Anaïs and Raquelle

Lambs are not allowed to run free in the house...

Gotcha!

Raquelle needs to wash her face.

At night the pet lamb Raquelle sleeps in a cage made out of the fire guard in front of the fire. But not for much longer if she keeps bleating as loudly as she did last night and early this morning. Odette woke up before sunrise this morning and "accidentally" woke the lamb. Sophie calculated that there was no more than 20 seconds between bleats. Of course someone just needed to get out of bed and give her (Raquelle, not Sophie)a bottle of milk .
Anaïs has been staying with us on the helpXchange program and she is leaving tomorrow.

Grandparents

While Roger and I were away for a week my parents came and stayed at the farm. They looked after the children as well as the farm. We are very grateful that they could come and hold the fort so that we could have a break. Here they are with the kids on Sunday, when they had a picnic out in the paddock.

Transportable House

The transportable house at Wattle Creek

The house on our other farm (Wattle Creek) is a pre-fabricated transportable house, and for years we have been discussing whether or not we would bring it over to Warragal Park and put it near our house for more space - much cheaper than building more rooms on the house. Well it is finally going to happen! We're preparing for a truck to come on Wednesday morning and transport the house from farm to farm.

The steel base of the house

Some repairs will need to be done. (Toilet window)

Today we took down part of the fence around our house so that there will be room to put the transportable house there. We went to Wattle Creek and I packed up some things from the house. Roger removed the bolts from the stumps underneath the house.

Removing the fence.

Bobby explored one of the post holes.

Once we have the transportable house at home it will mean there will be lots of work to do on it. I hope we can get it looking fairly nice so it doesn't distract too much from the main house. Once it is finished it will be a great guest cottage.

Cape Le Grand

After the lovely sunny day we had yesterday we were greeted with real south coast weather this morning. We went ahead with our drive out to Cape Le Grand national park, but we didn't have any lovely walks along the beach or time spent sitting on a headland watching whales cruise by. Instead we saw a grey landscape, mainly through the car window. Many of my photos were spoilt by the rain drops on the lens...

Roger was pretty keen to inspect this tractor on the beach at Lucky Bay. It was the tractor used to tow a fishing boat. But he thought it needed a new gasket on the tappet cover... look at the leaking oil!

Holiday for Roger's Birthday

Roger and I are in Esperance, staying at the Island View Apartments opposite the beach.

The south coast in the middle of winter was a risky holiday destination but we had a lovely day yesterday. We had a drive to the beaches to the west of Esperance yesterday, and then looped around past Pink Lake (not pink at this time of year). It was interesting to see the rural housing estates springing up around the place.