Top L Ti and baby rest Waynes daughter
7.31.19
It is just plain beautiful today. Warm, sunny, crystal clear blue skies and little white lambs bouncing round the paddocks. We had another one born today which makes a total of 13. The orphan lamb is now in a pen next to the young does in the shed, but I have a little ewe lamb in the house. Her mother, the big grey ewe had triplets and I was not brave enough to leave them all with her, so I took the smallest indoors before night fell. It seemed a bit much to expect her mum to protect all 3 from foxes.
I am meant to be cleaning up in the house today because we have a school group coming tomorrow but I could not resist doing a bit of gardening as well. Edd is teaching at the High school on Wednesdays this term so I have had the day to myself. The lambs need 4 bottle feeds a day, so I have kept pretty busy. Now the season is changing we start all the tours and camps again. This is usually the coldest time of year, but the weather Gods do not seem to know it.
The wattle trees are now in flower and the big tree in the chook pen was covered in yellow flowers and bees. The Lucerne trees are just about to burst bud too. I have trimmed the tree by the small donga and Edd is putting up a fence so it can be reached without going through the chook pen. I have started to clean it out. Everyone has been using it for storage and most of the stuff in there needs taking to the op shop, tip or other storage areas. Once it is empty, I can clean up and make good again. We will need it for guests to stay in when the Permaculture group come in August, so I need to get a move on!
At the week end we visited our latest great grandchild. She was born on the 21stand looks healthy, though she was asleep most of the time we were there. Ti seems a very attentive Dad even though he is so young. His mother in law and brothers in law are all staying with him to help. Ti’s mother has very kindly let them all stay in her house for a month so at present they are all very comfortable. Alvyn designed and built the house many years ago and it was odd going in it again after so long. It was all very familiar, even Beth’s piano was just where she left it.
Our other great grandchild is off with Indi on her first holiday visiting a friend in Darwin. We will miss Indi. She often has a walk in the early morning with the baby and calls in to join us at breakfast time. We will have to visit Wayne’s new daughter next. They all grow so quickly that they change every week and it is easy to miss a stage.
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