The weather today wasn't quite as good as it has been lately, as there was a cloud in the sky. Ok, I'm being facetious, it was another superb day despite the one small cloud. This is the weather that I really love here- cool clear days and cold nights. Absolutely perfect for working outside.
I've been tidying up the area around our cottage for the last few days, mainly so that it looks nice but also for bushfire safety. I couldn't work there today as Jenni had washing on the line and I tend to make lots of dust in this dry environment, so I decided to brushcut a track through to the railway line from the cottage. We actually live only about 100 metres from the Stanthorpe- Wallangarra QR line (3' 6" gauge), although it's down a small rocky escarpment from where the cottage is. Certainly not an easy job making the track, as there were lots of collapsed rabbit burrows which look like a scaled down World War One battlefield, and of course the ubiquitous African Love Grass tufts, which are really hard to knock down. There's a Southern Downs Steam Railway train on Saturday, so now when I hear the whistle as the train passes the level crossing at Lyra, I can run down my new track to a great vantage point above the line and watch it pass. It's quite a steep climb past our place, so the loco will be working fairly hard, which sounds and looks great!
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