It's been really wet!

You know that it's been raining in Queensland don't you?  Well it has, to the point of flooding.  My house was flooded so I haven't been to the farm as much.  Janet's home was flooded too and she's busy repainting and recouping, so she hasn't been there much either.

However, on the day that I did manage to get there, here's what happened.

Lisa's car got stuck in the creek and had to be pulled out with the four wheel drive.  We  all got wet (again) when it started to rain (again) and eventually we just had to leave, all of us together so that we were there to help each other if we got stuck.

Before that though, John decided to give the chooks a bit of freedom so he put up an orange fence and let them into the paw paw grove.  Their claws are pretty strong though and they quickly started to damage the shallow paw paw roots and then the rain started again so they were shooed back into their pen in case we had to exit quickly.

Bid for freedom!

The drake has been a bit clumsy with his feet amongst the new ducklings, so he was exiled from the flock for a while.  He took up residence in the shade house, only moving to give us squishy presents in awkward places!

The clumsy drake

After some pretty heavy weeding (that nut grass is something else) I decided to take a rest and contemplate the world  above, while the sky was still blue!

I have done some work!  You can see the box of weeds! My head is resting on a bag of mulch.

Below is a view of the sky through the passion fruit vine.  If you look carefully you can see the green passion fruits.  In the background, on the left, is the duck house covered with shade cloth.  The larger green structure is the shade house where the drake is currently resting!

Lying on the ground, looking up through the vines.

Happy new year to you all.  We look forward to your company throughout the year.

cheers for now
Norid