Its a different world over here. I’m sure you all knew that but figured I could tell you again. We tried to sow chickpeas in a few different paddocks today but everywhere it was far to dry. The seed was about six inches down and still not in the moisture, very different from at home. We did finally find a paddock where it will work but we need to spray it first and then wait a few days before we can sow there. But the beans we planted a few weeks ago are up so thats good, just enough good news to keep my boss happy.

I have been learning a lot about Australia while I’ve been here, there are a lot of similarities to Canada. The government structure is the same and we both are commonwealth nations. But the Australians have kept the English traditions much more alive than the Canadians, still have tea instead of coffee breaks. The aboriginals here are often on welfare and have a lot of drug and alcohol problems. Its really sad actually how they just seem to have no ambition to better themselves, but why should they? the government buys them new cars!  That information was for the people who have been studying Australia lately, you’re welcome. 

I went to the Walgett show this last weekend and had a really good time! Its a small show but they get a lot of horses and other livestock out from all over the state. They also had a couple of rides for the kiddies and such. One of the vendors made wood fired pizzas, they were amazing! I hadn’t had pizza in a few months so that could have had something to do with my amazement haha. I met a whole bunch of nannies this weekend, so many of the farmers have nannies for their kids! That was something that I did not know about these Aussies. I haven’t heard from Englishman Joe in a while, he has very limited service where he is so its kinda difficult to plan our trip. I also have a real beef with MasterCard, I can’t do any online purchases! I called them and was told that there is no problem with the card and I should just buy from different sites. But the real problem is that I am trying to put more minutes on my phone cause I ran out a week ago, and the Telstra site doesn’t take my card! Of course I could just go to the nearest Telstra shop and do it in person but, its over 200 km away! So that is my big issue this week. 

Smells like dinner is almost ready to go, lamb chops, potato, pumpkin and some other vegetable. Apparently Australians like to have three veggies and one meat for dinner every night. I could use a Flamethrower burger from DQ by now, haven’t had fast food since I was in Dubbo two months ago, I miss it! Although I’m sure its good for my health to not have any fast food. But, looks like its time to eat so I gotta run. Later everyone!