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Welcome to 2015!! How was your Christmas and New Years? Did you set some New years Resolutions? Let me take you on a photo story journey through my past 12 months....

This was our New Years Party!

This beautiful girl of ours turned 18!
 This happened in 365 different ways

 The girls finally have their stables
 Polocrosse Season was fabulous yet again

 We went to Ascot Races in London
 We planted, checked and stripped the 2014 crops. Our girls very involved in this years harvest
 Our eldest daughter turns 21!
 This 3rd daughter adjusted to boarding school in the city, making her goals to be a farmer even stronger.

 This happened occasionally but he was usually the teacher, as my interest in running a farm business was probably stronger than Howard interest in becoming a yogi.
 I found my own opportunities to be still and savour the stunning detail all around us.
 My dear friend Helen Lamb passed away - I miss her. This is her grandmothers geranium.
 We fed sheep, checked sheep, enjoyed another year of shearing and lambing.

 We drove the 40km trip to town through fog, dust, rain and sun.
We went to the city, the beach, Paris, Spain, Melbourne and back to the farm again.

It was a fabulous 2014!

Get ready for my next blog with your paper and pen - Lets set some exciting new goals together!!!

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