Make the most of today . .

. . as it's downhill all the way from here!

Well no, maybe not, but today there will be the most hours of sunshine till this time next year - over 15 hours. I hope wherever you are it is sunshine and not dull clouds or rain. Regular readers will know of course that because of Analemma it won't be the latest sunset until June 27th (so there's plenty more time to sit out in the evening sunshine).



Of course these times are GMT and for our Queensland readers it's the middle of winter!

At Least Three Goods Reasons

Maybe you won't agree - but - AT LAST WE'VE HAD SOME PROPER RAIN!

I know you can't hang the washing out or sit out on a sunny patio, but -

1 - we can at last scrape the yard instead of just smearing the muck

2 - the dust and muck have been washed of the car and my kind husband has washed it (it's too high for me - that's my excuse)

3 - most importantly it's washed in the muck that we spread after silaging and the grass can start to grow again.

At the moment we've had 0.83 inches, so it may well be an inch by the end of the day - click on the Weather link on the left to see how dry it's been lately.

James' Award Winning Photograph

Just click and rearrange!

Fun and Games

I'm not sure if this will work (and you can see I've got too much time on my hands) - but click on this jigsaw link and see what happens. And if this one's too easy, watch this space!

Another Quiet Week

It's been a week since the last post, and before that there was a rush of daily posts. It's not that nothings been happening at Strickley, but just the normal routine. Anyone who's passed by when the wind was in the wrong direction will know we've been applying copious amounts of "liquid manure" on the the silaged fields. Now, if only it would rain a bit to wash it in! (But preferably only at night).

If you want to see photographs of all the fields (not covered in muck!) then look at this link on the Strickley website. And many thanks to Jean for filling in the gaps for the missing images.

Fresh This Morning

The first Strickley Organic Milk has just left the farm.

Strickley Organic

At 00:01 today we became officially 100% Organic and able to sell organic milk. We're on a new collection schedule which may take a bit of getting used to. For many years the milk tanker has come at night, sometime between half past eight in the evening and three o'clock in the morning. We've got used to saying to visitors, "it's tanker night, please park out of the way" and always having milk "on tap" after morning milking. The organic run is back in daylight, and the tanker is due between eight thirty and nine in the morning, so it's fill up the milk jug or there won't be any more till tonight.

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To mark this occasion we're having a small celebration out on the patio at dinner time (weather permitting). We've kept back a couple of bottles of fizzy pop to toast the future of Strickley