Some, I wanted to be more....I don't know, better. Like with me and the tractors ? But I'm out there by myself 99% of the time and I don't have anyone with me to take "action" photos :( So, the "Camera held at an arms length" technique is used here. It's less than satisfactory to Moi.
There's also a couple I need to get from Linda where Bo and I are conducting a "ribbon cutting ceremony" for the parallel bars I built for his rehab post accident. Those look pretty cool where we're shaking hands as he's cutting a string of wool yarn (no ribbon to be found at that exact moment). But the wool was fitting as he's a shearer and all. Anyways. It's been a dang action-packed week these last 7 days. I probably won't recollect all the events to put here. But there was a huge party at the Bo-Lin estate on Sat night. The couple days before I worked myself silly hanging giant tarps to protect partiers from the gale forced winds and HAIL, I kid you not hail. One tarp had some 20 kgs of steel weights holding the center down and was still being tossed about. Another 20 kgs rectified that. And I brought out the stove I built out of a 55 gal giant steel drum and a ute full of old jarrah fence posts to burn in it that kept partiers pretty toasty. Guitarists abounded, and we were serenaded by some pretty darned talented talent-heh. I brought out my new set of drums and tinkered a bit while folks played. I got to sing quite a bit (still recovering as my notes are still strained some still). There was a girl there with her folks though, who was quite-quite good at the drums, and she had a whale of a time jamming for most of the night. I like to play, but love to sing more, so that worked out good for me there. Bo, the next day was really looking the drum set over as he used to play some before the accident. I'mma leaving it there for a while and it'll help develop his hand eye coordination. He's quite excited about playing with them. I set them up so he could slide his chair in easy enough, and a couple sets of sticks, so party on Bo.. I woke the next morning at 7 and the party was still pretty rocking. Wowsers.... The musies went till about 11 and then everyone was asking me to turn on my state of the art karaoke equipment. Which I did. Here's a tip....if everyone is yelling for you to open with Jimmy Barnes Working Class Man...and you're not Jimmy Barnes...don't do ittttt.... noooooooooo.. Anyways.. I pulled it off aside from that end screeching part where he hits notes that require normal men to smash their testes to achieve, and we all sang till past 2 in the morning. Good thing we were way out of town though...Whewww...
On the farming/ranching front, I'm signed up for an extra day this week, as I'll be a tractor driving fool when those hundred round bales show up on Thursday. Mostly the last couple of times out there at the ranch I've been tying up loose ends for them. With the weather being abysmal, there's been horse shelters to repair from wind damage, the last of the cattle for me to treat, and finishing touches on older projects. So nothing too fascinating. One new horse was brought out there yesterday. Shipped from England (that cost either 15 or 30 thousand bucks for shipping, and trucked from the east coast to here for another 5 thou. Wild folks tossing money around like that. Mentioned this one only cause the owner showed up with his ear all bandaged. I don't think he hit it off real well with the horse when he met it, as it tried to bite off his ear...
Anyways.. I'll do the picture thing, and will attempt to clarify what some of them are in captions. Some will relate to earlier posts... Have the best day now...It's pretty much freezing rain here today, but at least I'm not heading out into the paddocks today...woooot.... :D
These are of the foaling yards I made. Where the momma horses go to have their little ones..
Now I know these look like a sandy wasteland, but since finished I filled them up with 3 truckloads of soft nice sand, and then seeded them with a rye/kooch mix, and now they're all downy green and luscious. The sprinkler system I put in hasn't been used much with the frequent rains though.
My rescue horse friend "Phantom" as in phantom of the opera cause of the mask pattern on his face..........
This is one of the two tractors I use out at the ranch. Older, but more powerful, The Harvester can drive in fence posts with it's attachment on the back.
The John Deer
Smaller, but I can land this thing on a ten cent piece and it can haul 2 round bales at a time..
I believe I take the most ghastly pics of myself. Usually I can find a few others have taken that I can live with at least. But I had to get myself into one so's folks wouldn't think I just cut and pasted these of the JD. I look crabby, but I promise I wasn't. Just most of them came out either with me looking like a serial killer/over adamant used car dealer...or like the next one reminiscent of a Jimmy Hendrix moment...
Oooooooooooo Gears and Stuff...........
One of my Best Friends... Zena. aka: Zing, Zing-Zing, Chocolate Drop, Zee, Zee-Zee... and I suspect a couple more aliases. She'll come to any of these if her buddy calls. Twice, I've been on my way home and discovered she'd snuck into the back and hidden. I SWEAR stowed away. She's gotten to come over and stay the night after her anesthetic hip xrays. I guess you could say she's a tad spoiled. Rides on my lap on the tractor and the 4 wheeler...
Oh...and this is my "Tiniest Ute in the world".. Actually I have 2..One's pimped up, and I don't think I'll put pics up as you'll find me absurd *nods*.....perhaps later if I have a couple of drinks, but let me clarify that if and when I do, it ummm.. Came that way. I didn't....nevermind..*cough*
This one's name is Max.. He's a genuine Suzuki MightyBoy... Runs on burning twigs *cough*
These are pics of the "Al Fresco" parallel bars I made for Bo. 2.5 feet into the ground set in concrete, with a jarrah wood plank deck. I thought it looked more cowboy-ie rather than something pretty. All materials recycled from and old deck and a trampoline I round up. The ground near the deck looks rough because, well, we just built the deck and the long ramp a couple weeks ago... I'll get one or two of the mobile one I built after I tack on the horse shoes around the base for decoration..
Well...that's about it. I should get some of the party up here as soon as I get them uploaded. I put this last one of me up here in my brown duster (one of ermmm 4 I like the Black one best). It's the lesser of 3 evils, or umm pictures I had taken on my porch. I should get some better ones of the porch as I'm always writing here. Dang it, I need to write more...stories I mean. Been sliding on that and there's a couple I need to add chapters to or wrap up. But that's an aside, sorry..
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