odd weather

 23.5.2025

 

He weather is definitely odd.  At the start of the week, we had nights when it dropped to minus five degrees C, which is the coldest we have every experienced here. The NSW coat has horrific floods with cows swept out to see and 50,000 people on evacuation alerts. Several people have died and there has been huge efforts to rescue people off their house roofs. 

 

SA and Vic have still areas where drought is the problem.  On a more personal level things keep breaking here.  Last night the pump we use for house water broke down and the gravity flow failed as well. The new buck suddenly stopped eating and looked very ill. Maybe the sudden weather change got to him.  We now have him shut in a sheltered pen away from his companion does so that he does not have to compete for food. He is still up and eating hay which is a good sign.

 

Edd has spent the week trying to fix things. He has replaced the headlight on my car that was broken by the deer and has got someone here to replace the windscreen. I could now drive in the car which is a big relief. Now Edd is trying to tackle the water supply.

 

The second Persian sheep had her lamb last night. The NSW storms are heading our way so I put her in the shed with the other sheep with lambs. Once the latest lamb is a bit stronger, I can move these sheep onto the old drive where there is still a little grass left.  Luckily, they follow me if I have a bucket of food. At least they usually do.

 

The new chooks are laying but we have terrible problems with wombats who refuse to let a little thing like a fence stop them. They bulldoze holes under and through into the cook pens every night so we need to check and block up holes every morning before we let the chooks out.