It’s the Wet Season and the puddles have coalesced into ponds and we are ankle-deep in water.  I am not exaggerating!!  Nevertheless, the work still needs to be done.  It’s all day rains right now so you basically have to run out during the breaks to get things done.  Yes, I wish right now that I could hole myself up in a cave (with a full pantry) and ignore the whole farm!  But alas, the animals need to be tended to, the farm still needs maintenance and can’t be ignored (otherwise it will turn into one horrible mess) and I still need to harvest and preserve the fruits of the season.

Gnome, despite his hand injury, is trying to help me out and is doing “light work” right now.   He’s helping me collect vegetables and fruit and generally trying to keep the level of the humour up by reading to me…he could pick something like a light novel…but this is Gnome humour…

Here are some pictures from the farm; we have been harvesting wax apple….have to get them before the birdies…

The craboo are flowering…really quite beautiful:

Oh and on Sunday we had a few casualties from the torrential rain.  We have a very old grey goose (we reckon she is ancient…like about 30 years old… because she has cataracts) got caught in the rain.  I found her all sodden in the mud and she was too weak to move.  She’s now been placed in emergency wheel barrow 1 with water and food.  The other casualty was the Overlord (aka male turkey) who had been sitting on turkey eggs for 7 whole days without taking any breaks.  Alas, he was found with his face down in the grass…for a minute I thought he had carked it but he let out an enormous whimper.  I quickly dried him up and carried him to emergency wheelbarrow 2; he seems okay now but is really crabbit (I think this is a Scottish word that means crabby) and feeling very sorry for himself.

Right now our mini medical unit is under the house.  I hope that we don’t get any more sick animals because we have used up all the wheel-barrows!

Anyway, the Duchess (aka female turkey) is still sitting on the eggs…what a champion.  Let’s hope that we get some hatchlings out of this one…about one more week to go.