The heat continues and Trump takes control

 1.21.2025

 

It is still hot. The temperature has been in the high 30’s for days and all the grass has faded and dried off. Keeping the vegetables going is almost impossible but I keep trying.  I am so sad today, sad for all the life on earth as Trump changes USA policies to with draw from agreements to limit emissions in his first hours as president. He ignores scientific research, and just says what people want to believe. I feel despair for so much life on our home planet.

 

On the farm things are better. The sick goat has fully recovered and her symptoms fitted in with a condition called cloud burst that I remembered reading about 40 plus years ago.  She went out one morning and seemed to pass buckets full of urine which she then licked up! She was also very distressed but I found a description of false pregnancy in an old book and how fluid builds up in the uterus. Presumably, ‘cloud bust’ referred to a natural passing of this fluid.

 

Stevo and Edd are putting insulation and ceiling panels up in his shed. This is great because all sorts of birds were nesting in the exposed rafters and dropping shit and nesting materials everywhere. Tilba and family are off on holiday and Bo has only a week before her puppies go to their new families. The tiny one has survived and is doing well and Indi our grand daughter is adopting the largest female so at least one is staying in the family.

 

Our next task is to get the sheep shorn. We will probably need to sell lots of them before winter. This is really hard now as all the local markets have closed down so the land can be used for housing. It is making it near impossible to be a small-scale farmer.  There is a move to try and get a local slaughter house but that could be a while off.