23.8. 2021
The buds on the oak tree are slowly uncurling and the daffodils are in full bloom. I did not write anything during the weekend because the weather was warm and sunny and there was a lot to be done outside. I even did the first grass mowing for the season and slashed the cape weed in the second croft. We helped Josh put up the walls and ceiling in his demountable but we still need to put corrugated iron on and the car port roof needs doing too. We need dry no wind days for that.
Most of the goats have now given birth and we have multicoloured kids everywhere. The first two are now totally bottle fed and I have started to train the rest with varying degrees of success. A lot of patience is needed at this stage. We name the kids by working through the alphabet, twins having names that both start with the same letter. This year we have twin girls who needed names starting with X. They ended up as Xanda and Xylene. We have put their names on green tags attached to yellow collars. At this stage it is easy to forget who had which kids, especially as the some of the mothers feed anyone’s kids.
There is a lot of noise in the incubator where josh’s chicks are hatching. The box has to stay shut for at least a day so that the humidity needed remains high enough for all the fertile eggs to hatch. Josh has set up a rearing box in the mud room on the only bit of bench not taken up by his seed raising set up.
I have planted out the snow peas he grew and today I should transplant the zucchinis into bigger pots so they will be ready to plant out when they are a bit less vulnerable to slugs. The trouble is that I don’t feel like doing much. All the news is just so depressing. The Delta virus strain seems impossible to contain and vaccines are not available yet for over half the population. Regional Victoria is now in lock down and some very stupid people organised big protests on the weekend, which will no doubt result in even more cases.
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