Rain, trees and Wwoofers

What's it going to take to keep this blog up-to-date? Considering I am an infinite being, this is something I can do with ease!! What else is possible?

Right now we are in the middle of winter and with one big frost behind us, the paddocks are looking brown with a tinge of green peeking through. The weekend delivered 23mm of rain, just at the right time as things have been drying out. Recently, I have been saying to people that we could do with some more rain and I have received all sorts of funny looks!! I suppose this is not surprising considering the deluges we received early in the year. However, the ground does dry out and rain is required to produce food.

What would it take for everyone to consistently ask for rain? If we all asked for the rain to come at night time three or four nights a week, we may create a differently reality with our weather. But we wouldn't want to do that!! Clear, blue skies during the day and nourishing, beautiful rain drumming on the roof at night!! We wouldn't want that, so don't ask for it!!

We are gearing up for planting 400 gum trees for koala food. This event is taking place on October 22nd, 2011 with the help of Men Of The Trees. We are looking for Volunteers for the morning planting so if you are willing and able, and perhaps have a brushcutter, we would love to hear from you. If you would like to join us, we are supplying home grown steaks for a Friday night barbeque (volunteers are asked to bring salads to share) and Saturday morning tea. All tea, coffee, sugar and milk are provided as well - all organic. Please email us gbunter5@bigpond.com or call us on 0754866121 to RSVP.

Our Wwoofers, Stephanie and Claire, both from London, have been tremendous with doing the milking and looking after the calves. They even tried their hand (literally) at pregnancy testing the cows with Glenn. The girls have been with us for 2 months now and have one more month to go. They are applying to stay for a second year in Australia, and in order to do so, have to complete 3 months work in a rural setting. Rather than work in various locations, they flew up from Sydney to spend the whole time with us. How did we get so lucky? Steph and Claire have been amazing and have willingly done any work that we have asked of them. Working on a dairy farm is a far cry from journalism and working in a bank!! Added to this, they bravely survived being in the heart of Cyclone Yasi earlier this year.