Cleaning out spaces

19.5.2024

 

Ti has spent the weekend moving his furniture into the donga. There seems an awful lot of stuff for a small area. I just hope they have space left to fit their kids in! Pip, Al’s wife is in hospital after having her appendix removed so they are not able to help Ti move.  Bo is too busy to help anyone and we are not much use either.  He seems to be managing well so far. We did manage to get the donga well cleaned and I even had time to oil the deck. Edd moved a pile of compost and whipper snipped the edges so we did as much as we could in the time available

 

Finally, we have had the deep litter cleaned out of the goat shed. We had to get in a different local this time to do the work and he did a great job and only got bogged once when he tipped a load in the top paddock.  Sev, has been here today to take a load of the stuff back to his place to nourish his soil. We had used up all the last load once it composted on our vegetable garden, and I really needed more. The other problem was that the floor in the goat shed had risen by around a metre. This meant we had to keep raising the pen walls and also having to throw hay up impossible heights. The natural soil here has a very shallow, nutrient deficient top soil, so we have to work on the vegetable beds to build up better soil. The goats are happy to be back at ground level where they get better wind protection.

 

The weather is cold, wet, and miserable today but for the start of this month we have enjoyed many sunny beautiful days.  The nights have been cold so we light a fire to sit by in the evenings. It is hard to get the stove to go well as there has been little wind to make it draw. Apparently, all Australia has been stuck in slow moving weather patterns. Wayne came for Mother’s Day and showed us amazing photos of the aurora, but it was not visible from our valley and we did not have the energy to drive far enough to get a view