Lady's Meat
Last Wednesday we collected Lady's meat from the butcher - all 175kg (sample weighed and estimated) of it. We almost filled the large freezer in the shed and had to bring some inside to the laundry freezer. Plus of course we ate some scotch fillet that night (and t-bones the next night) - meat heaven. Even though I used to think Patch was a big animal, Lady was much bigger. Patch yielded 143kg of meat. Lady's carcass was 314.2kg and in all it cost us $427.04 (including abattoir and freight) to have her butchered, hung and packaged. Lady was about 140kg of bones, which was roughly the same proportion of bone as Patch.

Recycled Fence
Over last week Paul and I systematically removed tie wire and old droppers and unthreaded the old wire from the old star pickets of the lower half of the middle fence. Paul then removed the old star pickets and mowed some taller grass on the fence line. Then on Friday evening we replaced the top wire and began 'bashing' in the new star pickets. Of the 25 pickets I 'bashed' in about 5 with the very heavy picket pounder. Then on Saturday we rethreaded four more wires through the holes in the star pickets and attached the hinge joint. While Paul connected the hinge joint around the taps I proceeded to attach the hinge joint to the wires with tie wire. On Sunday while I continued doing this Paul attached one of the left over wires along the bottom of the hinge joint across the middle of the eastern paddock. All in all it was a very thorough job, reusing the wire that was already there. The sheep aren't getting out of this fence! When I save up and buy more star pickets we will repeat the process with the top half of the fence. I have included a very sad before photo of the top half of the fence.