01/17/2024
My purpose of being in Tasmania was firstly to escape to from winter and visit family. The other was to find apple wood from old trees and make tuning hammer handles.
A few days ago we found an old abandoned orchard with a draft horse and 3 bovine with pointy horns. Carl climbed the fence but the largest one was acting like maybe Carl needed a good tossing and stomp, plus I was wildly uncomfortable going onto a farmers property with out permission. So we got back in the car and have been trying to find the owner with out success.
Today we went back and parked once again at the gate and stared at the most perfect tuning handle wood in the world and contemplated the moral and physical danger of trespassing and theft. Just as we decided to drive off the farmer, followed by her giant horse and cattle showed up. She assured us that had we entered with out permission and if she owned a gun she would have shot us, but she didn't so would have just called the police, but seeing as we hadn't, she was delighted to have us come in an collect some tree branches.
