Foxs lake!

Hello friends!

I really hope you’re having a lovely weekend.

Yep, I do know that today is Sunday and not Friday when I usually blog, but I just thought that I’d pop in and say hello.

Hello!

I did actually write a blog called Foxs Lake on Friday with lots of pictures and words showing and describing all the water that was flowing through the bottom of our property. Most non drought Septembers, water spills out of the creek and over our driveway and into parts of the windmill paddock once. This September and October I’ve lost count of how many times it’s happened, but it’s probably close to 12 times. So far. And parts of our farm are flooding for the first time in the 21 years that we’ve been here. There has been such a lot of water. At one stage on Friday I was standing in our driveway and it was almost up to the top of my knee high gum boots.

After the great market garden tragedy of about 2005, we know better than to plant anything down on the low lands of our farm, but still it takes your breath away to see so much water rushing along its course, changing the whole landscape to something quite unfamiliar. Something wild and unpredictable.

After days of constant rain, wind, dark clouds and more trees down over fence lines, I was in a bit of a grump on Friday afternoon when I finally sat down to write my blog. I felt overwhelmed, and tired, and teary, and worried about the growing season ahead because of the La Niña summer to come.

Needless to say that the blog I ended up writing was a miserable one.

But then, just before I published it, I had to drive into town to pick Pepper’s friends up, and while I was out the rain stopped, the late afternoon sun came out, and everything looked magical and sparkly and fresh. When I got home I ran around picking big bunches of flowers to replace the dying daffodils. And by the time I got back to my blog I felt brighter and lighter and didn’t want to publish it anymore.

It’s incredible the difference a bit of sunshine and a house full of freshly picked flowers makes.

In the meantime over the past two days, our lake has dried up into some scattered puddles, I’ve planted trays of flower and veggie seeds, we’ve been on a couple of walks through the forest, we’ve watched all the episodes of Bad Sisters that are available so far, I’ve started knitting the colour work on my new Bracken sweater, we’ve fed and driven five 14-year olds around, we’ve moved the goats and sheep into a new paddock with LOTS of grass, and I’ve felt relieved and like I can breathe deeply again.

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY JARRAH OLIVE!!!!!!! We love and miss you endlessly!!!!!!

I’m off to the shed now to throw some pots. Hopefully I’ll see you next Friday, but there’s another rain event forecast for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this coming week, so who knows.

How have you been anyway? What have you been up to this weekend?

Big love!

Kate x