Text scams
I DO not know what has happened, but these things are coming through thick and fast at the moment.
I did click on one early in the peace but luckily my phone told me it was a dangerous site and I did not go there.
Maybe that is why they have ramped up?
They tell me I have a parcel delivery, I am in a video or is this your photo. “Please click on this link”, it says. Do not do it.
They can take control of your phone and your life if they get enough information.
For those that are as text savvy as me, when you get one of these messages, there are three dots on the right-hand side of the screen at the top.
They will give you options. The best advice I can give is to block the number and delete the message.
You will have to keep doing this as they will keep sending messages from different numbers.
Let’s hope they run out of numbers before we open one of these bloody things.
It seems to have slowed down after doing this.
They are a scam, so please do the best you can to protect yourself from them.
Bitterns
I HAVE stirred up a bit of interest with these Australasian Bitterns that I reckon I have on the rice.
There are only about 2500 left in the world.
They only live for a few years so that means that they have to get on the job really quick, or die out.
I ran into a mate today who’s wife is a mad photographer of rare wildlife. She wants to get a photo of one. Good luck to her I told him because some environmentalists go years without even seeing one.
They are rare, elusive and smart.
They just do not like us to be looking at them.
Let’s hope we get a photo of them before the year is out that is a little bit better quality than Nessy.
We may even get a photo of their chicks, if we can find them with the drone.
Since I started writing this my new mate has been out to try and get a photo of these bloody things.
While she was waiting on the rice, I was checking the water on my millet crop.
No, I did not stuff up for all those rice growers that think my agronomist is not on the job and let the millet take over the rice.
We have a crop of millet in to fill the feed gap from when last year’s feed starts to run out and this year’s watered pasture gets up and going.
Back to the millet that we grew on purpose. I caught something out of the corner of my eye.
Flying, then dropping into the millet very quick just on dark. Nothing else that flies at this time of night looks like this.
That is what I have been doing wrong.
As soon as you see them, you look down at your phone to video them, they are gone before you look up.
They do not like us looking at them.
My new mate thinks she has finally got a photo of one, but we will see before next week.
Bowls
DIVISION 1 travelled to Swan Hill this week.
Last year’s premiers were always going to be a challenge.
It was a very close game with the last bowl of the day deciding who got up.
Unfortunately, our old mate Gary had the last bowl. We were four up on the green and one up overall before this last bowl came hurtling down. Good bowl, Gaza.
Two rinks up, one down. Down by five overall.
Division 4 was at home to Racecourse. We may be on top, but they were wanting to get into the four.
Two rinks down, back to second spot. I think there are about four teams on the same points.
Only shots up are keeping our Division 4 mob in the four.
Without shots up, we could have gone from top spot to 5th spot in one week. Do not relax, team. They are after you.
This week, Division 1 is at home to Nyah. They are after our spot in the four.
Division 4 is away at Manangatang.
Let’s hope I do not get dropped, it will cost me a feed of yabbies.Rice
STILL perfect weather for our rice to get the heads out.
Mid 30s during the day and over 20 at night.
If I am dreaming, please do not wake me until after microspore.
I still say there will be record yields around this year.
Get those sheds greased up, Hooker – you will be busy.Rain
RAIN forecast again at the time of writing. Yeah right. Lets see what happens this time.
River levels
THE Edward is still around 3200 megalitres at Moulamein and is steady.
Our river may rise a bit, but where it is, is about where it will stay.
My young feller went out fishing last Sunday.
Hooked onto a 50cm cod within 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes later, hooked onto something that just kept swimming until the line broke.
No chance of turning it, he said. Just kept going until snap.
Still plenty of subway cod getting caught.
