11.5.2023
The news has been full of pictures of the southern aurora, but sadly we have not seen it this time. It has continued to get colder and we have just suffered three cold wet dark days. Thank goodness the sun is back today. Josh brought his new puppy home but from that time on he has had lots of work. I have spent days house training and lead training, tasks I had deliberately decided not to do when I refused the offer of one of Bo’s puppies for myself! Sarah, the border collie puppy is very cute and a quick learner, which has been helpful. Bo still has two puppies at her house and no-one has had time to train them so we are deliberately keeping Sarah away from their influence.
Edd is due to have surgery on his knee in just over a couple of weeks’ time. We are rushing to get things organised so I can do all the farm work on my own. Today we are trying to work out the easiest way to put up a shelter shed for the sheep so that they can be protected from foxes when they have their lambs. We think we have a plan that will use up stuff we have lying around. On Monday we had a visit from the Montessori school that used to camp here. It was on a friendship rather than a financial arrangement. The insurance for the stuff we used to do has gone up so much it is no longer possible to have paid visits and camps. Still, it was fun meeting up with teachers that used to camp here, and it gave us the incentive to get everything cleared up and ship shape. Josh moved all his junk in the ruins to one small area and it all looks much better now.
Sev and I got all the grass under control and I pulled out the remains of the summer vegetables and dug over the beds so that we could plant our winter crops. The broad beans seedlings that Edd grew are now shooting up in their new home and I have planted out things like cabbage, broccoli and cauliflowers. I am still slowly dealing with our harvest. Last night I got the last of the pears cooked and frozen and we have started eating the pumpkins. The freezer is now almost too full. I don’t think we have ever had this amount of stored food before. I hope it will make quick winter meals easier. I am really missing our local Indian restaurant. It closed a few weeks ago due to lack of customers. Edd used to pick up a take away meal every Friday when he took eggs over to Healesville and it was the one meal a week I did not cook. We have tried other take aways but they are all a pale imitation. I do cook curry but sadly not like the Indians did. Now that everything costs more we have not gone out for meals and probably everyone else is in the same boat.
We did have a day out and drove down to Ocean Grove to visit our new Granddaughter. Bo did the morning milking and we got up at 5am and left in the dark in order to avoid traffic and have a few hours with our son’s family. The baby and Pip both looked fit but since our visit Pip has been in and out of hospital, and things are not totally resolved even now. Yesterday, Al picked up the boys from Pip’s parents where they had been staying. They were due to go home earlier but Al had a visitor who had covid and they had to wait until they were sure they would not fall ill themselves. Meanwhile the boys and Pip’s parents all got flue and so Al had to take two sick boys home. With Edd booked I n to hospital so soon I don’t want to risk us getting sick so there is not much we can do to help.
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