Moulamein Notes
I COULD not spend much time at the Moulamein Preschool yabby races this year due to work commitments.
But going on reports, there were plenty of people there.
The local yabbies must be getting wise to this great event as they were hard to get. I think the preschool had to buy a few in to make up the numbers.
Our local yabbies have leant that even if you are the fastest yabby on the day, you still may get eaten or end up as bait.
Reminds me of a yabby a few years ago. No.181. Dad wanted to put it on a hook. The kids wanted to let it go back into the Edward. Kids won.
Dad caught a cod later that day. Yep, yabby No.181 was found when he gutted the cod. Let’s hope next year is different and we can get a few more local yabbies.
I tried to get a couple of the biggest yabbies for a couple of little mates. The only one I got was too big to win the smallest yabby.
Shed No.3 open for deliveries
BY the time you read this, shed three should be going full on.
A mate told me tonight that he put a trial load through the new set up and it went well.
Hooker will be very happy about this as he can get more rice into his sheds quicker while the weather is fine.
The headers are bigger. The trucks are bigger and we were trying to fit all of the rice through sheds that were built over 30 years ago when the headers and trucks were a lot smaller.
Also, we have new varieties of rice that are usually sown on time that all come into the sheds at the same time, as most of our farmers are more efficient.
Good thing the Blues are winning or our little mate could have been getting cranky. Or crankier.
We put a couple of loads of rice through from the coot-damaged bays. He is not backwards coming forward to tell you to fix the sample up.
We ran into green rice. So, we will have another go in a week or three when our contracture runs into green rice or finishes.
No phone service
ONE thing our hippy mates do not leave behind when they come up here to ConFest to get away from it all is their mobile phone.
If you could get a text message through this Easter you were going well.
When you get a few thousand extra people into our district, it clogs up our mobile service.
Couldn’t get weather reports or call anyone.
We love you coming into our district, but it is great to have our phone service back to normal now that you have gone.
Same time next year I will remember to do my banking and order my water before Easter. As for the weather report, I will just have to start looking at the sky again like the olden days.
One thousand pelicans back
OUR storage lake is almost empty and somehow, the pelicans know about it.
They left here a month ago when the flood lake emptied out.
Now they are back to get the carp out of our storage lake.
I am only guessing there’s 1000 but I think I am underestimating the numbers.
Our resident sea eagle that turns up every year about this time of the year has turned up.
There used to be two of them but we can only hope that this one can find another mate.
There are plenty of other birds getting a feed out of our storage lake as well, because the water levels are getting low and the speed boats are getting less on our Moulamein Lake.
Eurasian coots have moved back into our town lake. Our water is their home away from home when the speed boats are too noisy for them and they want to live in harmony with us. We are happy to do that. They leave us alone, we leave them alone.
That is how farmers are. These bloody coots are a different matter. But they have gone back to wherever they came from. So, they can live in harmony back there.
River levels
THE Edward River is still rising very slowly at 1.8m and just over 1650ML a day.
Depending on water demand from our farmers, the Edward should stay around this level at least until my next notes.
The modern day water world is hard to follow. Just when I have worked it out, they change the rules.
