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 […]
Mustering….Scarsdale style
Mustering always calls for an early morning start…..well earlier than normal. A sunrise snapped while travelling to Scarsdale….40mins north of Boulia It looks like fog, but it is really…. ….dust. We were the third vehicle heading along the Selwyn Road (which is a gravel/dirt road) and there was no wind, so the dust “hung” in […]
Clearview Heifers: Mustering, Drafting and Trucking
We were been blessed with patchy storm rain at the beginning of the year. So we have been able to fatten cattle. But not knowing if we will get a wet season this year, since some are fat, and a bonus for us, prices are high, our management plan to cull coloured heifers were reasons to muster […]
THANK YOU Live Export Agvocates
Anyone that has followed me on social media for any length of time would have realised I support live export. I read this article (article pasted at bottom of page if you can’t read attached link) and must admit I cried, for many reasons, relief, anger, weighing up the positives and negatives over the last four years, many […]
Early trips to The Mountain
The wind lately has been just rude: strong, lazy, and unforgiving to any part of your skin that is exposed. Yes we need wind, yes we need winter, but does it have to be so generous? Yesterday I was part of the crew heading to The Mountain. On Thursday, the crew had mustered “the Valley” side […]