8.11.2021
The weather is now at what I call the ‘build up’ stage. It gets hotter and hotter and then there is a thunder storm, lots of rain and the temperature drops back down again. Last week we were in the heating stage and the ground dried enough to mow some of the grass and prepare vegetable beds. We have now had the storm and are still in the cooler wet phase.
We have had much more rain than we usually expect and everything is growing like mad. We have added snow peas and strawberries to our diet and the zucchinis and some tomatoes have flowers! The mizuna all went to seed and so did the rocket but there are several types of lettuce to choose from and wild rocket.
Our regular farm work is reduced because we sold all the young goats to some very nice people who I think will give them lots of care. The kids have moved out of the shed and now have a croft to run round in. We had one goat kid a couple of weeks ago but luckily, she had just one male kid and we could sell him as a pet very quickly. It is good to reduce the work now, Lock down has ended and Bo is back seeing clients face to face instead of helping us.
Despite lock down ending Victoria still has over 1000 covid cases a day and the hospitals and ambulance services are over whelmed. In a strange twist everyone has two weeks for shopping and then only vaccinated people are meant to go into non-essential shops! I have no idea how this can possibly work, especially with Xmas coming soon.
One good thing is that Wayne brought his daughters up for a visit so we finally got to see the girls again. Maya is incredibly cute and remembered where the toy box could be found. Ella, who is usually very cautious with the animals actually got in the pen and stroked the Persian lambs. They were cool about this too.
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