Car stolen in town
THE real world has come to our little town of Moulamein.
My sources tell me that there was a car stolen in our town this week.
It could be a good time to remind everyone to at least take your keys out of your car when you park it.
Locking the car would be a good idea as well.
Rain needed bad
IN the last week, with frosts and the ground drying out, a lot of our green paddocks are now going brown.
There is rain forecast this weekend so we can only hope.
Some of my weather sites are talking it up, others are talking it down.
At the time of writing, it looks like the best we can hope for is about 10mm.
I will take that anytime just to keep the grass alive until we get a real rain.
I have had one of the best strikes of clover on all of my country for many years.
Our country needs a good year to seed it down again after the run that we have had.
Weather according to Jack
WHILE we are talking about the possibility of rain, it could be a good time to mention my long-range forecaster, Jack.
His predictions were banned from my notes for a couple of years due to his gloomy outlook for our rainfall.
Unfortunately, his predictions turned out to be very close to the mark.
This year, Jack has always said that it would rain around April and we will have an average winter.
But, he has always been worried about the spring.
The good news is, it did rain just before April, then again in April.
Nothing has changed in the rest of Jack’s forecast.
He is still expecting an average winter rainfall.
But, it is also the bad news as Jack is still worried about the spring.
That will do me. Get my lambs on the ground and weaned before the rain runs out.
Better than the last couple of years.
I have a mob of ewe lambs from last year.
They are over 13 months old.
Last week was their first week without a feed of barley for their entire lives.
They are well-grown. But so is the feed bill to get them to adulthood.
But that’s what we do; look after our sheep in the bad times, and in the long run.
They will hopefully look after us during the good times.
After that long feeding them, I think I know most of them by name.
Men’s shed busy
OUR volunteers from the Moulamein Men’s Shed have been busy this week constructing a red gum fence around what will become our Moulamein Heritage Village in the not too distant future.
Well done to our men’s shed. It looks great when it is new.
And one thing about red gum is that it will look just as good in 50 years’ time.
The work these guys have put into this project means that it will outlast all of us.
It is a credit to them.
Flying school
THIS was going to be set up in Swan Hill, but due to protests, it looks like it may never happen.
I am sure if the organisers would like to move this show out to our world-renowned ‘Moulamein International Airport’, we would welcome the flying school with open arms.
We have plenty of flying space as one thing we do have over here is plenty of space.
Plenty of accommodation and plenty of people who would like to see our town go forward not backward.
I was wondering where my mates from the anti-bridge mob went.
They looked up and said “stuff that, the planes might run into our flyover bridge that we will never get”.
