12.10.2025
Every week the weather gets a bit warmer. There is still not enough sun to totally heat the water. if the batteries are fully charged and we are producing excess energy I can use the power to supplement the water heating. There is no point letting the power export to the grid as we no longer get paid much for it.
Gradually the family is regrouping after travels and we are planning a big party and pasty making day on Melbourne Cup horse race day. This weekend Bo is busy in her studio talking and selling as part of the annual open studio day. She seems happy with how it went. Luckily, Stevo has recovered from his hip replacement and is ready to get onto the picture framing. I wish he was well enough to do some maintenance work around here, he has solved so many problems for us over the years that we are heavily in his debt.
The two pregnant goats have kidded and we have four strong white kids. I have had to spray paint on them so I know who is who as they all look alike. They do have names but I think of them as blue dash, blue spot and pink dash and pink spot. They now all drink milk from the feeders but we put their mothers in with them last thing so they can do the work providing warm milk instead of us having to heat milk and wash out the feeder. The mothers are happy to go in and do this and strangely they are equally happy to come away from the kids once they have fed them.
The grass has started to grow and the sheep are back on the house roof and around the dam doing all the mowing for us. Edd has done the other bits with the ride on mower and C and I have tackled the jungle area behind the dam water tank in the ruin’s garden. Two sorts of creeper had taken over and a wattle tree had split and dropped down into the mess. The wattle tree is the only thing left now and we need Edd and the chainsaw to deal with it. This is all part of reducing the fuel load around the buildings to reduce fire risk.
