Post flood bird life

Same day ... thunderstorm and hail catch us by surprise

It's a rainbow ... and the hail has only just landed.

 End of the chilli season.

For a while it was like a European Xmas.

Assessing the damage when water retreated

what a mess!

 Not all the water has receded yet but 

a bag is in the tree and its not the one we put in it!

 A huge amount of sand was dumped on trees we planted

and had already grown well over 2 meters

and were standing on a grassy river bank last week

 David's new  fence went down

 Another of the 2,250 healthy trees we planted bites the sand.

 very sad

 we spent all of last week preparing this site and planted out another 200+ trees.

These were submerged but stragely enough the bags did not float away.

These are stuck in the mud. The bags are 68cm long.

Unless we wash them soon they will die.

Apocalypse Cow

and unleashes..dom.dom.dom.dom.the St Albans MONSTER

and floods the long paddock

The Macdonald reaches the road

The Macdonald this morning and still on the rise

The lunch trolly

It's going to be a BIG FLOOD. It's been raining for 50 hours non stop.

 Too much rain and severe winds took down our beautiful Jacaranda

Even the lake that formed did not make up for it.

Another 200 trees in the ground

 Last autumn's plantings have grown taller than Vera

 A  mound of Arundo rhizomes ready to be burnt

 David makes a new track 

Small pile burns to stimulate native seeds in the soil

and prepare site for plantings

One site cleared of blackberry, Arundo and other weeds.

Vera and the Village Weed Wackers

Easter Visitors

Vera's stall at the local Easter Markets

March almost over

The Slab Hut finally gets some TLC

 A big truck delivers heritage galvanised iron sheets and gutters from Adelaide.

Works begin - rear of hut

boards removed and investigative digging starts

corner posts are propped up as SW corner has sunk 200mm

SE corner braced

STAY TUNED FOR MORE RENOVATION WORK

it will take some time.

The solar pump is up and pumping!