Monday, 11 May 2020

Weary blogger tonight. John’s operation appears to have gone well. He is in no pain at this stage but has lots of tubes and drips attached. His face is swollen (thankfully they warned me this would happen) due to lying face down for five hours with his face through a hole in the table. Will spend the night in HDU and may be on his feet tomorrow.

Farm still functions. Agent called to change day to collect the heifers and steers from tomorrow to Thursday. Tomorrow will now be easier but I was hoping to get it out of the way before the patient arrives home. Help is standing by in the form of our friend Peter who will bring John home if his exit day is Thursday.

Bore drillers came back today and found water at 36 metres at a flow of 3 litres per second. Water level has come up to about 17 metres from ground level. Called into the pump shop on the way to see John and organised pump installation - should be about two weeks. It is part of a small, longer term project to get water to some new yards which have not yet been built. It will also feed water to troughs in drought times. We probably won’t use much of this bore water but It is peace of mind and better than finding gold when your bore provides drinking quality water.Read more