Hidden Gardens and Smelly Dogs!

Today Geoff began two weeks holiday. This morning we headed off down to the Rivulet to do a bit of cleaning up after we had gone through with a chainsaw a few months ago. Its starting to look great down there now. Still lots to do but gradually getting on top of it!

We also discovered (after considerable hacking and machete-ing through the bush!) this beautiful area of the Rivulet that rushes over these massive flat slabs of rock. A perfect place for a hot Summers day!

 And the view UPstream was equally stunning

 How lucky we are to have all this in our own back yard!

After working up a good appetite  we came back for something to eat.................Ever had a cold mashed potato sandwich??????.............No....neither have l...............

After Geoff's dubious lunch we went for a walk up the top paddock to check out the fence. Treeka found some disgusting stinking black mess to roll in so had to suffer an exceedingly cold bath when she got home!

 She wasn't happy!

Geoff then decided it was time to burn something! We chose one of the 5 heaps of Willow we still have sitting in the Hay Paddock. We needed some dry kindling wood to get the Willow going so Geoff lugged about 5 pallets across the paddock to the heap. What's wrong with this picture?????

Ring any bells????

We took the goats with us of course. The shortest most direct route is through the garden (over my new path!!) always a risky thing to do...... to let three goats into your garden! Geoff went in front rattling a tin of nuts and l walked behind with a large stick!!!

There were quite a lot of willow branches lying on the ground and l was amazed how quickly the goats stripped virtually all the bark off them! Destructive beasties that they are!

Toggles enjoyed it though. She has always loved a good fire!!!

Then just on dark ,home to our beautiful house. What a lovely day.

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