Gone Troppo!: A work in progress

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Good things come to those who wait.

Patience is a virtue.

I've heard them all, but it's not a lot of comfort when I want the farm to look perfect now! We've been doing a lot around the place, but it's still doesn't seem to be making a dent in the epic workload ahead of us.

We finally have a ute now though! It's been a long time coming, but a 4x4 Holden Rodeo is now parked round the back next to Betsy. It hasn't got a name yet though...any suggestions?

Josh has been working tirelessly for the last 48 hours building an EPIC planter box out the front of the winery. He's torn down the dated lattice that made the whole area feel dingy and boxed in, and we're replacing it (while making the area nearly twice the size!) with a timber sleeper planter box, that we'll fill with gorgeous tropical plants.

It's still a work in progress, so I'll post some before and after pics in a week or two when we're done.

We've started brewing up some liqueurs and fine tuning the tawny ports that came with the property. We have a Jackfruit Liqueur, Pineapple Liqueur, Lemon Myrtle Liqueur and Aniseed Myrtle Liqueur on the go, plus we're working on a coffee flavoured one. It'll be really exciting in a few months when we'll have a crop of the jaboticaba fruit ripe and we can experiment making some more brews!

Despite my terrible face injuries (I'm better now, by the way, thanks for asking) I went around to empty the fruit fly traps and to count up my kill. Of our five traps, we captured 0 in the mandarin tree, 2 in the Jackfruit tree, 13 in the random tree near the sugar cane field next door, 23 in an avocado tree and 10 in the grapefruit tree. Not a bad haul! It was strangely satisfying seeing a bunch of trapped dead flies. We still have a handful of leftover baits, so I'll plant a few more down the back near the avocados tomorrow.

So, yeah. On paper it seems like we've done a fair bit, but everywhere we look it's hard not to notice everything else that needs to be done. Sigh. Rome wasn't built in a day.