It is still hot and dry but the over night dew fall has been enough to turn the grass green. Kangaroos come down every night and eat anything green they can find. Nets seem to work and the silver beet and lettuce seedlings have started to grow. We have sent figs and apple cucumbers to market along with our dwindling egg supply. This week we have brought eight new chooks but it will be at least a month before they lay.
It has been a busy week. Stevo was here on Monday and Tuesday to weld up bits for his shed and frame Bo’s art works. Bo spent Tuesday working with him and arrived with a bowl of vegetable soup for lunch. Now that the hour has changed and the rainbows are back in the house, I suppose it is soup season again.
If it has been dry here it is much worse inland at the other side of the ranges. Yesterday we drove up past Heathcote to buy a new buck goat. All the paddocks were bleached and bare and all the small dams were totally dry. We found the property with the goats in dry scrub land where the ground was just loose dust. Surprisingly there was a herd of over 30 white goats looking amazing in show condition.
The buck we brought is about 2 years old, luckily, they had everything ready to help us load him into the stock crate on the back of the Ute. It took us most of the 2-hour drive home to work out the best way to unload him. Our original plan was to put him into the small croft we had prepared but when we learnt that he had never eaten green grass we decided he needed a slow introduction to a diet change so we have put him in the stock yards.
With the extreme dryness here and in SA it seems odd that QLD still has flood problems and these are spreading down into NSW. Thousands of cattle and sheep have been lost and some communities are totally cut off.
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