Commodity auction
THIS was a big fundraiser for our football and netball club.
Thank you to all those who donated.
Without you there would be no night.
Thanks to all those who got the moths out of their wallets and bidded up big.
More than $50,000 was raised for the club.
This should keep the mighty Swans going a bit longer.
Our mighty Magoos had their first win on Saturday.
Great effort against Hay.
Our seniors came out firing … Jimmy kicked the first goal in about 30 seconds.
Things didn’t go to plan after that.
But, we did get the last two goals of the game to win the last quarter.
Hay is a very young, very fit side and will be hard to beat this year.
We get a week off this weekend for the King’s Birthday.
It is very convenient that our king has his birthday on the same day as our queen did.
Saves changing a lot of things.
Our next game is Pride Round and we go to the hill at Wandella.
Bowling club pigeon update
AS far as we know, the Moulamein Bowling Club syndicate still has six pigeons in the coop of the 1650 potential $100,000 winner.
They have been getting a bit of fly time but they do not get clocked in until they start their road training in about three weeks.
At the moment, they only record the few that die in the coop.
When the road training starts in three weeks, they will be clocked back into the coop to find out how many have been taken by hawks or eagles, been shot or just flown the coop to go and poop on statues for the rest of their lives.
I think the big race is in September.
Most of the owners will not be watching the footy finals because they have backed the wrong teams.
So, they will be hoping that their bird gets home to win the 100 grand.
Solar farm
FROM the information I can get to explain all of the slashing of our stock reserves north of Moulamein, we are going to get about 50 acres of solar panels.
This would be great for Murray River Council as extra income if it was not a council.
Not just ours – any council.
It could cost more than they can make out of it going on past records.
It could be completely stuffed up and then our poor bloody ratepayers will be left to pick up the bill, again.
It has happened too many times.
Wakool Water almost broke our Wakool Shire.
Getting taken over by the Moama Shire is a story in itself in wasting money.
The abattoir over near Barham has not proven itself yet.
Let’s hope someone who has one bit of common sense in keeping an eye on this latest idea from our council.
Ratepayers do not need to pick up the bill from yet another stuff-up.
The way our council is selling off assets there will be nothing left soon anyway.
Just the silver city.
Police blitz
WE had that police blitz in town about three weeks ago after a bit of vandalism and a couple of break-ins.
I have not heard of anyone who was booked.
This is a credit to our town and district that we can have three days of unexpected police visits and no-one gets booked.
Well done, everyone, including our police for keeping us honest.
Let’s hope the vandals and robbers have left our little town.
They can be someone else’s problem and let our little town get back to normal.
Rain last week
THE rain Gods smiled on our district again with a bit of help from George and Kelvin.
About 25mm seems to be what most people tipped out of their gauges around the district.
Moulamein and Wakool sheep nights
WE had two very informative, well-attended sheep information nights this week.
There would have been around 50 people turn up on the night at Moulamein and around 34 at Wakool.
Plenty of information was given and plenty of questions were asked.
We were a bit quiet at Moulamein and there were plenty more questions asked at Wakool.
Thank you to Rick for organising the night.
Also, a big thank you to the sponsors.
Without you there is no night of information or food.
It is also a great social night to catch up with people you do not see very often, as well as a reason for getting out for those who stay home on the farm for most of their lives.
Re-sowing
THERE is a bit of re-sowing of winter cereal going on after our 40mm start to the season three weeks ago.
One mate re-sowed 100ha then got another 25mm on it.
I did something different.
I spread the seed on top of the ground as I did not want to dig up what was growing.
I doubt any agronomist would recommend doing it this way – but I have always been different.
The two crops are only a few kilometres apart so we will wait with bated breath on the result.
Our paddock was only sown for sheep feed anyway – maybe harvest it if the sheep didn’t need it.
The other crop was sown for harvest.
This could be our best crop, or shit sheep feed.
Only time will tell.
River levels
THE Edward River is steady at the moment at around 1.4 metres and just over 1300 megalitres a day.
Still a few good fish being taken above Moulamein in the Edward.
Will find out more about the mighty Billabong and the Edward this weekend.
Still only two yellers and one silver caught on our place that I know of since the floods last year.
