g'day fran.

i've been working real hard on a personal problem i had this was
impacting heavily on our relationship, so now that things are looking
much much better the property is off the market. we are both doing
MYOB courses i have finished my bit so hope to do BAS work for small
businesses from home and bev when she finishes hopes to get a job in
town, all this so we can live with dignity just can't do that on the
pension.

we've been doing heaps around here, if you check the property pics
page on our site then check our tree plantings we've planted around
160 euc's mainly nad a few casuarinas in the past few months, as money
is tight all these where freebies ie.,. seedlings dug up from places
where they would be in the road later and transplanted to were they
are needed most.

been doing salshing to get mulch so bulk mulching has ben going on
still got more to do but now that sanke season has started got to bwe
careful, saw our first for the season the other day and it had to be a
bady our first sighting in 3 years, and eastern brown.

been doing summer plantings since second week in september so got the
pumpkins, cuces, melons & tom's etc.,. all growing well decided to
just plant all tom' seeds we had in stock in a mass planting and yes
you guessed it they all germinated, try planting and orderly amount
none come up lol. so at presente have planted out 146 tom' plants,
sounds more like a farm hey.

the contour ripping we did they act like temp' swales but are still
working 2 years later, worked very well it has enabled us to get more
wet into the sub layers of soil, so keeps our block looking that much
greener that much longer. the cattle went from here in early feb this
year so the grasses look great a good mixture for when we will be able
to buy a couple of beefers to fatten for ourselves and maybe a couple
of pigs as well.

ted & sheena are doing well up at howard haven't seen them for a few
weeks now but they have all but finished renovating the house and are
still moving in, ted has yet to empty the 40 foot container he has on
site and still ahs another in brissy to come up and be unloaded big
job there.

haven't seen tara around for a while but then a lot of the oldies seem
to be away or very quiet for the past period, a very quiet group is
this one at present.

anyway i'm waffling on now chat again real soon, anytime i'm always
here and looking. good to see our mate pete back again.

water is going to be a problem until we get some rain happening we
have done well with rain this year and so far this seasons rain has
surpassed last years, currently the annual total is running at just
over 800mm against an all up last year of 670mm so a few good falls
could easily take us to the 1mtr mark. just that there is so much wind
in between showers reckon we would do ok if we only had sun and heat
to contend with, but the wind is the real killer.

take care

len n bev

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