We made enough money today for a trip to Ireland

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We have a bore on our property. And we have a licence which allows us to pump 19,500 kilolitres of water from an underground aquifer. This is a huge amount of water and was enough to water an orchard which was established here before we bought the property. Unfortunately, nematodes destroyed the trees and they had all gone by the time we arrived. Now we use the water for the garden and animal troughs. We also automatically water an area of grass where people used to sit when we had our outdoor music concerts. We also watered an avenue of young trees until they got established. There have been ongoing issues with the authorities because we're not using enough water. This is pretty ridiculous seeing how all the talk is of water wastage and how we all need to be cutting back on our use. Now, we’ve signed up to sell 9,000 kilolitres to an orchardist. It means he can now take 9,000 more kilolitres from his bore while we can take that much less. Hopefully, we can sell another similar amount at some stage in the future. The money we get should be enough to pay for another trip to Ireland to see our son so we see it as a real bonus. Photo is of the grass in front of the Music Shack where the concerts were held.