8am
33 degrees, clear sky and the hot northerly wind is blowing again.
Put
the air con on again as it forecast to get to 44 today so we may as well be
comfortable.
Drove
to Holding Paddock and checked the trough – empty again and the cattle are
standing around waiting for us to fill it up. The young bull from the other day
came over again and got stuck into the water once we had finished. Filled the
concrete trough again too. Left the cattle to drink and drove down to St
Patricks to pick up the trailer pod. With the strong wind blowing it won’t take
long to refill it when we return it.
Back
to the van for smoko – nice 30 degrees compared to outside. Put the pod’s water
down in our well as we will have to fill the ute pod again soon. Bit of tooing
and froing so hopefully Rob will come and sort something out soon.
Took
the pod back to St Patricks then check Holding Paddock again. They had emptied
it again – thirsty lot. We only had enough in the ute pod to ¾ fill it so drove
the ute back and Steve hooked it up and started filling it again from the well.
As
I drove in ‘Charlie’ was enjoying his bath – he looks so cute with his head and
tail poking out of the ‘goanna’ bath.
Lunch
in 34 degrees in the van with the a/c on. Nice having the van closed since that
hot wind has been blowing a heap of dirt around too. I read in the cool till
the a/c overheated – then it was definitely not cool. Steve poured some water
over it and once it cooled down a bit it came back to life and all was good
again. Just need to keep water up to it to keep it cool. Just like us – we
haven’t been using the pool since the air conditioner arrived as the flies are
so bad I need to wear my fly net to have a dip. Even the flies are looking for
anything cool to hang around.
Steve
of course doesn’t mind the heat and worked on the newer generator as it is
still leaking heaps of diesel but he can’t locate the leak as it has a lot of
sealed sections – not designed for maintenance. He got it running again then it
made some loud banging noises and now it won’t start again!
Had
a cuppa then took the pod ute back to Holding Paddock again. We put 400 litres
in that the cattle had just drunk as the trough was dry again – there are about
30 of them hanging around. Filled the concrete trough again. The cattle headed
back to drink as we drove off.
Back
home and a heap of cattle were in the yard drinking from the trough. They are
slowly coming back since we let them all out.
Had
our drinks and played some games of Skipbo – really enjoying the extra
challenge of these new rules.
Steve
decided we should go back to HP and refill the troughs so he can bring the pod
back and once the pump starts pumping in the morning we can then take it back on
our way to do the bore run.
The
wind has stopped blowing. Lovely sunset as we drove back – didn’t have my
camera.
Steve
put the sprinklers on and we sat outside enjoying the bit cooler evening. The
little bats zipped around as the stars came out.
Back
inside our cool van for dinner and movie. Chilled us down well then we turned
it off and opened up the van – not as bad tonight as the wind isn’t blowing hot
air in. 10pm 35 degrees.
NO
PHOTOS TODAY.
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