5.30am
25 degrees, cloudy and breezy. Lovely sunrise colours.
The
cattle moaned all night and are still moaning!! It is moaning, not mooing or
lowing, sometimes I think they are in real pain!!
Steve
hooked on the hay trailer so we can get hay from the homestead as the cattle
have eaten what we got the other day. Headed off early to the homestead to swap
cars so we can get the windscreen replaced on one of the work utes. Passed
through a couple of light showers of rain – I had remembered to close the van’s
roof hatches just in case we got any rain there.
Dropped
off the ute at the windscreen place then walked down Boulder Road to McDonalds
for a cuppa and toasted banana bread – yum. Walked back via Supercheap Auto as
we received $28 credit for the filters Steve bought last time being put on
sale. We have got heaps of things so far for free this way.
Picked
up the ute and the order from the shop next door that Rob had put in then went
around to Gavin and Tonia’s place to pick up the speaker box I ordered online
from Dick Smith. I tried to get it delivered to Leonora but they wouldn’t
accept that postcode so arranged it with Tonia to get it delivered to their
place. Gavin was home so we had a nice time chatting.
Stopped
in at RagCo – secondhand clothing, lots of mine workers clothes. Steve needs
new shirts and pants for detecting as his old work ones are so thin now. I
found some shorts too.
Across
the road to another McDonalds for lunch. Steve got a paper and saw that Prince
Leonard of Hutt River Providence had passed away aged 93. So glad we got to meet
him when we stayed there. I texted Erica as she and Terry had met him too.
Kym
sent a message and photo that the calves at the homestead are enjoying their ‘meals
on wheels’ – they had loaded two huge hay bails onto the trailer and the calves
were attacking it.
Got
some things from the chemist and got $10 credit there too and we have had lots
from the Woolies card and Flybuys. Certainly worth having them to get the
credit back as you pay for it originally with their prices I suppose.
Picked
up our groceries and then headed for home. Dark clouds ahead and to the west.
As we needed the Gidji Roaster a huge lightning strike came down to the ground
nearby. Glad it didn’t hit the big smoke stack. Further along a few drops of
rain fell. Hope we don’t get too much as we have the back full of cartons etc.
The
dark clouds continued to our left all the way home with blue sky to the east!!
Erica and Terry rang re the text of Prince Leonard, just as we came through
Leonora so we could only chat for a bit till we lost reception. Will ring them
back for a better chat tomorrow.
Back
to the homestead and loaded our groceries in our truck. With the hay behind us
we headed for home. The dark clouds are still hanging around but as we headed
up the road the sun peeked out from under the cloud on the horizon as the sun
set – very pretty.
Flashes
of lightning in the west as we turned onto our track back to the cottage. We
backed the trailer into a blocked off section in the yard so the cattle in and
out can’t get to it. Peeled off some sections and put it through the rails to
the cattle. They were very happy then. The ones outside weren’t of course – I just
said, go through the red gate and you have all the food and drink you want, but
they just stood there moaning.
Must have had some wind here as things have been blown about but doesn't look like we had any rain.
Late
dinner, 8.30pm 34 degrees and quite humid. Cuppa then into bed with the
generator running to help the freezer and fridge in the cottage (after all the
groceries go in) and to drown out the moaning cattle.
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