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Sunday Snapshot – In The Picture

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

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Tonight’s Sunday Snapshot is a photo of Kipp and I, up in the avocado orchard with Matt late this afternoon.  It was my favourite part of the day today, riding through the rows with Matt, checking out the fruit on the trees and trying to decide if we have enough avocados ready for us to head in and do a spot pick of any fruit big enough to be packed.  It was peaceful, not too hot and just lovely – Blue Sky Beau the dog racing the bike up the rows, chasing the kangaroos and the sun just starting to set – the best time of day in the orchard. Continue reading →

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The Worlds Greatest Farmer – Joel Salatin

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

Welcome to Farming Friday on the Fealy Family blog!  I’m going to kick off the first of our farming posts this year by sharing some information about a tour happening next week, which I am a little bit excited about!

As most of you know, we are currently in our second year of our “Farm Apprenticeship” here at Blue Sky Produce.  We have learnt a lot in twelve months, probably the most of which is that there is still a lot we don’t know!  The nature of farming is very hands on, with little time to get away from ‘the tools’ but we are very conscious of the fact, that to be the best farmers we can be, we need to be open-minded and take up as many opportunities as we can to learn as much as we can about farming and the issues facing the wider agricultural industry.  So, when we saw the advertisement for the Joel Salatin Tour organised by local community based, family business RegenAg, we knew we had to make an effort to try to get along to some of the events being offered. Continue reading →

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Sunday Snapshot – The Farmer Boy

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

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I’m bringing back the Sunday Snapshot post this year too.  Here’s this week’s pic taken late on Friday afternoon, up in the Keitt mango orchard here at Blue Sky Produce.  Matt was sweeping up excess, unused crates along to the next row, ahead of the pickers.  I’m posting this photo of my farmer boy in honour of Valentines day. Continue reading →

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Jack turned 9

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

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Welcome to ‘Throwback Thursday’ on the Fealy Family blog everyone.  This is the way that I am going to throw in a few catch up posts to the blog this year – a little bit sneaky and cheeky, and the posts will be a bit random, but there are a few bits and pieces I want to pull in to the blog and this is how I’m going to do it!

So, way back in November last year – Jack turned 9 and we celebrated with a pretty low key, but lovely, afternoon tea at home with a few of his mates from school and Poppy who drove up from Cairns to join in.   Continue reading →

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We’re Still Here! An Update Post.

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

Oh dear.  I have just realised that it has been over a month since our last post – aaaargh – how did that happen!  I’m really sorry if we actually have any readers who missed us!  I have no idea if anybody is even following our blog any more, but I’m going to keep posting anyway – just cause I love it and this is our family record keeping place.

So.  What’s been happening with the Fealy Family you ask?   Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2015

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2015!!  We hope everybody had a great festive period and ate lots of mangoes, passion fruit and limes!!  We had a great Christmas here and a very quiet New Year, and things are rolling along pretty well with Mango Madness 2015, so I figure it’s time to to get organised for the year ahead!

I love New Year’s Resolutions and the chance to start the year with a clean slate.  I love sitting down and having a long hard think about what we want to happen for the year ahead, what things we might have to look forward to, where we need to direct our finances and what things are the top of the priority list in terms of time and energy!  I found this really cool printable graphic on Pinterest which you might like too if you haven’t already had a think about your plans for 2015.  I especially liked the way that goals can be broken down into months – I’m even thinking of setting myself a challenge week by week! Continue reading →

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Fealy Family Wrap Up 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

Oh man.  Our New Year’s Eve tonight is being spent in a manner that pretty much sums up how 2014 has rolled for us!  As I write this, Matt has just finished up in the shed and as we are mostly all pretty exhausted, we have decided to hole up together in the house to watch a movie and carve out some quiet family time.  The last few days have been some pretty crazy mango madness!  Everything is a mess in the house as I’ve struggled to stay on top of that as well as some Blue Sky farm stuff.  We’ve got no big party planned, actually, nothing at all exciting planned to see in the New Year cause we’re just too tired – eek! I feel so lame just writing that!  But, we’re happy.  And grateful to have each other, and a small bit of time together!  Oh – and we’ve got junk food in the form of chips, bhuja mix and maltesers so that gets us over the line in the eyes of the kids as some kind of celebration!! Continue reading →

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Another Christmas is all over!

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

10420388_698266230281288_7325937457839014234_nOnce again I’m late with the Christmas wishes, so a very, merry, belated Christmas everyone!  The kids and I are enjoying some very quiet days at Blue Sky at the moment while Matt is immersed in mango season madness.  On the mango front, things are not as crazy as last year though so we did manage to have a pretty relaxed Christmas day and Boxing Day this year – much better than spending it in hospital as we did last Christmas!

As you know, we kicked off our Christmas festivities about a month ago when we headed out to choose our ‘real’ Christmas tree from the Christmas Tree farm, you can read all about that outing here.  Next on the festive calendar was the local Christmas Carols night which the kids loved despite the fact that due to some iffy weather the carols were moved indoors and we were all hot, sweaty and crammed in to the local PCYC hall – not really the magical night we were hoping for but the kids enjoyed themselves nonetheless! Continue reading →

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Atherton Christmas Tree Farm

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

DSC_0139It’s the first of December already – hasn’t the year just flown!  We are being very organised this year and making sure everything ‘Christmas’ is taken care of before mango season madness kicks off here at Blue Sky Produce next week – none of the last minute, slightly stressful craziness that we had last year!

So – one of our favourite things about Christmas is the Christmas Tree.  We love choosing where to put it and decorating it as a family, pulling out all the old decorations made by the kids or special ones given as gifts. Since we have moved up here, we have a new rule that we must have a ‘real’ pine Christmas tree.  I always had a ‘real’ tree growing up and the smell of them takes me straight back to my Christmas’s as a kid with all my cousins!  We would all pile in the back of the ute and head off around the farm looking for a pine tree with a suitable branch we could chop off for a Christmas tree.  We had to sing Christmas carols at the top of our voices or my Dad would stop the ute and would not move again until the singing was at a satisfactory level.  It didn’t matter if we only knew the chorus of each Christmas carol, we’d just sing what we could and move on to the next one.  Such great fun and great, great memories! Continue reading →

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Taking Stock – November 2014

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

IMG_4753I’m on a bit of a blogging roll at the moment – wahooo – look at me go!  Still lots of posts to catch up on but I thought I would pause for a little bit today to ‘Take Stock’.  I’ve done a couple of these posts now and really find them useful for a little bit of quiet reflection.  Feel free to have a go yourself – it’s really quite fun! Continue reading →

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