Alien uncovered?
With the torrential tropical type of rain that we got a few weeks ago, we also got plenty of erosion in places that have not copped that much rain for centuries.
One of our local farmers was out in his back paddock and noticed some bones had been uncovered by water erosion. What he found did not seem normal so he started to dig. And what he uncovered cannot be explained.
So, he took a lot of care to try and preserve his unusual find. He was going to notify the authorities, but we have all heard about those discoveries that the government of the day just makes disappear as well as those that find them. Our local farmer got a bit obsessed with his discovery and decided to rebuild this unusual skeleton to prove what he had found before those in charge decided that him and his alleged alien mate should just disappear.
This became a bit of an obsession with our farmer friend and his mates were worried about him. He rebuilt his newly discovered mate to the best of his ability. This is a bit weird. But he told me that he had directions from his alien mate of what he looked like.
Our farmer friend has wished to remain nameless as he is still uncovering things that are best kept secret for at least 12 months. He has named his discovery the Tryjointitoseus as he has three joints in his arms and legs and only three toes and fingers on each hand and foot. We will wait for a full report at the same time next year.
Rice harvest ramps up.
Up until Sunday rice harvest was at a whimper. There was only one farmer harvesting at a time. But on Sunday the trucks started to roll in. they are all big trucks nowadays as well.
The old tray truck went by the way side many years ago. I can remember years back we were blocked up at the silo. About one load a day per truck went through because of the amount of rice everyone had that year. My old trucking mate Kenny Stephens had a tray truck that could take about eight tonnes at a squeeze.
I said to Ken, ‘are you using they tray truck?’.
‘Nope’, he replied, ‘not going to pay someone to sit there all day for eight tonnes’.
I had bugger all to do so I put that eight-tonne truck in the line and got it through before dark. I do not think it will get to that this year but have patience fellas.
You should have been here last week when no one else was. Hooker will run this show the best he can and there are not many that can run it better. We may even get a go at our rice this week. It is flat enough, so I reckon it is ready.
A week ago, most of it was standing, but now it is down. I am sure Macka will look after us and pick most of it up. For a crop to go down like it has. It should mean that it is a good crop. The big red header will tell me this week. Could go from caviar to boiled lollies really quick. No record yields yet. Just good ones so far. This week could tell the tale if my prediction of record yields comes true or not.Almost restocked.
Our Moulamein Men’s Shed always restock our local rivers and streams with fish every year.
They did their Lead For Fingerlings battery drive and also got some money from our Moulamein Footy-Netball Club Annual Swan Hill Truck Service Fishing Competition. They ordered their cod four months ago with the dollar for dollar grant from my mates at the fisheries. This was going to be a lot of cod for our local streams. Unfortunately, the mob they were dealing with could not supply the cod in the end. So, they offered them a load of yellers to make up the difference. They are a bit rarer than cod at the moment.
We were going to get 35,000 yellers put into our streams form our Men’s Shed. Bugger. They ran out of fish again so we are still waiting. What needs to happen is that we have to get those in charge to let us put Cat Fish back into our rivers. They must have their heads that far up their bums that at the moment that they are the rarest native fish not in our rivers. Cod are in plague proportion. Yellers are usually there and carp are just a part of the food chain and are not a problem anymore.
Unfortunately, we cannot get a dollar for dollar contribution to put cat fish back into the rivers or anywhere.
The rarest native fish we have that is supposed to be the best eating fish that we have. Cat fish cannot even be put back into our rivers as a restocking project because of red tape. Cat fish should be subsidised two for one. Not dollar for dollar but we cannot even do it off our own back.
It’s not rocket science to see which one we should be restocking. Cat fish are supposed to be the best eating fish in our rivers. I can remember catching them when I was a young fella but I think the oldies used to take them to eat. Us kids were happy with red fin.
Plenty of birds.
Sounds like the ideal footy trip but unfortunately it is only my irrigation paddocks. Irrigation feeds that many waterbirds, water should be for free.
We feed ibis, spoonbills, cranes, magpies and even though I hate it crows and ducks and snakes we feed them. Then we produce frogs, mice and carp. Why would you want to produce carp I hear you ask? They are part of the food chain and never get back into the rivers from well over 90 per cent of our irrigation as water is too valuable to let go back into the rivers. They get eaten by something.
Then there are over a zillion insects. No one likes insects but they are another essential part of the food chain and irrigation breeds them. Something eats them if we do not have to spray them. Then there are also our very rare southern bell frogs that deserve all the help that they can get and they love our irrigation as it happens in their beading season. My neighbour walked out to go to work this week and he thought I had a motor going. my irrigation is about half a kilometre from his front door but he could still hear the frogs happy song because I was irrigating. Those southern bell frogs have a big voice.Cripple run again.If you are still finding these cripples in your mob and you do not know what to do with them. Our Moulamein Footy-Netball Club has found a use for them. If you still have a few, get in touch with Nicko on 0457137612 and he will pick them up or tell you where to drop them off. River levels.The Edward at Moulamein is rising just a bit at 1.5 meters and just over 1200 megs a day. Yellers are very scarce at the moment. Plenty of small cod getting caught and one the other day that almost towed the boat backwards then broke the line so there are still plenty of big ones out there.
