Power interruption for town and district this Saturday
JUST a reminder that we do not have power in our town and district this Sunday, April 28, between 9am and 2pm. Everyone should have received a text message if it affects you.
Most of us locals will just fill a thermos and use our barbecues for a feed for lunch. If you are planning a visit. Ring ahead to make sure they have secured a generator for the day. Our rice sheds also will be closed as our workers have reached their 21 days in a row limit. Plus, no power. That worked out well as no power, no way to receive rice.
Gallery exhibition.
The Graham Hearn Exhibition will be on show from Saturday, May 4, at the Moulamein Gallery. The opening night will begin at 7pm. This is a free night with a grazing platter provided.
If you would like a drink on the night please BYO or duck over to the Tatts across the road and grab a stubby, or two.
Graham is an artist from Cobargo NSW but has close ties with his family in Caldwell.
Nets back in my creek
There have been a few fishing nets put into my creek this week.
I was hoping that my mates from the Fisheries would find them and try to pin them on me again.
A couple of fellers from Charles Sturt University are doing a study in our Mighty Billabong Creek to check out the population of fish with nets and electro fishing.
If I was not so busy shearing and watering, I would have asked to go out with them. Do not know if I would have been allowed but I would have liked to have a look at how this electro fishing works.
I may have even been able to give them a few hints as to where to set their nets. Not that I have ever set one, but I have been told how to do it.
Winter crop sowing started.
The early birds have started to sow their winter crops if they have the moister. When to pre-water is always a challenge to get the date right.
Too early and you lose the moisture unless it rains. Too late and if it does rain you cannot get onto the paddock because it is too wet. So far, the ones that watered late are winning as there is no sign of rain.
Zombie roosters
We still do not know where they came from or who dropped them off there. But there are still two very fancy rosters running around our cemetery. I do not know where the other two went. But I found some feathers under their tree that looked very much like rooster feathers so the local fox population may have got a feed.
Shearing has finished. So, I was game enough to climb a tree to get one of our zombie roosters for my mate. Bugger. They have moved trees and I cannot find them.
I have found out that to find roosters in a tree you do not look up, you look down for the droppings.
Since my hunt for the zombie roosters I have found out that a lot of top-notch pigeons roost in our cemetery trees. All I can say is. They do a good job to sleep and hang on to their branch, on a windy night.
I will find these bloody zombie roosters and I will catch one or two of them before the foxes do. I have considered it a challenge.
Footy-netball kicked off last weekend.
Our local footy-netball season has started. We got a tough draw getting Ultima first up. The good news is that our Colts had a win. So did our B Grade and under-12s netballers. I did not get the chance to get to the footy this week. Looking forward to Hay coming over to visit us next weekend. But it is the school holidays and a lot of the boarding school kids will be back. Never a good time for our juniors to play Hay.
River Levels.
Our Edward has continued to drop. Our Edward is now at just more than one metre and around 750 megs a day. Our Edward is around 650 megs a day below Stephens Weir. I told everyone to check their boats and everything. Bugger. I got busy and didn’t check mine. Luckily my mates from the university towed it back down the bank and into the water for me. Thanks fellers. Our Edward will stay low until our Crow Eating mates decide they need to waste some more water and run it out to sea for no reason
