Two days of such hot steamy weather, we thought we would expire. Then, late yesterday, I had just mown the lawn and nearly killed myself, watered all the poor hot plants, when the sky darkened, and whoosh, down it came! thunder, lightening and RAIN! 75mms in 45 minutes. The thing is, the back of our place used to be a creek and , yesterday, it was again. The people behind, Tammy and Mick, had one big creek, into a very big storm drain at the back corner of our place, but they also had a smaller creek, which ran along their fence line the visited us! Lucky I had mowed. That bit of the yard is a swamp today.
But it was great fun. As Billy said, as he waded through 20 cm of water in the Woolies car park," This is what we came to Nambour for, Mum".

End of another day in Paradise. Swimming at the beach with Joe, then home to the ranch. we now havea baby orchard; mulberry, pawpaws, passionfruit (3) ,longan, mango, white sapote, peanut butter bean, jaboticaba, barbados cherry, lillypillies galore, guavas, mamasapote, and bananas. Also a neem tree to keep us bug free. We also have a blueberry, and hope to get a finger lime and kaffir plum off e-bay.
Billy says we eat so much fruit that we will have no trouble getting through that lot.
I envisage a roadside stall!
The chickens have graduated to a resort style of life, with big yard, including a rockery planted with frangipanis.
What with Margaret's communing, and Billy's mouthorgan playing, they are well entertained.

Four egg day! We are on a roll!
Maybe that is because Billy has decided to take on their training. His idea of that is to move 2 chairs into their enclosure and to spend hours communing with them. Also, tunes on the mouth organ seem to help. He has also the idea, as you can see, that a roost in the tree would enhance their style of life. The funny thing is that they seem to enjoy it all. They have also decided thaththey like to hop up on us!.
What with Bill and Marg, these are high living birds!

What a week. Hot and no rain. Lots of swimming. The water is 24o, which we love. The seas delivered us up a big pile of seaweed for the garden, for which we are grateful The car smells very sea-ish
We had more drama with the ever escaping Silky. She and Edie seem to work together; Ed runs at Silky and that gives her the impitus to glide over the fence. So everybody stood in the naughty corner and had their other wing cut. We also moved ther whole coop and yard, to under the Grevillea, near the vege patch. They seem to approve.
Margie had more drama; She found a very little possum near the back steps, looking very sad. We decided to take it to a wildlife carer, but when she went to pick it up, it gave her a good bite, and has not been seen since.
We are avid users of the Yandina market, and have found a nursery grower of tropical fruit trees. She is from the Obi-Obi ( what a romantic name for a place) , and we bought a sapodillo, a jaboticaba, blueberry, and a Barbados Cherry. So our food forest is doing well.
We still haven't heard from the mysteriousDurshin the banana man from Gympie. Banana Growing seems further and further away.

Monday morning and it is raining again. I have just been feeding our butcherbird gang on the back verandah, There seem to be 3 adults and 2 very young babies. They are now rewarding us with lovely songs. I hope the kooks visit sometime. They are all about but not here. We have had some lovely birds. King parrots, black cockatoos and grass parrots, as well as lorikeets.
The girls are very haapy. We mowed the lawn, and the books say give them grass cuttings to rummage through so we did, 3 catcher loads. They were ecstatic, and still are. We also have maggots in the worm farm, which is a worry, and puzzle, as we dont eat meat, but the chooks think maggots are heaven. Perhaps we should keep them just for the girls.