Dust, Mud and Me, Jodi Kirker Photography

28/12/2025

It’s holiday season… for most of us.

I’m not on holiday per se, but definitely in slight cruise mode counting down to a small trip away very soon. While in cruise mode I’ve been pottering away on a bit of a cleaning and organising mission. Today I was gathering some bits out of a store room in our workshop to move to another store room on farm. Working towards a place for everything, everything in its place system. A saying my late father use to say a lot, but didn’t always follow through with.

Anyway while pottering in the store room my eldest nephew who was assisting me opened an old cupboard and I couldn’t help chuckle and grab a photo…

In this photo an old honey pottle full of nuts and bolts and other farmer just incase bits, you know one of those pottles every farm has a few of I’m sure. This one not just any honey pottle, but a fairly local one.

The glass jar is what looks to be grass seed. Now I can’t be sure, but Dad use to grow grass seed for the market so I’m going with the theory it’s a crop he was particularly proud of. Though there’s also a pretty high chance it’s just some left over seed and that was the best vessel he had to store it in and forgot to use it in following seasons.

The document clipped to the wall of the cupboard is a loading certificate for a trailer dated a few years before I was born.

While none of these things are of real significance, it did kind of remind me of a museum display. A part of history. Some random quirky things Dad kept in storage. More importantly for me, a wee reminder of my late father and his lasting mark around our family farm 🥰

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas… seems to be all I post here these days. For that I apologise.

Wishing you all a happy, safe and prosperous festive season and beyond.

No promises, but I hope to get back to posting on DMM more often in the new year. The past year while much more settled than the previous few was still hectic and a lot of time was spent concentrating on doing only what was needed and spending more time on myself.

If you’re still following along, thank you.

24/12/2024

How is it that time of year again 🎄 It honestly doesn’t feel like a year since I tried to wrangle this crew and protect that monster pup on the far left from being stood on by Dustan (the horse, last year’s Christmas photo in the comments of this post). The baby deer she’s new… and we’re still getting to know each other.

A big, big apologie that DMM has been severely neglected this year! Life has been a little bit upside and at times incredibly crazy to say the least.

To all still following along ~ Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2025 to you all!

Wishing everyone all you hope for and every thing you deserve ~ Jodi chief slacker for Dust, Mud and Me, Jodi Kirker Photography xx

14/08/2024

Words sometimes are never enough, but here’s a start. 🙏🏼

12 weeks today. 💔

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12/07/2024

Fog… makes for long, dark and chilly days, but also makes for some fun photos.

This mob of older girls have probably seen a few foggy days in their time. They’re just happy munching on their sweet baleage, filling their bellies and warming the soul.

Happy weekend everyone!

11/07/2024

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25/06/2024

Once again it’s been awhile since I last posted here… a lot has happened though on farm and personally.

For those who don’t already know, toughest part has been the recent passing of my Dad.

The man who after trying to put together a gathering slide for a memorial service we are yet to hold (another long story…), I’ve decided is the reason I take so many photos in the genre I do. It was a mission to find too many photos of him, but there’s plenty of photos of ironically sheep, cattle and landscapes.

In the few weeks before his passing my photos were also his connection to the farm and what was happening on the land as he became more and more house bound. So while I don’t post on DMM very often, photos are always being taken.

These two photos were snapped today. One this morning and one this evening. The fog hanging round for both. I’m just glad we’re on the right side of the shortest day and hope the sun is out there somewhere.

Until next time my friends, hope you are keeping well. I’d like to say it won’t be so long, but I can’t guarantee that…

Enjoy these rare shares, thank you for still following and stay safe xx

01/03/2024

Quick turn around, no posts for ages then two in as many days. Sometimes that’s the way it is. This one made me smile, I wanted to share so perhaps you can smile too.

Sure they’re a “weed”, but these dandelion are also bright yellow flowers. It all depends how you want to see things!

For me though and perhaps because I know the story and who’s who… it’s the Mumma and her calf in the background that gives me the warm fuzzies.

29/02/2024

Yet again it’s been awhile between posts…

Just a quick check in with this one.

Sunset magic on this leap day. We won’t even mention it’s the last day of summer… or February.

Time truly does fly, but there is always time to admire beautiful things or at least there should be x

23/12/2023

To my dear followers, once again I find myself apologising for not posting here too often. It’s certainly been a year of ups and downs for me. I haven’t posted here much, but my camera roll is always filling up.

My yearly traditional Christmas photo… it’s not watermarked, as I lost my original and haven’t made the time to either find it again or sort a new one.

I had a vision with this shot and almost pulled it off… just some of the participants aren’t as well behaved as they could be, some are determined to do other things including, but not limited to being stood on and some just don’t know better yet. You will or at least may notice a couple of newbies and a couple no longer here.

You can almost tell the ones that are use to my shenanigans!

I’m at the point where it’s somewhere between F**k it, it’s Christmas and F**k! It’s Christmas!

As I touched on it’s certainly been a year for me and those around me with a couple of pretty bloody low lows including the passing of my biggest follower and fan - my Mum, back in April. My hero and the one that got me into farming and photography really, my Dad is also struggling with ill health. In saying that there have been many, many awesome highs too and that’s what personally gets me through.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with smiles, great wishes, aroha and all the bloody best for 2024.

I do hope you continue to follow my page, I hope you get a wee break in whatever form you desire over the festive season and that 2024 is kind to you all in health, wealth and everything else.

P.S there are so many I want to thank for being there, so many I want to message just to say hi and how are you, but always seem to remember at an un human hour - please know I do think about you. Then there’s those I don’t give a second thought to. They’re probably not reading this so it a moot point, but they can kiss my Merry Christmarse!