Ahh rural Australian life, four hour blackouts because a tractor ran over a power pole in the  middle of a paddock somewhere. How is everyone? I am fantastic now, was a little down for a bit but I’m good now and ready to continue this adventure I am on. The last little while has been pretty busy but busy is good. The shearers finished on monday afternoon so thats one big thing off the to do list. It took them only three days to shear just over 1600 sheep, that is a lot of work for four guys! The money is good doing that but its backbreaking work in the dust and sheep poop, not my idea of fun. On monday Richard and I brought the cattle down into the yards to wean last years calves. There has been an awful lot of mooing around here but its getting less and less everyday. There were eight calves from this year in the mob as well so they needed ear tags and castration for the little boys. We tried to put them in the cradle to work on them but some of them refused so I got to play cowboy for a bit and throw em to the ground the old fashioned way! Those little guys never stood a chance when I got hold of them!

We are going to finish harvest tomorrow, still have a few hundred acres of sorghum that needs to come off. But that will be a days work tops so then we have to find something else to do. Hopefully we get some rain here shortly so that we can start sowing some more crops, its to dry for sowing as it is. 

Went on a bus trip with the rugby team last weekend, went over to Bourke to take on the Rams over there. Which is kind of funny since the Walgett team is also called the Rams, I guess that tells you how big sheep farming is out here. The Walgett town show is this weekend so that could be interesting, everything is agriculturally oriented. There are fast shearing competitions and things like that, snake man is coming to show us all about the creepy devils that live in the grass around here. Richard killed a huge red-bellied black snake yesterday and narrowly missed killing an even bigger one, at least six foot something. 

Now that we have internet again I can update my blog! Last month we went over the limit so they cut us off for almost a week. When you’re this far from everywhere it seems pretty isolated even though I’m not that far from town. 

Anyway, thats me right now, hope to hear from you all real soon!