February 18 2017
The water tank has now
been cleaned, had holes filled and new roof stands welded. Edd has been filling the big holes with
a special compound and today we painted over the small holes with Mr. Crystal,
a product that strengthens the concrete with crystals. We are expecting Stevo to come
early next week and help Edd put the tank roof on. Then we need to sort out the drains from the gutters to the
tank and wait for rain.
Luckily it has been hot and dry. Ben's friend could not do the welding
if there was any water in the tank.
This week three people died inside a water tank they were cleaning. It is thought that they got carbon
monoxide poisoning from the equipment they were using so it was probably a good
idea to do all this work before we put the roof on.
The fires in NSW have
died down a bit with the weather change and there is still no sign of fire
round here. I can feel in the air
that autumn is on the way so the fire danger period will soon be over for
another year. The goats are just
starting to cycle and the chooks are going off lay. In the garden the eggplants are nearly large enough to eat
and the pumpkins are huge. With
the cooler nights the runner beans are setting again and the tomato crop just
keeps coming.
The goats discovered
that Edd had taken down the fence below the house site to repair it and they
nearly found the way into the vegetable garden. This means that they are now confined to the small croft by
the shed and they are not happy. This week I have cut out evening milking for
most of the herd and we can get away with only using the machine once a
day. It also means we can start
the milking early just after watering the garden. We do very long days over summer and it is sometimes 9pm
before we cook tea so this change is very welcome. I long for the start of
summer after the cold short days of winter but I like the change back too.
With all the work on
fencing, woodcutting and the tank we have still not got the sheep shorn. I think we did them last February but
we do not want to leave it much later or it will be too wet and cold for
them. There always seems more to
do than we can fit into a day.
We have, however both found time to go to the dentist for the first time
in years. A dentist has set up in Yarra Glen for the first time so it has
become easier to do this. Dentists
are incredibly expensive so seeing one had to work it’s way up the list of
priorities.
The media is still in
shock after Trump got elected to be the USA president. Over the last few years Australia has
been supporting the USA in various over seas wars but a lot of people are not
behind this. There is a lot of
worry about the new system and what it will mean for us. I have never heard the media talk so often
and so negatively about another countries leader before. Climate change is
getting harder to dismiss too so we may be in for interesting times.
Nearer home we had a
telephone drama when workmen cut the cable from Dixon’s Creek and we all had to
do with out Internet and landlines for a few days. There is still no mobile
reception on our land so this was a disaster. It was back working when I got up
this morning much to my relief.
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