Drum them out of town
We had an interesting ute and trailer pulled up in the main street of Moulamein the other day. Two drum nets on full display in the trailer. Either it was my mates from the fisheries that had found a couple of nets and pretending they were d…head Victorians. Or some Victorians that are complete d…heads to drive down our main street to get a feed.
Then stand around drinking stubbies in the middle of the day with drum nets on board. If you are going to do that kind of thinga, a tarp over them would be advised. Or travel at night.
Your number plate has been taken by some of the locals. Let’s hope they do not dob you in.
Feline forked
We had a situation on Sunday when my wife’s fat cat, Cabbage went missing. Stupid name for a cat, I know. But he turned up as a stray a couple of years ago, very skinny and with a boof head that looked like a cabbage, according to my son that fed the bloody thing and made it a pet then moved out. Not the cat. My son moved out and the cat stayed.
Poor fat Cabbage for some reason climbed a very thin gum tree with a very thin fork. He slipped about five metres up and got stuck in the fork. No hope of getting out and that’s where we found him. If I was allowed to leave him there he would have been the legendary “Cat Skeleton In The Tree”.
He is resting peacefully in our garden after a very moving ceremony performed by my grandkids. RIP Cabbage. I know I shouldn’t, but I still cannot help but laugh just a little bit every time I think about or look at the photo of poor Cabbage, higher than he has ever gotten before in his life up a tree.
Finals flop
It was always a competition for who was going to come second in our local league. But I thought it would be different in the AFL. What a non-event. I think our local grand final was more entertaining than the big event. As much as I hate to say it, it may have been better if the Pies made the grand finale. At least Collingwood would have made a comeback and we would all love to see the Pies get absolutely flogged.
Its over for another year and I think the brick in the handbag I sent back to Geelong made a difference, even though they did not appreciate it at the time. Go Bombers if you can hear me from the bottom of the hole my team has dug for itself. At least Hawthorn has taken us off the front page of the newspapers.
Trivia Night
Moulamein Public School is running a Trivia Night on October 14 at Moulamein Bowling Club. For $25 you get an Aussie Finger Food Diner as well as a lot of fun. Tables are a maximum of eight and it will be all Australian-themed questions and dress up.
To book in, please ring the school on 0358875208.
Moulamein Gourmet Fair
This will be held at our Moulamein Bowling Club from 2pm on October 8. There will be plenty of local stalls during the day and then there will be live music by local, Ian Tully. The first time we tried this day, we were just coming out of lockdown due to our mate COVID. There were limited numbers allowed into our bowling club. This year, no restrictions and stay as long as you want to.
For more information or to put a stall in, Please ring Courtney on 03 58875207.
Hoof and Hook competition
After a two-year break because of our friend COVID. The Central Murray Best Wool, Best Lamb Hoof and Hook Lamb Competition will be at the Swan Hill Show again this year. Get your best lambs put aside, you NSW fellers. We have to show these Mexicans south of the border that we can grow the best lambs over here.
All you have to do is pick your best lambs, drop them off to the Swan Hill Show on Saturday, October 1 between 7.30am and 9am and you are in. Your lambs will be prosiest first thing Monday morning at Woodward Foods abattoirs and you will be paid commercial rates for the carcase. Unfortunately, due to OH&S, we cannot go and see the processing part of the competition.
However, you can meet at the Swan Hill Club at 12.30pm on Monday, October 3, ror a video of the judge and his comments on the lambs entered.
For more information, please ring Rick on 0428 372 357. Just put a few lambs aside and we can show these Mexicans how we grow lambs north of the border.
Rain forecast
At the time of writing, we are going to get wet again next week. That will make it our fourth week of shearing. No, we are not a big station. It is just hard to get dry sheep sheep to get a go at them.
Put your sheep in the shed, my contractor told me. If we can get there, we will. It has worked for us so far. Two more days shearing should almost get it done. Then comes the crutching. Not as easy as a shed full of sheep does not supply much of a day for crutching.
Dust in our eyes is usually the problem at our shed. I will never get sick of the extra rain. But we are running out of wet weather jobs
River levels
The Edward at Moulamein is sitting on around 4.7 metres and around 9,200 megalitres a day at the time of writing and should start to level out in the next few days.
The Upper Murray, Ovens, King and Loden Rivers are on flood watch at the moment. This could make it interesting with Dartmouth now spilling.
According to some of my campers, the yellers have started to move as well as one big cod. One of our locals has also had a bit of fun last week with the cod on the bite, landing eight in a day. It is only two months until the cod season opens.
I will warm up the BBQ for a feed of fish so long as we do not get a black water event. If we do get a black water event this year. At least it will be a natural one, not man-made. Not that is any better for the fish that get involved in it.
It has been happening for centuries but it has got only worse since the government got involved and tried to mimic mother nature at the wrong time of the year and kill loads of fish. Let’s hope common sense prevails and they leave this flood alone.
