The numbers

Numbers are sort of the things that make the world go round. It sort of explains a lot of things. I saw the other day someone claims he can predict the future with a algorithm. Great for him. We need a few number here too.
1. I had some great respons on the Women's Wine Wednesday and Leanne printed some lovely cards. We still want to know who is interested to send the invites out. Contact here on 044 21 33639 otherwise we are going to harass you till you all show up.
2. The church events which I wrote on earlier dates is the following: Wine Auction held at Outeniqua High School at the 13th of August; The 'gemeente ete' at the Calitzdorp Church Hall will be the 15th and cost R50 - what a bargain. Contact Marinda for tickets as they must prepare them for the masses at 044 21 33311; the church bazaar will be held in the middle of September
3. Our dam is about 29% full. You can get this detail on the www.dwaf.co.za website. This is the official departement of water affairs website. So by the way I forgot to mention that this was also the first cement irrigation dam build in South Africa.
4. This is the amount of people having sinus problems in my family.

Because of the low level of the irrigation dam the Water Board decided to have the first 'beurt' only at the end of August. For me as farmer this immediatly is something of a problem as the plants are starting to bud. With budding the top part of the plant start its physiological processes as the temperature during the day as well as the mean temperature is higher. The soil temperatures will still be low and because of that the root system might still be in rest. You can verify this by digging a hole and looking at the roots of the plants. If you see a lot of thin white roots then you know your plant allready started its anual growth season. I hope it won't create to much of a problem as we only have three months left till the picking of the apricots.
I will start my irrigation schedule in the middle of August - a month later than usual - sort of to accomodate the drought effect. We must now get some water!!!