water tanks are filling again

5.3.26

 

Suddenly everything changed!  Edd had been struggling to keep a water supply for everyone.  He had moved pumps and laid pipe from the last resort tanks and had pumped water around until the spare tanks could be used. Before this work was completed, we had huge thunder storms that caused floods in the city and were followed by a wet humid week.

 

This was a welcome change and has saved the life of several trees. The fig tree lost all it’s leaves and so did the gingko. The sugar maples down the drive are probably unrecoverable.  Growing vegetables has been difficult and we are eating lots of zucchinis and silver beat.

 

I have advertised the young goats for sale but so far no-one is interested.  We tried to put the kids we have weaned in with the rest of the herd because they were damaging an oak tree. It was too soon and the kids started drinking from all the milking goats. Edd has put electric fencing round the oak tree and we moved the offenders back were they used to be.

 

We are stressed about what is going on in the world. We are stressed about inflation and the sky rocketing housing prices here. Everything is moving onto AI really quickly. Our kids use it for their work but we have not found a useful way to get it to help us yet.  The awful thing is that we can no longer say seeing is believing. We trust no-one.  This is a very uncomfortable situation to cope with.

 

Most of our local doctors are from Asia and the middle east. Edd’s GP is from Iran and he is kind and good to deal with. We trust him more than we trust our politicians. He has family in Iran so he is more stressed than we are. It is all horrible and hiding away on the farm is not a solution.