Wednesday 4th December 2024

Wednesday 4^th December

SHE SAID:

The owners dropped by to deposit their cat with us as they are going away for 5 days, & to move the sheep to another field to continue their mowing of the long grass.

Otherwise our day was quiet; we did walk to the front gate & back, as the bins are down there. The flies were awful! I need to take my fly net if I do that again!

On a sad note, which may be bittersweet, there is a video of the scorched earth of Helm's Arboretum on the Esperance FB page; it is completely razed. I guess the orchids could come back in droves but at the moment it looks terrible.

The last of the Bridgetown photos

HE SAID:
Apart being inundated with flies on our 300m each way walk to the bins I had other animal interactions today. I rounded up escaped chicks, carried a broody black hen under my arm up the hill to the leghorn coop (twice, as she made her way back down the hill - 100m? -to her previous haunt during the afternoon), met Minoes (we are guessing at the spelling but it is pronounced "mee noose") the cat, who will be staying at the house until Saturday, vaguely helped shoo a few sheep from one paddock to the next, and narrowly avoided stepping on one of Tim and Jacqueline's miniature poodles. Plus there were the usual chook chores, so an animal-fest today! 

And... the internet died again today. This time around 6:15pm. Crap!