It's Raining

Meg spent the weekend in Brisbane, living it up yuppie style on the riverside. Drew has gone back to Uni and is already deeply ensconced in College life (and shenanigans). We spent the entire weekend "chooking". The ducks have started laying and we've got our first turkey egg. Brother A spent the night at a remote roadhouse in WA along with 200 other stranded travellers; a terrible truck accident on a single lane bridge prevented forward travel. The band that had played at the Derby races set up and everyone settled in for a long night. The roadhouse was out of diesel but not out of alcohol. Priorities. Brother P is enjoying watching his 5 new OEG get to know each other and the 2 he already had. He came out to see us this afternoon and stayed until the rain chased him home.

We went to town this morning to get the pull cord on the pump motor fixed and to pick up my car. I bought some large plastic storage boxes - my goal over the next week is to clear out the numerous cardboard boxes in the middle lounge room, divide the contents into Meg, Drew and Family labelled plastic boxes and then store all in the back room. After that, we need to decide which of the 25 or so pictures/paintings/wall adornments that we want to keep and sell/give away the rest. Then I will feel like we've really unpacked.

It's raining. It's cold out but it's toasty warm inside. The two smallest four leggers are curled up in their beds in front of the wood fire. I'm about to revisit one of my favourite books - The Permaculture Home Garden by Linda Woodrow. Construction/layout of the Woodlawn Permaculture Project begins this weekend - because I have taken control and declared this weekend to be both cricket and chook show FREE. The WPP will incorporate fruit trees - something I didn't include in the garden at the feedlot because it was never going to be a permanent thing.

The vege garden is doing well. I cover it every night. Today in the rain I planted some more cauli, broccoli, beetroot and carrots to ensure a continued supply. There's not much room for anything else now. I watered with a seaweed tonic earlier in the week and the rain will be a boost too.

This guy thinks it's Christmas....put into a pen with 6 PR hens, ready to start the breeding program