However I am enjoying it at the moment... knowing the water tank is getting its fill! As March was fairly dry month this year, according to the B.O.M. site, we only got 80.6mm of rainfall then. Today we've got 28mm! More rains expected over the week...
Now to the fun news:
- We've acquired 2 more chooks! We've called them the Coloured Girls, to match the line-up: White Girls, Black Girls! One chook is RIR, so naturally she's reddish brown all over, more timid than all, and may have trouble roost as she prefers to sit on ground... The other chook is Leghorn Black - much more 'pure' than our Leghorn X, as she's more bigger and looks almost like the Black Girls, except for the comb (smaller) and leg's colour (white). They've laid an egg for us yesterday, a promising start however they were so shell-shocked at the vast space in the chook run. They came from a small backyard, housed in a metal aviary house, shared with other 4 or 6 small chooks there. So they'd need time to get used to the space, structure of the place, and find their own places in the chook family. At least they knew where to roost at the night! Photos coming when weather clears up...
- I am about to put in the order of the fruit trees for our orchard! At this stage, we may get 16 apple trees, 4 pear trees, 1 quince tree, 2 apricot trees, 1 nectarine tree, some hazelnut trees, and perhaps 2 to 4 plum trees (the kids just discovered plums and loved them!). I will have the trees planted arranged as part of food forest in the front area. Photos coming when they've planted to see how it all works and what was in each grove, etc. Exciting for me cos it's time to see something 'permanent' of a plant or many to grow and fruiting for us on this property. I've never thought I'd ended up here on this property and that I'd have more than 20 fruit trees going to provide for us... You can tell I am bursting here! heheh...
- The boys finally got their cricket pitch built inside their shed. So they're contented...
Cheers till later!
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