Foraging in the Back Paddock

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yay – a bit of blue

It was a typical changeable day – this was a nice bit! 🙂

We figured we should go down into the back paddock and collect some more pine cones and other decent bits of kindling for the fire.

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Heading to the pines

The fellow who runs the cows down here doesn’t mind us tramping though his paddocks to pick up kindling, which is great.

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This field will be blooming with wild daffodils soon. Wonder if the farmer will mind if I pick and sell them?? hee hee

Of course we had a small audience!

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Stickybeak cows
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Plenty of pine cones and kindling – just had to avoid the ones coated in cow poo

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Back up to the house

We walked back up to our back fence and slung our bags over the fence, then decided to go back down the paddock to check out the creek

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A little more help for the fire

The small creek has widened its horizons!

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Slightly further up, the creek had made its own cool little waterways in and out and around the trees!

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Gumboots are the ONLY option around our place these days

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Of course, during our walk we got rained on and shined on intermittently – and then the inevitable rainbow!

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And inevitable cows again

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Actually as we walked back up to the gate we caused this hilarious stampede of Mini Cows – they were racing up to us, jumping in the air and everything!

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Its hard to see, but the cow behind the leader got some good air time! lol

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Then I got licked!

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I have to go spend more time with the cows – they crack me up!

Hope your day has been just as great!

Cheers!

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Author: Lisa

A happy traveller through life! Right now living in NW Tasmania with a gorgeous Nurse-Husband, a fool of a Siamese Cat and several chickens. We love our fairly simple lifestyle of growing a lot of what we eat and enjoying the stunning surrounds of our little patch.

4 thoughts on “Foraging in the Back Paddock”

  1. Aww… I love everything about where you live, it’s so wild and wonderful! And those cows are ADORABLE! They sure seem happy. Are they truly mini cows, or are they babies? If yes to mini question, what type of breed is that?

    1. haha – oooooh yeah! I remember once around here there was a whole herd weaned – the bellowing went on for DAYS!! It was partly sad, party annoying and party funny!!

      We’ve been spoiled with rainbows this winter!

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