One month to go!  Hopefully it starts to cool down a little by the time March rolls around.  It’s been tops of around 45 degrees so far and 30 – 35 at night. I used to love summer now I just endure it – even though there are a couple of good things about it – air conditioning and watching a DVD in the afternoon.

So far we haven’t had any major dramas with stock or watering thereof.  We did have one stock tank bust and let all the water go a couple of days ago, luckily we have electricity at that well and it was simply a matter of putting another tank there and hooking it up to the water supply and trough and then cleaning up the god awful mess that the cattle had made of the place.  Cardenyabba lagoon is nearly dry and we have to keep a good look out that cattle don’t get bogged in the rapidly drying up, last waterhole there.

I have been running around watering everything in sight both here at the house and at the shearers’ quarters.  I think that I am on top of things and have a look around the next day and it’s time to just start it all again.  It’s like house work, you sort of wonder why you do it when you only have to do the same thing again and again.  I walk down to our shearers’ quarters first thing in the morning and move the sprinklers.  From then on I try to ride my bike down to save on fuel costs.  Up and down, up and down and then watering at the house and watering the trees in the chook yard, putting sprinklers on for the chooks and watering sheep yard trees etc.

Here’s Greg using the old Fordson Major to lift some  concrete pipe.  He is going to use it for a dog kennel under a mulga tree for Boofhead.

Greg hired a bobcat and truck to come out from town to push dirt back up around all the troughs, dig some holes and to shift the water tank.  The operator who is Greg’s nephew also climbed up most of the windmills to oil and service them.

Another trough had a hole in the bottom and was letting a lot of water out, G fixed it with a tank bolt and a leather washer and then a shovel full of dirt to seal it.

It’s a never ending job through out summer checking the stock and their watering points, one of us checks each and every water at least every second day.