Where there is smoke...

There is BK and a huge fire.

BK is our resident bobcat expert and all around legend. He came out one afternoon to have a chat about what we wanted done around the place, and clearly sensing we had no idea what we wanted, just for it to look good, he's taken it upon himself to clean this place up.

He's been ripping up the old 'picnic area', in preparation for it to be turned into a lush beer garden next week, he's been tearing through head-height weeds that were just too big (and possibly full of snakes) for Josh or I to go near, he's been taking truckloads (actual loads on his truck) of green waste away and today, he's been lighting fires.

"BK, how do you reckon we can get rid of that trash down the back?"
"Well...it'd cost you too much to take it to the tip"
"Yeah...so?"
"I dunno. We can dig a big hole and bury it."
"It'd have to be a big hole...."
"Or you could burn it, I guess?"

Ten minutes later, a hint of smoke was in the air. We walked down the back of the farm and here's BK piling more rubble onto the pile. It was mostly green waste with a few cardboard boxes and other bits and pieces in there.

BK left his bobcat here for a few nights, giving Josh free reign to do some work around the place. We've used it to fill the planter box with some blue metal and crusher dust, and then some proper garden soil this morning. We've cleared away a few branches we've pruned, and cleared away some old fruit from under the trees.

While this would have taken us at least twice as long as it would have taken BK, but it's great to be able to do this stuff ourselves and save a little bit of money.

Josh, the bobcat driver. (He's actually really good at it!)

Our new 10,000L water tank. The plan is to pump this full of bore water to use in the toilets, washing machine and gardens (because we've been powering through the rain water far too quickly!)

Our junk pile up in flames