April 21, 2013

  • Sunday 21st April

     

     

     

    Woke to a very very wet morning.

    The rain was pouring down heavily.

    Shoshannah was up at 6am so she could shower and have breakfast.

    She is taking her new dietary regime very seriously for which I am thankful for.

    I haven't any extra energy to ensure she is maintaining it and all the recordings necessary for the ongoing health sessions with Helen Loveday.

    I woke the others at 6:45am.

    I repacked Azzan's bags to try and condense things down a tad to make traveling a lot easier.

    Anson arrived at 7:15am and loaded them into his truck.

    Transported them and the pig up to the top pf the hill and transferred them all into Graham's truck.

    I am very grateful that Graham offered to transport the kids for me as I have spent far too long on the road over the past few weeks.

    I was rather concerned about them traveling out as we have had a lot of rain, but Shoshannah text me several times along the way and said the road was all good.

     

    Graham and the kids collected Maria from the airport and then they went for lunch at Crusoe's.
    Anat sent me this lovely photo of my troops enjoying their food with Graham before he took them to camp.

    I wanted them well fed before he dropped them off and I knew Rami would do that for me pleased

    Maria & Shoshannah are leaders at Teapot Valley camp for the first time and they had to start this afternoon.

    The two youngest went to stay with Sally and they will go with Kashana to camp tomorrow.

     

     

    Last night I had taken the large pot of soup and sat it down on the cold floor so it would cool down over night.

    I was gutted this morning to find that it had fermented overnight and it was bubbling merrily.

    Damn! I should've made room in the fridge for it!

    I wonder if soup wine is such a thing???

    Well, looks like Archie is going to be well fed today bummed

    I was so annoyed as I thought after all the hard work in the kitchen yesterday I wouldn't have to cook for the troops today.

    So it was back to the drawing board and make another batch of soup for lunch instead of going back to bed.

     

    Anson came around and took the two French guys down to the woolshed to work for the morning.

    Nils joined them later and help to sort dags.

    Good wet day job winky

    Anson has a new toy - an chainsaw sharpener so he spent the morning in the workshop sharpening up all his chains.

    Aylin fed all the birds, chooks and pigs then did the dishes.

    Anson then took her around to help Marah with some gardening.

     

    I had a mutton and pork stew in the slow cooker which they enjoyed for their dinner.

    I spent most of the day on my bed watching 'Downton Abby' and knitting.

    It is most pleasing to see the progress on the wee hooded jacket I am knitting.

    It was a good day for doing nothing much.

    The rain eased in the late afternoon.

    We had well over 50mm in the past 24 hours.

    Great for the farm after the long dry period we have just had.

    But it is getting frustrating for the boys - they are wanting to get their wwoofers working!!

    Hopefully tomorrow will be dryer.