We head for Biloela tomorrow - hopefully leave Lochlea around mid afternoon. We are going to give Squirt a hand with the angels while Mother Edwina is off to a week in Gladstone for a school course. We should be back this coming weekend.
Our house is painting up nicely with the front finished and the side where you drive in also all painted clean and bright including polishing the floor with three coats of Ultradeck. It really does look good. Dad is now mowing in all sorts of places.
The crop looks good but there are quite a few dead heads and this has us a bit worried. We would not have a clue what has caused it, as the rain has been good. They are talking about rust in crops in the area, but that does not seem to be the problem. Just have to keep on hoping and praying.
We had a good few days helping Mary to move into our unit. She has not been real well, spilled some cleaning stuff on her face and did not get it off properly. Anyway, I was talking to her this afternoon and she is now much better. She has a lovely little grass area alongside her unit with gum trees rising high above the fence and an old lounge chair to sit on. She said she was out enjoying it with a wine and cheese. (Doesn't sound like Mary!)
We had sad news when we arrived home. A fox (and probably her babies) had tried to dig under the fence in two or three places and eventually managed to get under the wire. Rooster, Hen and four chickens were killed, all except for one little half grown chick. The rotton things had just chewed the heads off two of the other chickens and only half ate the rooster. It would not have been so bad if they were hungry and looking for a feed. One of our neighbours said that they lost six full grown hens that they had not long bought for over $100.
