Baby Joeys!!!!!

Yesterday, approximately 11,500 trees have had their irrigation systems flushed, small pipes and big pipes with some really really big pumps. David has sore wrists and I have blistered thumbs. It was good for us to finally get some hard work on the farm. We also came across the emus again and chased them through the grove until we could at least get a photo of them. They run so funny. We also listened to a lost lamb whine for awhile. We do love nature. haha. Daryll had the day off to get some errands done in the city, so we had the farm all to ourselves.

After we were done all the hard work for the day (a full 8 hour day), we went down to visit Lamby. David wore him out. His idea of playing around is butting. So he chased David all around the field trying to butt him over and over. Videos available on request (David seems to laugh like a girl when he is being chased by a sheep). After the fun and games we retired to the farm house and were properly exhausted for the first time.

Today was a HOT day! It got to 27 degrees. We don't even have to have the fireplace going tonight. We spent the morning finishing off the irrigation system and the afternoon picking Paddison's Curse. This is a weed with purple flowers that is a weed that farmers do NOT want to spread through their paddocks. So, because this is an organic farm, we got to have the fun job of going out and hand picking them all off. We finally finished a whole road of them after 3 days of working on it. I also relearned how to drive a standard and drove the UTE (aka truck..lol) around the farm by myself...

We called it a day at 5pm sharp so that we could head over to a wildlife reserve to see some people that we have met (2 irish couples). We arrived there just in time to feed the kangaroos...not just any kind of kangaroos, CUTE red ones! They were very small. About half of them had little Joey's in their pouches. We hung out with them until it got pretty dark out. Pictures did not turn out to well but we got some good video footage of a joey hopping out of the mom's pouch, hopping around, goofing around with him mom and then hopping back into the pouch again! SOOOOO CUTE! When we left the reserve we could see kangaroooos everywhere! We also got our first glimpse of a Western Australia sky. The milky way was shining nice and bright.

Finally, we just finished watching an Australian "The Secret Millionaire" and he just so happened to go into a place called Redfern. This was a suburb close to where we lived back in Sydney. We walked through there when we walked to Hillsong. He went to a women's shelter and a children's drop in center. David and I now know where we will be volunteering when we go back to Sydney! We have been encouraged! It has been a great night all in all, feeding kangaroos, seeing the beautiful night sky, and getting excited to go back to Sydney and do some volunteering! :)

Tata for now!

Holly and David