Well its been a while since I updated ya'll on what is happening down under and my mum is on my case about that so here goes. The last few weeks have been spent waiting for rain and then waiting for it to dry.  We were going to start sowing the beans last week but then it rained which was good, but then it rained to  hard and we had to put it off until this monday. But then it rained so we had to put it off again! It is not a lot of fun when it goes like this. But unless there is more rain we are starting first thing tomorrow morning and then going 24 hrs a day with two operators taking 12 hour shifts. And speaking of things being delayed, the sheep shearing crew was scheduled to arrive on Thursday but the wool press is broken and now have to wait for another one to arrive from Dubbo. So that is delayed until next week monday. My boss is going a little nuts with all this delay and I don't blame him!
So while we are waiting for weather to be right we were cleaning up silo bags from years past. When the roads are to soft for transport during harvest the grain gets put in big bags 75 meters long. These bags had gotten wet during the floods so the bottom foot or so of grain was unsellable (is that a word?). So now we had to shovel a path across and cut them into sections we could handle and pull them out from under the grain. Its super heavy and wet and smells worse than pig doodoo! Oh and did I mention that there are usually a few snakes underneath. I got to shoot a few big Brown snakes with a twelve gauge shotgun, good times! But we are mostly caught up with that job thank goodness, only four or five more bags to go.
    I usually go into town on the weekends for a night or two. Go to the local sporting club and have a few beers with the locals and listen to people try and sing. It is quite humorous sometimes! Pete keeps bugging me to go up and sing some Bryan Adams cause I am Canadian. That has not happened yet, I told him on my last weekend in Walgett I might try it. I should really sing every time because the first twenty get a twenty dollar voucher for the bar and restaurant. And if you win the night its another 100 dollars! But I have a job where public humiliation is not required so I'm happy with that!
    Rugby season starts on Saturday and if I want to I can play. Im not sure if I want to play my first game of rugby in front of a crowd of thousand plus people that all know the game. I have not been to training for the last few weeks because my knee is acting up again from spraining it playing bush league hockey in February. I have been trying to strengthen it by doing some light workouts and stretching but so far not much improvement.
    I am figuring out that I did not have a clue what I needed to pack when I came over here. I have way more clothes and stuff than I need! I have a wheeled luggage bag but think I might change that to one of these huge trekking backpacks. It would be so much easier for traveling around. I had planned to head to the coast after walgett but it sounds like I will be meeting up with an english bloke and head up to Darwin and then travel through the center of Australia to Ayers Rock and then on to Adelaide.
    Tomorrow is ANZAC Day here, its a day to celebrate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp. It is a pretty big deal but I will miss the festivities in town because of sowing. I am attending a ball on Saturday to raise money for the Walgett show that goes on in May. So I gotta get spiffy and stuff, it will be a good place to meet some more of the local people which is always good. But this is gettin pretty long and I can always post another. Miss you Canadians!

P.S. If anyone wants to skype with me just send me a message on Facebook or something and we will try to set something up.