Ella getting ready for Melbourne cup
November 3
A couple of small
miracles have helped us a lot.
Amazingly, it was fine and sunny for the school camp. Two days before
they were due we had a really terrible rain that was so bad that they had to
cancel an important horse race in Yarra Glen that provided a good percentage of
the tracks yearly income!
I kept thinking we should cancel the
camp too, but the forecast was OK so we kept our nerve and amazingly the
weather was better than predicted.
The camp went well. Everyone got a lot of work done and seemed to be
enjoying themselves. We have
another camp next week so I am not relaxing yet.
The other miracle was
that the eggs have hatched out. We
put them on a day before the power was cut off so we just left them and the
incubator heated up again when the power was restored. Edd candled the eggs last week and saw
signs of life so we let everything go on and now have lots of chicks. This is very pleasing because some
friends had given us some of their welsomer eggs and we really did not want to
loose the opportunity to get some chicks of that type.
The school kids have
taken the old vegetables out and replaced them with our new season crops. It
all looks very organised now. At last we are getting snow peas to eat and
harvesting the broad beans. The
tomatoes are growing well and zucchinis, pumpkins and other crops are in and
growing.
I think that the next
lot of goats are ready to kid so I have advertised goats for sale this
weekend. It has been too wet to
try and sell up until now but with the grass and weeds shooting up like mad we
may get some takers. We are getting loads of milk but the kids are drinking
most of it.
Everyone in the family
seems to be making big changes in their lives. Al is moving down to the coast with Pip, and Ti is planning
to move with them. Bo and Indi are trying to get into new careers and Indi and
Ben have started building their new home. Wayne and Dani are extending their
house too. We are hoping we get some money from the bush fire class action too
and then we can make little changes that would help us.
We are not taking the
shower for granted yet though
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