THE Mighty Swans play our mates from Murrabit at home tomorrow.
Footy season is finally here and we can find out how well we have recruited.
I know our netball girls have recruited well and I think we have also picked up a few handy footy players.
Come over for a look. It will be too wet to harvest rice. Come in and grab a feed from the best canteen in our league.
Big weekend for Moulamein
THERE seemed to be people everywhere for Easter in Moulamein – campers, family, ConFest goers.
You name it, they were in our town and district.
I did not hear of any fish caught except for carp out of our rivers.
But everyone got a feed of yabbies. If you want a feed of yabbies, get in quick as they can disappear as quick as they came.
DPI back in town
MAYBE they just love me, or they ran out of other farms to check on the duck shooters.
They came though my place on Friday, then again on Sunday.
As far as I know, all my shooters have the correct licences.
They may have got a couple of them for not filling in the right paperwork.
Please tell your shooters they are around and to fill in whatever bookwork they need to, to be up here.
ConFest back in town
KOMBI vans were all the go as our mates from the ConFest came back into town after a three-year break because of our mate COVID.
I do not know what the numbers were like out there this year, but there were loads of cars going through our little town.
They come up here to get away from it all. But I think they bring it all with them. It is not hard to spot a ConFest car.
Usually two people and their car full of mattresses, food, suitcases and everything else they can fit into it. If it will not fit into the car, they just strap it to the roof.
Let’s hope they enjoyed themselves out there doing the many activities that they put on and that they will be back again next year.
Unfortunately, I think they also brought their mobile phone with them as our local tower was jammed up for most of the Easter break.
If you were lucky, you could send a text message and get the very occasional phone call in.
Turbo chooks revenge
I WAS going to check the water the other morning when one of those bloody turbo chooks came straight at the ute.
I do not know if the headlights dazzled the stupid critter or it was out to get me. Bang, straight into the front of the ute.
Easy kill I thought, did not have to chase that one like a Space Invaders game.
This was until I checked my headlight. The rotten bugger took out my left-hand headlight.
I do not know what a headlight costs for a ute nowadays, but I am sure it is worth a few boxes of beer to get a new one.
The worst thing is there was nobody when I came back from the water. Either a fox took it, or it is out there licking its wounds so it can come back and take out my other headlight.
It is not quite as much fun playing the Space Invaders game with them anymore. But there are that many of them, it is hard not to.
Rice harvest started
THERE are a few rice farmers picking around the dry bays but the moisture is still a bit high.
The allowable moisture has been put up from 22 per cent to 23 per cent to try and get some early rice in before the rush.
But, the weather has not been warm enough, as well as a few dirty showers is keeping the moisture levels up.
At the time of writing, it does not look like it will get much better this week.
Preschool yabby races
THE Moulamein Preschool had a great roll-up and well done to all those involved in organising this great event.
Moulamein Men’s Shed gives our preschool a hand to run the day, as well as many other volunteers.
From humble beginnings when many, many years ago, our local butcher, Graham Walker, overheard a few kids saying that they were bored and there was nothing for them to do at Easter.
“Go and catch some yabbies and we will race them. Our preschool will put on a sausage sizzle and pick up a few dollars,” he said.
That is how it all started and it is still going.
I must be shearing
IT is only six or so months since my last shearing that lasted nine weeks, so I thought we would have another go because the weather has been fine.
We have a few less sheep to shear this time as there were truckloads of sheep that went up the track when the floods hit.
But rain on the first night of shearing. Let’s hope this shearing takes less than nine weeks or we will be shearing their lambs as well.
On a different note, I would like to mention that someone took a bale of wool out of our shed some time during our last shearing.
Thanks for that, just what we needed at times like that. I will give you credit, though, you did take a bale out of one of the best lines of wool in the shed.
I hope you got well paid for it. Well done, you know your wool.
It is a good thing that security cameras are so cheep now. If you take one of these bales, smile. You are on camera.
River levels
THE Edward is steady on around a healthy 1.6 metres and just over 1400 megalitres a day.
Unfortunately, this may not last. The Edward is dropping upstream but the Billabong is still pumping a few hundred ML a day into the Edward at Moulamein.
It just all depends how much our farmers are pumping out at the moment. We will know more next week.
