Sun, 17th Feb, 2019 10 Mile Outcamp, Tarmoola Station, 60km north of Leonora, WA

7.30am 25 degrees, clear sky and strong ESE wind – nice and cool.

Cleaned out the remainder of the water from our pool then refilled it with well water from the tank. Will have to get the water pod again to top up the tank.

Fed the cattle – one Mum is still outside moaning to her calf but she won’t go in the gate. The hay and molasses is eaten at the gate but they won’t go in.

The outside cattle have stomped the pipes at the water tank when it had overflowed so we decided to erect a fence in case they break a pipe and we lose the lot. You can see the black container Steve has made his overflow tank and he has pipes going to and from the two tanks and the well so he can direct water where he wants – very clever chappy.

There is a big black bull who looks old – we call him Ferdinand as he just sits about.

We lifted up the water tank onto the back of the Chev.

Spotted Claude coming out of the fire pit – must have smelt the meaty paper towel I put in there.

Had lunch then started preparing dinner for Kym and Glen. BBQ with potato bake, pumpkin and bacon bake, a cheesey carrot and capsicum dish, mushies and onions and corn on the cob.

I tossed out some of the roast that was tough for the goannas – it was funny watching Cyril swallow the lumps, should have cut it up smaller.

Steve ran another lead across to the generator so we can try out the air conditioner tonight. Will have to run the two generators.

Kym and Glen arrived. Lovely afternoon chatting and playing Skipbo. The newer generator started playing up before we even turned on the air conditioner. Steve turned off the fridge in the cottage and we tried the air con. Worked ok on low speed. We definitely need a bigger generator.

We all ate too much dinner but managed to still fit in our Sticky Date pudding. Played some Sequence then they headed back to the homestead.

We fed the cattle. A few roos came in for a drink while we had our cuppa. They are very nervous and took ages to move across to the bird bath to have a drink. Nice breeze blowing from the south east.