Harry & Will were both eager to try out riding so Lloyd put them both on his old creamy mare.
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| future cowboys |
Carl had a day off so we went exploring the local area. We headed to a place called Riversleigh and had a look at the O'Shannassy and Gregory Rivers. On the way home through some road works we found out we had a flat tyre. Luckily the foreman working was friendly and lent us some gear to change the tyre as Carl had removed his tools and forgot to put any back in the car.
2 April 2012
With everyone away Carl and I were left in charge. Luckily Chris was still here for another night as I did a really silly thing and blew the pipe of the bore supplying the houses with water. At six that night here was Chris and Carl pulling up a bore. I didn't cop too much flack but apparently I am in the running for the 'dickheads award'. They have an award for the person who does the most silliest thing for the season.
Turned out that wasn't the worst thing to happen, we rushed home after tea in the vain hope to fix the TV. After we were all in the TV room Carl says to me, 'There's a snake', I'm like 'Where?' There was a snake on the futon in the room with us. We all shat our pants and ran out with the brave Carl, oops sorry, the great white hunter, returning to 'relocate' the 'bloody big snake'. And that's all I heard for the rest of the evening 'that was a bloody big snake'. It was really, Carl wasn't exaggerating, it was the length and a half of the futon. So we all learnt a valuable lesson that night, must shut all doors in the house.
4 April 2012
The kids and I went with Carl to check a bore that wasn't too far away. Turned out that Carl didn't know where it was, however we did find another and luckily too as it was in need of some maintenance. Anyway the kids were so tired that they fell asleep on me on the way home so Carl had to go out again that afternoon to find this mysterious bore that happened to be only 6km away.
We had our first official visitors arrive at 5pm, my cousin Kate and her husband Mark and kids Kiera and Jack from Cairns. To celebrate their arrival I happened to cook the most perfect meal ever, roast pork and vege. But before tea we all had fun riding the 4 wheeler and feeding the animals.
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| Kiera, Will, Harry & Jack |
5 April 2012
We (minus Carl, someone has to work) had a lovely day catching up and going for a swim at the nearby water hole. Once again we all had fun feeding the animals in the evening and enjoying yet another yummy meal.
By the way, Mark brews a smooth drop!
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| horse whisperer |
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| bush kids |
Sadly Kate, Mark, Kiera and Jack had to continue on their holiday and departed mid morning. Hopefully we will cross paths again in Normanton at the end of May.
The boss returned today so that ended our short rein as 'managers'.
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