Tues, 26th Feb, 2019 10 Mile Outcamp, Tarmoola Station, 60km north of Leonora, WA

Been here for 12 weeks today. 9am 34 degrees clear sky and strong northerly wind.

Rang Sandy to see if she knows about the other way of playing Skipbo. She didn’t so she and Tom will give it a try. She had a wonderful time with her new grandchild.

Drove out to Holding Paddock to check the trough. Empty again and there is about 30 cattle hanging around and the two emus again.

Filled up the trough and two concrete troughs then Steve drove the ute back to refill it. I drove ‘Pat’ back – most driving I have done in a long time. As I drove in near the yard I spotted a dead roo near the water trough. Opened the fence and we pulled it out and dragged it away.

Had a cuppa then refilled the pod and took it back. The cattle hadn’t drunk any more but we will come back in the afternoon to check.

Put the air conditioner on again for the van and closed up the windows.

I made some cookies but cooked them in the cottage to keep the heat out of the van of course. Ants had made a nest in the burner so they were madly running around as the oven heated up.

Charlie is loving the goanna bath – he has been in and out of it four time so far.

Inside the van it was 33 degrees at lunch while outside it was 42. So nice not to touch the table etc and get burnt! The wind is still blowing strongly outside.

Played a few more games of Skipbo – liking the challenge of the new version.

Had a cuppa then drove back to Holding Paddock to check the trough. All good so we will check it in the morning.

Worked on my blog in the cool van while Steve put in two sprinklers to try and keep the grass growing now we have a bit extra water with the second tank.

Nice afternoon – watched the last Top Gear series that Daniel had given us. Had Mark Webber on it.

As the sun set the wind settled and the flies disappeared so we could cook dinner on the BBQ but ate in the van since it was nice and cool with the air conditioning. Who would have thought we would weaken and use an air con – a bit of a treat and only because Steve found the old one so we only need to use one generator.

Got too cold for us by bedtime so turned off the air conditioner and opened up the windows – oops the breeze was still very hot. Put our fan on and we were ok.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.