Yesterday was the shortest day of the year. Well on the Southern hemisphere anyway! It was also an exciting day at Golden Harvest as the truck with the pipes and tanks and irrigation pieces all arrived for the tree nursery. The guys have been working super hard on the field by the dam to get it all level for the nursery and we were all down there waiting and at about 4pm there was a distant hum of a large truck coming and soon it arrived at the gate! I was very excited and shouted the truck is here! The guys all looked at me like I was mad!
Now is must say that I actually did a bit of physical labour myself yesterday. I had wandered down to the field to see what was going on and checked on the fire break around where the tanks are going to go for the irrigation and Matt mentioned that he needed to figure out a route for the truck to go when it arrived to get the tanks in there. It is a huge cleared circle in the middle of rather thick bush. I told Matt that I would go and investigate for him and I found what I thought looked like the shortest and less dense part and decided to take it on! I had left my work gloves that I got in Texas in the house – not thinking that I would actually need them that day so with my bare hands I was tearing at trees and pulling out grass – it was rather cathartic! I felt like a “Mcleod Daughter” (for those of you that don’t know that show it is an Australian show with a bunch of woman that run a ranch and they do all the physical labour!) It felt great to see what I wanted done and to get it done. My hands did not enjoy me after that but I got the job done. I think somewhere in it all I slipped into my tidy up mode which is actually a great thing to do with something like that as it gets the job done quickly and rather efficiently I’d say. Matt was impressed with it but my body is not impressed with it today.
The truck arrived and poles were off loaded and the tanks were off loaded (along my rather smart looking path ;-)) and seedling bags and all kinds of things were coming out of the truck – it was so exciting! I can’t wait to see how the field is going to suddenly transform from bare earth to a nursery! Pictures will be added and up dated as the work goes on.
Today the two guys who built our stone wall behind the house, are coming to start building the structure for the nursery and the little house for the pump! It is all very real now.
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