Now what happened today?
First.... while I was splitting firewood the hens we're gathered round my feet as usual..... and I noticed that they were singing there danger song. I looked up at the trees an so' nuff, there was a Maggie watching the hens. I shoo..ed the Maggie away and the hens immediately relaxed. They're good company.
Later in the morning I put in some digging time behind the front office.... this is a slow process to dig a trench along the wall. (This is to stop termite attacks inside the office.... the earth piled against the wall allows the termites to burrow through.)
Anyway.... there is a GI-NORMOUS rock in the way. Today I was able to dislodge the rock..... but it's too big to be moved with the kanga. I'd guess that it's around 500 to 800 kg. (Below 500kg I can just move them. ..... this one is not moveable!
This photo doesn't do it justice.... It's big! I'll have to wrap the rock in chains and then pull it out with a chain block. The rock will be a fitting monument.
When Kaylia ame home at 2:30 we headed off for a drive. ( She's currently fixated on Gin Gin..... but I said no.... that's too far.) So we went out to Bakers Hill and the north... through beautiful bush and farms ..... back to Wundowie where I began my school experience. I looked at the patch of ground in the school yard where I had played "doogs" (marbles) as a 5 year old. Then along the road that we (Peter, Maxine and I) would walk to and from school each day..... then I drove into the farm that we lived at during this time. The farm now belongs to the WA University and needless to say, the farm is much more prosperous now. But it was good to see the house that we lived in and the paddocks that dad had cleared.... (by hand.... no machines at that time)
So many memories......
