Check out his first post HERE which I’m sure you will find very interesting.

Well, my opinion might change after tomorrow.  The TV and papers are full of these warnings and looks like the biggest downfall in 12 years is about to descend upon us.

When the cow cockies start complaining, you could safely say the drought is over.

Sammy was opened to check for damage but his stomach was full of crud and had to be pumped.  He’s recovering well and back to his usual habits and eating again.  Stitches come out late next week.

Not a good week.

Did three days work this week and today was an 8 hour slog but I’m surprised how well I handled it after a 6 month layoff.  Maybe all the biking of late saved me from too much muscle torment.  I’m doing 2 weeks in September as the major accounts guy is taking holidays then instead of January so I’ll be doing a mixture of car and walk rounds.  Three weeks a year suits me fine as the good taxpayers of Oz pay me an extra thousand bucks for my efforts.

Timely, I might add, considering the humongous vet bill.

Well, that was the plan………………….

In 1952, the water was touching just under the road of the 2nd bridge in the distance so this was no monster flood.

Of course, when a certain moron thinks the water in picture 1 is shallow enough to plow through, then this is the consequence.

I run my blog from WordPress.org where you download the necessary files to your own hosted server and manage them yourself and this gives one far more flexibility than the freebie WordPress.com.  The negative side seems to be the propensity for hack attacks.

After the second go, I nearly chucked the blog in but thought they’d only win.  I think I’ve cleaned the junk out but if it happens again, I’ll have to delete the blog and rebuild it from scratch.  It’s not as hard as it sounds as I have database backups but I could be off the air for a day or so or until I find time to do it.

If that happens, I’ll run temporally from my old blog so go there if you see anything untoward.  At the moment, it still only has the redirect page but I can reactivate it with the flick of a switch.

For some good news, we’ve had some of the best rains for 5 years this week which boosted our storages by 5% in just 2 days.  My gauge recorded about 40mm in the last week but some areas in our catchments in the Otway Ranges got 200mm.  Johnny Wuhu (aka DB Junior) nearly got washed out to sea as his cabin is on the flooded Barham River at Apollo Bay which got a real soaking.

More rain is forecast this weekend so it won’t be long before the farmers are whingeing.  We only whinged because we couldn’t get out on our bikes this week but this arvo looks promising so might get a ride in.

So my sister and I took him in for the tests yesterday and his hearing hadn’t deteriorated in the last two years but his hearing aids needed adjustment.  The audiologist recalibrated the hearing aids using a computer, and when he tried them on, his eyes lit up like a kid in a candy shop.  Judging by his reaction to the sudden onslaught of noise, his aids had been useless for some time and we got a real kick to see that a simple thing like that had given him back a small bit of his life.

When we were driving home, I was muttering to my sister in the back seat and he was getting in for his two bobs worth.

I guess we’ll have to be very careful what we say in future. 

Could have done us a favour and improved the quality of the gene pool by removing himself from it.

Tact is for people who aren’t witty enough to use sarcasm hence you could say this letter is quite tactless with a tactful reply.

By the way, MP and I had some great luck yesterday when we had a win on the $20 million Lotto draw.  Our ticket cost $13.10 and we managed a 7th Division of $13.30.

We’re off to get some financial advice tomorrow on the best way to invest that 20 cents.