-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve The top of the waterfall--you can't see the full depth from this angle. This photo was taken in October, 2009. There was 200+ mm (8 inches) of rain in August and September that year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027489562-4Y46ZPXEUNIVDL7AYSOS/DSCN6305-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Waterfall Gully Reserve My wonderful old dog Mac (2000-2013) working just above the waterfall in February 2013, the beginning of the current 3-year dry period. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-11-13-wild-weather-continues-into-the-basin-grazing-area-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027507028-Y4IFQI7KI9FBUJFSIG61/May-11-13-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) May 11-13, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027497827-9OCRW9NPG6C2LVB76T74/IMG_0362-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) P1: Looking south across Lucerne Reserve into Old Cabin at 8:20. Wind is blowing about 50 kph. Temp is 2 C (34 F). Brrrr. At least the sun is shining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027498026-MYJDDD5ZQCPWEP7HC9LE/IMG_0364-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) P2: Clara, looking wet, if not particularly cold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027498127-O3GFO1KVKJL8721TS0PD/IMG_0366-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) P3: Following me to the gate. Plan B. (My comment at the time: I'll explain later when my fingers aren't frozen). Having to take off my gloves and my polarising sunglasses whenever I'm taking an Instagram photo is a distinct disadvantage in this weather! I just want my old Nikon digital camera wired for the ether!! BTW, the dogs are being VERY good and patient in the back of the Polaris. In the end, I didn't need to put the dogs on the ground at all--the sheep were most cooperative, not to say enthusiastic, about following me around in the lovely fresh feed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027498234-EC7VF4O7WLQXQI4KR0RH/IMG_0369-500x669.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) They were really enjoying this longer, fresh grass until I chivvied them on up toward the gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027498342-2P4G1EKQSE0YUU3MTLOL/IMG_0371-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) P4: Leo (looking over his right shoulder) eyeing the Polaris. He just LOVES the buggy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027498427-QUVL0M20YQ4NO8U00MZ3/IMG_0374-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) P5: A wedge-tailed eagle hanging out on a log near the gate to Old Cabin. I took a video of him in flight just a moment after this shot, but somehow sent the video into the invisible end of the ether spectrum. No idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027489589-0YK6Y0QOSSZYC4KX2MH4/DSCN6672-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) Clara (front) and Felix, coming to me for their bottles. Sabrina the ewe didn't have any milk, but she was the babysitter for the bottle lambs--teaching them how to be sheep, and how to forage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027506428-Q6OLVUFLVL3AMQCJ8BYJ/IMG_2307-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - May 11-13: Wild Weather Continues (Into the Basin Grazing Area) Clara (foreground) and Horatio just behind on her left. See what I mean about huge? This was taken a year ago. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-9-2016-no-shepherding-today-raining-instead-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027481075-KY7ZC2J2U7Q5QWIPOBRF/DSCN0006-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - No shepherding today-raining instead Coming up through the dense gully on Saturday. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-7-2016-reprise-highway-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027510220-QQMUWMUGV3P0HJHVJNDN/May-7-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve May 7, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027495527-1F5DHTTFZCM3QZ0CMKE5/IMG_0343-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve P1: Pickup, near the north gate into the Highway Reserve. Hmmmm. What's my new plan??? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027495627-MNBTKOBF1YIVROA8MAG2/IMG_0346-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve P2: We'll graze down into the "bottom" of White Gum Wood, and go in the south gate to the Highway Reserve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027495726-7I6DILAEB7128PGW7VB3/IMG_0348-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve P3: Some of the young trees. I haven't been down here for a while and didn't realise how big they've grown :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027496062-BH3AVRLMPLX3ZN33DY73/IMG_0353-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve P4: Heading down into the infamous gorse gully. Thursday we came up the other side on the left of this photo. I'd dearly love to take them up on the right side where it's still quite rank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027496218-BP406KXMU0ZEWIAVBGZT/IMG_0358-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve P5: Hard to see, but they are about even now with the pickup point. A true closed circuit! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027497722-QPZL5LGA0MRBTJZC3F1O/IMG_0360-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve P6: ...through the quarry and down the face of the hill into Eeyore's Patch. Also part of the burn (and formally part of the Racecourse GA) Eeyore's used to have an impenetrable stand of variegated thistles. A couple of years of intensive shepherding and the thistles are only a shadow of their former selves. The east gate is open for them to head back up the hill, so we're done for the day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027506519-QRW8CDVWWAE8DTU9WINW/IMG_2371-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve Left to right: Clara, un-named ewe, Elf and HRH (Old Leader) grazing around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Reserve in March of last year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1471753027048-LJ00UEIGJ12YQS33QNEU/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - Reprise-Highway Reserve Elf in May 2015, Clara is behind him and I think that's Vicki on her right. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-5-2016-back-to-the-highway-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912315948-9Y0W6K8CZUITMIT4JIQ3/May-5-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve May 5, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912255623-KX82T9PF4B66XJVNQ6PJ/IMG_2728.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve This is Elf when he was about a year old. He had severe, crippling infantile arthritis as a lamb. With a fair bit of nursing and physical therapy he has "come right" and you wouldn't know he was crippled. Though he never was willing to take a bottle from me, he is now, at 2 years old, one of my most faithful friends in the flock. He often comes running up to me, and asks for a pet and a chat, putting his nose right up to mine. Needless to say, I adore him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912302135-AEHCK4KGTYX6ZMMDKO0Y/IMG_0319.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P1: Pickup. Top end of White Gum Wood. Now we'll head south to the Highway Reserve gate. Lovely sunny day and not too cold or windy yet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912302631-C1E5AZF2K2O8I41SDM89/IMG_0322.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P2: Into the Highway Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912302831-ECXPBHSQ2WTDG1AGEK9L/IMG_0325.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P3: A patch of everlasting daisies, refreshed by the rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912303132-38VWZ3B5NYTAPXIDBC2X/IMG_0328.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P4: Grazing down the whiling the gully. Dogs are on the top, right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912303221-LKWU1BKNV4K2KAR556SD/IMG_0330.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P5: The panorama shot ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912303521-GGCEAS0JYG8VHWI40EUR/IMG_0332.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P6: The one very narrow track through the gorse at the bottom of the gully. They followed me through! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912303666-WPKRJOT5ZQ2G7FVJNQP3/IMG_0335.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P7: Uphill and upwind--no more pushing required. We'll just follow them quietly and out the north gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912303935-WNHRUCY29KH3KAKVVM0M/IMG_0337.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P8: An almost completely native bank. This is why it's a bio-diverse reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912304049-LSZ320L60YFCQW9OM9XH/IMG_0339.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve P9: Out of the north gate and down through the quarry. Horatio's front centre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912304238-O5O06S9NJP3YD1V8QFSN/IMG_0341.jpg Come Shepherding - Back to the Highway Reserve In the quarry. This was Crown Land, now mine--used for building the new highway 1 about 20 years ago. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-4-2016-a-gentle-walk-through-white-gum-wood-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027509827-15I913M7H1NBP2WWWB1R/May-4-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood May 4, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027489738-RECXMKUXUAHEZAQUW81Q/IMG_0290-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P1: White Gums: remnant of pre-European settlement (200 years) vintage, now slowly dying of old age. Many of the new trees I've planted are meant to be replacements. No sheep in sight. I think they beat me to the SW end of the Grazing Area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027489830-GQMEGHXJN0OLPUILUUHX/IMG_0292-e1462337030546-500x341.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P2: As I thought. Nearly as far as it's possible to get from the house. Sheep are showing what the French shepherds call forward bias: grazing steadily in their chosen direction. They haven't seen us: we snuck around to the north of them. This is the direction I want to go, so I'm trying hard not to startle them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027489929-RYGIG6F2XAZT5NJ8JJ4Y/IMG_0294-e1462337152542-500x425.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P3: the back end of the flock, just finishing their mid-morning rumination. Our timing is perfect. Heading to the Highway Reserve now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027490356-0G0JU6CIIKZDHM55DBSX/IMG_0297-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P4: Leo, my mechanically-minded 2 year old. If sheep had Leggos, he'd be in it in a heartbeat. The red marker on his face is just so I can find named sheep more easily. I've decided it looks too much like blood, so I'm switching to another colour. Leo LOVES the Polaris Ranger, especially the wheels, which is a bit of a worry. He's not a bottle lamb, he just likes me. He'll pull on my pack straps or my shoelaces, or folds of my trousers to get my attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027490529-HCSFHM87SUMJCPVQRV85/IMG_0300-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P5: In the Highway Reserve, grazing into the wind. They need some persuasion to go all the way down the hill and into the gully, but once there were delighted with the fresh, lush forage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027492029-U987H1O44RTKTSOT3NKY/IMG_0306-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P6: Getting stuck into the diversity down in the gully. The gorse bushes are just coming into flower, and there was a bit of blossom-nibbling. Mostly, though, they seemed interested in the grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027492118-2F9RKA3PF0A5G7SHS3MI/IMG_0308-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P7: They really want to swing back around into the wind and uphill (to the left), so now I'm going to let them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027492227-QGATZCM5HM76M0YZ7TUL/IMG_0310-e1462337591878-500x445.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P8: They are really enjoying this fresh, if rather dense, stand of grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027492322-XY7SY6V6IBS72WUGU117/IMG_0313-e1462337650432-500x479.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P9: I don't know how well you can see it, but a large group has just discovered the wattles growing along the fence and are reaching to browse the branches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027492423-62ATX7I1HM1UVKWWEMGH/IMG_0315-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - A gentle walk through White Gum Wood P10: The rest of the mob heading back up the hill we just came down. We'll leave them to it and head home. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/may-2-2016-no-shepherding-today-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1471762135722-YKDEQDNPXVKIJNNTDQMS/image-asset.jpeg Come Shepherding - No shepherding today https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-28-2016-jetting-for-flystrike-instead-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912269617-VFTNE4UIC20C4HZJHZ5E/April-28-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead April 28, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912289043-KVBMD4PKN5ZUKPAS95CE/IMG_0269.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P1: Pickup, just through the gate from where I expected to find them. Interestingly, they came straight toward me when they saw me arrive--I think they're starting to remember that I often take them to good restaurants! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912289354-QYPW9WIAJCQMWJGKKXYW/IMG_0271.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P2: Moving across the flat, in the only bit of rain we had all day. That's my lovely Clara girl on the left, just hanging back to be with me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912289539-Z98SUDQQJGQTQDENINOY/IMG_0273.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P3: Change of plan--just spotted a flystruck ewe, so we're heading down to the wool shed to treat her and jet everybody. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912289639-3Y487V3TOS8XN80CWKQQ/IMG_0275.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P4: At the woolshed, setting up to jet the lot. I'll trim and hand treat the flyspeck one before she goes through, just be sure we kill all the little beasties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912289826-UUMYQ3UZX9DT0JLG44VR/IMG_0277.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P5: Finally getting my lunch at about 2pm--in the wool shed. Not quite what I'd pictured when I started out this morning. Still about 50 sheep plus the 9 rams to go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912290038-BIFO22ROPUVNRRYL7LDN/IMG_0279.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P6: The last lot heading back into the WG Grazing Area. The flystruck one is in the middle--all cleaned up and dosed twice. She should be fine, now. BTW, her short tail is not my doing; either she was born bob-tailed, or her mama may have chewed her little tail to get her to get up and drink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912290147-2VYO4QXSUJUODFCK3O9P/IMG_0282.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P7: Pickup in the Ram Paddock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912290363-J5WS47RO0YGAWJHWF4T8/IMG_0284.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P8: The rams looking gorgeous in the late afternoon sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912290661-ZPK0UA3HH3WDBYH2JSYL/IMG_0286.jpg Come Shepherding - Jetting for flystrike, instead P9: Rams all done and on their way back to the Ram Paddock. Phew! Long day, and still the dogs to run. I expect to sleep well tonight ;-) https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-27-2016-half-day-in-the-highway-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027441060-8N4UEE2X1O2WZCVBNGOX/April-27-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Half day in the Highway Reserve April 27, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027473330-K9PQ1U3RZQBWL9MP1V49/IMG_0253-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Half day in the Highway Reserve P1: Pickup. They're grazing in the flat where I was planning to take them first. Telepathy? Or just a good guess on my part? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027475026-RF7AZPCDS32P48HKN8EX/IMG_0255-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Half day in the Highway Reserve P2: Into the Highway Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027475187-AAZWEN1S90EMFERV06RF/IMG_0258-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Half day in the Highway Reserve P3: Into the NE corner of the Reserve, an area that seldom gets grazed, since it takes a sharp right turn from the gate to get there. The reddish grass in the foreground is kangaroo grass (themeda), Tasmania's only warm season (C4) grass. Mostly, though, the sheep are going for the briar rose hips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027444427-XVDLHUVD6C2P9ITAJC43/DSCN0060-1-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Half day in the Highway Reserve P4: Mmmmm. All that Vitamin C! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027475225-70B2JD0B384LUFXYCDY0/IMG_0263-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Half day in the Highway Reserve P5: Working out way out of the corner through a bit of scrub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027475370-P0PT9OSBA0WOCC0HR9VB/IMG_0265-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Half day in the Highway Reserve P6: Hawthorn berries, the inspiration for WGW yarn of the same colour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027475463-RH5G4PD2ZDY7JMQ6NIG4/IMG_0267-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Half day in the Highway Reserve P7: I'll leave them here now and trust the northeasterly wind will draw them back out by the end of the day. Though it was an abbreviated circuit today, it was well worth it for the scenery and seeing the good feed left in here. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-25-2016-anzac-day-in-the-white-gum-grazing-area-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912268719-PD2RIYS1NIFGC9AEU0DI/April-25-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area April 25, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912286140-LQG1YBXNERDDFIXDR0BT/IMG_0232.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area P1: Pickup. This is the old "drought lot", now open for them to graze. The fresh feed and NW wind have drawn them in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912286332-84PLE2DS1CSEND230EKK/IMG_0234.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area P2: An unexpected bonus--second breakfast! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912286543-FRAN0BZREMRLW4GCPT56/IMG_0238.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area P3: Horatio leading into the top of the Lucerne Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912286838-HGFKJ53MYN8IDJB50UQ4/IMG_0240.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area P4: Grazing the southern end of the lucerne. The really didn't want to come over the hill and down: going downwind AND downhill is always tricky. The dogs are having a breather, and so am I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912287148-W3TI0FGC6PSGOW8IINHG/IMG_0242.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area Horatio trying unsuccessfully to lead the flock into the wind. The old girls are lying down having a rest and declining to move. I know just how he feels! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912287338-BW5MVYC8HWEDVZS5NUHE/IMG_0244.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area P6: With a bit of dog power at the back, Horatio's got them coming with him. I like to think he appreciates my help and support of his leadership ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912287596-YEC832GCX1GOBQUJW8EJ/IMG_0247.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area P7: Alice has always been camera shy--that's her with no tail, second from the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912287630-WJ7V7BK8ZP81EK4K4YIU/IMG_0249.jpg Come Shepherding - ANZAC Day in the White Gum Grazing Area Heading up the laneway back into the White Gum Grazing Area. This is where we leave them for today. Back on Wednesday! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-23-2016-into-the-white-gum-grazing-area-via-the-burn-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912268650-O8QUJJGF9MRGPF06Z0IN/April-23-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn April 23, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912283750-HR670XJ1F6CTJ0V1YK33/IMG_0192.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P1: Pickup. You can see where we're headed--the revegetation area below the highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912283844-6LIPWQXH3P70TRVH9VCC/IMG_0194.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P2: Follow me! They are looking forward to whatever it is I'm heading for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912283985-QYSM7AZ74CZBN0UMN9XS/IMG_0198.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P3: We're taking a shortcut through the lucerne. They're eating the dry yellow bits along with the fresh new growth coming up underneath. Just a bit of scones and jam for morning tea before we get to the planned grazing for the day. Oh, and there are skylarks singing their hearts out overhead! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912284119-6I7MLP2X6IQ2XXF6F591/IMG_0201.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P4: Horatio. Looking statesmanlike, just like an aspiring political leader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912284474-ZNTIB20UCJ9OQZ5WXHFM/IMG_0205.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P5: Oops. Change of plan. I should have seen this coming! This is a purely run-off-filled hole, and with no run-off for months has been gradually drying up. Just not dry enough, darn it. Ironic to have muddy sheep when we're in "lowest on record" rainfall conditions... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912284839-Y2SKM55RRNZX0X3SVB8J/IMG_0207.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P6: An hour or so later, following a phone confab with my stockwoman friend Karen for the best approach to getting him out, I've got a loose roping noose over his head, and will drive my ute around to pull him out. Too firmly stuck for me to do it by hand. Plus, I nearly lost my left gum boot in the muck, trying to get closer. There I was teetering on my right foot (well down in the mud, too) and pulling up on my boot with my hands as well as trying to lift with my foot. Would have been a bit amusing to end up in the same predicament as the sheep! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912285148-K6Y43P4B5U89RCFQXMO5/IMG_0209.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P7: Ta-da! I was too busy getting the rope off the sheep to have time to take a photo of him free. He took off with several bounds, and, happily, away from the bog, not back into it! (Has been known to happen...) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912285242-W7FVSQP29U6BAW5A2PTV/IMG_0211.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P8 : Try-overs. We're at the southern end of the revegetation area, and they've had a lovely graze while I was mud-wrestling their friend. Now they're resting and ruminating, and I'm going to have a cuppa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912285726-KFU12J600K3DUREPMM6X/IMG_0215.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P9: Waiting for the sheep to finish ruminating and decide to move. This is Janie in a rare moment when she's not moving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912285823-TKWF1GKO3KR8OIAZQGYM/IMG_0218.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P10: Horatio following me, and way out in front of the flock. I'm being patient and letting the flock come to him without using the dogs (out of sight behind the sheep). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912286019-4744WPD1UUZGIQUZGDKU/IMG_0230.jpg Come Shepherding - Into the White Gum Grazing Area via the Burn P11: There's the muddy fellow. So, all present if not entirely correct, as they say in the military. The far gate of this paddock is open to the White Gum Grazing Area, so my work here is done for the day. We'll be back Monday for a circuit in a whole new area. Stay tuned. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-20-2016-full-day-back-to-the-lucerne-reserve-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912268523-0554ACP0Z5U4DIZ3NAR9/April-20-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve April 20, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912281732-VEV1E3E9L3RPHOAESQME/IMG_0167-e1461143944825.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P1: Into the lucerne. You can sort of see the yellow areas where the aphids are winning the grazing race. I'm pleased to see the sheep head down and grazing at this end first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912281817-1Q0O53EHETIR6LQQTPKP/IMG_0171-e1461144106807.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P2: Hehe. This looks like the sheep read the post and memorised the map--executing the eastern dashed arrow perfectly! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912282031-3C0O0MVJFUYXOZ1J2DG7/IMG_0173-e1461144898895.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P3: ...but what really happened was a dash to first one, then the other, water trough. It is already quite warm and I expect they'll settle to ruminate and rest before long. Wind, by the way, is SE, not the forecast NW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912282330-RYBFUIW2VDPJ502H3M4M/IMG_0175-e1461144842128.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P4: I try not to hurry the stragglers at a trough, unless there is good reason. For a sheep to drink its fill might take 1-2 minutes. To get all 500 watered, with no more than 10 fitting comfortably around a trough, would take close to 2 hours. Instead, what seems to happen is a sort of leap-frogging, where the thirstiest make it first to the trough, then the slower or shyer thisties hang back and drink while the flock moves on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912282533-HELZ4TUCAVGKFIRSHOZG/IMG_0177-e1461145037918.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P5: And here is the process in action. Sorry about the distance--I need a telephoto attachment for my iPad! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912282926-YTWL83V5KQBP4GFLCVZR/IMG_0179.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P6: Settling, but not yet "coiled"--mobbed up in small groups to rest. The dogs and I headed up the hill at this point to our favourite she-oak for a shady, breeze-wafted nap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912283034-C9R8XQGCRL7J9QE6ZHR4/IMG_0182.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P7: Tree violet (aptly named in this instance!) is a beautiful, spiny native shrub often mistaken for gorse. I think gorse has displaced it in many farming ecosystems. Sheep love tree violet and you usually see it pruned quite drastically, as here. Left ungrazed it grows quite tall, in lovely sculptured shapes. (Waiting for sheep that were not ready to move when I stopped to take this shot ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912283234-FUV01WRM6B8H0ES7CZ3I/IMG_0184-e1461145338637.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P8: Ok, the "crocodiles" are starting to move. The dogs (Janie and Chance) and I are headed down to turn the flock back north. Happily, the wind is shifting northerly, so that should help the run home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912283445-FRGZ7BD4GHS4UP26ITSA/IMG_0186-e1461145461632.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P9: They are well and truly over lucerne for the day and this is the only stretch of grass plus weeds on the way back, so I'm letting them enjoy it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912283625-UPSV0DJLQMPX2LY08IGQ/IMG_0188.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P10: Last gate, heading down into Curly Sedge Creek (named after the grass, not Mr Curly, but appropriate anyway!) There's no running water in the creek at the moment, of course, but it's still green, and they really settled down to it! Ta-da! back to the Racecourse Grazing Area, about 3:30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912271916-7VWLSE4ZFQ97X26EKPHM/DSCN0069.jpg Come Shepherding - Full day, back to the Lucerne Reserve P11: A highlight of the day--a male Flame Robin showing his stuff! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-18-16-another-trip-around-the-bottoms-of-the-racecourse-grazing-area-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027441068-T7UKTJVTUALZJX86V8C0/April-18-2016-1-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Another trip around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Grazing Area April 18, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027461918-60LRN3IWWDNL38SC0SF2/IMG_0150-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Another trip around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Grazing Area P1: Pickup. Note the short grass where we are (near the top of the hill), longer near the bottom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027462018-5BQILRBZGK0HTG08WRD1/IMG_0153-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Another trip around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Grazing Area P2: Grazing the "bottom" of the paddock. Not great, but much better than the short stuff higher up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027462119-X1JUU13YW63MWPWIF2VV/IMG_0156-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Another trip around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Grazing Area P3: I'm trying to limit the photos I send on instagram to a few really good ones. Couldn't resist this one turning the corner, right on track. There's a little bit of broom--woody, gorse-like weed--along there they really enjoyed. Just about the only patch of broom on the place! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027462221-DNEDVNCXPDBUXCIN7TSM/IMG_0158-500x625.jpg Come Shepherding - Another trip around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Grazing Area P4: A pretty good stretch of "bottom". They're quite liking it--slowed down and grazing steadily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027462328-N1LWTECL2UYAOVJ838TM/IMG_0161-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Another trip around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Grazing Area P5: It took a couple of tries to make the sharp right past the gate into this truly rank bit of cocksfoot. Phew! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027462826-4YL7O6CBKTF2FUUDD2OB/IMG_0165-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Another trip around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Grazing Area Still grazing well in the rank patch. Hooray! My shepherding mentor, Michel Meuret says, "Shepherding is NOT the same as gardening" , meaning you can't expect the animals to eat only the specific plants you want to "weed", but also acknowledging that the tighter you constrain the flock in their grazing, the less likely they are to settle and graze. Still, on days like today, it sure feels high precision, landing 500 sheep exactly where you want them, and having them agree to eat there! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027444529-NYZIDZAQI52KATM1TYR9/DSCN0060-500x375.jpg Come Shepherding - Another trip around the "bottoms" of the Racecourse Grazing Area P7: A close up with my good camera in the rank patch, so you can see them tackling the long grass. Don't let anyone tell you sheep will only eat where it's short--that's just a rationalisation for over-grazing! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-14-2016-lucerne-reserve-full-day-shepherd-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912268337-C9R8C35LMOYXGIFXHRIC/April-14-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd April 14, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912277125-XC6ETSZRY4H8GM0DQMX2/IMG_0114.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P1: Pickup. A bit later than planned--I got sucked into looking up family documents on the web before breakfast--just one more search...and ended up wasting about an hour of precious shepherding time. Never again :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912277224-Z2BT8Q0ZKF0RVSO26BMP/IMG_0116.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P2: Into the laneway from Curly Sedge Creek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912277717-6413O7EPIZHKQU1KD76W/IMG_0118.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P3: ...and a few minutes later into the lucerne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912278017-U7W2BR015OEZDP9041T1/IMG_0120.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P4: Headed to the first water trough. Although it's not the plan, I'm pleased we're going this direction in this part of the paddock and early in the day. Some of the best feed is here and in the afternoon we tend to rush through it. Hopefully they'll take their time this morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912278129-10HG81AG0JPTGO650K6A/IMG_0122.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P5: Alice on the right, having a drink. She stared me and the dogs down, daring us to push her away from the trough. Actually, the dogs and I turned around and walked the other way to take any sense of pressure off of Alice. She had a nice long drink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912278527-UX1B6KH0XESER7AA28SO/IMG_0124.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P6: Crossing the old fence line into the native pasture. Note the thistles on the old line. All of this was in the January fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912278618-C0AMQYVV55TB7NVU0B8F/IMG_0126.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd 7: native speargrass (austrostipa nodosa, though it may have a new scientific name...) gone to seed. Given the tough season, I'm ridiculously proud of this stand. Further evidence of the resilience of native ecosystems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912278720-LU9X60CJRUZY53MW0RMZ/IMG_0128.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P8: Browsing a briar rose in the gully. Nearly to the mid-day rest and water site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912278919-S7QKERA1MH0CMN3N6BSL/IMG_0130.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P9: Grazing up into the mid-day rest area. We'll see if they agree with me that noon is rest time today. The wind has come up quite strongly from the NE: 20+ kph. May interfere with my nap ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912279118-GXGEF5D14QKAHTB6LXJJ/IMG_0132.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P10: My favourite rest spot, under a gnarled she-oak (casuarina). I'll try to hunker down out of the wind. I did put in an extra jacket this morning, but didn't imagine I'd want it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912279217-IWXCMX4VV8TDT403W048/IMG_0134.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P11: The flock finally settled about 12:45. Now it's 2 and I'm ready to go, but as usual, they aren't. I'll start sneaking around the downwind side (south) to be ready head back when the sheep decide to move. A family of fairy wrens came to visit my she-oak while I was dozing. What a treat! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912279417-K60TJ4AZCB7R1J5EOSPU/IMG_0138.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P12: Horatio in the middle, lying down. Not ready to move yet. H is going to be the new flock leader, I'm pretty sure--so it would help right now if he'd get up and saunter to the front! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912279617-FO1KN27TOVZ398RHWOTG/IMG_0143.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P13: Trying to work them into this ungrazed gully. Tricky because it's downhill and quite narrow and steep at the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912279924-YYWZYQT5P1DJYHUV0RL7/IMG_0144.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P14: Ta-da! In the gully! They had a surprisingly good graze down in the gully and up either side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912280117-POCQS2XO6VMIMXV6R9ZK/IMG_0146.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P15: Back into the lucerne, with alacrity! They grazed well, but I have to confess to hurrying them along a bit, since it was getting late in the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912280429-I1WPZ0Z024FCHNOWUZP6/IMG_0148.jpg Come Shepherding - Lucerne Reserve, full-day shepherd P16: Ooops. Nearly forgot the final shot. You can just see the mob heading back into the Racecourse Grazing Area. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-13-2016-racecourse-grazing-area-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912268164-0F5QO6MW7I17IDZ1T3W3/April-13-2016.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area April 13, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912275216-8NCF2DGJFH3P49X06BC2/IMG_0093.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area Pickup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912275824-P22VHK6FFRV8UV9ND8P3/IMG_0095.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area Clara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912276115-CZDB6LUWDWVSZBNSG8C6/IMG_0097.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area Elf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912276416-GYGU63TJABFGL8RWFTFI/IMG_0101.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area Vicki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912276518-43AFG0W2Q31NQND92ZFK/IMG_0103.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area Clara in the foreground, with the flock grazing northward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912276645-YIFURZE5F0GWJXME4VFH/IMG_0105.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area The longer grass in the "bottom" of the paddock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912276717-33MTIDXSA2NR1XHFUCN1/IMG_0107.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area On the final leg, with the sheep cheating uphill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912276816-AILAUDE20XZ2NNLAHU3G/IMG_0109.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area Next-to-last gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912276920-R0Q892MK8RMD38KHRGJL/IMG_0112.jpg Come Shepherding - Racecourse Grazing Area ...ta-da! Sheep bending to me into the last gate. Water and rest await them at the top of the hill behind me. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-11-2016-chilly-with-showers-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912268036-6X2U7XRFO9WBEO623F3A/April-11-2016-1.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers April 11, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912274217-H44IX9YE0OUCJY4D5BMB/IMG_0068.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P1: Pickup. The top of this hill is a favourite gathering spot--high ground and a lot of chicory, hence the overgrazed look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912274437-FXD92VU5O8YDQTVXLQHX/IMG_0076.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P2: Into the lucerne. Heads down and grazing immediately. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912274530-JYJ7RDBH1NS4CEOD4ZOC/IMG_0079.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P3: Horatio leading leading through the next gate into the big lucerne paddock. I think he will probably become the next flock leader... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912274619-76YSFFI5W83Q8KWGHLYJ/IMG_0081.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P4: Free graze to the southern boundary fence of this paddock. Stragglers keep returning for a drink at the troughs near me, even though they had access just ½ hour ago in the pickup paddock! Kinda like kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912274719-SO4WA5OMB63KPNT2K2PY/IMG_0084.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P5: Last of the stragglers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912274917-GY8H3XEIXHXFY4LD4JGR/IMG_0086.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P6: Turning back north. They've been happily grazing into the southerly breeze, but it's time to start heading back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912275125-EKFNCJERV6WT8A59XVNX/IMG_0088.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P7: The lucerne has a moderate case of bugs, most likely aphids and/or red-legged mites--the wages of a monoculture crop!--and exacerbated by the extended dry of March and April. My approach is to get the sheep to eat it before the bugs do! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912270917-Y6I8W22UQZF43BWLEW6N/DSCN0061.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P8: Having pretty much had their fill of lucerne by now, these enterprising sheep are actually eating thistle rosettes in the gully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912291048-0U7DMCV0302JN19640U9/IMG_4082.jpg Come Shepherding - Chilly with showers P9: Leaving the lucerne. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-7-2016-moving-to-racecourse-grazing-area-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027443777-YZUPDGGEFO8IHVZ4CTV0/April-7-2016-2-500x667.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area April 7, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027447425-LO4KL0BUWJQOQCTAKOWB/IMG_0010-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P1: Pickup point. I guessed wrong about where the sheep would be! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027447543-TCM0SS4LZDSIADXXJKB3/IMG_0015-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P2: First gate, out of Old Cabin paddock, into Waterfall Gully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027447720-L8BL62KS8VZJV5TZ4UCC/IMG_0036-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P3: Second gate--into the lucerne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027447820-AU9QVKSG4ER813092G33/IMG_0040-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P4: Free graze with water access in the lucerne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027447918-AEDYRTMMU1VBD3A6TQH5/IMG_0046-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P5: Grazing "with intent" before mid-day rest. They are nearly "over" lucerne and are heading for the native grass above the old fence line. This is all in the area that burned in January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027448019-0OE20H675MU4QCDOS8FH/IMG_0048-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P6: Close to the end of mid-day rest. Time to make a move. The dogs and I also had naps :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027448424-URDNOY9K1HTXETPN28NK/IMG_0054-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P7: Mixing it up with some grass and herbs to balance the lucerne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027450520-G7GE05LQGSG0LEV19SIJ/IMG_0060-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P8: Third gate--out of the lucerne and into the laneway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470027450718-YP3JW34LHMTHVUYJBGAO/IMG_0064-500x500.jpg Come Shepherding - Moving to Racecourse Grazing Area P9: Done shepherding for the day--flock heading into fresh forage in the Racecourse Grazing Area https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/come-shepherding/april-4-2016-beautiful-autumn-day-final monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912269916-X48D2ZEM1D8BJHVYT7WZ/April-4-2016.jpg Come Shepherding - Beautiful Autumn Day April 4 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912290833-CAJXC7CD82GJ0196GWIN/IMG_4065.jpg Come Shepherding - Beautiful Autumn Day Starting out--Horatio and Clara at the first gate, dogs in backgroun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912270417-AB5Q27OL03VTT6NLLGH0/DSCN0034.jpg Come Shepherding - Beautiful Autumn Day Stalled at the top of the hill, facing west. 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Photo credit: Flea McShane and her adorable tiny drone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761648583820-NEESP5664YC7VYBVGJP4/Cloudfall+blanket+pdf+for+product.jpg Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Sallyravels Cloudfall Blanket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761648595128-4HRH8KY6QYAGY3V5NFXY/Nanaimo+by+Nan.JPG Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Tara-Lyn Morrison's Nanaimo Cardigan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761648589796-OL2BDW9PE6ER5431R5EE/Viv+finished+blanket.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Vivienne Bunt's Garter Stitch Blanket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761535643703-2SS06EKYRELBD11Q7REE/Beanie+from+Brenda+Graham.jpg Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Brenda Graham: 8 ply storm, hawthorn, wild orchid and gum grey Colour work pattern from Doodle Knit Directory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761535648932-RJGNDBJ51EUHTRCI9R8O/IMG_2177.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Lyn Bender: Ashmore 8 ply Ashmore 8 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761535657403-SY877ZERXIV2QNK58NU2/Laura+Hartman+Cardigan.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Laura Hartman: 10 ply Peachberry Peachberry 10 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761535685517-XG4MHHQY9WDHPQ5RQ8FI/Scarf+from+Stephen+Auer+STU.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Stephen Auer: Silver Tussock 4 ply Silver Tussock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761535677095-AOWSKEXW7R4Q9FBZE8JW/Scarf+from+Stephen+Auer+ASH.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Stephen Auer: Ashmore 4 ply Ashmore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761535691277-4DK7L0N7PLM2ZWQ4JXTQ/Throw+from+Denise+SmithMG_1600.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Denise Smith: Silver Wattle 8 ply Silver Wattle 8 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1761535668264-QAYTQ0QNS243V26QQUFD/Cardigan+from+Lyn+Belder.JPG Yarns from the farm - Yarn edition: Rope yarn — the silk purse from a sow's ear - Cloudfall Blanket for Davey, my lovely stockman. Wild Orchid rope yarn. Made for my lovely stockman Davey after he retired. 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Rocky, my pet lamb from last year, is in the foreground. He, Freddie and Zac are all part of the extended lambing flock. Freddie and Zac are brothers to the lambing ewes, who are distinguishable by the green dots on their bottoms. I planned to use those dots to help me find the ewes in the main flock when they were spread out in a big paddock. The green dots were at least very useful when I ended up having to pull the ewes out of the main flock well before lambing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/87e60ec9-9ce5-457b-b751-f00a7f302a45/IMG_0050.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Pastoral Care: Lambing - Make it stand out Mama and baby after 2 days in the ‘mothering-off’ pen, starting their hour-long slow walk back to the lambing flock. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2025/8/2/first-yarn-edition-silk-merino-4-ply monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1496282120330-WNIA20YOH9W8W84TVIFI/Inverto-RestlessKnitter-B.jpg Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply - Make it stand out From Nicole: Like my popular Reversus hat, Inverto Mitts are similarly knit inside-out to maximise the use of the knit stitch for a quick and easy project. Only the lace panel is worked in purl. Once finished, turn your mitts inside-out to reveal the pretty lace panel nestled in a bed of reverse stocking stitch. Designed for White Gum Wool 4ply, a lofty and surprisingly warm 100% sustainable Australian merino yarn. Expertly hand-dyed by Augustbird Yarns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1607734857385-NOZG5HM18X4N6DYJJWJ9/Maeve%27s+garden+-+Mel+Harrison.jpg Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply - Make it stand out From Mel: Maeve’s Garden is inspired by the wonder small children have when exploring their world. It is a heavily textured design with lots of bobbles, popcorns and puffs combined with front and back post stitches to create interesting twists and surprises. Maeve’s Garden is a complex level pattern that requires focus, concentration and counting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/834b30dd-e6ad-4e74-afc3-5d00fc72da24/Rebecca+Truly+Myrtle+s%3Am4+ply+jumper.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply - Make it stand out From designer Libby Jonson (Truly Myrtle): Just like her sister cardigan who stole so many hearts, Floozy Too is deliciously comfy, with a great big splash of “ooh la la”. She’s the sweater for leaping, wandering and feeling incredible. She’s moody, beguiling, fantastic with jeans, and she’s pretty jolly fabulous over dresses and skirts too. Knitted from the top down, so you can try her on as you go, Floozy Too uses slipped stitches to create her stunning colourful yoke.You’ll just work one colour per row! Nothing complicated, just simple, easy knitting that’s suitable for every level of knitter. Her relaxed fit makes Floozy Too the sweater you’ll reach for day after day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1755992874096-7XG6WYMU0DAEH38CEEN9/2025+07+sm+2+cakes+Chocolate+Lily+%28DSC08279%29.JPG Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1756121440105-MA1CCLUOFMGVRWPNO0RQ/image_50754049+%28Choc_Lily_spread%29.JPG Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1755992887724-5L4I244PCDGZBTHH2YIE/image_50800129+%28Pixel_Life%29.JPG Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1755992899752-STAREA6Y57IASBE2RWTX/image_123650291+%28Choc_Lily%29.JPG Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1755396218096-JI4TG1DTH3VH0RMH4ITH/Augustbird+yarn+1.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1755396223398-99T2HKPLV64JTH7NE96K/Augustbird+yarn+2.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1755396276086-FR3EOLKX3DID0NUQEAAC/Augustbird+yarn+3.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1755396283812-HX501VIRPYGU3VQZEWPX/Augustbird+yarn+4.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Yarn Edition: Silk Merino 4 ply https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2025/6/15/nqs-not-quite-shepherding monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/68d25147-8e4b-4908-b6b2-f2f570489842/IMG_9727.jpeg Yarns from the farm - NQS: Not Quite Shepherding - Make it stand out Allan and Carol celebrating the win with me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/244f91d6-089b-4640-b177-029af76085ce/IMG_9700.jpeg Yarns from the farm - NQS: Not Quite Shepherding - Make it stand out The freshly-pressed bales of greasy wool cheek by jowl with cartons of yarn. There were even more cartons inside the wool shed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/308c84a9-2c33-44c3-a4db-8bce36094818/YARN_COL+CARD-10ply.jpeg Yarns from the farm - NQS: Not Quite Shepherding - Make it stand out The expanded colour range in 100% merino 10 ply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/866a7586-200f-4e5f-bc42-5eb31f733d59/IMG_9734.jpeg Yarns from the farm - NQS: Not Quite Shepherding - Make it stand out Joker and Pearl in the background. This is one of our favourite lookouts, not least because it’s the right height for ageing knees, and also has some small creature burrowing under it, keeping Fly occupied! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/f11d9e7d-baf6-4a34-a5b8-14979303c827/IMG_9823.jpeg Yarns from the farm - NQS: Not Quite Shepherding - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2025/4/6/catching-up monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/3a0ca504-42ca-4a01-b39b-35bf700f723e/IMG_8971.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Catching Up - Make it stand out One of the first lambs on the ground. The campylobacter epidemic didn’t start until part way through lambing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/2395532b-c2e4-475f-a3c5-bbbfcad8aaf8/IMG_9004.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Catching Up - Make it stand out Rocky at about 3 days old, in his favourite sheltered spot on the back porch. That’s one of Fly’s toys keeping him company. There was a LOT of laundry done in the early weeks! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/9c6b774a-8be0-4234-a59d-67dfe71891fb/IMG_9532.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Catching Up - Make it stand out Rocky coming to see me a few days ago. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2024/8/11/call-the-midwife monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/778a07f2-be37-4294-8a7a-750f05213764/IMG_8893.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Call the Midwife - Make it stand out The mothers-to-be looking beautiful in the evening light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/0854219a-cb41-4bd5-ac9f-68a10295b860/IMG_1592.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Call the Midwife - Make it stand out Zac in his wooly jacket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/8abc7de4-7d3a-4713-af82-42bc49dd6e47/IMG_5077.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Call the Midwife - Make it stand out Freddie learning to eat the roses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/5ae17506-4744-4ebf-ab52-1f6aa19d0ddc/IMG_7237.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Call the Midwife - Make it stand out Zac last year at age 5, carefully eating a scotch thistle blossom https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2024/6/9/when-the-grass-is-ready-to-burn monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2024/5/6/shearing-marathon monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/b38c479b-37be-4b10-8655-ff15249b0002/IMG_8557.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Shearing Marathon - Make it stand out Fly watching her sheep we take the first contingent into the shed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/dcd2a2f9-74b7-47fd-8f1c-c3e6484c36c0/IMG_8343.JPG Yarns from the farm - Shearing Marathon - Make it stand out Freddie second in the shearing queue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/d206f5c6-2c03-4d44-9e31-231ef2f0b5bb/IMG_7440.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Shearing Marathon - Make it stand out The fleece just hit the table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/a487ba27-4fc8-4d95-8316-3fb633b7bddd/IMG_7491.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Shearing Marathon - Make it stand out Bales mounting up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/bc98365f-cfaf-46a4-9897-125299c875bc/IMG_8570.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Shearing Marathon - Make it stand out In my twenties, hiking in the High Sierra mountains of California. Due to inattention on my part, we were lost for several hours before stumbling onto the right trail. My grin of relief says it all. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2024/4/21/pure-blind-luck monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/49bbefe3-929c-4c7a-80e6-086ce195004b/IMG_8530.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Pure Blind Luck - Make it stand out After the tackle, and with the sheep cuffs on! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/ec5dd7a3-6c7a-4776-a4a9-80330cfb5274/IMG_8518.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Pure Blind Luck - Make it stand out The posts and flagging tape marking the unused graves. It was a good thing we covered them! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1db1b746-d2cd-42b2-b4b7-e9493fdc774f/20180824_144517.jpg Yarns from the farm - Pure Blind Luck - Make it stand out The deep rip lines at planting in 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/c241c642-1ab7-4e3c-9f5e-cb17aa2ddd48/IMG_8533.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Pure Blind Luck - Make it stand out The lift gate in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/e8cfaf4a-955c-43ce-b958-c9f82df96124/IMG_8546.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Pure Blind Luck - Make it stand out Meet and greet with the rest of the assisted living crowd. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2024/3/15/kangaroo-dogs monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/9e657836-a3a5-459b-a588-126120dcd887/IMG_8190.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Kangaroo Dogs - Make it stand out Fly looking cool, calm and collected watching her sheep. If you look closely, you can see the long lead that is keeping her with me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/2e88743c-f547-4fab-9c56-e2ef1b0c55b1/IMG_8186.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Kangaroo Dogs - Make it stand out Fly and Pearl near the top yards a few days earlier, having just moved sheep through https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2024/2/4/thank-goodness-for-the-fireys monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/04d251c4-718c-4aa1-84cd-a1d12f5e4918/IMG_6431.JPG Yarns from the farm - Thank goodness for the fireys! - Make it stand out The tree reserve in 2020, age 8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/a1e7aa11-ff39-44c4-814f-3d1cc5da363b/IMG_8268.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Thank goodness for the fireys! - Make it stand out The power pole that looks like the source of the fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/d5bc60ed-a742-4afd-91fb-db73654a82fe/IMG_8246.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Thank goodness for the fireys! - Make it stand out One of the water-bombing helicopters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/34f8ca66-1b34-42ec-8e85-a265a631327e/IMG_8264.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Thank goodness for the fireys! - Make it stand out The scene at midnight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/c8f0e050-dc73-4544-a00e-c75176f46876/IMG_8278.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Thank goodness for the fireys! - Make it stand out Old white gum stump still burning the following morning—note the unburnt long grass! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2023/12/29/life-is-uncertain-eat-dessert-first monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/eeb47846-c34d-47c5-b955-af02ce57e5db/IMG_8132.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Life is uncertain--eat dessert first! - Make it stand out Cabbage gum (eucalyptus pauciflora) with Christmas beetle pollinators https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/4507c577-105f-4f89-a3bc-37deb85b3dc2/IMG_7903.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Life is uncertain--eat dessert first! - Make it stand out Mama and joey Bennett’s wallabies in my back yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/7cc6520b-f2ac-4c5a-a64e-133811703528/IMG_8117.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Life is uncertain--eat dessert first! - Make it stand out Abundance in action. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2023/12/15/vale-davey-carnes monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/46a799d1-4bde-44fa-bdde-d8012009722e/DSCN0025.JPG Yarns from the farm - Remembering Davey Carnes - Make it stand out Davey on top of Table Mountain on his 79th birthday, 2006. His family lived on Table Mountain for several years when he was young. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/37e4a1fe-7eef-4097-b0eb-fe15ee31382e/IMG_1577.JPG Yarns from the farm - Remembering Davey Carnes - Make it stand out Davey with Chance and Janie in the Polaris, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/945306e9-8b88-453f-ba69-181d7dbb20cd/DSCN6173.JPG Yarns from the farm - Remembering Davey Carnes - Make it stand out Davey with Ted, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/d5f1da9a-7826-493d-9a99-d70ffc77952c/Davey%26Pip.jpg Yarns from the farm - Remembering Davey Carnes - Make it stand out Pip Courtney and Davey, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1702716121636-PKVFE4C0R3PVDHK39CC1/DSCN0020.JPG Yarns from the farm - Remembering Davey Carnes - Make it stand out Davey considered eagles his totem. He would always stop to watch them, and I’d like to think he imagined flying with them over the country that he so loved. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2023/abclandline-the-wgw-story monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468305447069-KGH9DTHS71MH6L9G05G7/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - ABC Landline: the WGW story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2023/2/19/a-new-twist-on-a-10-year-old-yarn monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/98bc0214-6cde-44c1-ae48-1dd372f0f8ac/8+ply+YFTF.jpg Yarns from the farm - Introducing WGW 10 ply Aran Yarn - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/25d747fb-df30-4524-988a-0402753f822d/new+10+ply+YFTF.jpg Yarns from the farm - Introducing WGW 10 ply Aran Yarn - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/2450fa63-8ffe-4c79-a956-64e98f468f1e/WGW-colour-card-10plyARAN_2023.jpg Yarns from the farm - Introducing WGW 10 ply Aran Yarn - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2023/2/19/meet-apple-blossom-and-rose-hip monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1677038060210-5ORFYX3LSKW2HL3NJ9FJ/Apple+blossom2.jpg Yarns from the farm - Meet Apple Blossom and Rose Hip - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/e652a228-df56-48ab-a9bc-67606182f186/Rose+Hip.jpg Yarns from the farm - Meet Apple Blossom and Rose Hip - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/24866ab5-96a3-4463-ace2-1bbdc80cca4b/tempImageqkGxP7.jpg Yarns from the farm - Meet Apple Blossom and Rose Hip - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/82fa7b9b-325f-4085-9750-b9a3ba9904ff/tempImageyoGTwp.jpg Yarns from the farm - Meet Apple Blossom and Rose Hip - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/11/19/the-making-of-a-landline-episode monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/bf8bf018-bb31-412e-b6fc-1e269a426cc6/B3FA9685-A345-4EA8-9330-7791824DDD58_1_201_a.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Making of a Landline Episode - Make it stand out We had 2 inches of snow the day before filming began, on top of several weeks of rain. So keeping sheep dry for crutching was a challenge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/81685f1b-07d4-4db0-ba8a-5bdae9c1d3b3/tempImageQCRrjB.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Making of a Landline Episode - Make it stand out Nan, Pip, Dave and Karen in front of the stand-up shearing platform. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/8/14/lessons-from-a-sheep-pup monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/cbe35528-5586-4e3e-bc5b-7bff5a9b6cfc/9810734C-A00C-4268-BBD2-8208BFC8BB9D.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Lessons from a sheep-pup - Make it stand out Fly and Pearl on our way to the first working session. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/3eca1762-b78c-4bc8-a054-15781b6cc6e8/Fly+at+waterhole.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Lessons from a sheep-pup - Make it stand out Fly looking bright-eyed and ready for anything! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/6869638f-5079-4c98-ae1f-36df8c910127/D0DDD800-5E7E-460B-912C-00EED2AC0D27.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Lessons from a sheep-pup - Make it stand out Fly being well-behaved and attentive to my voice at home—without distractions! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/8/14/burning-for-biodiversity monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/3f419cb8-9f1b-472b-beb1-8f1195c202c7/379F9F49-23B0-4092-9453-E1055AA71248_1_201_a.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Burning for Biodiversity - Make it stand out The end result of an (accidental) hot burn in January 2016. The dark triangles were 3-year old tree plantings, of which only the eucalypts survived, and they looked dead! The tree reserve on the left lost all but the mature eucalypts as well. The fire started on the highway, presumably with a lighted cigarette. It burned hot enough to vaporise the plastic tree guards in the new plantings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/0a2ae36d-1f80-4311-a3c1-6438e455172e/A230268A-F248-4620-AF4B-1EE5D9D89CD3_1_201_a.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Burning for Biodiversity - Make it stand out On the margin between this year’s burn to the left, and regrowth of last year’s burn to right. That’s Blaze’s nose at the lower left. Fly and Pearl are blending in with the burned bits in the middle of the shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/0ae5757f-f4eb-4d96-bb90-8846cdf0c449/86E643D4-04D2-42A2-A721-B10C723C8939_1_201_a.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Burning for Biodiversity - Make it stand out The 30 or so acres we just finished burning. We’ll continue in this paddock until we’ve done another 70 or 80 acres, or until fire permits are required! That’s Fly, my new puppy, in the foreground, along with Joker. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/7/24/i-can-explain monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/3c444d92-0567-436c-8074-ca796dec1588/IMG_8115.JPG Yarns from the farm - I can explain... - Make it stand out Shearer Dave Acheson’s smithfields Roger (left) and Alva (right) resting up during a hard day in the shed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/b9c2e814-a589-4e67-a5c9-f422e347f22e/Shorn+sheep+Eagle+Ridge+2022.jpg Yarns from the farm - I can explain... - Make it stand out Shorn sheep on Eagle Ridge. The native cutting sags (lomandra longifolia) provide additional shelter from the wind. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/6/18/the-great-wombat-sheep-poo-caper monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/cea6ea99-300f-47f6-9495-d93205e3eeb5/IMG_5579.JPG Yarns from the farm - The Great Wombat Sheep Poo Caper - Make it stand out Shorn sheep sheltering from the elements in the holding shed. The main reason for having a holding shed, though, is to keep woolly sheep dry for shearing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/e254f0c7-b786-4176-a9a0-56f0abde000e/IMG_5594.JPG Yarns from the farm - The Great Wombat Sheep Poo Caper - Make it stand out First sighting of the under-shed wombat in September 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/844e5003-560e-4bfd-a16a-157e162198f3/IMG_8027.JPG Yarns from the farm - The Great Wombat Sheep Poo Caper - Make it stand out The fully-compacted wombat-assist section after removing the grating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/79768f7d-84c6-4857-a5fc-7e33e9c41998/IMG_8058.JPG Yarns from the farm - The Great Wombat Sheep Poo Caper - Make it stand out My heavy-duty wet/dry vac on the ute’s lift gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/0c5e11e4-92dd-469a-aafc-99adb2ebb129/IMG_8077.JPG Yarns from the farm - The Great Wombat Sheep Poo Caper - Make it stand out The specially chosen garden cart, with just the right wheel base to fit on the lift-gate. While not as nifty a tool as the vac, it’s much more efficient in terms of shifting big volumes of poo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/78bf66e5-79f1-468a-b66d-629ebaea41fa/IMG_8061.JPG Yarns from the farm - The Great Wombat Sheep Poo Caper - Make it stand out A partial ute-load. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/4/17/choose-your-weapons-wisely monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1650146986570-IB8A7RSU2711NIV3ZP9H/Hierarchy+of+Scientific+Evidence.jpg Yarns from the farm - Choose Your Weapons Wisely: Disinformation and you - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/4/4/shoshin-the-beginners-mind monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/47afbd1d-2528-4a3a-9b66-c9288baf59d3/377CEACE-1787-4B59-A8F7-0F50313BE6B7.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Shoshin: Wisdom of the Beginner's Mind - Make it stand out The tank for the deterrent chemical. Sheep on the left have been jetted. On the right, they’re waiting their turn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/9b1532bd-447e-4864-9e69-54ba4e362c31/DSCN0013.JPG Yarns from the farm - Shoshin: Wisdom of the Beginner's Mind - Make it stand out Mid-summer crutching of a ewe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/ee0d4ee3-6e01-41a0-a153-83d7c870d92e/IMG_7567.JPG Yarns from the farm - Shoshin: Wisdom of the Beginner's Mind - Make it stand out Sheep after jetting—you can see the line of damp wool down their spine. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/3/19/changing-of-the-guard monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/3ef6aac3-1ad5-4f08-9ee9-801abaf8580a/DSCN0036.JPG Yarns from the farm - Changing of the Guard - Make it stand out From left: Pearl, Joker, Flynn, Janie, Blaze, with Jax in front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/413b8d04-70c8-44c7-b0c9-810df12f2c67/DSCN0595.jpg Yarns from the farm - Changing of the Guard - Make it stand out From left: Oreo, Flash (in back), Pearl the Elder, Mac, Sis, Bear, Luke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/a9c432c8-854a-4e1c-9417-1db4bfa4f8d4/DSCN6307.JPG Yarns from the farm - Changing of the Guard - Make it stand out Mac on left, and Chance moving the flock up out of Waterfall Gully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/d422067d-f888-4c47-a240-30c5bbf16a9d/DSCN0010.JPG Yarns from the farm - Changing of the Guard - Make it stand out Janie resting up during an early shepherding day. Janie and Chance (brother and sister) were the first dogs I re-trained for shepherding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/18c4ef0e-cce7-42c7-b4c4-acece0c61ba1/DSCN0003.JPG Yarns from the farm - Changing of the Guard - Make it stand out Pearl (the younger). When she was born, her head was pure white, like her namesake great-grandma. Then she went cinnamon, salt and pepper! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/b9592517-c901-468a-80da-3a4bfb1fe867/IMG_7857.jpg Yarns from the farm - Changing of the Guard - Make it stand out The new girl, in my right hand. Good omen. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/3/6/who-gets-to-say monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2022/2/13/truth-or-consequences-disinformation-misinformation-and-you monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2021/12/18/gifts monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/01dc7113-a4ce-4c44-8457-ceb6b744d59e/9BF6F692-8BB8-4783-811A-B4931D1C42C3_1_201_a.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Gifts - Make it stand out The scene of the rescue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/41e85d59-64db-4b16-8c65-9dbb2f51d3f2/238FA298-E374-443A-B2E9-AC4B406EFD53.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Gifts - Make it stand out Wedge-tailed eagle atop his favourite stump on Eagle Ridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/c2aaf4fd-841e-48da-bc95-0fe19a8f5e2e/847B7FE5-4906-416A-8B22-59DE22D02A87.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Gifts - Make it stand out One of my many house wallabies, trying to decide what to eat first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/3408ffa6-e239-48fb-a095-9d6a8e9e7857/1B915F36-D75F-487D-9F14-CF32A55BBCC5.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Gifts - Make it stand out The scarlet robin nest on top of the wind chimes, seen from my bathroom window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/b2b58990-ca8d-4a94-9fb7-015b5e5d59a0/A08A48C9-D9E9-4C56-B659-F97B7A1FB55F.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Gifts - Make it stand out One of the teenage scarlet robins near the kennels at sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/aa2526b4-f7ce-44bf-aab7-25fbcda73fd4/3C4D128F-7F78-4BF1-8FC9-9852BDDA68CC.jpg Yarns from the farm - Gifts - Make it stand out Freddie waiting for Mary Jane to bring the bottle, damn it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1639818792965-HQ8G29KQN7K98EKV9RS3/4E656894-CA99-4F2B-9695-B3E66347EF84_1_201_a.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Gifts - Make it stand out The family ranch in southern Idaho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1639816853604-2H4R6VZPFUZERGBE4VSU/EC20C9EF-1060-428C-A3AD-94E3399280D3.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Gifts - Make it stand out Migratory flame robins in autumn. They perch on the fence and hopscotch along it, playing tag. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2021/8/29/slow-wool monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1630805053626-FIG7Z7A9TBHZD8PJOJFF/F7031CD7-BD1A-43E8-B101-B2EA03EE80A1_1_201_a.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Slow Wool - Make it stand out Pearl and me having a snooze during summer shepherding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1630802235735-TEJSIWZSAUZ1E0ESH3ND/BBEEAAB0-7EEF-4A4A-A23D-39D046A7FB7C.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Slow Wool - Make it stand out Bringing the platform in through the wool shed loading bay with a ‘tele handler’ forklift a neighbour kindly lent me. The platform weighs about 700 kg or 1500 pounds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1630802448697-UPFW7SIQI5NXYNZ7R3GT/2818311A-47CE-4425-B23E-CA32962936EE.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Slow Wool - Make it stand out The platform on its ‘gurney’ to move it across the shed to its new home on the shearing boards. 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Photo: Nan Bray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1628334281991-5FVRDFQCZFBMMH0XVE6X/5B111F9D-270A-4F2A-98B1-0C1A8CD6CBFF.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Enhancing Biodiversity: Bush Tucker - Make it stand out One of many species of bush tomato plants. Photo: Nan Bray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1628337072414-RZG95H1RPZYV1PCJ6WM2/IMG_1335.JPG Yarns from the farm - Enhancing Biodiversity: Bush Tucker - Make it stand out Sturt’s Desert Rose, a variety of hibiscus. 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He’s a boyfriend of Vicki’s—both 7 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1612247628057-90EJF28KBUYHJOD5K063/IMG_6717.jpg Yarns from the farm - Dancing With the Sheep Freddie, the youngest of the named sheep, hanging back from the flock to walk with me. How sweet is that? https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2020/10/16/climate-change-series-recap monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1602804215416-4M2QE0RKMNPJ9JNJOELA/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Climate Change Series Recap https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2020/9/10/a-sunburnt-country monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1599696540085-SBKMP6FMHTO3Y7UY75WJ/FFDI++%3E+40+Figure.jpg Yarns from the farm - A Sunburnt Country The figure is from R. M. B. Harris, T. Remenyi, P. Fox-Hughes, P. Love, H. E. Phillips, N. L. Bindoff 2017: An assessment of the viability of prescribed burning as a management tool under a changing climate: a Tasmanian case study. Peer reviewed research proceedings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC & AFAC conference Sydney, 4 – 6 September 2017. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2020/8/21/of-drought-and-flooding-rains monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2020/7/23/runoff-and-water-supplies monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1595482198169-SELJS8LFITFMUU6RJV40/page3image3604534848.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Runoff and Water Supplies https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2020/6/3/rainfall-evaporation-and-desertification monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1591158014860-615ERBODFL6Y2CL2O513/Baseline+table+SI+June.jpg Yarns from the farm - Rainfall, Evaporation and Desertification https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2020/5/15/shepherding-final-exam monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1589540186242-150YS7MQ46BWYJHHTWWZ/IMG_0393.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding Final Exam Enjoying briar rose hips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1589540538286-RSXGG7YKMMJVOCCVCTNI/IMG_6315.JPG Yarns from the farm - Shepherding Final Exam Freddie and Zac browsing in a tree reserve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1589540640586-TR1W120GQEVSFY3G3DSB/IMG_6211.JPG Yarns from the farm - Shepherding Final Exam Blaze, Joker and Pearl cooling off during a big run. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2020/5/7/if-you-dont-like-the-heat-get-out-of-the-kitchen monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1588832394352-KSPDEC8FCNPYCD3YDZTL/SI+MAY+graphic+2_col_copy.jpg Yarns from the farm - If You Don't Like the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1588831644375-3VJ4C8UYB879H69IV8D7/Antarctic_bottom_water.png Yarns from the farm - If You Don't Like the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen Schematic of the vertical overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2020/4/2/a-silver-lining monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1585786057395-1F9CZ8DNM49MII9SHKRG/cfc+meridional+sections+after+bullister+cropped.jpg Yarns from the farm - A Silver Lining North-south vertical section through the Atlantic, from Antarctica on the left to North Atlantic on the right. 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You can watch the full time series video on NASA’s website: climate.nasa.gov https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2019/12/15/hinewai monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1576404103354-OOV96XJDNW3MB0N1Q07U/Screen+Shot+2019-12-15+at+9.00.48+pm.png Yarns from the farm - Hinewai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1576405056901-7ELVPNT1NIU775RSVZHB/Screen+Shot+2019-12-15+at+9.10.35+pm.png Yarns from the farm - Hinewai The front gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1576405356035-N37333OGJ7AICL7EPJUS/Screen+Shot+2019-12-15+at+9.18.35+pm.png Yarns from the farm - Hinewai Hinewai Falls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1576405954980-MUIJLOSLIAO3PMLKV7XO/Screen+Shot+2019-12-15+at+9.30.23+pm.png Yarns from the farm - Hinewai The only major fire on Hinewai occurred in the winter of 2011, due to a dry lighting strike. Interestingly, the native forest areas acted as natural fire suppression breaks, while the gorse areas burned merrily. The net result was nowhere near as devastating as Hugh and Co had feared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1576403759821-66J9XYSMHQ9L0QLIWT9G/Screen+Shot+2019-12-15+at+8.54.47+pm.png Yarns from the farm - Hinewai Hugh on the track near his house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1576918717683-Y2A74AWTQNKSJAK5UF3Y/IMG_0780.jpg Yarns from the farm - Hinewai Gorse providing a nursery for she-oaks, eucalypts and wattles on my farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1576918870433-CLA9AVQSB3R4TM0CQWYZ/IMG_0779.jpg Yarns from the farm - Hinewai A grove of Tasmanian blackwood (on the left) in an area of sandstone outcrop, along the old highway which is my northwest boundary. 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Except in the foreground, there is very little stock feed in this picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1572752748218-KB5VN5025XM65G1CAA36/IMG_5658.jpg Yarns from the farm - Indian Ocean Dipole Defying the dry weather, this 5-year-old dogwood is blooming with gusto. 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A bit of a stand-off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1545726103129-5YD4GDI3QPU5KHSECJCF/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - All is Well Freddie with a salsify blossom sticking out the side of his mouth. 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Zac and Pearl saying g'day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1535252828487-VG7PCKNIY3P781PB2RXD/IMG_4809.jpg Yarns from the farm - What's In a Name? Winter sunrise, late July https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1535253144778-3R7Z1YN8WU6ODQC311BT/IMG_4812.jpg Yarns from the farm - What's In a Name? A stretch of dolerite with lichen that caught my eye the other day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1535252953929-N8XMCF7W3GFT35IFFMTE/IMG_4808.jpg Yarns from the farm - What's In a Name? One of 1600 plants in the newest reserve. Atop a hill, in the sandstone country, it's intended to provide shade during the mid-day rest. It'll be 5 years before the sheep can use it, but I hope it will help to reduce the incidence of skin cancer in my sheep. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2017/11/26/through-the-lens-taking-a-summer-break-from-writing monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1511656724526-W7RFGXSF0DYGUOMEF073/DSCN0005.jpg Yarns from the farm - Through the Lens: Taking a Summer Break from Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1511656767098-HUCSTTHL7M0DC52H251J/DSCN0008.jpg Yarns from the farm - Through the Lens: Taking a Summer Break from Writing https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2017/9/24/zen-and-the-art-of-shearing monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1506238444911-YSI8J0IMEU8HOQG97WRC/IMG_1850.jpg Yarns from the farm - Zen and the Art of Shearing In the holding shed, staying dry for shearing the next day. Zac is on the far right, a couple of sheep back. The first thing we do is "crutch" all the sheep--clean their faces and bottoms, and shear the tails. Then we turn around a day later and start shearing. This keeps all the icky wool bits away from the good fleece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1506238789971-TBIUIFO52Y5R04LH1PWG/IMG_1860.jpg Yarns from the farm - Zen and the Art of Shearing An airborne fleece just before hitting the table. Throwing a fleece is an art, and it's critical to the choreography: if it is thrown well, it lands in the right position and flat on the table. That makes the job of "skirting" the fleece much easier. Skirting is the beginning of my pas-de-deux with the rouseabout, as we move up our respective sides of the table, removing "fribby" bits from the edges of the fleece, then rolling the fleece and sampling it for soundness, before carrying it to the press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1506239118621-GST1D5SMC2YWB0PQCAOB/IMG_1888.jpg Yarns from the farm - Zen and the Art of Shearing A week or so after shearing, the ewes enjoying sunshine and delectable browse in the area outside my kitchen window. I didn't shear the lambs--they don't have enough wool yet to make it worth the stress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1506239204643-TNWDCZ30MYP9V5G6L23I/IMG_1872.jpg Yarns from the farm - Zen and the Art of Shearing Zac and Pearl getting acquainted. I've finally quit procrastinating about getting my younger dogs into advanced training, and Pearl has surprised and delighted me with her competence. She's not surprised, I don't think, just hasn't been able to figure out why I've been so slow to let her do the job she knows perfectly well she can handle. Most of the time. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2017/8/6/unfinished-stories monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501994820153-6B3BK0B63Z3YREYVI9UV/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Unfinished Stories Zac heading back to the flock this morning, after drinking his warm milk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501995610780-TAC23QNZJ5YV3CVX4W09/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Unfinished Stories A file shot of one of "my" eagles. They don't nest on the property, but they are around and about most days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501995241530-0P3BQWR1CS6MJA5NASRW/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Unfinished Stories Outside my front door on a foggy, frosty -7 degree morning last week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1501995056677-QK9UVNXV5O59LYOVYBNZ/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Unfinished Stories Chance ignoring Zac's overtures of friendship, during a break on a chilly shepherding day https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2017/6/24/mn9rkk89otq9b984nbhqysnxc92nkd monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2017/4/22/snakebite-lightning-and-gunshot monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492824565060-XUGU2ABRV5A80Y0CY6Q2/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Snakebite, Lightning Strike and Gunshots A small "nursery" group not far from where the first dead ewes were found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492824603156-VEFF43S2F99ZQ0N6WH3D/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Snakebite, Lightning Strike and Gunshots A mama standing over and guarding her brand-new baby. I was backing up and photographing at the same moment, so the shot is a bit out of focus. Like all the other "maiden" ewes giving birth for the first time this lambing, she managed just fine without any help from me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492824813665-EB0EV5KO6K1BTLRB7JOG/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Snakebite, Lightning Strike and Gunshots After the deaths, I moved the flock back into the Grass Gully from White Gum Wood, just in case there was a nutritional component to the deaths. As you can see, the forage level is quite good on both sides of the fence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492824900935-24JTO5BZ6VWR74Q5T4XX/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Snakebite, Lightning Strike and Gunshots Retired stockman Davey went around the ewes and lambs with me a couple of times. He was just as perplexed as I was about the ewe deaths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492825051561-NTGWKVZ1U6X5ZA14074F/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Snakebite, Lightning Strike and Gunshots The nursery flock after moving into the new paddock with higher plant diversity. These ewes were waiting for three lambs that got left behind on the wrong side of the fence. Once the lambs saw me, they scampered through the gate just off to the left of the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1492825272466-06HAUBVORFRARSCM416E/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Snakebite, Lightning Strike and Gunshots Three babies playing "king of the mountain" on a rocky outcrop yesterday morning in the new paddock. While the forage level is not as high here, the diversity is much higher, with lots of natives and also perennial herbs and woody browse plants. A particular favourite this time of year are the rose hips that are now red and mature. The sheep strip the rosa plants bare of hips, leaving only the few at the top they can't reach! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2017/3/5/a-bonza-year monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489289657586-M2E2AQPX7NJ56CLIJ7MO/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year At the gate into the Back Gully from the Grass Gully last week. In the following photos I'll show you shots from the same or nearby vantage points in past years. Rainfall total in the previous 12 months was 636 mm / 25 in and grazing pressure was 500 sheep or 0.5 sheep to the acre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1488693882899-J899WILMJ4G5RX3IIPWH/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year Monthly rainfall from the farm rain gauge. Rain in May last year was nearly twice the highest monthly rainfall recorded since 2005, the earliest reliable rainfall records I kept. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489289920228-KJVMD4CYXGURQJNCFAK7/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year In the Back Gully a few hundred metres from the gate above, in August 2005. Rainfall in the previous 12 months was 493 mm or 19.4 in. Grazing pressure over that time was 1740 sheep or 2 per acre. Lower than average rainfall and a high stocking rate set us up for the fall over the next 3 years, when rainfall averaged less than 300 mm or 11.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489291051933-PM4ISI0V894JIV82TWDB/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year In the Grass Gully (gate to the Back Gully is on far right) in 2008. Rainfall for the previous 12 months was 270 mm or 10.6 in. Grazing pressure was 1700 or nearly 2 to the acre. In response to the obvious forage challenge I sold sheep and put the remaining 800 into a "drought lot" where they were fed grain and hay as a full ration. I had fed sheep grain in the paddock in the previous year, which kept them going, but didn't help the landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489291387680-ZQUYN06NCYHV8Y7LHUXI/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year I operated the drought lot for 8 months, waiting for a break in the weather, and spent about $150,000 on feed. While the sheep did not lose condition, they weren't particularly healthy, a result I attribute to lack of exercise. The lambing following the drought lot was the worst I have had--before or since--for lambing problems. It was this experience that convinced me I had to change the way I farm or get out of the business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489291737929-WIZXU7T0WALH8BK9U8YF/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year The first test drive of the Polaris Ranger, with stockman Davey at the wheel in August 2011. This is the Grass Gully, at the same approximate location as the paddock shot in 2008. Rainfall over the previous 12 months was a whopping 677 mm or 26.6 inches. Grazing pressure was 1200, or 1.3 sheep to the acre. This is not unlike the way the Grass Gully looks at the moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489291950549-B8WFA3UGHFRN56WO0O0O/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year Taken in a native pasture section below the Grass Gully in April 2012, the effects of the 2011 bonza year are still evident. Rainfall in the previous 12 months was 522 mm or 20.5 inches. Grazing pressure was 1200 or 1.3 to the acre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489292120016-5DE6H8AXDD3CV8BNIP9X/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year The same gate as in the top photo, from the Grass Gully into the Back Gully in January 2015. Previous 12 months' rainfall was 356 mm or 14 inches. Grazing pressure was 1000 or 1.1 to the acre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489292261426-O83MFE40GAUGJE652PAY/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year Approaching the same gate from the Grass Gully into the Back Gully in December 2015. Previous 12 months' rainfall was 332 mm or 13 inches. Grazing pressure was 1000 or 1.1 to the acre. It was at this point I reluctantly opted to sell half the flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1489292872178-J0Q0BNQHNRJLP43QQYWH/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - A Bonza Year And just to finish the time line, here are the dogs enjoying their afternoon run in Eagle Tree paddock, just below the Back Gully, in December of 2016. Pearl (hidden behind the grass), Joker and Jax. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2017/1/26/the-nature-of-the-game monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485417938854-T858TSYBWT1H1O8A243F/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game Just after the fire in January of last year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485418052827-EOWQ2I8OYP5K1NIZKLTM/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game Photo taken in nearly the same spot on Boxing Day 2016. The dog you can't quite see is probably Jax. This is why all border collies have white tips on their tails--so you can find them in the long grass! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485418323764-T05MY035I3TNC4YEANZO/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game ...high as an elephant's eye...really! I was standing up when I took this photo in early January below Swan Lake, where the overflow and seepage have kept the soil moisture high. It was a dewy morning and I was soaked from head to toe by the time I finished my little tour to look for swans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485418501262-04IWEYR4HP4AFO08L59Q/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game Grazing the long rye grass in one of the Racecourse Grazing Area paddocks. I think Clara is the sheep in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485418653756-HFZWH41LM51LHDV147K8/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game This photo gives you an idea of the diversity of grasses this year. This was taken in a "cocksfoot-dominated ryegrass" paddock, where normally I see just those two grasses, the occasional annual grass, dandelions and clover. Many of these grasses are ones I don't recognise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485418784489-X5JVS02N6C485UIKNKRG/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game The lucerne with its canopy of introduced speargrass. This is not far from the point where the mower gave up. The purple flowers are lucerne (alfalfa) blossoms. The speargrass seeds are hazardous to sheep, dogs and humans: like most annual grass seeds, speargrass seeds are designed to get caught on ANY handy surface, thence to be dispersed by the unlucky host. The seeds are sharp enough to embed in skin or eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485419067641-3KQIE6Q5UIY2K0OT7O25/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game Janie and Chance near one of the patches of Patterson's Curse, the morning I put the flock in. Below, the next morning, voilå! no Patterson's in sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485419191229-KBRH9T4SC43Q7OSPSDBE/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485471874327-TEL3O2CQ14CBRLEYLW2A/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game There is at least one dog in this shot, probably more like 3 or 4! This is on our usual morning run track, and you can see the height of grass between the tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485419381215-YUIJL3CHTA3EQ5KW37D2/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game Pearl enjoying a ride through a long, dense cocksfoot stand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485419503294-H7T351HYFCTSAKZT48AA/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game Blushing bindweed (native convolvulus) hiding under a canopy of native grasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1485419574906-T42DZIKTETII3132W6M7/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Nature of the Game One of the last shots of the swan family before their December departure. I keep an eye out, just in case they come back for a visit, but so far I haven't seen them. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/2016/12/5/new-website monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1481085503422-G477UB0PBOMT1BCQTPZQ/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Fresh pastures - welcome to the new website! Follow the flock and daily life on the farm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1481080548672-PCQ94GLS6Y41NCX1N6IH/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Fresh pastures - welcome to the new website! Browse the journals - and subscribe to win! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1481076012968-DGHQQGB6O0JGM9OXLXTX/NEW-website-patterns.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fresh pastures - welcome to the new website! Visit the new Pattern Collections! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1481082566185-FK8CLDUAXR3BZEIM9Z1V/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Fresh pastures - welcome to the new website! Browse Gifts & Notions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1481083202641-O8PF7EXLE18TJQ4I1ICN/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Fresh pastures - welcome to the new website! Browse the new shop https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/one-flock-indivisible monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288323416-300X35XZ8X6JABANJBH0/Sorting+out+the+ewes+before+%E2%80%9Cjoining%E2%80%9D+with+the+rams.+Clara+is+front+centre. Yarns from the farm - One Flock, Indivisible Sorting out the ewes before “joining” with the rams. Clara is front centre.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288324816-JJEW8O1SFY8Y84Y2ZAIG/Mothers-to-be-with-rams-1-500x669.jpg Yarns from the farm - One Flock, Indivisible Mothers-to-be in the corner of the paddock where they spent most of the first 3 weeks–uphill, upwind and apparently disinclined or unable to agree to go anywhere else. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288321618-Y40IMR0B0L3IWQRRP21P/Difficult-Girl-in-the-lead-500x669.jpg Yarns from the farm - One Flock, Indivisible Difficult Girl leading the mothers-to-be in the lucerne: she is NEVER up front in the main flock–always at the back fighting the dogs. Part of the leadership chaos in this small flock with too many would-be leaders? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288322916-ZGXQTE437855AW8CHNZR/Main-flock-in-the-home-paddock-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - One Flock, Indivisible The main flock having a spectacularly good time grazing in the home paddock–the revegetation area behind my house–on a shepherding circuit.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288322417-XSJXHYZG3X049Y1OOZC9/LOng-and-winding-cropped-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - One Flock, Indivisible long-and-winding-cropped https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288322115-DLEO4VHVSIWR658S1EY6/IMG_1263-Version-2-500x535.jpg Yarns from the farm - One Flock, Indivisible The rams just after coming out of the mothers-to-be flock. It took both Janie and Chance to convince them to move away from the gate and back to their own paddock. The blue dots on their heads are fly-strike prevention, to keep flies out of the wounds inflicted by running headlong into each other. Repeatedly. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/separation-anxiety-october-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288315517-X27X8DV94ANUBQ8MY00S/DSCN0003-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety A typical stormy day in October. Joker in the foreground, Jax behind him. We beat a hasty retreat after spotting the scud coming toward us that afternoon! (Not that the dogs were bothered–just me being a wimp and not wanting the dogs wet when I put them back in their kennels. It takes a lot of towels to get 7 sopping wet dogs dry.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288316718-YP9ROGQZVC0N4EUMCMVA/DSCN0008-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety The view from the hilltop after 48 mm (2 inches) of rain overnight, 29 September. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288316217-SWPXVVF3AVAQ9VOAAQBV/DSCN0005-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety Up to my shins in Curly Sedge Creek after the same rain. It got deeper farther in, but my boots weren’t high enough to risk it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288316418-SV3LBBHZM9NPOJ52XI35/DSCN0006-1-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety Wood ducks in the paddock surrounding the main waterhole (Willow Tree). The water just couldn’t spill out of the dam quickly enough to keep from backing up into the surrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288318717-D7VO8Z4M0JHS7HBBQDAE/IMG_1168-1-500x500.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety The flock in the yards, partway through separating the new “mothers to be” from the main flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288319116-YNM1SA02O52XCGZM5NS5/IMG_1172-1-500x500.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety The mothers-to-be a few hours later, out in Old Cabin, where I plan to leave them for the 4 weeks of “joining”, with forays into the lucerne and Waterfall Gully Reserve for diversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288319519-KQZPRK4WNDOVO792YAEH/IMG_1175-500x500.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety Leo, in front of Prince, with Horatio and and un-named wether looking on, in a paddock with lots and lots of clover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288320120-28AWXKR8NLPZS6LZIPCU/IMG_1182-500x500.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety Clara (left) and Difficult Girl (right) following me with alacrity as I take them to Waterfall Gully for some diversity. They were moving so fast I had to keep running out front to get this shot. It is HIGHLY unusual to see Difficult Girl at the front–she is normally to be found at the back, arguing successfully with the dogs about who is boss! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288318320-HWO0J0PB7MZTJ130VL0N/DSCN0022-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Separation Anxiety The swan family with the mountain duck family in the background. The mid-sized ducklings are a group of diving duck babies without any parents around. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/sheep-crocodiles monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288313572-R6RIJ9XX47WYFN2GYO71/IMG_1022-500x669.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sheep Crocodiles Leo before shearing. The green mark is to tell the shearers his is a fleece I want to keep to sell for hand-spinning. Leo is a prime example of cooperation: he’s not a pet, but he hangs out with Vicki who is a pet. As a consequence, he has developed a strong bond with me and often helps me get the flock going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288313573-2C5329WWUFPNX9IU9JN7/DSCN0017-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sheep Crocodiles The “Gang of Four”: Elf, Flelix, Vicki and Clara, following me and leading the rest of the flock. This looks easy, and it is, because all the sheep are making conscious choices to cooperate with me and with each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288313514-7EYP9HA3JX447LCTNMDR/IMG_1007-500x500.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sheep Crocodiles Shedding up before crutching. Getting them to come into the “bugle” leading into the shed took a couple of tries, but as you can see, this ewe is really quite unconcerned by the activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288315355-QNEJM21167PHUTECA8P1/IMG_1065-500x373.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sheep Crocodiles The sheep trying out Patterson’s Curse, a broadleaf weed prevalent on the mainland. This photo was taken on the first foray into this area, two days before the “Sheep Crocodiles” video that follows. I brought them across the paddock in the background and into the Patterson’s Curse patch without the dogs, though it’s true they knew where we were heading, and wanted to go there.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288313572-RGMT7OGE4BUB33QC78P9/DSCN0006-1-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sheep Crocodiles A freshly shorn Elf, looking at me with his usual wistful gaze, and perhaps a bit of perplexity about just what the whole thing was about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288313523-0R92HRLNTRWKDVLXYXX6/DSCN0004-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sheep Crocodiles The swans hatched 6 adorable cygnets in August, and they are growing like weeds. (There really are 6 in the photo, one is just hiding behind a sibling.)   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1480288313573-T3FM9PLBGL310F10PF3Q/DSCN0021-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sheep Crocodiles The little corellas looking like ornaments on a Christmas tree. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/offisiders monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472013835144-CTNSFRD60PO0H4171F8U/DSCN0007-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Offsiders This 1850s vintage wool wagon was used to haul loads from the area around Hay (Victoria) to Port Pirie on the coast. Here it’s loaded with wool from local growers (including me–White Gum Wool at centre, top) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472013835124-YJIEUDHW89OGK0RS1H16/DSCN0025-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Offsiders Brian Fish and his team of 12 bullocks pulling the loaded wagon down High Street https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1472013835151-YYB80MK9QQO6M04K92GD/DSCN0014-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Offsiders A most unusual photo of Oatland’s Lake Dulverton: full of water, and without a breath of wind on Sunday mid-morning. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/blow-blow-thou-winter-wind-july-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912341754-XMN711O4YHJBQ1GIJBWF/IMG_0737.jpg Yarns from the farm - Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind Ice in the foreground, with the sheep grazing away from me into the bitterly cold wind. The video below was taken about an hour later. (25th June) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912341439-8GTBKYJR26020PIEK68M/DSCN6928-e1467435062900.jpg Yarns from the farm - Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind Testing the tethered instrument before preparing it to launch, aboard an Indonesian Navy research vessel near Timor (1996) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912341535-3QJN4Q5JZ5BRLHZZZ4JA/DSCN6929-e1467435100935.jpg Yarns from the farm - Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind Heading out on a dive trip from the same vessel, to install a subsurface tide gauge in one of the many straits of the Indonesian Archipelago. I’m on the right, looking up, with my colleague Thomas Moore across from me. We had a number of rather exciting adventures towing large moorings into place with the Zodiac while battling strong tides and crosswinds. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/yarns-from-the-farm-32-animal-wifery-may-2016-2 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912308943-HVIJY9ORK7ITXPRBNU0R/IMG_0410.jpg Yarns from the farm - Animal Wifery There hasn’t been water in this little spring for months. It’s lovely to see it fill up–if it keeps raining, it might even overflow! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912299728-M0O70EL4KQ6BNR4P7DRW/DSCN7179.jpg Yarns from the farm - Animal Wifery In a bit of role reversal, my five pet lambs are leading a group of wary ewes into long feed, back in 2014. The lambs are following me, of course, because as far as they are concerned, I’m mama. In order of appearance: Clara, Felix, Georgie, Vicki and Elf, with step-mother Sabrina following anxiously just behind them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912298218-2G8NVPVEADRLLV51CCVD/DSCN0065.jpg Yarns from the farm - Animal Wifery Horatio, my 3-year-old leader-in-waiting, looking very manly, in a recent shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912307737-1HHKW6A9K49IVV5WL0S1/IMG_0383-1.jpg Yarns from the farm - Animal Wifery Vicki believes my pack is her playground–any time I stand still long enough, she’ll start pulling on straps, especially the elastic shock cords, which can be quite startling to me when she lets go. The flock has just followed me through a gate, and you can see they are relaxed and accepting of me. The sheep behind Vicki is not one of my pets, but he’s not the least bit worried about me or my pack–just curious. Photo taken a few days ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912299521-5A8VK2KRVAPFSV0PW6RC/DSCN7022.jpg Yarns from the farm - Animal Wifery My pet lambs in January 2014. from Left to right: Georgie, Clara, Felix and Vicki. The ewe in the background is Sabrina, who lost her lamb but didn’t have any milk. Her job was to teach the pets how to be proper sheep until they were old enough to go back into the flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912294937-EGDRLNKHJFXUIDVU03J8/DSCN0018.jpg Yarns from the farm - Animal Wifery A favourite briar rose in the gully near the top of the Lucerne Reserve. Photo taken a couple of days ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912293632-L3S38NAAV6RIJJDJ42AK/DSCN0012-1.jpg Yarns from the farm - Animal Wifery Look closely and you’ll see several sheep behind the screen of tall native speargrass (austrostipa nodosa) and wallaby grass (austrodanthonia spp.) Also a bit of cutting sag (lomandra longifolia) in the foreground. These three species, along with silver tussock (poa labillardierei) are the foundation of my native grassland pastures. Photo taken a couple of days ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912293052-HM3RGDHE6PJN2D636JHA/DSCN0006-1.jpg Yarns from the farm - Animal Wifery Just at the end of the video above, this still shot shows the lead ewe with a big mouthful of grass. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/come-shepherding monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912268719-PD2RIYS1NIFGC9AEU0DI/April-25-2016-1.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding A typical shepherding circuit map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912291357-X0FWO8OOIK0FWO4DCNM7/Photo-on-26-04-2016-at-1.56-pm-e1461643257867.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding My beautiful grazing log book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912287338-BW5MVYC8HWEDVZS5NUHE/IMG_0244.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding The flock following Horatio following me. He’s definitely emerging as the new leader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912264145-ZBJMF1FLJLTTGVVKZIMB/DSCN0007.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding Old Leader on the left, and Alice on the right. My two beautiful matriarchs. We all miss HRH. Alice is still going strong, though she’s lost both horns at different times in the race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912284839-Y2SKM55RRNZX0X3SVB8J/IMG_0207.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding he photo tells it all: with the ongoing dry Swan Lake has almost completely dried up–just enough moisture left to trap this wether in the bog. Walking the plank was pretty exciting in my slippery, muddy boots. But I was able to pull him out, no harm except to his pride and my mud-spattered trousers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912268719-PD2RIYS1NIFGC9AEU0DI/April-25-2016-1.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding April 25, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912266655-U68H8NSMCUY8N1MBUW71/DSCN0024.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding The lucerne at its best a few weeks ago. Since then, the aphids have been racing the sheep for who gets to eat it first. Aphids are winning, but the lucerne is coming back surprisingly well from the base of the plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912179350-AWIUWN3OQY8PBKW2WOF2/DSCN0060-500x375.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding Undergrazed at the bottom of one of the Racecourse paddocks. A close up with my good camera in the rank patch, so you can see them tackling the long grass. Don’t let anyone tell you sheep will only eat where it’s short–that’s just a rationalisation for over-grazing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912270329-ZUCPCG9RYJDGC00J2D5X/DSCN0030.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding DSCN0030 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912270217-0UNJ746DK5D3YHGJ7229/DSCN0027.jpg Yarns from the farm - Come Shepherding DSCN0027 https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/six-impossible-things-march-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1470200552169-1MS1WUNM22ESE58GC9FU/image-asset.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things Huh? Sheep doing yoga? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912267132-8VSJ9IPAWY5SCJ439J3G/DSCN7056.jpg Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things The jetting race, looking back “upstream”. The sheep would be coming toward the camera, and the nozzles you can see apply the jetting solution. I always mean to take photos of the jetting race in action, but forget to do it in the excitement of getting sheep running through. Maybe next time. If I remember, I’ll add a photo to the next Yarn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912267835-Q8SZHCN7NQAOPRG9MVBO/Screen-Shot-2016-03-06-at-5.19.27-pm.png Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things A Tasmanian mole cricket. It’s about 3.5 cm (1.5 inches) long. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912267871-0KVVDCGTMWZ2714M3EVX/IMG_3933.jpg Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things The flock following me through a gate into fresh pasture. Clara is at the front. If you enlarge this photo by clicking on it, you can see an eagle being chased by two forest ravens, and if you look really closely you can see Chance lying patiently well behind the sheep in the rocks. (Amazing phone photo technology.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912266144-VOY3RYRF5HDITJU54IZ5/DSCN0005.jpg Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things Horatio is often to be found at the front of the flock, at least when I’m leading. He’s a big, strong, smart wether. He could be the next flock leader. Or not. At 2 years old, he’s probably still a bit young to assume the mantle of leadership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912266655-U68H8NSMCUY8N1MBUW71/DSCN0024.jpg Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things The lucerne (alfalfa) growing like Jack’s beanstalk in the burn area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912266836-P8DFWN4BYER2JU3DY7AM/DSCN0056.jpg Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things The burn area looking back toward the highway, where the fire started. The slope the sheep are grazing was part of the burn. This photo was taken 7 weeks after the fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912266524-7BIK87TFF7PAVQ7IRY1W/DSCN0019.jpg Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things One of the 2-year old scorched eucalypts coppicing–regrowing from the basal node of the tree. Australian natives, at least the eucalypts, are pretty hard to kill, though these looked thoroughly dead after the fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912266322-H031UZDSZM4X4CA050AY/DSCN0015.jpg Yarns from the farm - Six Impossible Things pring wildflowers–endangered cut-leaf daisies–finally appearing after the autumn rains. A lovely example of ecosystem resilience. These plants have adapted to Australia’s wildly variable seasonal weather patterns, and take advantage of any set of conditions that will let them reproduce. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/fire-and-ice-january-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912264504-PSDP05PNKEXBWDUUB526/DSCN0011.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice The fire started on the highway, and you can see how close it came to the house, kennels and woolshed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912265537-AJW4Q2MW07P39TLAB7OB/IMG_3869.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice The starting point of the burn on the other side of the main highway. The burn moved from right to left across the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912263544-GYC60RFQAF9KUSP7M2RB/DSCN0002.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice Looking down at the burn from the top of the hill. The three dark triangles are fenced-off revegetation sites, where about 500 young trees were planted nearly 3 years ago. Because the areas weren’t grazed, the grass was quite dense and long, and the burn was correspondingly hot and thorough. It will be months before I know if the little trees can regenerate from their roots, or whether I’ll be replanting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912264576-V6U19EVL6JB4SRN4PR12/DSCN0013.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice The flock grazing this morning. The landscape in the background is typical of the southern Midlands at this point–grazed to the ground. Ironically, the main reason the fire took hold so fiercely is because I’ve been conserving forage, so I actually had grass to burn. Sigh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912264145-ZBJMF1FLJLTTGVVKZIMB/DSCN0007.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice Alice, on the right, with Old Leader, in 2014, at age 10. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912263641-N1K4EMD4CM1V1QUTUL27/DSCN0004.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice Alice’s “walker”–a lightweight frame that helped her to stand and keep her balance until she was well enough to do so on her own. Each morning I would get her up and into the frame, then drag the frame along to fresh forage as she grazed. She ate the diverse plants in a particular order, each time I moved her: chicory, plantain, lucerne, clover, and when they were exhausted she would look up a me to get me to move her. She was selecting the forage she needed to balance her diet and repair the damage of a bad lambing. After about 3 months, she was able to rejoin the flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912264362-KYRAZYYWJHAZ9K0S69CK/DSCN0010.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice The lucerne paddock two weeks (and half an inch of rain) after the fire. The plants have regenerated about 3 inches of new growth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912263827-QQDH222LUZ2DKV5Y9ZTI/DSCN00041.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice The 8-year-old revegetation area near the highway a week after the burn.DSCN0004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912264244-9QT3NRJSVCS9JLN7A8R3/DSCN0008.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice A similar shot after 2 weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912265736-ZF0P71T30ILVBLXZ8TIT/IMG_3877.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire and Ice Just for giggles–this is Leo, one of Vicky’s many boyfriends, checking out the Polaris Ranger. Leo LOVES the buggy, especially the tires. He looks at it most intently, as though he’s trying to figure out how it works. Hence his name–after Leonardo da Vinci. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/flies-and-spiders-december-2015 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912261633-ZRKRX0RTE64M4CBA2C9R/DSCN0098.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders Spider webs masquerading as snow in April of 2006. I tried to take a photo a couple of days ago–we had a mildly foggy morning, but there was only one web in sight, and it was fairly pathetic, so I thought I’d give you the prettier pictures from better years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912261838-7Z5Q705PWRLYWXC1LE72/DSCN6312.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders Dewy spider webs in the native garden around my house. This photo was taken in February 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912261936-97NJJY8BE8S5P8YPQ2DZ/IMG_3804.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders One of the best paddocks at the moment, one I call Old Cabin. This photo was taken on the 14th of December. On the right side of the fence is the neighbouring property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912261730-9ZFIFX6LYS5Y3CHB8CJN/DSCN5420.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders Old Leader (HRH) in her prime. Her leadership and knowledge are sorely missed. Because she was still very much the leader when she died, the mantle of leadership has not yet clearly been transferred. I notice the flock tends to move less in her absence, but on the other hand, they’re better about following me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912261170-8UR3G0VXHYWB2C4O0PHR/DSCN0006.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders A few of the kids enjoy one of the pockets of green still left on the place at the end of November. These are all in areas where seasonal streams or soaks can be found, so there is still a bit of soil moisture to help the growth along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912261463-KRQMDMJ3PXKZJ10AY5U4/DSCN0020.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders The spring in the Back Gully reserve is no longer making up–the water table has now dropped, and in fact I’ve switched to my Oatlands town water supply for livestock water. (At home and in the dog kennels I’m still using rainwater I capture from the woodshed roof–my 20,000 gal tank is about ⅓ full). In the background is the neighbouring property, to give you an idea of what the landscape looks like through most of our area. This photo was taken December 14th.DSCN0020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912261234-GL2PBKPFGNDJNHTDY28E/DSCN0014.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders One of the long-grass sections the flock and I have been working to graze down ever since I started shepherding. This photo was taken the 4th of November this year. While it’s nowhere near as rank as it was, it still looks like pretty good forage to a sheep! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912263145-YNDMICLQWN16EELJHV8I/IMG_3829.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders A little farther along in the same paddock a few days ago (6 weeks after the shot above). The grass is still long behind the sheep (they are just grazing out of the rank area), but it’s no longer green except right in the tussock clumps. There’s nothing wrong with dry grass as fodder, as long as you aren’t expecting mamas to be making milk on it. It’s just not growing. Thank goodness I decided not to lamb again this year! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912260794-G5VBOQJ4KQKLGPMYMX7A/DSCN0003.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders The last sighting of the mountain duck clutch December 3rd. Mama is just out of the frame, calling them madly to her. You can see how much notice they are taking! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912260547-NCAH10L7EJHJ4D8E0OV3/DSCN0001.jpg Yarns from the farm - Flies and Spiders The new 30/70 % silk/merino 5-ply or sport weight yarn. These colours (natural and hawthorn) are the only colours available from the WGW website, and will only be sold online. The tussah silk is a lovely golden colour, so the natural silk/merino blend is creamier than the 100% merino. And silk fibres dye quite differently from wool, so the silk/merino hawthorn is a bit lighter and has a heather look compared with the 100% merino version https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/bonus-track-how-long-is-a-piece-of-string-november-2015 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912258362-PQAJB5DD12EJUCGIJNSL/DSCN0006.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Bulbine lillies (bulbine glauca)–a favourite tidbit of my sheep. These are growing just inside a reserve fence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912258660-1266CCM7V4UM8DCA8VFC/DSCN0019.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Blushing bindweed (convolvulus erubescens). I love the splash of colour across the otherwise sere hillside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912258862-RBC2EUQD1Y3ZLOHGJZAU/DSCN0020.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Common everlasting (chrysocephalum apiculatum) and smooth riceflower (pimelea glauca). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912258529-YXU7N0E1BI12JWBQO7BG/DSCN0008.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Hill daisies (brachyscome aculeata). I don’t have lots of these, so they always seem quite special to me when I come across them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912259099-CALDX57557Z8HKUDGNRP/DSCN0026.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Woolly new holland daisy (vittadinia gracilis). This threatened species is abundant on my dry, north-facing hillside near the quarry and Forest. This is the hillside I came down, on my side of the fence, with the wether on the other side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912259221-GEMADWTANH1H4TU6L4W0/DSCN0027.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Pussytails (ptilotus spathulatus). Just what they sound like, darling little puffs of fluff on the dry ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912259371-FMIQVWA16FW28C4IQCLU/DSCN0029.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Another spread of convolvulus on the same hillside as the new holland daisies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912258278-HCR0QELOM7RG5WSLNUSW/DSCN0005-Version-2.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? A new-found tiny orchid: Common golden moths (diuris chryseopsis) among wallaby grass in the Back Gully reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912258170-LNLUIIC0L5Y1UBJMJF7I/DSCN0001.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Common everlasting (chrysocephalum apiculatum)–inspiration for the WGW wool of the same name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912258598-AE6ABK0NYVV11UYQF22I/DSCN0016.jpg Yarns from the farm - Bonus Track: How long is a piece of string? Common everlasting in the landscape, with wallaby grass, cutting sags (lomandra longifolia), and giving you some perspective on the state of the southern midlands hills. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/epiphany-october-2015 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912255230-WM0RY7NRKLW4A7DIM6I1/DSCN0010.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany The flock taking itself through a particularly gnarly bit of gorse and long grass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912255335-JRDLQ279N75NGZY2FPGF/DSCN0013.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany A few minutes later, as they make their way out of the gully and up the hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912255731-8H8MPI54SBTLLNQNPRKZ/IMG_3553.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany The view at sheep’s eye level of the rank grass in the gully, just after the sheep passed through it in the previous two photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912256530-N7RBZMAJHTULDNCC3TJW/IMG_3663.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany One of those fences I don’t really need…Making a U-turn at the end of the Lucerne Paddock. This was today’s shepherding, getting them to graze down the lucerne (alfalfa) on one side of the fence, to the bottom end near the yards, and then a U-turn into the other side of the paddock, to graze back the other way. Worked beautifully–everybody followed the leader around the bend, with no one trying to break back along the fence line on the near side. I’m working on getting the flock to graze the annual grasses (barley grass and spear grass) that fill in the spaces between lucerne plants. While the annuals are perfectly good forage, once they’ve gone to seed, the seeds will get in the wool, and even eyes, of the sheep, so there’ll be no more lucerne grazing for a few months after the next week or so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912256125-P60R3ENCG12UMIVQ12K0/IMG_3653.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany Despite the desperately dry spring (no rain in October at all, and only 16 mm in September) the native plants are doing what they do so well–adapting to the vagaries in the climate they’ve evolved with. This is a tiny orchid I’ve not seen before on the property–common golden moths (diuris chryseopsis). Along with them, convulvulus, cut-leaf daisies, pussytails, everlastings, and new holland daisies are out in profusion. Just goes to show–we need to treasure our native ecosystems–they will be what allows us to adapt to climate change. They’ve been doing just that for ages. Literally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912255936-BA2T04U63NNQ1E3OUF6Z/IMG_3626.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany A recent photo of gorse dying out under the she-oak (casuarina) canopy. See the previous Yarn (Trip Report) for the full story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912256104-RH6145OHV99C5B1XPSUN/IMG_3630.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany Some of the thousands of she-oak seedlings on one of my reserves. The day I took this I was collecting the cones for seed. I spent another day throwing the cones into dense gorse patches all over the property, in hopes they will germinate and extend the reach of she-oak gorse control. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912255829-FN8IXVW6PHORWYJ85V88/IMG_3620-Version-2.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany Sis just a couple of days before she died, catching up with the rest of us at the top of the last hill. She always got a ride down the last km or so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912253617-7AY7YUD4UWCJOVXQ0O5Q/DSCN00072.jpg Yarns from the farm - Epiphany Mama mountain duck frantically calling her brood away from me, to little effect. Imagine how hard it must be to get 10 children to listen to you and do what you are asking them, especially if they’re in danger! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/trip-report-bendigo-design-spun-hinewai monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912252317-950IEX9EZ7WSEXXO8925/DSCN0121.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912253123-AZLUXITNMU94LVZJOV9L/IMG_2342.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai Lyn and best buddy Vicky. Lyn has tremendous affinity for animals, and it showed in how quickly the sheep (and dogs and cats) accepted her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912253420-PL8HY99CB5VYMB2DTO7N/SAM_0155.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai Lyn did a bit of shepherding on her own while I was away. I love this shot of a young sheep with her mouthful of grass. I’d like to say the whole property looks this good, but the long, tough winter, with little rain or growth, has definitely taken its toll https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912253316-GIX81084WVDJRDNHCFNA/IMG_3483.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai The luncheon tables set up for Women of Wool. I was feeling pretty nervous at this point, so distracted myself by taking photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912249917-PRTO2YBXTL6WG1YOUF11/DSCN0009.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai The gang on Sunday: left to right, me, Sandy Holdaway (pattern designer), Mary Donohue (wearing her 3-in-1 Henley made from 4 ply WGW), and Sally Oakley (pattern designer). I’m wearing the scarf that Mary Donohue knitted for me from a gradient by Agnes Bolton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912250617-MA5RQVDI2LOVWRP8471G/DSCN0028.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai WGW being “gilled”–the process of aligning the fibres for a worsted spin. The sliver is pulled through the gilling machine many, many times to achieve the smooth, buttery feel of WGW yarn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912250748-EQFW99ND33C520EUF6LL/DSCN0057.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai WGW on the spinning frame. Roving of about 1 cm diameter is drawn through the spinning gate to make the single strand that is later twisted (plied), combining 2 singles to get 4-ply, or 4 singles for 8 ply. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912252818-3UIL17H4KHA1QILI071T/DSCN0125.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai Looking across Hinewai valley. The yellow bits are gorse in bloom, while the dark green is all regenerated native bush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912252317-950IEX9EZ7WSEXXO8925/DSCN0121.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai The view from Hugh’s living room, down the valley to the sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912252516-7Q205GNN1BAU6U4GSGSE/DSCN0123.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai Hugh, wearing his standard uniform of shorts–despite the winter weather, and more worryingly, the gorse prickles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912252921-CN8TI0AEN5Q0KTU6NGFX/DSCN0132.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai An old-growth Kahikatea (white pine) in the valley of Hinewai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912253041-NO3D4C57CZ7ZW6ZNUJ82/DSCN0141.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai he view of Akaroa harbour from atop Stony Bay Peak. This was my last day at Hinewai, and the mild weather turned abruptly nasty–gale-force winds, snow, hail and rain. I felt right at home, and my new rain gear held up beautifully. I was thankful, though, to make it back to my c*r, and the relative shelter it provided while I ate my picnic lunch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912250022-J1QX7HV6L3ZF9SXCH29K/DSCN0013.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai A mature she-oak, with gorse nearby, but none in its shade. You can just make out a few she-oak saplings in the background. There are literally thousands of them now, as I’ve severely limited grazing in this area for a decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912250521-UYC1XC7O4EDJS12I77VL/DSCN0026.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai One of those 3-inch thick winter coats hitting the wool table. Karen fish is starting the process of “skirting”–removing the edge bits that don’t process well into yarn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912250115-OJULTKSF8NFOQAQX621I/DSCN0015.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai Papa swan seeing off an inquisitive wood duck, while mama keeps the family moving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912250328-SJYRD11P5UO18R160DGM/DSCN0016.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai The new multi Ashmore. On the left is the prototype designed and hand-dyed by Rebecca Robinson. On the right is the commercially dyed version. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912250822-DQPF11W80IDBL44Q2LZY/DSCN0098.jpg Yarns from the farm - Trip Report: Bendigo, Design Spun and Hinewai …and this is Design Spun’s machine for multi-dyeing. Each nozzle can squirt one of 4 different colours, a much more constrained system than hand-dyed. Peter Chatterton, one of the DS partners, started in the textile business as a lad in the dye house of major plant in the UK, and his incredible eye for colour and knowledge of what will (or won’t ) work, makes it possible for him to recreate Rebecca’s designs. Full points on Ashmore, Chatty! https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/winter-shepherding-july-2015 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912249423-Y11WL8STD3EHSRIHFSJK/SAM_0074.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding Clara getting a chin-rub from me on a gloomy, blustery morning. (photo courtesy Lyn Heenan) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912248218-28SSJFGIJYUJIT7GDG6V/IMG_2066.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding Me having mid-day rest, while the sheep are thinking of moving on. (another Lyn photo, taken without my permission :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912246717-JWW36LP1ILGRJEH6WJAI/DSCN00031.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding A lovely June surprise–a patch of peachberry heath in full bloom! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912247620-9RLHJD320YOYLBWF4EXW/DSCN00111.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding The flock exploring a nearly inaccessible corner of one of the reserves, and making good inroads on the gorse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912246619-9ELMGGAYWFCVM621C4PU/DSCN0003.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding Chance guarding the “bivy bag” and the new thermal pad. We’re hunkered down in the quarry, trying to stay out of the westerly gale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912247516-L7PR8BSZQQO8IYQU4NX2/DSCN0011.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding Prince, one of Vicky’s friends, eyeing off the weird new gear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912249127-4U0VK899FRWJO7CM9UWB/SAM_0049.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding After a long mid-day rest, moving back toward the overnight paddock in the late afternoon sun. (photo courtesy of Lyn Heenan) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912247416-EG39FSMWCTMEUNV5JVSR/DSCN0008.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding Grazing across a hillside of predominantly native grasses, coarse and fairly dry, but still popular. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912248129-Z31BAYSTBD3AM05PFKLR/IMG_2059.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding Leading the flock out of the overnight paddock on a frosty morning (photo courtesy of Lyn Heenan) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912247216-RZRFNACI2W4UU8KUQPBP/DSCN0005.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding Lyn Heenan holding the boundary line as the flock grazes a very thick stand of cocksfoot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912248430-GG4WDGZM28OZAJUZW4OA/IMG_2074.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Shepherding Lyn leading the flock down a narrow track through the gorse https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/white-gum-wool-working-dogs-may-2015 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912244024-VZSJ5N1J6ECG5BWWTRR8/DSCN0594.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs The previous generation: Pearl (the elder), her son Mac and daughter Flash, Bear and Luke. Bear and Flash were parents to Janie and Chance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912243020-8NQ636ETLYJCJ6ZBMCVC/DSCN0004.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs The current kids: Janie’s offspring: Flynn, Joker, Blaze and Pearl (who had a completely white head at birth, now cinnamon and salt and pepper). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912242216-ZAEBMW1NC70SJBVKF6EP/DSCN0002.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs Janie, Chance and me, getting ready to go shepherding last winter. The only difference now is that I don’t use the Polaris, and I’ve given up carrying the crook. A year of hiking up and down my hills has improved my balance, and the crook isn’t big enough for me to catch a full-sized ewe anyway. If I have to catch one, now I just run them into one of my two sets of yards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912242018-P6RVWUPKA5ILEG30VW94/DSCN0001.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs The flock following me through a particularly yummy stretch of paddock I’ve been trying to get them into for months. If you click on the image and look closely at the back of the flock on the left, you can just see Chance’s head. He helped me set up the bias (direction) of the flock, and is awaiting further orders while they graze steadily toward me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912244735-R2BEVFPDWIAZ0TQ2XZ7S/IMG_2738.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs My sheep “bugle”, a wooden “train whistle” instrument. I lost the first bugle just a couple of days after I bought it–dropped it on the hillside, never to be seen again. Hence the bright-coloured ribbon intriguing Vicky, who chews on any strap that is attached to me. Michel Meuret suggested using a bugle to call the sheep, and though it has taken several months to convey the meaning of the call, it is now proving to be most useful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912244816-V1QVBXH0OYM3XKXZZWUQ/IMG_3105.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs The flock coming to the bugle call through the fog, from about 300 m away. The dogs are in the Polaris–they didn’t play any role in getting the sheep to come to me at the gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912244383-NAV1DLLVYI4WRVOSWNYN/IMG_0979.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs Pearl in early training. As you can see, working the dogs on a small group of sheep in a constrained area gets everybody wired, including the trainer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912243717-JCB18MX18QWE9SLEEA4R/DSCN0011.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs The early morning run after the first snowstorm of this winter. The five youngsters are just waiting for me get the Polaris moving again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912242519-A98AC36OTAW6PIRW9NU4/DSCN00021.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs The kennels. From left to right: Pearl, Jax, Blaze, Chance, Joker, Jane and Sis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912244617-HGDX9VMTFD59E5BN53FN/IMG_1562.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs Cooling off after a big run, last summer. Jax and Joker in the front, Pearl and Jane behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912245217-KZY4MHGNIVEWRVIC9B2D/IMG_5132.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs Although I haven’t been to Design Spun yet, a friend of mine from the US, Elizabeth Owens, visited 2 years ago and sent me photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912246416-M4S18I814DE0BATO8C2U/Screen-Shot-2015-05-24-at-8.02.08-PM.png Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs Hinewai Reserve. Regenerating native forest is edging out the gorse, which can’t germinate or survive in full shade. Maurice White Native Forest Trust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912244117-100685E2G5IYIZ41ISYX/DSCN0625.jpg Yarns from the farm - The White Gum Wool Working Dogs My all-time favourite photo of Pearl the elder, facing down the rams. January 2004. Kennels in the background. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/sing-note-april-2015 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912241321-3H0D9WQKDR756294RP8U/IMG_2609.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either Just before mid-day rest in the grazing circuit, the flock is enjoying a particularly nice bit of forage, with a white gum (eucalyptus viminalis) as backdrop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912240517-SB461EATA7JEO00SKXOA/DSCN0009.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either Heading up the steepest hill on the property, in a reserve now only grazed on a circuit, to keep them eating the lush, long forage on the south-facing slope, instead of the short, sparse north-facing one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912241023-BSPDNIAD5GVTOE1MNFJK/DSCN0010.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either Janie having a well-earned rest at morning tea time–which can occur anywhere from 9:30 to noon, depending on how the music of the day goes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912241918-F6ACLC4M15KZI9D60UEO/IMG_2904.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either Horatio following me in the paddock, with the flock following him. This is a very recent development, and quite exciting, as it means I can be more specific in where I get the flock to graze. It’s much easier for me to lead from the front than to steer from the back of the flock! However, it means the dogs have to be quiet and circumspect at the back of the flock, so the sheep are relaxed and willing to graze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912241517-5H126V27Q3L7KSJ80NZT/IMG_2747.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either My pet Vicky has always loved to chew on my pack straps and my clothing. Here she’s having a go at the strap of my “bugle”: a wooden horn that sounds like a distant freight train. I’m training the sheep to come to the sound of it when there is fresh forage at the other side of the gate where I’m standing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912240019-KRL8GPBBL7WCQ0FA7EBI/DSCN0007.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either Hillary and her daughters starting one of their rounds through the resting flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912241816-T8GAOLHUT6QSUTTNUSG0/IMG_2858.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either Horatio and my cabal following me to the gate, while HRH and her contingent head to a different one in the background. Eventually, they all circled around and followed us through my gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912239718-RK0B87H5W39UWVXQIO8C/DSCN00051.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either HRH preparing to lead off to the left, signalling with her body language her intention to lead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912240219-L7M0PEBD2CF055AN9BNV/DSCN0008.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either Trying out she-oak (Allocasuarina verticillata) needles in one of the reserves ungrazed for the last 18 months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912239219-2PR08TW92FH6GZTALHED/DSCN0002.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Sing that Note, Either Briar rose hips are an autumn favourite. These are on a stretch of hillside seldom grazed by the sheep unless the dogs and I take them there. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/shepherding-jazz monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912236217-RXWJREKSTC8END8R5OET/DSCN0001.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz The view in late December, just after a lovely thunderstorm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912236417-KI458CTN0SCE4FNZUXE2/DSCN00011.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz The same view a few days ago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912236616-PDRJPEMKP6MUC6J7UQRP/DSCN0004.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz The new boucle colours: Hawthorn, Quarrystone and Silver Tussock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912236130-5MKVKZ6CF4J68JQ5KXS0/ASBook_Meuret-Provenza_Photo-%C2%A9Michel-Meuret-5.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz Marie Labreveux leading her flock in the southern Alps, with her dog Patoune, her “faithful, loyal, staunch” companion for 14 years. Patoune’s mother was a Pyrenean shepherd, her father a little “curious and smiley” dog. Patoune died last December and is greatly missed. Photo copyright M. Meuret. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912239116-BXSPS9CGQCF9QWZYB51Y/Navon_1-mini.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz Anthony Navon leading his flock with his dog Zumai in Vaucluse, Provence. Photo copyright M. Meuret. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912238621-O969V9OOJP3XO8LTUB5Z/IMG_2094.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz My flock following me through a gate with great determination (they love the paddock they were heading into) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912238816-MZDU0UXEAFRG2ZGOQBPY/IMG_2145.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz HRH (Old Leader) just after coming through a gate. The young sheep next to her is one she seems to have adopted. Prince of Wales?   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912238161-CUQ3NV977YV7VLLGELKC/IMG_1966.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz Ahhhh. Just the right rock to get that itch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912238422-SGYRIZR5PP6SHN8WUYY2/IMG_2061.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz Same ewe, different rock. She’s the only one I’ve seen do this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912236918-ETZYMBN860H2T389GR58/DSCN0016.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz The flock settling into their “coil” for mid-day rest on a warm day. They look for a place with good air circulation, not too steep, and preferably with short grass or flat rocks. Circulating air reduces the body heat generated during rumination, and also discourages flies. Shade is a secondary consideration for the sheep–they won’t choose shade if the other criteria aren’t met. All of which I didn’t know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912237717-IPYYOM201XF3Y66F5Z59/DSCN0034.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz What a face! A curious ewe (not a pet) checking out me and the dogs, sitting just a few feet in front of her during mid-day rest. Her ears are relaxed, so she isn’t afraid, only curious. This is how we want all the sheep to feel about us! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912237217-6KH4HNQJ1XLZO5ZWCEFT/DSCN0029.jpg Yarns from the farm - Shepherding and All That Jazz …and a pair of wedge-tailed eagles watching over us the same rest time. Actually, they were mostly waiting for a gust of wind to ride out over the countryside. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/sweetness-light-december-2014 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912233651-Q71JDIM7M7UL8DMO5IQI/IMG_1606.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light The state of the landscape in mid-December. The foreground and green paddock are mine. The change to a drier paddock in the background marks my boundary. You can click on any of the photos in the Yarn to get a larger image in your browser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912235177-34QYZ4KWTNVT94T2ETSI/IMG_1693.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light The flock heading to a waterhole and mid-day rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912235738-GZY2G55DHEQ644JH692O/IMG_1737.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light Wildflowers have been fairly scarce this dry spring, but I found this native bluebell just yesterday while shepherding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912232864-HD8V3D56TCNG2FYR9CDU/DSCN0006.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light Although much of the grass has gone to seed and dried off, there is still enough soil moisture in the gullies to support a nice green sward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912233227-MGN6YADOJRTDF69K95N0/DSCN00061.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light Mid-day rest spot for Pearl and me, under a wonderfully gnarled, windswept she-oak (casuarina). It was shady, and we could watch the sheep at their mid-day rest, but very windy at the top of the hill, as you can see from Pearl’s flying ears! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912236024-9Z5SX7A0JAT155YOIGRW/Shepherd-Cover_CMYK.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light Michel and Fred’s book. It’s both a practical guide to the concepts of shepherding and also a valuable resource about the science of grazing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912233347-1QC0DFAKRS7Z0TSBHBE6/DSCN0007.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light he view from another mid-day rest spot that Pearl and I discovered–also under a she-oak, which has denser shade than the gum trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912234934-C2U7HYWNC54TI2CD4LJ1/IMG_1667.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light Old Leader giving me “the look”–it’s something like, “If you think you can do a better job leading them, then you go right ahead!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912234243-LCUVM5KA6AY6PYWMYWKM/IMG_1632.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light The only wildflowers I’ve seen in profusion this spring are the pink convolvulus (native bindweed) and the darling bright yellow everlastings. I love the colour combination! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912233450-J5CZCQU1FMJG6S2HH15F/IMG_1458.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light My last photo of the swans, taken just days before they disappeared. Fingers crossed, they’ll be back when they’ve learned to fly and Swan Lake has enough water in it again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912232744-3CKI2PNYA8IFC2RFKRDP/DSCN0001.jpg Yarns from the farm - Sweetness and Light The woolshed at the end of the rainbow. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/zen-shepherding monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912231631-UDMFQNB7VO89WJH8DLKL/IMG_1465.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding Snow on the hills: running the dogs early this morning–brrrrrr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912232528-O0SWRQIH9S1GD48CJPD0/Zen-of-Shepherding-map.jpeg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding Property map with “overnight” paddocks marked with cross-hatching. Red solid line is the boundary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912230059-X3FDPR9TCK55UT8W181P/DSCN0009.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding The flock showing an uphill forward biais shortly after coming into this paddock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912230346-Z3IJ3ECKZ5P4TPUBQ105/IMG_1262.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding My gear for the day. The tree is one I planted in 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912230233-GCB0PF0ZJF337K4TMOD7/DSCN0039.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding A pair of native chats sharing my morning tea spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912230842-W5YUW7MLAFHMUHGPAFAB/IMG_1329.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding Old Leader (centre front, of course) leading the flock into the next paddock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912231034-XA9J6F2GACLFGA1HB3LC/IMG_1440.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding The flock at mid-day rest from my vantage point sheltering from the wind behind a gorse bush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912231143-H34LUC2P2ZINBDHNYJRI/IMG_1441.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding anie flaked out with her head in the only bit of shade at mid-day rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912230945-4AHG5TP9PVZK5D1HOK9W/IMG_1388.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding The flock just before moving off at the end of mid-day rest. I’ve been playing my penny whistle and singing to them. They were interested, but not impressed enough to hang around and keep listening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912229764-3CS4OBX9E4V12IR747WN/DSCN0001.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding The flock sampling the diversity on offer in a reserve area with lots of natives and also introduced species like this briar rose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912230444-YZAD8U9ZQJCCRZ8JOAPT/IMG_1313.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Zen of Shepherding Second-last gate of the day. Old Leader blew past the gate on the right that I intended her to go through. Another hour passed before the flock was settled for the night. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/designing-unexpected monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912226330-HR5XRGJFJC7RQ0MEW99X/DSCN0001.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Georgie Hallam’s design “Gidday Baby” knitted in Augustbird’s Green Tree Frog (with White Gum Wool as the base) and Sedge for baby Bo, son of friends Jules and Tom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912227227-VG4A9APCNV41LXP0AV4Z/DSCN0009.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Shorn sheep grazing quite boldly up to me and the dogs as we sat in the long grass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912227671-0SBCRC1ZES0397BR70F8/DSCN0013.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Swan family in the revegetation area where they clutched. Trees in the background were all planted in 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912228495-5P0AKQ18U0HQ26BTYTNR/IMG_1098.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Miss Clara, as usual torn between staying with me and not letting the flock get away from her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912226916-ZLH6SNP74OKFHMPE1B0H/DSCN0005.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Youngest to oldest: pet lambs Vicky, Clara and Felix in front of Old Leader (blue ear tag) and Alice (curled horns). This was taken earlier this year, and Alice and Old Leader still look pretty much as they did 2 years ago when I took the photos that are on the yarn labels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912228644-SKRQUJ1YFEL4R38C5HAY/IMG_1241.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Here’s looking at you, kid. As the dogs and I spend more time with the flock, curiosity is replacing wariness, and they often will graze up close if we are sitting still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912227168-Z7RBACSVNZCMZR1ZS92A/DSCN0006.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Chowing down on gorse blossoms–one of the many learned eating behaviours passed down from the canny old ewes to the youngsters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912227705-1DF3TPWE0URK7Q3VE9LI/IMG_1065.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) he old yards lit up by a lovely double rainbow in early September. Not much rain, sadly, but a good show nonetheless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912228542-NZ48XS9M5CW0NCZFFVX1/IMG_12151.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) If you look closely, you can see the swans moving away on the right side of the photo. I was too busy worrying about the sheep hurting the cygnets to even think about getting my proper camera out, so this is an iPhone special. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912227581-4S6EVOYT41LYPHD8KAIG/DSCN0011.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Safe on Willow Tree pond. Phew! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912228361-M5WQ3WGCN5LSHDZY8QKO/IMG_1069.jpg Yarns from the farm - Designing the Unexpected (October 2014) Ewe fleeces ready to go into the press, with boxes of yarn from last year’s clip in the background. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/warfare-sheep-rose monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912220237-D9PCQLFWBO15BJ3JZWO2/ASBook_Meuret-Provenza_Photo-%C2%A9Michel-Meuret-3.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Andre Leroy herding in the southern French Alps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912221035-8E1DU2UYU3D6LV3HRMQS/ASBook_Meuret-Provenza_Photo-%C2%A9Michel-Meuret-9.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Guillaume Constant herding in the Cevennes National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912224841-UJTMZUZCNZ7V7QIAUV3S/Part-of-a-sheep-grazing-allotment-on-the-Vercors-plateau-in-Southern-France-%C2%A9MMeuret.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Vercors mountain range in southern central France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912221526-FQGXBF206811N6LSJFJL/DSCN0002.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Heading out with Janie and Chance. The Polaris is just to get me up the hill–from there it’s all on foot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912224955-8M258XZWJHU0XU290QP8/Shepherdess-Marie-Labreveux-at-midday-resting-time.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Shepherdess Marie Labreveux and canine colleague at midday rest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912222631-B28PRF0520EXUNMT6Q8N/IMG_0993.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose I’m blocking the flock from moving to the trough off to the left of the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912222924-ACMLWQ8JT36HMCBQBJ7P/IMG_0998.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Vicky spots the water trough… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912223388-HWR5UB2F7WBPA7QFQ701/IMG_0999.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose …sashays off toward it… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912223542-YFSURA8MUF8T2NBL6Z4R/IMG_1001.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose …her friends follow… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912224239-W2OA1S5BXH49LIJ8PMHA/IMG_1002.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose …and the whole mob comes along! So much for my blocking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912222160-P232GUOL3R5TMAB81QWJ/IMG_0974.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Pearl ready to start a training session–she knows the sheep are in the yard ahead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912222270-DITC7KAL053O8VFDI8HD/IMG_0981.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Pearl learning to “read” her sheep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912221157-VM75ASNQL4PQBZLIZQD0/Andre-and-his-mule-e1409287593374.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Shepherd Andre Leroy and his mule Dorine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912221863-3XHO0VDCHO8LBYZ8EDEP/DSCN0005.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose Mama with 2… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912221956-663L6YEQEZU2V5HQNAJ3/DSCN0006.jpg Yarns from the farm - The warfare between the sheep and the rose …and Papa following along with the others https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/winter-farm-news monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912214217-6L2GVZ06FA6RTCTBVV7W/DSCN00041.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News Papa swan on the nest just after the eggs were clutched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912220026-34SGTI0Q5OW1IW6ISSTQ/IMG_0869.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News The dog pack ready to run. Chance, Jane, Pearl and Jax in the foreground. Blaze, Flynn and Joker in the back. Enough to intimidate any cat! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912216719-DKO4FVYC39A76ZZNWKD3/DSCN0016.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News A cat’s eye view of the Polaris buggy as a refuge. Because it’s electric, there’s not a lot under the bonnet, and plenty of things to climb! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912219434-QATV0OE06T14KLAAH8MS/DSCN5465.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News Skye kitty and the very first dye lot of yarn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912217216-WXAINXSNHX1VS90AT7E2/DSCN0045.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News The sheep in the long grass as the dogs and I were having our morning tea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912218254-BU6BID23BQSAITIMH1B5/DSCN0063.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News Heading up the hill to the gate, after the lamb rescue. It does look like a thousand sheep when they are in a mob, doesn’t it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912218917-WIMH2SGGG1NIK0PKYKI8/DSCN0075.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News Coming through the gate onto fresh feed. Clara is standing next to me (not in the photo) at the corner of the yards. She didn’t stay long–the call of the fresh paddock and the rest of the flock was too strong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912219218-JTVQYIVPZADKBC5PBDNE/DSCN0077.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News About 30 seconds later…they’ve shown me their heels and are blissfully exploring the new forage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912217019-PMW0LQD31YZTUIM2AP8A/DSCN00171.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News This is the best shot I’ve ever managed to get of a flame robin. They seem to know exactly how far maximum zoom distance is! What a bright bit of colour in the winter landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912216617-WIIBUZGBWRNPMIX5SS2R/DSCN00091.jpg Yarns from the farm - Winter Farm News Mama swan at her ease. She’s on the nest at night, with swap-overs at dusk and dawn. Yesterday I saw her flying to Willow Tree Cafe just as the sun was coming up. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/power-matriarch monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912178328-Q6KSBCSIKXWILXYAY46G/DSCN5418-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch Old Leader in the main yards in 2012. Her distinctive ear tags make her fairly easy to spot if she isn’t hiding in the back of the flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912177671-1JDEUXK2YIX9I3OIKWI7/DSCN00062-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch Family portrait–Old Leader with Alice (horns), Vicky, Clara and Felix all at the BACK of the flock when I was trying to shepherd them into some long grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912178970-NV2Z2MQA0QSTL1MQTSYE/IMG_0794-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch Waiting for Old Leader to decide to head off on the grazing circuit. We’d all been standing around for about 45 minutes at this point. It took another 15 before she chose to lead off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912177313-HDN1IJARPVNAXD2G0SXP/DSCN0008-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch On the grazing circuit–enjoying silver wattle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912176944-4ABG25V0YF4SL3V4ZDAR/DSCN0004-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch Georgie checking out my backpack while I was taking photos during a rest time in the grazing circuit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912178125-9JGTW3YTW71R2E1FH5AQ/DSCN0017-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch On the grazing circuit–spread out and trying all that the reserve has to offer in the way of diversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912177861-3O20W8EMPWZ1BI9MGZEW/DSCN0009-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch Close-up on the grazing circuit. Everyone is moving steadily up the hill, grazing as they go. The yellow gorse blossoms are a particular favourite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912176986-8V5V2L6Q8TYC5JAZ7Q8U/DSCN0005-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch Lambs grazing the out-of-control blackberry bush in my veggie garden during a home paddock grazing circuit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912177155-V4BBL0G2WYCBDZ737HKM/DSCN0006-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch Janie having a well-deserved breather during a grazing circuit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912177287-SMW4UB7DOFB92I52CNAB/DSCN00061-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - The Power of the Matriarch Once she decides to go…Sheep grazing with intent through the long grass. Old Leader would be out on the leading edge. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/peters-socks-bhutan monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912213617-JIJZNFF1ZC0QSA4LY982/P1050267-3.jpg Yarns from the farm - Peter's socks go to Bhutan Peter (centre, I think) and fellow hikers in Bhutan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912176526-S0ERS6SK4UNQ4FW6OU9X/DSCN0008-600x450.jpg Yarns from the farm - Peter's socks go to Bhutan Skye kitty checking out the much-darned boot socks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912213518-1QIVSX6IHJBZVKY92B04/IMG_5054.jpeg Yarns from the farm - Peter's socks go to Bhutan Socks, I’ve learned, can be little works of art. In this pair, the yarn was gradient dyed by Agnes Bolton (Colour By Me/tres/) for her daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912214017-L012JWZZERITGC53SOU5/downton1.jpg Yarns from the farm - Peter's socks go to Bhutan I wouldn’t go so far as to say sock knitters are obsessed, exactly, but there are sock yarn clubs out there, like this one from Augustbird (Rebecca Robinson)–Downton Abbey. You sign up and get, for instance, a skein a month for 3 months. And if you don’t sign up, tough luck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912213725-WI34F68GLLY9OC0NVUK1/anne_persuasion_club.jpg Yarns from the farm - Peter's socks go to Bhutan …or like this one–Anne from Rebecca’s Persuasion sock club. I tried to acquire this one, not knowing about the club thing. There is one skein of this left in someone’s Ravelry stash, but it is NOT for sale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912213328-2PY254VF92108Y9H6L8E/DSCN0013.jpg Yarns from the farm - Peter's socks go to Bhutan The most recent pair of socks Anne knitted for me. On these she used leftover commercial sock yarn to reinforce heels and toes, except on the heel where the hole developed, just this week :( https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/cosmic-intercepts monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912173156-QZEJ727PTIFWZ1E7BRZV/DSCN0028-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts Dense gorse stand before bulldozing and burning in 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912174076-PUU1TOXQF9E625PSUO9N/DSCN7253-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts Sheep browsing less dense gorse earlier this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912173479-JS08TMLNI16W460VAV3L/DSCN5086-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts The fancy spray unit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912174896-MRLVFUGO67LVIZCGGMRN/IMG_0441-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts Sheep grazing briar rose–it’s not quite a good enough photo to see that they are preferentially eating the rose hips–none left at or below browse level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912174250-HJTG2O1NGNYBBMGTIIJ9/DSCN7409-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts Bullrushes grazed preferentially by the mob–these are another potential “weed” in riparian areas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912176347-88S1XR7F5661AD39TIAY/DSCN0002-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts A young gum tree growing up safely in the middle of a dense gorse patch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912174683-60AA6GNCMDOHHWRK8GW9/IMG_0386-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts Felix being left behind as the mob gallops down the hill into the main briar rose patch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912175227-IBKDZ7HM1N6JGPHCLVQ9/IMG_0651-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts This one surprised me–I wasn’t expecting this level of enthusiasm for pine needles! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912175352-UW59Y56SY5172RMQSUO1/IMG_0663-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Cosmic Intercepts Using the sheep to “weed” around my house. The pet lambs ended up briefly in the fishpond, but the sheep did eat the exotic grasses quite effectively. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/celebration-indies monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912208165-M0UNPQ32QK88EOB29J2N/Screenshot-2014-04-11-15.44.11.png Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Justine Turners new “Coop” set: beanie, cowls, mitts, and mason jar cosy designed for WGW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912208333-0VX96DMK8AZFJG6KRW8E/Screenshot-2014-04-11-15.47.48.png Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Georgie Hallam’s new Uwland cowl (three different lengths) also designed for WGW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912208542-BODD3PIEOUNXVHZX9825/Screenshot-2014-04-11-15.51.18.png Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Restless Knitter’s new pattern Reversus (a tricky inside out lace stitch) designed with WGW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912210339-T8N5A0XX95ZRC9MGNKTU/Screenshot-2014-04-11-15.59.01.png Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Nunnaba’s “Do you want to make a snowman?”, just released in WGW 4-ply (fingering) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912208729-L9R0JGHOMMG9NQ3XQ2UV/Screenshot-2014-04-11-15.54.43.png Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies MIss Jane’s Knits new colour range https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912209253-CI70PD1Y9GZ2UT3SXDWX/Screenshot-2014-04-11-15.57.53.png Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Nunnaba’s “Frozen” colourways, also just released. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912208531-38CRFAWO83R6RF8VSAO6/Screenshot-2014-04-11-15.52.22.png Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Colour by me/tres/ Forest Fairy, still on the dyeing frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912210843-JA3K8YWHHA2OEAMR2UAP/YvZ-SydneyRainbow.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Yarn vs Zombie’s Sydney Rainbow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912208657-VSNISBTXP2R1LGG8LPBN/Screenshot-2014-04-11-15.54.07.png Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Colour by me/tres/ (Agnes Bolton)’s new range of gradient colours. This is Forest Twilight. Emma of Em’s Knits will be turning this into one of Kelly Brooker’s “Just One” gradient cowls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912175720-Q9YHW2UF9BNUY9F289N0/IMG_5834-300x200.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Em’s Knits: 8-ply WGW in silver wattle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912207841-7ES0ZM1EDXUH9BHM4VKP/IMG_6766_2.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies First and foremost, young Patrick Matthew (aka Paddymoo) in his cool beanie (kangaroo paw and ironstone) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912208046-5UWTRY11381DC3VPHNAE/IMG_6811.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies The first wave of Colours of Australia. Top: protea, kangaroo paw, pebbly beach, green tree frog. Bottom: pebbly beach, spider orchid, summer rain, green tree frog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912211965-7JODMPF5T9KEQ5K2JCRG/summerrain_sedge_wild.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Summer rain with sedge and wild orchid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912211234-PZ27U1T6ZV9YCLUBSPGM/pebbly_flax.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Pebbly beach with flax lily https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912211448-HII8UUYB0BWPZNMGNGD1/spider_wild.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Spider orchid swatch with wild orchid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912211338-C4KGMUUBROYSH0BJPFTV/spider_flax_frog.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Spider orchid, flax lily and green tree frog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912211050-YZRY0NCFZX4B69IGR2I5/kang_sedge_wild.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Kangaroo paw swatch with sedge and wild orchid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912210686-MMUS8PK6EXL07NC2FMMK/WGW4_protea.jpg Yarns from the farm - In Celebration of Indies Protea https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/perfect monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912171854-QKO3I6JDL7DZV2ANPQ7X/DSCN7102-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Have to Be Perfect Long grass in the newly-planted Wild Orchid Copse (this is where the shy little greenhood orchid grows) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912168995-TL596BA8OCYYW0CZB4SN/DSCN7063-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Have to Be Perfect Sheep going into Eagle Tree paddock, with rank cocksfoot grass in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912172087-KL1WXE1LKJ99Q3BR54C1/DSCN7103-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Have to Be Perfect Janie shows just how long that grass really is https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912172944-M5PPRXZ47144J3F5MWOV/Shepherd-Cover_CMYK-200x300.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Have to Be Perfect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912169351-XNABBB469RM8J82QW23U/DSCN7066-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Have to Be Perfect Chicory, a favourite herb for sheep (flowered plants) on ungrazed side of the fence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912170022-U9QU7XVC791BHA9VBFFW/DSCN7067-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Have to Be Perfect After 12 hours grazing--no chicory visible just on the other side of the fence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912172695-OOXH7JFFTYG81JEEU87Z/DSCN7180-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - You Don't Have to Be Perfect First day of school: the pet lambs and Sabrina heading into The Forest--the revegetation area that adjoins the little paddock they've lived in till now. They have about 30 2-year old ewes keeping them company. I don't know if the kids'll be home for the bottles this evening or if they'll follow the older sheep to the far end of the forest. Sniff. https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/fire-weather monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912167248-9M05TPTQKV9JN3ETXP43/DSCN6307-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather Mac (centre) and Chance working sheep in the long dry grass last summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912168928-N57OBBYB1GIQDERTR3O0/DSCN7061-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather Sheep going into the farthest back paddock a couple of weeks ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912166455-U97SU68YU5ELHG3A45LC/DSCN5411-252x300.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather Annie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912166933-689RSXR0J4IQUOL9DQ1Y/DSCN5416-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather Emmie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912168548-J1HNFM81I7LDZ540VFJA/DSCN6345-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather Jem the ramlet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912167668-GJ13ZSUJH86I689A029E/DSCN6337-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather Jem’s year class of ram lambs–2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912170245-MD0688EH7EISOZIDIDOP/DSCN7068-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather Fuel-filled back country earlier this month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912170628-APW20KTR4J8IKUU3KUPO/DSCN7074-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather An echidna about to discover he CAN swim–in my ornamental fish pond, on a very hot, very dry day a couple of weeks ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912171041-KTLFHMS35NAWPG6BG6LI/DSCN7075-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Fire Weather Not a great look, but a much more satisfactory core temperature. (He did get safely away, and now has his own ground-level water dish.) https://www.whitegumwool.com.au/yarns-from-the-farm/boucle-here-and-news-january-2014 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912198615-MRU5PL4AMBT58ENS5YPK/DSCN7060.jpg Yarns from the farm - Boucle is here! (and other news) Big brother boucle next to standard 8-ply (DK) in fairy wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912165383-8T042DRQPQ9PNKGCG14X/DSCN7053-225x300.jpg Yarns from the farm - Boucle is here! (and other news) Silver wattle boucle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574d2f4340261d75974e71fb/1468912164507-WTEU4DP3HH765AZB7B97/DSCN7008-300x225.jpg Yarns from the farm - Boucle is here! 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