At last , a social like returns

 8.8.2023

 

I feel rather outdone. Whilst I have been complaining about the difficulty of getting a new printer my Girlfriend, Merrie, has returned from Queensland which involved selling a house packing up all her stuff and getting it transported south to a new rented unit and buying a property with her son to move into later!  Then she drove all the way down here with her sister and has been unpacking and relocating her furniture and stuff in the unit.  She was exhausted when I visited her this morning but she had still managed to prepare us a soup for lunch and look after her dog and pot plants.  I am full of admiration and am so glad it was not me who had to get all this organised and done.

 

20.8.2023

 

Graeme had a party at his place yesterday and we walked round his property and saw all his daffodils in bloom.  He knew all the names of the different varieties, though I can’t remember any!   Afterwards we had all brought food and could socialise in his big lounge by the open fire.  His place was once an old guest house so was built to accommodate parties. It was a really lovely social get together.  It does seem that the social drought that resulted from the pandemic has finally relented and we are starting to make up for lost time.

 

Things are quiet on the farm.  We are getting broccoli and cauliflowers large enough to eat and the snow peas I planted have so far not been eaten by the slugs.  The two old ewes lambed last week, which ends our lambing season for this year. It has been good. The purebred Persian sheep had one ewe lamb each and the two older sheep had two lambs each. A female and a male each. I have all four mothers and their lambs shut into the shed where they are safe from fox and eagle attack.  Having the shed and the repaired yard has been a god send for handling them. Even the roof gutter fills a bath behind the shed that I can use to fill the water buckets.  Everything is so much easier if the set-up is right.

 

We have put wire netting on the house site fence and so far, the puppy has stayed inside the fence. She is now old enough to spend all day outside romping and playing.  We take her to visit her sister when we go to Bo’s place. At first, she was really frightened at being lifted into the car but last week she suddenly changed her attitude and leapt into the back of the car when we asked her to. We were most surprised, but she does it all the time now, so something has clicked in her understanding.  She likes playing with her sister and obviously knows that the car is necessary to achieve this.