Cold start but sunny day although much rain is forecast.

Called Stevies, the transporter, about when our lambs were scheduled for Progressive meats on Monday. Peter said he knew about the consignment but hadn’t received the time from Progressive yet – maybe later today or tomorrow. Again I said we need small truck with a race and he agreed that was the case.

However even a small truck would get stuck if we had more rain and so I went ahead with the temporary yards next to the gravel driveway. Mark came over and helped design and build these. Then he spent the rest of the morning digging post holes for the gateways between the One Acre and Front paddocks – to match up with the realigned fence. On the orchard driveway end Mark met water at 700mm and was able to ram in the gate slam post. On the other end, near the ha-ha, the water rushed in just over half a metre down and that post couldn’t be rammed as the soil turned to porridge.

The temporary yards went up quickly and was much less of a problem than I anticipated. To get the lambs used to them, and to give them a bite to eat as the Goose paddock is pretty bare, we drove them into and through the temporary yards. No problem at all. We popped them back into the Goose paddock before Mark left at 1:30pm.

The Temporary Lamb Loading Yards

Later I heard the noise of the maize harvester so Bramble and I went over to watch and take photos. All the maize was harvested – plants cut, corn taken off the cob and decanted into large bins – in a few hours.

Corn-Eating Monster

Gill TXTed From Canada….

All ok. Bens back improving. In gr8t UBC accom till I4th. About 36K student pop in term time so amazing campus grounds/facilities.

Oak Avenue Weather:6℃—14℃ 4.7mm rain [80.3]