abundance

November 25 2016

We have had a cool wet week. At least the weather encouraged me to stay indoors and sort out all the laundry and accounts.  We had quite a backlog of this sort of work that accumulated whilst we spent our time with the school kids. The rain has also had a profound effect on the vegetation and we have more growth in the grass than we have ever had before.  The stock are failing to keep up with the growth and we have paddocks full of long grass everywhere.

The trees are also growing fast.  We are a bit of a home for abandoned trees.  Last week we acquired four olive trees that were breaking out of their pots in the restaurant beer garden. They were in wine barrels and two totally collapsed when we tried to move them so Edd had to dig holes on the hottest day so far to get them in the ground.  The mandarin tree that the school planted is still alive and we hope the olives will survive too.

With all the lush grass the goats are giving loads of milk. We are feeding 10 kids but we still have heaps left over for making cheese.  Rosie kidded this week and had a boy and a girl that were really huge.  Her udder is huge too; it is a wonder that she can walk at all.  This is the first year that we have had this scale of production but hopefully everything will settle back after Xmas.  I have been selling goats but still have more than we need.