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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Dec

It’s been a scorcher here today and tomorrow is going to be worse. At 4.00pm, it’s 37C (100F) and tomorrow is supposed to be worse and with the risk of thunderstorms. This is our first week of such high temperatures. Yesterday...

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We had an audience yesterday

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Mar 25

The photo our friend’s horse taking an interest in our collecting wood yesterday although something else has taken her interest at this point. Our friend has five horses. I mentioned last post that she lost her husband in April....

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Firstly, worry about a fire then a storm hits

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jan 24

There have been bad bushfires in Western Australia and my sister evacuated to our place for two nights just to be on the safe side. However, the day after we took her home, a big storm came through her area and brought down a...

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We brought my sister home with us

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jan 24

We are off to visit my sister soon. We didn’t get to see her at Christmas so we’ll take her present up with us. I put a photo of it up a while back of a dachshund dog with a welcome sign on it. I hope she likes it. I’m also...

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Two versions of the same scene

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jan 23

We received the photo on the right of the bushfire that nearly took out our friends’ house. This is taken looking over the dam from outside the house. On the left is a photo I took from almost the same spot when we were...

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Our friends' house has survived the bushfires

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jan 23

We managed to get some information about our friends’ house in Yabberup. We house-sat there for two different periods and dealt with the death of a pet sheep and fly-blown sheep. Their house has been in the centre of some big...

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Bushfires and rock walls

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Jan 23

Today we drove about an hour to a place where we will feed their canaries and cats on Wednesday next week. They are going away for four days so we’ll just need to go the once. The place belongs to the parents of our hostess here....

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Bushfires abound in our old stamping grounds

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Jan 23

We used to live on 18 acres just out of Donnybrook, in Western Australia. I’ve written here about the church at Thompson’s Brook and our house-sitting at Yabberup. Now, all these places and the land between and around is at risk...

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Our friend has lost her house

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Feb 22

When we lived in Ravensthorpe in the south-east of Western Australia, I was friends with a single mother. Her son and our youngest were good friends. She was an artist and had a struggle to make ends meet. Later, she moved to the...

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Hempcrete blocks survive West Australian bushfires

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Feb 22

We have had a couple of major fires in Western Australia lately. One interesting factor has emerged in the wake of these fires. Hempcrete blocks, which were manufactured before Christmas, were untouched by the blaze. In tests, a...

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Do you bend the rules sometimes?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Aug 21

The photo has nothing to do with the post. I needed a kangaroo fix. Do you break the law or bend the rules very often? When our state went into lockdown and we couldn’t travel from one region to another, a nephew and his wife...

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We've done our last burn-off

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 22 Apr 21

Yesterday we raked and burnt some of the leaves from the fence-line at the back of the house and also from the drain that runs alongside the workshop. That’s the last of the burning now. The fire trailer has been sold and will be...

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Don’t count your kids too soon

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Feb 21

When the bushfire threatened my sister and nephew’s place, they evacuated over 80 goats to a safe place. Five of the dwarf Nigerian does were heavily in kid. Now they are all safely home again and two of the does have had their...

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Serendipity strikes again

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Feb 21

At the moment, we’re a bit obsessive about this ‘saving ourselves’ should a bushfire come our way. The next project will be to remove the tyres you can see in the photo as, if they caught alight, the shed would probably catch fire...

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Our fire-unit is now fully operational

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Feb 21

We have now finished the modifications to the fire-fighting unit that we bought recently. The latest addition is a cage that holds extra fuel for the pump and hand-held fire extinguisher. We welded the cage from scrap materials -...

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We've been busy again today

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Feb 21

Today, we’ve been making a ‘cage’ to place on our new fire unit. It will hold a small container of extra fuel for the pump. We haven’t had to buy anything to make this. We had some small scraps of tubing and some mesh which was...

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One task invariably creates several more

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 7 Feb 21

It seems when you start a job, you create more. We’ve bought ourselves a fire-fighting unit but now we need to be able to refill the tanks quickly. We are putting in a tap into a water-line down near a cleared area where we’d take...

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This paddock will be our refuge

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 7 Feb 21

The photo shows part of our property. You can see there isn’t much grass on it at the moment. There is a fence in the middle distance and beyond that another fence which is our boundary. The dark area between the two fences is...

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Our new acquisition

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Feb 21

The photo shows our new firefighting unit that we purchased today. It is second-hand. Each tank holds 1,000 litres of water. It is equipped with a pump and two hoses. If we have a fire, we have a portion of land that is well away...

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We’re a big country – fires and floods

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382105) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Feb 21

The last few days, I’ve been a bit obsessed about a bushfire that has been threatening my sister’s/nephew’s farmlet. They live just north of West Australia’s capital, Perth. They and their many goats had to be evacuated two days...

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