Oh and my new rooster

After we lost our beautiful rooster, a colleague of Colin's offered us one of theirs. It seems she had two that had been fighting and was pleased to give us one of hers. So here's our new rooster who wakes us at 5 am instead of 5.30 am! We also think he's a little scared of the four hens since he's smaller than they are!

Our dogs have been getting used to living at Maplegum. Chewy sticks around and just begs us to throw him his cong (red ball). Leah is still keen as ever to chase after wildlife, espeically down by our dams, so she can go swimming all the time!

I hope you have enjoyed the photos. I know they don't do the place justice, but it must give you some idea of the place. And if you want to see more . . . well you'll have to come and see it for yourself!

Pictures continued

I was unable to post all the photos on the same post, so here are some more!

Finally some pictures

The driveway:

Guest bedroom:
My craft room (still needs to be organized!):

Sadness at MapleGum

We woke this morning to quietness. A few song birds, but no rooster wake up call. It seems a sly fox crept on to the property and stole our beautiful rooster. He was there yesturday, I"m sure of it. I went in today to collect the eggs and couldn't see him. I looked around and noticed an area of the chicken wire and been pushed in and some dirt dug away. A few stray feathers. And a few more outside the coop. How annoyed, frustrated, upset, and sad we were. We've only been here 4 weeks and already a rooster is gone. And he was a beautiful specimen of a rooster. Shiny coat, perky feathers and the crow of the wild.

We'll be doing some digging and rearranging this weekend. We don't want that sly fox back anytime soon. In fact never. I'll be getting a new rooster, but only once the coop is stronger.

And, we don't even have a photo of him.