30th Jan Mon

30th Jan Monday

I didnt check spelling or grammar. Oh well, I'm tired want to recover

Wake up: 08:00

Breakfast:
x2 Toast, banana, yogurt.
Wasn't enough though, was lacking energy by lunch time. Lacking alot.

Farm work:
Started: 09:10
Started with being told to:
Washdown dairy, collect reels from hay and silage, and put out some waratah's where the reel's were.
Anyway so I went about scraping starting washdown, started by scraping everything 'crap' towards the gutter and drains. Algud so far. But after one blockage in the lower pit for the dairy yard. Which I cleared, I thought sweet the water's moving again. I'll wash some more down into the pit. Second time I wasnt so lucky!

Sometime between starting washdown, I had managed to put enough down the pipes to block the system. Between the pits and to poo pond.
So after many attempts to clear it myself I gave up and ask for Ben's help. Which as you would expect didn't go down so well.

From there we found that there was a blockage, between the emergency overflow and the other side of the lane way. But we were wrong :-( And after many attempts to free the debri, I given for lunch. And left the hose pushed down the pipe and running to hopefully further loosen debri.
Finish: 13:50

Lunch:
Had leftovers from Robyn's spicy chicken dinner. Was quite good reheated, still spicy. Also everything tastes good after hard work on a empty stomach. During lunch it was pissing down! Mega windy and raining! Not the wimpy shower's I have got use to here. It was alot like Taupo heavy rain :-)

Start farm work.
Start: 15:00
After lunch, I went to check on the progess and found the water level had dropped around the emergency relief. Then checked the water tank, :-( not good, I could see the bottom of the tank! So rushed off to start the firefighter and get some water into the tank!

Then made a little more progress with getting more hose down the pipe. But not enough to ublock it, by now we've got so much hose down the pipe it's gone under the lane way, through many joints and joins the the pipe and pushed heaps of dirt sand crap grass and beep* down the pipe. Just moving and concentrating the blockage. at a point where no water is actually going down the pipe. Which is just the same as all morning! Yawn! And by the this time the body is really packing a sad!

Then Brad turns up, to help. We again look to find the problem, sus out a plan of attack, after I filled him in on what's happened this morning. This is just after Ben has got the herd into the Dairy yard. And hads started to milk. Great!

So Brad and I have another go at this DAM! blockage. And get some more pipe in. Not much more maybe 2 or 3 metres at most. And hasn't made the slightest difference to the blockage. Only thing is a whole lot of crap has been forced back up the pipe and is spilling out the emergency relief and is making a mess!

After Brad had gone threw all his ideas, situation still hasnt changed.
And he leaves, so I helped Ben milk. We had some problem cows again today!
If only cows were nice! And they walked up on command, stand and waited to get milked and then walked out of the dairy into their paddock without delay. Arrh, that would be the dream! If anyone knows how to do that, to a herd with alot of beep beep beep BEEPS!!!!!!! "Give me a call, love to hear from you"

And then did some more drain blockage attempts, and started the firefighter again.

Finish: Time 19:00

I had a lovely day on the farm today! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTT. Yes I'm crazy

Tea:
Stir fry chicken! Arrh :-) yum!
Good food, keeps the soul and heart ticking over very nicely!

I had a lie down before bed tonight, before I wrote this.
Goodnight!

Blog finished draft 11:30, 30/01/2012
Blog finished typed 00:00, 0/01/2012