it has been as dry as chips (that is just for you chris :-) for months and months then it hits hard with hail... the works! You would think that I would be excited that it FINALLY decided to rain, but with thousand of dollars of hay on the ground... I was so worried that it would be fucked. And then it hailed!!! When crop is ripe (which ours is) hail can knock the seed from the plant and your yield is reduced. Lucky for us, the hail didn't hang around long.
So I tried to get it out myself, but with the three little kids, I decided to call Jack to come to my rescue! He nearly got suck himself, but eventually got me out.
No need to ask how I spent my next hour... cleaning the mud off the ute before it set! The blokes in the shearing shed had a great laugh at my expensive, wanting to know why it took me 2 hours to get to the shed from home...
My second roadside assistance call wasn't really my fault! Yesterday morning i packed and got ready for the fun run In horsham. Jack's dad is flying into the Horsham airport tomorrow, so I was taking a spare ute over to Horsham so he could get back to us tomorrow. Anyway, the ute needed fuel and on my way into town before heading to Horsham I ran out of fuel!!!!! So Jack, bless him, raced into town and towed me the km to the fuel station. Filled up but by this stage it was pissing down again and I decided that it was too wet to run.. so I pulled the pin! Back home again and went over to Horsham a little later and left the ute at the airport for FIL...
The hay.. well, jack has just left to rack it! Fingers and toes crossed that it isn't too wet. Poor jack will be pulling an all nighter and hopefully they will be able to bale sometime tomorrow! It will be one less thing to worry about with that gone!
My PT is doing me a new program.. about time!!! so will be busting to get to gym on Wed! I am going to work more on strength and resistance training at gym and continue cardio at home! I can only get to gym twice a week, with the kids schedule, so it will work for me.
OK... time to get kids to bed!
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Well you really copped it didn't you. We have had about 10ml for the month but no hail. We did the hail thing a couple of years ago and lost about one third of the crop.
Our hay isn't even raked yet but it should be so maybe it's a good thing.
Some people around here have started harvest so now they are having the obligatory harvest break for rain.
Best of luck with the hay quality after the rain.
It just sucks doesn't it.
Kerry
You sure do lead an exciting life! No way could I cope with all that stress. You ARE a legend!
Hope that's the end of the car trouble :)
OPh bugger about getting bogged down! Don't envy you having to wash it all off either. When is rains heavily, do you Aussies say "raining cats and dogs" too????? I usually just say "it's pissing down" LOL
Ah Kirsty, the rain certainly is welcome - but a little ill timed. I hope the hay was all baled up and sold.
Good luck with your new program.
What a curse. It never rains it pours. Did you lose much topsoil?
If you have nothing better to do and good friends with you, I love a good bogging myself. Good on Jack for helping out.
Well hello again, this time i am testing something. Some of the above comments have turned up as emails in my gmail account.
Very curious.
Let's see where this one goes.
Kerry
p.s May start harvest tomorrow
What beautiful wide open spaces you live in!! Looks like McLeod's country. I love photos so keep them coming, make a story so much better.
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