Windmil

​A number of people seem to have these things and I Iike the one we have.  A windmill.  Well a scaled down windmill anyway.  A well and truly scaled down windmill.
I loved the ones that drew water aloft in the Australian outback.  There is one down the road from our place.  To me it is a real marker of the creec land (creec may seem like incorrect spelling, but it is the name of an environmental centre).  A place to eat, walk, explore and look at displays.  We know we are about there when we see the windmill.
We got ours from a stock supplier.  We had sort of come across the place and I have forgotten why we were there in the first place, but it is a good place to get the likes of bulk bird seed.
Anyway we saw windmills for sale.  It was around Christmas time, and we thought it would make a good present for ourselves.  So now it sits in the yard.  Like many things it is put together and that is the end of assembly.  Occasionally it is moved in the yard.
Where it is right now it catches a breeze coming from the south or the west.  Sometimes it spins great guns but mostly it is still.  I did put a metal bin beside it with a solar sprinkler.  My aim was to make it look like it was getting water, and it was being sprayed.  Trouble was the solar sprinkler would be caught by the wind and go to the side of the metal bin.  It would lose all the water from the bin.  Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Our yard is really not the sort of place one would expect to see a windmill, but it is harkening back to another time.  Once upon a time it seems these things were important for providing water for stock and great for filling tanks.  We have a 5,000 litre tank but it seems it is full when we don’t need it and empty when we do.
But the windmill serves no purpose except to look good.  It does that well.