Clipping the goats feet - Do you know how hard this is when you don't know what you're doing! Our neighbour Hamish came over to show us how to take Basil to the ground. Hamish moved his neck back nice and calmly and Basil obligingly lay down. Once Hamish left though it took Mark and I about 20 minutes to get Basil back down again, both so nervous incase we were hurting him and Basil taking full advantage of the situation.
First paying guests at the Lodge - Couldn't find any matching crockery so the breakfast table looked like a paint pot accident that first morning. Everyone loved the cooked breakfast though so all good. I love it when people write sweet things in the visitors book. Hoping for lots of that.
Earthquake - It happened around 9.15pm and was about 7.8. The front door started banging furiously and us having only recently moved from England were convinced someone was trying to break in! We both jumped out of bed, torches in hand and ready to defend ourselves. It was only when we saw the kitchen light shade swinging from side to side that we realised. Straight on the phone to the neighbours to check it was infact an earthquake. We were very impressed that we survived our first, everyone else in Garston was very un moved by it all!
Ploughing - We got the old Fordson Major tractor for only $500, what a bargain. Mark set about ploughing our paddock out the front. This after we had borrowed pretty much all the attachments from locals. The first plough was kind of a Banana shape rather than a straight line but once Peter and Hamish had set him straight there was no stopping him.
Sowing the Sun Flower seeds - Well why not. With the help of Heather we planted out 12,000 sunflower seeds by hand. Two weeks later we can see tiny little plants about 1 inch in height beginning to grow. We can only count about 2000 so it might not be the wonderful bright Yellow field we were hoping for but its a start. For a couple of English cops who haven't got a clue what we're doing I think we're doing o.k
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