Trouble

 Yesterday a tree fell over and blocked our road. It also brought down the over head lines so we had no power all evening. We hope to put in a new system and have our own power when this sort of thing happens.

More rain

 3.11.2022

 

We are still getting huge amounts of rain fall.  Communities along all magor rivers are in danger of flood damage and we have had the road closed to our nearest town for several weeks.  We did manage to travel north to meet friends in Seymour but the roads were badly damaged and the journey took much longer than usual. Too many roads are damaged at the same time and really, they are being dealt with better than I expected.

 

Our white goat, Rita, who was heavily in kid was missing one evening so I clambered through gullies to find her. I was worried that she had unbalanced and fallen down somewhere. This was not the case but when we did find her, she had a bad injury on her udder and could not walk.  Edd fetched the tractor and I stood with her on the carry all so that we could get her back to the shed. She was too heavily in kid to travel to the vet so we just had to patch her up the best we could.  A day later she gave birth to twins about two weeks premature who were very weak and had wobbly back legs. I gave them both colostrum from a bottle and they are now doing OK.  I am not so sure about Rita, but time will tell.  She walked out to graze with the other goats today, and so far, she has not lost her appetite.

 

We still have two more goats to kid.  We moved the older kids to one of the crofts where they can exercise more but still have shelter. The males are now castrated and I would sell them but the one larger female kid needs some company. Rita had a white doe and a black buck but they are far too weak and young to go out with the older kids yet.

 

We are eating our first strawberries and snow peas and the zucchinis are growing well. Last week we had several hot days and I was able to get some of the grass under control. Everything is growing like mad with all the rain. Josh has some beans growing hydroponically by his cabin that look very healthy. I have not got all the summer beds ready for planting yet because most of the time the ground is too wet to work.

 

I have been looking after Al’s two young boys most Fridays but I got the day off last week. The boys are actually very well behaved and when we are not getting soaked, we have had a good time in the Sanctuary. The week before Al dropped them off at the farm so we stayed dry. We are hoping that Pip regains her health enough to look after them soon.