The Farm

G’day mates,

Do you recognise this; “ time flies when you are having fun”?  I was in a shock when I realised the week is gone again and I’m due to make a new story.

Actually I have a disappointment because I wanted to tell the story about our jobs and picking lettuce, unfortunately now I have 3 problems, not life threatening though, but still. My first problem is, we are building a toilet and shower and that’s not ready yet. The second problem is that we are building something else but that has to do with the lettuce and so I want to tell that lettuce story first but I can’t, not yet, because I ran out of data! Can you still follow me??

OK, I’ll explain. We have a contract with Optus for 10 GB per month and normally that’s more than enough but yesterday I got an e-mail from Optus that I had used 86% of my data with still 16 days to go. Immediately I went to my account to see what happened and saw that on the 5^th of January I had used more then 2 GB and then I realised it had to do with the bad reception here and the three films I downloaded and produced that day for my previous weblog. Normally its not a problem but that day I noticed the download from the laptop to YouTube nearly took 2 hours. Also on and about 1 and 2 January a lot of data has been used because of Skype.

Anyhow you must be thinking what a story of picking lettuce has to do with the data, well I can assure you that its no boring story and I have a very nice movie coming with it so….. you can fill that in yourself.

So no lettuce today, what else do I have; The Farm, I’ll give you an impression what’s living and laying around the farm, just look (no film today);

You already have seen a bit of the view we have but here is some more, we sometimes feel we are living in the Series McLeod’s Daughters except there are no cows.

The animals;

Horses...

Ducks...

Little ducks and quails .....

This little private property is from Aidan (9yrs), one of the farmers boys, he definitely is a small farmer in the shell (double dutch I presume)....

Duckssssss, Chicken, Geese......

Geese are EVERYWHERE!!

Chicken....

for the eggs, and we got a few quail eggs from Aidan....

Just things you cannot throw away, you might need them once....

(I can tell you that Fred already used a few things out of that pile haha)

More around the farm......

here has been a house from previous owners of the farm, only the chimney exists;

Some old equipment, Crikey it looks like a museum out here!

A farm without a barn is no farm.......

Sometimes someone dies.....

After a long day, (working from 05.30 in the morning), sitting in front of our caravan (when we don't blow away), we enjoy our drink and this sunset;

our friends come to say good night......

and we say goodnight to the world!!

SHI....., I forgot the sheep, there are hundreds of them!

One thing is for sure; we don't have to count them to get to sleep!!

See ya next time.