A day of firsts

10.5mm of rain overnight. VERY happy with this. That amount of rain will kick things off again nicely.....the pastures were starting to feel the effects of a dry start to the winter period.

The freezer full of meat has raised its own unique problems:

1. accessing select pieces of meat from a chest freezer that is packed CHOCKERS; and

2. no available space to store 'normal' stuff that usually gets kept in the freezer (such as chicken, bread, butter, ice-cream etc).

As a result, a second freezer purchase was in order, especially seeing as Mark has alluded to the fact that an annual kill might be on the cards. So if I am looking at needing to store vast amounts of meat on a regular basis, then I can't do it in the freezer we have. Or at least not with that one alone. So I bought an upright frost free one and it is, as I type, chilling nicely so I can pack it tomorrow. The upright is going to address the issue of storage and the ability to locate a piece of T-Bone without the need for a microchip, GPS reader and the local SES brigade. And it also takes up less space.

Family-wise, we had a couple of firsts today that should be noted. Tom went for his very first haircut this morning. Yes, he is 20-something days off his 3rd birthday and he has never had a haircut. He was lucky to have ANY hair by the time he was 2yo! I had to laugh though at the amount of hair that was removed. Almost bugger all. It was all we could do to collect some and keep it as a memento. Here I was holding an envelope under the scissors, trying to catch every strand of hair, hoping that no-one sneezed or breathed too deeply and blow it away! Although it was really not much off, it was the dangly wispy bits and it does look a bit neater. And Tom thinks it was just wonderful. Mark and I both prepped him before he went in and although he was a little shy to start with, he happily sat on my knee and let the girl do her job.

1) Prior to the haircut ; 2) Getting started (note how long the top is!)

3) Enjoying the treatment

4) The finished result

The second first we had today was that Bridie sat in the high chair for the very first time. We normally have her in the kitchen with us when we are eating dinner, but she is placed in her rocker. Because it is on the floor, she squarks and grizzles because she is just not in the action. But to place her on your knee when you are trying to eat...forget it! Especially now she is making a grab at everything. So Mark put her in the highchair for a bit and she loved it. So from tomorrow, we are going to have Tom sitting in a bumper seat (portable high chair) on one of the dining chairs and she can have the high chair. Oh, my kids are growing up too fast.......