Today was overcast, but by lunchtime we had still not had any precipitation worth recording in the rainfall statistics. I made a comment that we should record the number of days where we get no sun and no rain - obviously not brilliant for you when you are off the grid and rely on both of those things falling out of the sky for your basic necessities.
Anyway, after lunch we actually got a few light showers which gradually built up in intensity until finally around dusk we actually got some heavy rain. By the time of writing we actually have 5mm in the gauge, first time this has happened in a month.
Had Tim work on the tractor today, and where I failed to remove races and seals he succeeded, and after months of that thing sitting all taken apart and generally dishevelled looking we actually managed to put it back together again, and had just one surplus bolt at the end of proceedings. !
Unfortunately the battery has no juice after all that time and the carb has developed a fuel leak, probably from us jerking the choke cable around. If its not one thing it is another. Still, full points to Tim for doing a sterling job as chief engineer, for the 3rd friday in a row.
I ran the tiller for a while in the new sugar cane field, and weeded some of the peanut in that area, and directed our newest volunteer Eric, who moved woodchips over an area that has just has cardboard and rough mulch for a while, and then he put in some pineapple tops and peanut seedlings, so really a nice thing that it rained.
Lorinda and Sharesa worked with the goats and in the annual garden...