Holiday jobs on the block...?

I'm wondering what jobs you plan on getting done over the holiday break. We're picking up lots of goat equipment (although I have no idea where it's going to go), building a firewood shed and getting out with the grubbers and backpack sprayer to reduce the weeds.

Christmas is not a time of relaxation for us, or for many lsbers I assume, it's a time for getting the big jobs finished [8D]

Cheers
Kate

Apart from my ordinary jobs: harrowing, spraying, grubbing, shifting fences etc etc., my brother is coming with his gun and we're going to do a possum shoot: two adults, three dogs and two teenagers[:0][:0] . That's going to be a fun night!!

although I'm battling horrible hayfever I'm intending to weedwack a fair bit and hopefully do some paving around the vege patch to make it easier to care for ..

Although we sold our block earlier this year, we still have plenty to keep up amused with. My new Italian customer (for the slippers) has placed another order which will keep us very busy as it needs to be posted by New Year.

Also have lawns to do, gardens to sort and keep an eye on the calves that we share this block with.

Plus my paid work is very busy at this time of year and am working from Boxing Day onwards.

What does a fencer do during their Christmas break? ...

Apparently I'm re-fencing 2 of the cattle paddocks at home to accommodate the goats. How's that for a holiday?

we will finish fencing the chicken paddock, maybe also start fixing the existing fences and there's the neverending weeding battle with thistles, blackberries and so on...

Oh, where to start!!!

Paddock topping; thistle grubbing; firewood stacking; trough cleaning; house spring cleaning; chookhouse cleaning; shearing; fleece sorting; checking and getting all my farming equipment together in one place; clearing and planting unused portions of the vege garden... It makes me tired just typing it out, LOL. Having such a long break before going back to work next year (thanks Boss) means I might just achieve all I set out to do. Starting Boxing Day when I hope I'm feeling better from this crappy flu-like bug that DH so generously shared with me.
Cheers, Mich.

I have an infected lung, so really hoping to be able to put my feet up when I get home and the farm fairy do the evening jobs:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Aside from that, our plans were to get all the yearlings and younger calves in and hit them with a new (to us) oral drench and tag/ring the younger ones. We have taken possession of a new yearling angus bull so plan on working around him as much as possible.

and our ultimate goal in the limited amount of time we are having off from paid employment, is to finally take the long line out to the Port and hopefully catch something, anything please.

Have just finished phase 2 of the electrical work - putting a proper switch board in the house. Which included shifting the location of the house pump, built a nice little 'house' for that, plumbed the pump in yesterday. I have started to pull down the old pump shed.

Hoping to install the electric gates before christmas - they have been sitting in the shed for three years.

Back to work on 28 December, holidays finished for me.

NO jobs whatsoever. Have broken my leg. I never thought anything like that would happen to me and I simply slipped on some wet grass. Now I can't even look after the basics for the animals or water my vege garden etc. It's going to be a difficult time, no driving, leg not allowed on ground and plaster not off until Feb. Do you all have plans as to what you'd do if something happened to you? I'm struggling with it. I'm going to try and work out how to do everything maybe with a wheelchair - crutches aren't very good as you don't have hands free. Everyone please be careful - I don't mean to be gloomy or anything... lol

starting with the berry harvest[^], weeding, filling up the last of the vege garden beds, weeding, springclean the commercial kitchen, empty the fruit freezer and make jam out of everything in sight, weeding, re-arrage guest room to accomodate 2, upate accounting so i don't have to do anything during harvest, weeding . i might even go crazy, go to the library and get a book....[]

the cattery is full so that is my first priority. weeds weeds and more weeds.
I asked for a new goat palace for my birthday in early January so I guess I will be giving advice, inspiration and assistance with the erection of that.

the cattery is full so that will be my first priority. There are always weeds to spray or pull and weed wacking to do. Its my birthday in early January and I have asked for a new goat house with a deck/ramp area to give them a place that is dry under foot in winter, so I guess I will be giving advice, inspiration and assistance with that.
Mostly I want to spend time with my family and recharge my energy

Minky2, I sympathise, still recovering from October in plaster with a broken arm and thanking my lucky stars it wasn't a broken leg. Felt equally helpless not being able to drive, reel up fence reels, work with the cattle, even grub or spray weeds.
It is amazing how you can improvise when you only have one arm (or one leg I suppose!)
Now thankfully starting to get back into the swing of those things-but now OH has had a knee replacement two weeks ago and he is the one who can't do any of the above, and was on crutches but has just started managing without even one.

Farm jobs we hope to accomplish between us are,ragwort grubbing, thistle patrol-but only half heartedly as spraying is difficult. Sort out the cattle into mobs of cows with heifer calves and cows with bull calves, take out the sires, weigh all the calves, try and halter train a couple (we usually do 9) for the coming shows, keep the lawns mowed, keep the electric fence ticking and the water troughs flowing.

If I can achieve that lot I'll be pleased enough with my summer. Along with chaffeuring OH too and fro to work for another 6 weeks, and we need to get 90 bales of baleage bought in and 3 paddocks of hay cut, baled and in the shed, but hopefully the contractor will do all that-I just have to keep reminding him we're still waiting!

What bad luck, Minky2 - so sorry to hear that news. Do you have anyone that could help you keep on top of things? It would be very miserable to see jobs banking up that really need attending to and not being able to do them.

Good point about having a Plan B though.
Cheers, Mich.