Olives, Olives, Olives

If you are a faithful reader to the blog you are pretty lucky to find a blog everyday! Right now I am sitting down for breakfast with some olives. I am hoping that by the end of this 3 month stint I will be an olive enjoyer. Catherine makes different kinds of olive concoctions, Basil and tomato, chilli and garlic, etc. I really like those ones. At the moment I pick out the little olives with lots of seed so I just get a little bit at time. We also drench all our cooking in olive oil. Seems to be the thing to do.

When Daryll eats lunch here, whatever he is eating, gets about 5 seconds of olive oil poured on it. So we have olives (or oil) for breakfast, lunch, and dinner here. Our snack is home-made bread (that I make in the bread maker) with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Yummmmy.

Yesterday was a day of labelling and packing. We put labels on the jars and then packed them in boxes. I am hoping that helped a bit in getting rid of my chicken wing arms. haha. (Check it out, the finished product) I have taken lots of pictures but the internet here is sattelite and it barely loads the internet sometimes. I think we will go in the city on the weekend and get a mobile internet so we can skype and load pictures. Ah, big news, maybe you have heard, but there was a huge dust storm in Sydney yesterday! Shucks that we missed out on it. Jonathan said that he was at Circular Quay and he couldn't even see the Sydney Opera House from it. Usually when you see our picture of the Bridge and the Opera house they were taking from Circular Quay (in between both of them). That sounds pretty crazy, and it was all over the news here. So sucks that we had to miss out on that experience. Oh well.

After we were done 5 hours of labelling we decided to take a tour around the farm. So we hopped on the quad and drove around. She has a lot of land, I will have to ask Daryll for directions, I have forgotten. We took a visit to the staring cow and lamby and visited the baby lambs. We thought one was dead because it was just laying there and it let us go right up to it without moving...which is unlike sheep. Then all of a sudden it jumped up, freaked out and almost rammed right into the quad. It repositioned itself and ran to the rest of the herd. Poor lamb, we probably gave it a heart attack! We also saw many kangaroos and joey's hopping around and I think that there is every variety of cockatoo out here. So we hear the annoying squawking all day but also get to see the beauty of all the colours!

We are to put chook poo (chicken manure) around the mango trees this morning. Daryll is a late starter so he usually doesn't get here till about 11:00. It is 9 now and we are awake and ready! It is supposed to rain today so hopefully we can get everything done before then.

Holly