First Week August

8/8/2010

Has been dry this week so have done some more plowing and feel we can get some maize in if we are lucky have bought some from the Governor and we are busy assembling a scarifier and trying to get a planter down from Kosti so you never know your luck in the bush what can happen.

So what happens today we get 32mm rain in about 40mins so will slow us a bit but we can still seed even if  the planter does not arive in time .just have people sitting on the back of the scarifier and we drop it in by hand and just cover it with the harrows it will be ok.

The view from the palatial penthouse is just green every where  with vegie garden taking pride of place but this canot be conveyed to the horticultural department as they will think they are doing a good job .

This department needs to under constant watch as there is very good evidence that they have sabtouged my Beayns as I am constantly told is how I pronounce it for me it sounds like beans.

Any how the thrust of the story is that I had some beans and butter nut pumpkins sown just out on the flat no real preparation and they were doing very well indeed .In fact better than the garden departments Beayns and as a result were sprayed supposedly accidentally with dual gold the day before one of their so called experts went on holiday. My champion crop has gone into a state of total depression and as a result has stopped growing much to the delight of the horticultural department and there cunning plan to stifle the bosses crops.

This of course means they will now get less resources from the farming side and we will simply out grow them and leave them in our wake in a constant state of behindness and never quite sure of the revenge planned.

Will be down to about 10 in the camp as of next week due to the wet hopefully finally arriving .So we will all have to get on and see if we can rig up some dry area work shops under the containers the straight down part is ok but the wind tends to blow every thing in under the roofs sp need to make up some walls. Have stick rakes to fit and this requires some constant welding for  a couple of days and also some more containers to convert into accommodation.

The hyenas and jackals[fox] plus the odd mongoose have been giving the camp bins a fair old hiding over the past week and are not good at putting the rubbish back in the bins after they have finished rummaging through as a result we have to do a emu stalk nerly every day even the fence we put around them does not seem to be all that effective but we will keeep ungrading and sanity will prevail.

Count down to final committment from Citadel is continuing and we have 2 weeks left of the time frame they promisd it would happen ,Seeems most Araps just drip enough money into their operations until it nearly stops and then start the drip feed again.So lets hope the Egyptians are a bit different and there past trend changes.