Ben dug out the posts left when the vineyard burnt down.
February 26 2017
We now have a
corrugated roof on the water tank but no sign of rain to fill it with
water. Our supplies in the other
tanks are rapidly dwindling and it looks as if we will have to buy a tanker
load of water to tide us over. Indi, her boy friend, Ben, and his brother seem
to live here a lot of the time so we use quite a lot for clothes washing and
showers. I found a fifty-dollar
note in Indi’s washing when I hung it up today so I teased Ben about money
laundering.
Ben has actually been
doing us a great favour this weekend. He has borrowed the twelve-ton machine
from our neighbours to clear some ti-tree and he then pulled out all the
remaining poles in the old vineyard. Edd is thrilled because he can now plough the paddock
and work on it much more easily.
Ben is thrilled because he can use the posts to fence off an area for
Indi and himself with out having to buy any poles. We are hoping we can use the
machine to clear the route for the fence line across the gully before it goes.
There is a lot of
urgent fencing that needs doing. Edd has been trying to do as much as he
can but we have got to the stage where we will need to pay for someone else to
help. The animals are all
getting out into the wrong places and that will cause other troubles. I found that a lot of the goat kids had
got out onto the road on Friday but I lured them back home and shut them up in
the yards. I was just feeling good about averting this disaster when I
discovered that one of the male kids had got out of his pen into the hay.
We have now sorted the
kids into two safe yards and put the older does together so we can start
weaning them whilst continue to feed milk to the younger kids. This also means we can just feed the
goats instead of milking them in the evening and feed the young kids from milk
in the fridge. This cuts down our work a lot and makes timing more flexible if
we want to do other things. If the
kids do not like it they only have themselves to blame. We were too busy at
other work to move them until they moved themselves.
Al and Pip stayed with
us on Friday night so that they could collect stuff from a shed at their old
house. Before they drove home we all had dinner
together in Bo’s restaurant with Bo and Simon. It is such a joy to have all the
family together like this. We are
very lucky. Bo’s restaurant may
not be the most financially successful place around, but it has provided all
our family with a safe harbour and a place to relax and socialise. It has also provided work for the
younger family members and friends.
The tomatoes continue
to ripen in abundance. I have put kilos of prepared tomatoes into the freezer
as well as eating them and giving them away. We even sold them at the market on Saturday along with eggplants
and zucchinis. The lettuce and the Bok choi are also large enough to eat and on
Friday night we ate goat curry and aloe began. We are enjoying beautiful autumn weather. Crisp cool nights and hot sunny days. Pale golden paddocks beneath deep blue
skies. This is one of the best seasons.
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