Rainfall this week : 0mm

Smokey sunsets paint the sky magenta and ruby red lulling us into a false sense of awe. With not the best start to this year’s fire season, Mother Nature is certainly testing us all.

Fingers crossed that Mother Nature may bring us and many other towns some much needed rain soon. Going for our morning strolls with the dogs, we have really started to notice the ground drying up and that there seems to me more dirt than grass now down across the paddocks. Our big dam is unfortunately almost bone dry and the small spring fed dam is the lowest we have ever seen it. But chin up, as one local positively pointed out ‘every day is one day closer to receiving rain’!

On the positive side of things now that the dam is virtually empty, Jason can jump in with his trusty Yoshi and have a little clean out. Wet, dry, windy, sunny or bone chilling cold, we love this place in its every sense. It’s always beautiful, just in different ways. The sunsets still never cease to amaze me and no matter how much we walk the paddocks we always find something we haven’t noticed before.

Noticing some very cute but unexpected visitors the other day, Chilli was able to put her natural born skills to the test. Several calves and one naughty Heifer (Spots mother, who has always been a naughty girl. We have lost count the amount of times we have had to bring her in off the road🥴) were up grazing near the creek crossing along the neighbouring property. The one section that we hadn’t finished fixing😳. You know how it goes, you get distracted doing another job and the last one gets completely forgotten about. Chilli was very happy to help out though. Mustering them all back next door she was rather pleased with herself indeed. With her bloodlines you can understand how she just instinctively knows exactly what to do, it’s quite amazing to watch. Clever clogs👏.

After pushing the stock back through, the rest of the day was spent fixing up the creek crossing and a few other holes in the fence to keep the inquisitive little ones over on their side. As much as we would love to let them back in to graze the paddocks it’s just to difficult whilst we are building as they love to see exactly what we are doing and would end up having a dance party on the slab and probably be the first to use the bathroom🤪💩.

An exciting delivery arrived on Monday from Howard Trade Centre in Stanthorpe. OUR HOUSE FRAME👏👏👏. Yay, the next step in the process. It’s all numbered and very neat which hopefully means it will be easier to put together than an IKEA flat pack 😆.

Even Chilli was excited to see her new house. I’m pretty sure she has been dreaming about jumping on our bed and having an afternoon nap whilst keeping an eye on what’s happening outside.

With the chaotic weather visiting again absolutely no shedding was completed this last week. We will get there, one day the wind will disappear 🥴. There is always plenty of other jobs to keep us busy though. We finished levelling out all the dirt around the house slab in preparation of putting up the frame which instantly made a huge difference. We are always in the garden watering and doing more fertilising and Jason also brought up about seven loads of soil for the vege beds. Another step closer to planting out some seedlings.

Another visitor this week, a much bigger Echidna this time. They are just so cute.

Another week quickly passes by. Still not sure exactly what else we managed to accomplish 🤪 The days just roll into the next one and you completely forget what you have done all week sometimes. And even though it feels like we haven’t been doing much we haven’t sat down either. We are both now the thinnest we’ve been in along time. If anyone asks how to stay fit in your fifties, JUST BUY A FARM🤪. Oh and also get two crazy working dogs that can’t sit still…