Sunday 20th May 2012

Yesterday we took a trip to Maryborough - as Gympie is in the grip of show fever we felt that this was a good time to motor up and have a look at some of the shed/residential buildings that are there. Unfortunately Maryborough suffers from the same inertia that grips Gympie on weekends..... some businesses do not open on a Saturday morning???!!! Maybe they have soooo much business that they feel no necessity to chase business. We stopped at two different places to try and look at the quaker barn options however with the same results.

We enjoyed the leisurely trip and as we took a different route home Tommy got to see some more of the country side than he had seen previously. We took Laila, our dog with us and she enjoyed herself immensely, curled up with her head resting on Tom's feet. She would climb over him to see out if the car slowed but otherwise lost interest and snoozed her away her day.

This venture has changed us both already - as we travelled along the road I was thinking - I would love to see that tree or that dam or that rock at the farm and Tommy was thinking - that patch of grass would be hard to mow, how would you be able to do that??? Sad but true.

We were, however, able to find a drum to carry water in so that we can water the trees more easily. As we plant more and more trees this is going to be an ever increasing problem and a permanent solution has not yet  been decided on - something with a pump and solar panels is the preferred option but we are still investigating. Therefore in the interim this is the temperary solution. Hopefully we will not have planted thousands of trees before we have our watering system in situ!

We have the start of a citrus grove and in the next few weeks will be increasing it dramatically. We are still waiting for the slasher to come and mow down the rest of our grass so that we can continue to get a better idea of the complete lay of the land. Country timetables rule here.

Ken has started to pull down the internal fences and Tom took the opportunity to mow around the area it opened up so we have started to see a bit of 'flow' to the area. It opens it up and starts to look bigger and more integrated already. When the rest of the fences come down and the grass completely gone it should look fantastic!!