Koolamein Cup
WE had a great hitout with our mates from Wakool on Saturday for the treasured cup.
Wakool was one short so I took one for the team and put the green on to give them a hand.
There is something about playing against your teammates.
There seemed to be a few of mine getting a bit close to the kitty.
I was subbed out for the third game and Harro took my spot.
It has been about 30 years since Harro played lead.
After two games Moulamein was looking good at eight shots up.
The cup was ours, we thought.
Wakool came out of the blocks for the last game with a little bit of help from Harro and got up by 10 shots.
Thank you to all those who organised this day and turned up to help out.
We go back to Wakool next year to try to bring this cup back about this time of the year.
Unfortunate storm
THERE were a few storms around last week.
If you were fortunate enough to be under one of the clouds you might have got a good finish-off for the season.
Or, so some of our district farmers thought when they saw the black clouds over their back paddock.
Rain comes in all forms and, unfortunately, sometimes it is frozen and you get hail.
Bugger.
The photos I have seen are pretty impressive but I haven’t heard how much damage it has done to the crops under that cloud.
In farming, the crop isn’t worth more than sheep-feed value until it is in the silo.
Two weeks to burn your timber
ON October 1 the fire season will start.
This means no burning off without a permit.
No burning of solid fuel, which means wood piles.
If you have had that pile of trees you pushed out to put the new fence in or if you have just picked up a heap of sticks to tidy a paddock up, go to the RFS Notify To Burn site to tell them what you are doing and where.
Ring a few mates, grab a few stubbies and get the piles burned before the end of the month, or they will still be there next year.
Water allocations
TWICE a month our water allocations are updated.
We got no increase in the Murrumbidgee today and stay on 34 per cent of what we own.
The NSW Murray stayed on 44 per cent.
Our mates on the Victorian Murray went up by 3 per cent to 79 per cent.
Of course, our poor bloody mates in South Australia are still stuck on their 100 per cent.
But we are all doing better than those on the Lachlan who are on 6 per cent of what they own.
Photo competition
JUST another reminder to get your cameras out to get a shot for the Moulamein Art Gallery’s annual photo competition.
Entries close at 3pm on Thursday October 3.
The open section is “Image within an image”.
I think I have an idea for that one.
The black-and-white section is “Isolated Objects”.
Could have been me and Harro after losing the Koolamein Cup.
The kids’ section is “Fantasy”.
There is more than $700 in prizes up for grabs.
Get clicking and see if you can beat me.
River levels
OUR Edward has continued to rise and is now at more than 850 megalitres a day and 1.2 metres.
There is still plenty of water below Stevens Wier so we will have these levels for a while yet.
Still a few fish getting landed, too.
