It’s Sunday today.  We have always consistently gone to church on a Sunday. We belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  With the closest church 6 hours away back at Broken Hill we broke that consistency.

Today was an absolute sizzler at 40+ °C ! We don’t have internet access so don’t know what the actual temperature is, but according to the weather report when we left Broken Hill it was forecast for 41 degrees today (found out it was 42 when we finally got to the internet). Luckily the shearing gang had a day off, but the musterers were still mustering the sheep in the blistering heat, getting ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow is meant to be just as bad.

Time for the gratitude journal…I am grateful for air conditioning and freezers to ice our water! I’m grateful for Lewis and Renarda letting us use their caravan for the weekend (while they went back to Broken Hill)…even though the air conditioner was struggling to keep the temperature under 30 degrees and every time someone would come in and out of the caravan the temperature would go back up 4 – 8 degrees…oh and that’s right, with all the air conditioners being used in the shearing quarters, the electricity would trip out every now and then too…the old generators out here can only handle so much electricity being used at one time.  Yep it’s pretty rough out here in the outback.

Mustering the sheep