Olive Oil Atomic Bomb (Almost)

Hello Again,

So we've spent the past two days bottling Olive Oil. We learnt that the Farm has two types of oil, Mild &  fruity and the Moore River Blend. This was a good job for yesterday (Tuesday) as it rained crazy all day. The rain rattled and the wind rocked the shed while we listened to Ballad CD's and the Corrs. Holly spent most of her day filling and twisting the caps onto the bottles, she told me to say she had very sore hands, but she's not complaining. I however spent my day between the shed and the farmyard. Making boxes filling them with Oil bottles and stacking them in the shed.

After doing the boxes Daryll and I were outsideto herd the farms sheep. They were being given some medicine so I had to usher them towards him while trying to avoid any of them deciding to make a run for it. One did escape by jumping a barbed fence so we left the herd in a gated area to chase the escapee.

We had more WWOOF-ers arrive yetserday. Erni and Chris, a more mature couple. They're travelling around Australia, they're from Melbourne and have just arrived from visiting Northern Australia  and are planning their southern Australia adventure.

So we spent today doing some pruning of the Olive Trees. They need to look like vases we keep getting told. We're given little hand saws and instructed to put our topiary skills top the test and shape the mis-shapen bushes into beautiful fruit bearing masterpieces. What we seem to be doing is hacking away at the bushes with no certainty that we are doing the right thing.

So after our day of pruning, and some weeding we all sat around the outside fire with some other people from nearby and had a really nice evening. Chats about politics, yes even Canadian Politics, Australia and about a mini mount rushmore in England somewhere. Even I (David) have no idea where it is. We had a vegetarian curry cooked by Chris which was outstanding, some beers and kicked back for the evening.

We are heading to Perth tomorrow with Catherine and Hitting the Royal Perth show. It's gonna be Awesome!!! Chain saw Ice sculptures and heaps of fun and random things to see. But No rides that spin round too fast or go upside down for David. The carousel is my limit I think. Cotton candy too!! Fun Fun Fun...

Ok, Holly is alseep on the couch with Abbys replacement and I am in need to some ZZzzz's people. Thanks for reading,

Blog Soon.

David & Holly