Hay Day

31.1.2024

 

Today is the day. Our hay is being baled and Edd is trying to round up grandsons and mates to do the carting.  If all goes well that is one of our big jobs taken care of. This week we have finally got dry weather, which has made hay making possible. The vegetables are in full production mode. I am swamped with zucchinis, beans and cucumbers and still have some cabbages left. The tomatoes have large fruit but they have not started to turn red yet. I have put nets on the pears and nashi pears now they are getting larger.

 

Sarah the dog is at the teen age stage but we are trying hard to keep up with her training.  She loves chasing her ball and going in the ute with Edd, but compared to the muster dogs we see on TV she is not doing brilliantly.  The goats are in magnificent condition now they have their shiny summer coats. The unusual green grass is helping keep up the milk supply but with all the medical tests I have not got round to much cheese making.

 

Josh is enjoying his new job, and seems much happier but CB has been laid low with co-vid and is not at work this week. There does seem a lot of covid still around, and everyone seems to get it time after time, so no sign of a developing community immunity.  More worrying is how fast the cost of living is rising. Rent, power and food are still rising in price and there are a lot of people who are homeless. We are still having floods in QLD and NSW, which makes the lack of affordable rental property worse. Al has just returned from a camping holiday and said that a freak storm one-night ripped tents and blew possessions into the river. Luckily not his stuff but he was involved in helping others.

 

I am working on the accounts and in the garden where everything is growing so fast it threatens to get out of control. I am very grateful that we no longer have school camps to worry about.