busy

Wow! What a week (almost) its been.

Last Friday, the 15th, Mr Fabulous and I went mustering as we were 'supposed' to be trucking cattle at lunch time. We hit the paddock at sunrise and had the cattle in the yards around 8am. Once we were at the yards, MF found a leaking water pipe that caused a huge puddle right where the road train would have to park whilst loading the cattle. On any other soil type, that wouldn't be an issue. However, water on black soil turns to the stickiest mud that 'sucks' you in. The heavier the weight, the further you get sucked in!! So, we raced home and MF drove the truck to the yards, whilst I ambled along in the tractor. When I arrived with the tractor, MF started covering the water with dirt- ALOT of dirt to try and soak up the water. After he'd made quite a few large mounds of dirt, he proceeded to level it and compact it down. Once he'd done that, he drove over it a few time in the tractor and then attempted to drive over it in the truck. The truck sunk and got bogged! I hopped into the truck and he hopped into the tractor to tow me out. He then recommenced piling more dirt onto the area. This process took a couple of hours and when we were happy enough, that is when our truck could drive over it without sinking, we attended to the cattle work.

The truck was due at 12pm. We finished work at 11.45am. Fabulous timing! So, we sat and had a bite to eat and a well deserved drink of water and waited. And we waited. And we waited. At 1.30pm we thought we should come home and check to see if there were any phone messages. There weren't. We then tried to ring a few people to see if they knoew anything about the truck that was supposed to show up. We were concerned that there had been an accident. I couldn't get a hold of anyone. So, we decided to go and wait at the 'truck turn off' into our property. We waited until 3pm. We drove home again. Again there were no messages. This time when we rang around, we managed to contact someone. The truck company booked us in for the WRONG day! How very annoying! We had to let the cattle out of the yards. Poor girls, being worked when there was no need.

Saturday was another morning of mustering and yard work. Sunday was an easier day, but it still involved a bit of cattle work.

Yesterday morning we moved cattle from one paddock into another that has fresher feed. Then we went to our other property and checked on the cattle over there. That property has had even less rain then we have had and things are pretty bad there. We are having to supplement feed the cattle over there.

In amongst all this, I was asked to take pics of friends pets. This couple is getting married in 5 weeks and they want photos of their pets on their bridal table. Here are two of my favourites




We went to a waterhole on our property this morning for sunrise. I made coffee for me and breaky frittata's for us to have whilst there. It was a beautiful clear morning and the colours in the sky were amazing. It was also a tad disappointing as there were no birds (yesterday there were pelicans on this waterhole) and the flies were ridiculous! I couldn't believe how many flies there were at 6am! They were so thick that we decided not to eat breaky down there! I did manage to get some good shots though



On the way home I was lucky enough to get this



Hope you all have a great day xx

Fun

Monday morning Mr Fabulous and I went for a drive around the back of one of our paddocks. Right out the back, where I hadn't been before. It was lovely. This area has such a lovely 'feel' to it. It has the 'Gilliat Channels' running through and thanks to some heavy rain South of us, there is a fair amount of water in some of the waterholes. Behind all the channels is beautiful green grass and lovely gum trees. There is that much grass out there that we decided that we would push all the cattle that we have in that particular paddock, through the channels and onto the green feed. We did that yesterday.

Some of the cattle fought us a bit, they didn't want to leave the trough that was full of water. This indicates to us that they didn't know about the water in the channels, so they definitely wouldn't know about the beautiful green grass. Once we managed to get all the cattle to the main channel of water, where the grass is the best, we left them to it!

We took the dogs for a swim and play in the water and they had a great time. This is taken before work. They are all so eager!



This is Storm- a walking sprinkler!

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And this is Lynx




And after the dogs had some fun, Mr Fabulous had some too



Have a great day!

macabre

Apparently I haven't written anything since 22nd Feb. That's a little over two weeks. WOW! It actually feels longer than that. I had to count how far back the 22nd February was. It was 17 days ago. I cannot believe how much has happened in 17 days!

We have been under an umbrella out here is Northwest Queensland.



This area of this paddock is usually full of fresh green grass at this time of year. We have had a few little storms, but no wet season. As a result we have sold a fair amount of cattle. We want to keep what grass we have for our breeders.

We completed first round last week also. Four men processed 1279 calves in three days! They worked like soldiers! It was a big few days, but gee we enjoy it!

I also picked up a little photography job! Friday is our day to go to town, run errands and have lunch at the pub. When we arrived last Friday, the publican asked if I could take some photos of the pub as it is for sale. So, I happily obliged! We got to eat and drink for free as payment. Not bad as we both love a drink! I will be sending all the pics to the real estate agent tomorrow on USB. I tried emailing them through however my satellite is a bit old now and it doesn't cope with large files!

Here are a couple of pics of 'our local'!




I hosted photography group meeting yesterday and our monthly challenge theme this month is black and white. Here is my first image



Its a tad macabre I know, however it is life out here!

Hope you have a great evening.