Bought Cattle from Jericho
#BossMan bought cattle from Jericho, earlier in the year, we trucked them to Lucknow 21 March and the first mob to Goodwood on the 22 March. The ones that were dropped off at Lucknow were processed and put in their rightful paddock. The 847 cows and weaners that were brought separately to Goodwood had to […]
Marginal Country in Lake Eyre Basin
A timeline of rain and floods, from my Ann Britton Photography Facebook page From 31 October 2018 to 2 April 2019 Including March 2018 flood Ann Britton Photography 31 October 2018 · You can all give thanks to Jan Adermann for this post LOL Tis really not a poem as such, but words strung together in a poem […]
Flood Dust Ice
Flood 29th March, Dust 30th March, Ice 1st April, no April Fool joke Just before 7pm Thursday 28th March the Burke Bridge at Boulia started to go under, by flood water. We had known at Goodwood, for a few days, we were in for a good flood. We had received 87mm of rain over the […]
Ex Tropical Cyclone Trevor rain and flood
A very quick update on the rain and impending flood. Totals of rain as of 9am 27th of March Goodwood 87mm Mudgeacca 89mm The property between us Montague measured 100mm A neighbour landed his chopper at Lucknow house and measure 154mm Some of the recently bought weaners have made their home in the house yard. […]
Marginal Channel Country
Marginal Country……that’s what we live in, meaning, in part, rain is marginal…… we live in a 8-9 inch (200-225mm) rainfall country, so we don’t ask for much. You look after the land out here when it dries off, wait for the rain, and the land will respond, green, seeding grasses that dry off, but still full of goodness.
March Morning
Most mornings are glorious. Waking up on the top side of the grass usually is a good thing? Some mornings are just a tad more magic than others. Let me introduce you to Monday 20 March 2017 6.32.29am (sunrise was 6.44am this morning) at Goodwood. Junior and I walked into the “House” Paddock, or maybe […]
Scarsdale….tailing bullocks….after 4-5inches rain
Warning this blog has a large number of photos 😀 7th April was our “tailing out” day of steers/bullocks, and yard work, at Scarsdale, to get ready to truck the steers/bullocks 8th April. We arrived at the yards, about 40km north of Goodwood at 7am, to this view. Letting cattle out of the yards, onto feed, helps […]
YES this is Boulia
While sitting at the kitchen table the other day I looked down at the lagoon and saw this. Don’t you think it is magic? Junior and Artie were well behaved and stayed with me while I got a few shots in before they went for a dip and play in the water. Junior showing the […]
Happy 30th Wedding Anniversary to My Best Mate
Well…..here I was thinking I could put a blog together in a day, that has 30 years of gathered memories to sort through…..anyway 22 days later I have finished….. On the 30th day of November 1985, 30 years ago I married my best mate. We were suppose to be married 11am at the Lowood Golf Club…..but #BossMan’s […]
Braeside Muster 4-10 October 2015
I put the following photos on my Ann Britton Photography Facebook page and received a wonderful response so thought I would put the photos and words into a blog, along with some responses. I’m posting these Braeside mustering photos from 5 October, with a few things to remember 1. Yes our girls are poor, but they […]