Fri, 11th Jan, 2019 10 Mile Outcamp, Tarmoola Station, 60km north of Leonora, WA

7am 29 degrees, clear sky, light breeze.

Off early on our bore run. Removed this tree from the track with the winch.

Tidied up around North Well area – putting old pipe, wires etc in piles.

Two wells have dried up so Steve turned off the solar pumps as the tanks are full. Will check them in 4 days when we do the run again.

Removed another tree which had fallen onto the track after a fire there. We have been driving around them so this time we decided it was time to clear the tracks.

While Steve was cleaning the 10 Mile trough, Cedric was under the hay trailer. He then headed straight for the truck, not worried about the fact it was going etc but just as he reached it he heard Steve on the other side so he turned around and headed back. Obviously he was coming to the trough for a drink.

Home for lunch, 37 degrees at 12.30pm with the wind blowing strongly from the south-east. Sent Steve Allard a happy birthday message – he is enjoying his day with family, crabs and pizza.

I worked on my blog etc while Steve shifted the hay trailer as he noticed the cattle must have turned it around to get at the hay underneath. He also turned off our solar pump too as that well is dry again but the tank is nearly full so we are all good. He dragged an old windmill frame from near the creek over to the ‘steel pile’ and had a general clean up again of old bits and pieces – slowly clearing more and more of the leftover rubbish.

I got my shovel and wheelbarrow and cleaned up the manure the darlings had left near the grass by the cottage – really, nibble but don’t poop and it was splatter ones not nice neat piles! At least it dries hard so it is easy to scoop up.

We enjoyed our cuppa in the pool at it was 39 degrees in the van. Killed more flies with my flyswat when the flies come in for a drink – there are some big ones lately that are more like blow flies so they don’t get to live long!! The vegemite fly catcher is the centre of attention now after I put a bit of water in the bottom and it is filling up with flies. That probably draws more flies to it as they die and it is getting smelly.

We then played Skipbo in the cottage where it is a degree or so cooler. I won, 2 games to 1.

Breezy afternoon. We had drinks in the cottage and we answered quiz questions from a game on the tablet.

After the sun had set Steve put the quartz rocks he collected around his fire pit.

He had a big flat piece which he decided to use as a tombstone for the old Chev. RIP.

7pm 37 degrees while we had dinner then we watched a movie.