The day began with a phone call "Dad can you make pancakes for breakfast". My daughter Jessica had had some friends over for a New Years Eve party. Up the top paddock a bonfire had been created from fallen dead branches and bushland weeding that had accumulated around the farm. The young people set up tents around this bonfire after a spit-roast and salad dinner. The view they had of Westernport Bay and across the southern suburbs of Melbourne is sensational. I took the tractor with the hand gun sprayer set up and 400 litres of water to the bonfire. When it came to light the fire they found that nobody had any matches. It is terrific how the no smoking message is taken seriously amongst the younger generation.
A little drama happened at 10.30 pm when we heard the Menzies Creek CFA siren go off. A check of the CFA website showed that the fire had been reported and even though a notification form had been lodged a call out had been initiated. I ran out to intercept the Menzies Creek truck but it went up Grantulla Road so I had to run up to the paddock. I found Jessica and Georgia chatting to some firies from Kallista ("they're the same age as us and have just left a NYE party."). It turned out the report was for a grass fire started by fireworks and not a bonfire plus the notification address had been logged on the website in a confusing way. Sad that some firies had their NYE celebrations disturbed. It is interesting to note that the Kallista truck arrived long before the Menzies Creek truck even though they had further to come.
Hot day with top temperature of 36 C. Finally got around to doing the fixed ethernet cabling to the computers that had migrated out of the office & to the TV. When it cooled in the evening I went and sprayed some blackberries.
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