Some good news

22.3.2020

There is some good news.  Indi has sold her tiny off-grid home set up to a nice couple who want it for their place in Lilydale.  Indi has brought an old caravan so she can have a holiday and a backup home if she needs it for her and Alice.  Moving the buildings off our property is the next problem, but where there’s a will there is usually a way.  

The school camps have now all been cancelled but Duncan, a teacher from Templestowe, came up this week and gave us a hand moving around sheep and goats.  We needed to put Barak the buck in the first pen which is easy to get into and put the adult sheep with the ram.  Nick, the young buck has now gone to his new home in Dixon’s creek and 4 more of the does will follow him when we have managed to dry them off.

The chook pen on the old drive is now accessible.  (The ram stopped us getting there before he was moved.)  I was hoping that we could now get Point of lay chooks to give us autumn eggs but there has been panic buying of chooks, and there were none left to buy! There may be some next week, but we are deciding to go into lock down to try and hide from the virus. Schools, public transport and other venues are still operating, and a lot of people are carrying on life as normal.  This increases the chance of the situation getting out of control, so we will just have to do the best we can manage for ourselves.