Amazing what a trickle of water can do!

It's been a few days but wow look how the dam's water level looks like! Long may it continue.

At last!

We've been hoping and had our fingers crossed that this would happen, particularly when the long term forecast has constantly stated there would be below average rain, but at last the creek has  started to flow! Well it's more a trickle, but the last two days of showery weather has been enough for it to start. Amazingly the dam has risen by a foot with only a trickle! If this continues the dam should fill which will be relief to us.

  

The equines were on their best behaviour!

The farrier visited this morning and for once the horse behaved himself! Maybe the hay helped? So their hooves are all tidy and cleared of muck.

To be a blogger!

To blog or not to blog? It seems the radical animal rights people try to read all the blogs written so to target farmers and those in primary production. So should I continue? We aren't serious farmers keeping our few sheep to eat the grass and provide a bit of meat. I enjoy thinking up topics and posting the photos but also don't want the hassle if the above happens. What should I do? 

Water.

Water! How important it is. Water and it's component parts basically brought life to the earth. After a few days of showers suddenly there's new growth and green everywhere. Areas which looked bare have tiny leaves reappearing. Now many of these are weeds but it's refreshing to see green again. So why is it so hard to realize the importance of water, why we should protect it, respect it's role in life and remember we wouldn't be here without it.

Our spring.

We only got 24mm with the first rains of the year but the recharge of our spring is amazing. Tomas can swim again although it is still muddy under the water! We're due more rain in a few days so it will be interesting to see how the springs levels react.

Some rain at last.

After three days of constant showery weather we've recorded 24mm and found there was a puddle in our freshly dug out dam. Now for lots of follow up rain !