Something different for us Both



Dale cleaning the seeder

Seeding is over for 2011 so all the machinery had to be cleaned.

With all the seeding over Dale & Wayne built a new shed at the farm.

Dale also helped Mark do some Sheep work

With seeding over I got my bus Licence & I am now driving the bus picking up 15 children taking them to School in Cascade.

Seeding

Seeding in one of the paddocks

When seeding over here in WA they Direct Drill without working up any of the ground, the seeders have a 62 foot bar, they control the weeds by spraying them.

showing the rows while seeding

We finished seeding on Thursday, we had a very good run lost only one day with rain in 6 weeks the crew seeded 4810 hectares of Wheat, 4036 hectares of Barley, 1967 hectares of Canola, 625 hectares of Peas, all up that's 11438 hectares.

The strike rate of the earlier sown crops is very good.

Holiday is Over, Now its Back to Work

After leaving Finley we had a few more days with Jeff & Josey in Albury, then we flew back to Perth and stayed the night with Trent. On Wednesday we drove back to Cascade.

Dale with the Tractor he drives for the seeding

The  first couple of days back Dale carted some more Fertilizers back from Esperance to the farms at Cascade. On Monday of this week I got back to work, I'm only cooking for 9 during the seeding, the Walters are in full swing of seeding their Canola, Barley & Wheat for the summer harvest.

They have two tractors seeding 24 hours a day, Dale & the others do a 12 hour shift and on the shift they usually seed between 100 to 120 hectares

Loaded the seeder with Fertilizier & Seed

The Seeder is 60 foot Wide

60th Anniversary Party

My parents Bob & Dawn

From Mount Beauty we drove to Finley, which is in the Southern Riverina of NSW, for my parents 60th Wedding Anniversary, I would like to congratulate them on a wonderful life they have shared together. A great night was had by all the family & their friends celebrating the anniversary on saturday night.

All the Family



Easter

Jenni, Hannah & Emma

We had a very enjoyable easter at Mount Beauty, like everyone we ate to much chocolate, lucky easter only comes once a year.
Dale went fishing with Brad & Emma and Emma caught her first fish, it was a Rainbow Trout, we had one very excited little girl.
We also drove up to Falls Creek on Easter Sunday for a family fun day. We went for a ride on the Chairlift up to the Summit, got some really good views, the only thing wrong was that it was a bit chilly up there.

Brad, Emma, Hannah & Marie at Falls

Time Off, over in the Eastern States

Trent

Drove to Perth from Cascade, saw our nephew Trent then flew over to Rockhampton via Brisbane.
We had a very busy & enjoyable week in Rockhampton & Gladstone catching up with friends, special thanks to Phill & Shell. We also checked on our house & storage shed, everything was ok especially after all the rain Rockhampton has had over the summer.

Us with Phill & Shell  

Dale & Ty

We flew down to Sydney where our daugther Dianne & hubby Ty met us then we drove to their home at Singleton near Newcastle. They took us to our first ever live game of NRL, Dale & I are born & bred AFL supporters (Essendon & St Kilda) Ty is a Newcastle knights supporter. One thing for sure it doesn't matter whether its AFL or NRL the umpire always gets abused. The game was different but not that bad, still trying to work the cheerleader thing! The Newcastle Knights won so Ty was happy.

Dianne

Our time with Dianne & Ty went far to quickly & we had to leave and we flew to Albury on the border of NSW & Victoria to see Dale's brother Jeff & Josey

Dale & Jeff

Its easter now and we have just arrived to spend it with our daugther Marie & hubby Brad & our granddaugthers Emma & Hannah at Mount Beauty which is at the base of Falls Creek in the snow fields in Victoria's northeast.

Day Off Fishing



Dale with his Salmon



We went fishing at Stokes Beach on Saturday.At the start of the day everyone but Dale & James were catching Bream at the inlet. We drove out along Stokes Beach, had a bit of fun there then Dale caught a Salmon then so did James. We had a beautiful meal of fresh fish for dinner to celebrate Dale's birthday.