We had our next visitor to Innisfree with Farmer Quach (otherwise known as Nam-Ha) dropping in for a visit yesterday. I turned up to see him and Rohan clad in matching pants and surveying the back paddocks. Michael and Jenny, our neighbours, drove down to the boundary fence with Michael saying he can come in and round bale our paddock as we had been asking at the Christmas party about who might be able to do it. He's done it before for the previous owners, so we figured he would be a perfect person to get in to do it before it gets any longer and before the weather gets any hotter!
After they headed off, Nam-Ha suggested we go check out the boundary fences and our back paddocks in his 4WD ute. While Rohan and Nam-Ha leapt out to open fences, I stayed within the safety of the ute - I wasn't testing my short boots with that grass!
We piled into the cab together and set out through the bumpy paddocks,
discovering dams, gorse that will need to be ripped out and the remnants
of the lake that existed in the back corner of our land. When I chose
'Lake Isle of Innisfree' as a poem to guide the name of the property I
was figuring it was a stretch to say the dams were lake, but it turns
out we did have a lake at some point and so the name becomes even more
apt!
Thanks Quachey for the adventure - it was nice to actually get to all corners of our patch of earth!
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