Hi Folks,
We awoke in a very large sauna this morning. It was warm and about 150% humidity. As you may recall from yesterday we were on our own here after Andrew and the kids left at 9 to go to Armidale.
My first task was to rectify the alarm on the effluent treatment system. All the sprinklers on the discharge sprays had blocked up leading to a high level. A relatively simple job to clean them apart from trying to avoid the manky water. They were just about all blocked again 2-3 hours later although the level was low enough to silence the alarm. I removed all the sprayers leaving the risers to spur skywards like little fountains.
Susan meanwhile was in the shop mopping up the water ingress from the storm yesterday. There were no customers although the shop was open there was a sign out front saying the farm was closed.
At midday she gave up waiting and stated the washing for the units and made cookie dough. After lunch she sorted out the other rack in the store room.
I meanwhile started painting under the eaves on unit 1. It was sweaty work. At 4 I pulled the pin and headed to Taree to buy another 5 litres of canvas water proofer plus a trip to the supermarket.
On my return we enjoyed a splendid turkey fried rice prepared by Susan.
At dusk I walked around the 6 chicken houses making sure they were all secured from preying jaws overnight. I also took a stroll down to the dam with the led lenser torch which is more like a portable spotlight. Some interesting sights, tortoises, shrimps, eels, small fish, an army of leeches marching up the drainage creek to the small pond. Below the small dam there was a little pool with about 20 small fish in it. I scared a bird away when I approached which I think was a crane preying on them. Tomorrow I will try and net them out and return them to safety.
night folks
Simon
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