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<blockquote data-quote="diana55" data-source="post: 976203" data-attributes="member: 12968"><p>Merry Christmas to everyone and safe travelling to those visiting family and friends. Its 39C, hot winds and dusty today but supposed to be few degrees cooler tomorrow. A white Christmas would ne nice.</p><p></p><p>One of our windmills (pumps water from dam into overhead tank from where water gravity feeds to troughs and house garden) has rusted out main pipe and we didn't realise until last evening when there wasn't any water in the garden taps). Pipe is 40 years old so it had a fair innings. Had to take 3 small mobs bulls (each mob taken separately) to the dam for a drink and then they wanted to fight on the way back to paddocks so had to 'sool' the kelpies in to break up the fights. Needed a video to record the action. Had to repeat the procedure this morning but luckily my niece and her boyfriend came to help put out hay and grain and the 3 of us on quad bikes managed OK. The DTD had to climb to top of windmill, unbolt heaps screws and remove rusted pipe. He has now driven to closest town (1 hour away) to get new pipe and parts. Of course everything is now metric and the old gear is imperial so that will probably mean using joiners. Not a great Christmas Eve job but have to get water back on ASAP. </p><p></p><p>Phoned friends in northern Saskatchewan yesterday and they told me about Facetime (free on an Ipad or Iphone) so as we both had Ipads, we then talked and viewed each other live, for 40 minutes. What fun. Moved Ipad around the room and saw their Christmas tree and decorations and snow (from their porch), then we did the same. Unreal. They still have a great canola crop unharvested under 2 or 3 feet of snow as the snowfalls started a month earlier than usual. Our barley crop was so poor that we just put sheep on it and didn't bother harvesting. Every country has problems for farmers.</p><p></p><p>Congrats on new grandson Jilleroo and I'm pleased Tulip is OK. The DTD made the same blazing saddles commment about vegetarians and their mung beans......</p><p>Enjoy your size 14 jeans Suzie, great achievement. What was Skyfall like-worth viewing? </p><p>I hope you are feeling better Ken. Jed has all the correct instincts with the heading. An advantage of the dog working opposite you is that you can drive ahead and get the dog to bring the mob to you. My DTD prefers a huntaway type dog but kelpies like to head the mob.</p><p> </p><p>Good luck with your steers Havinago. We have an arrow crush but don't like the headgate so look around a bit before you buy anything. There is nothing more annoying than equipment that is difficult to use or doesn't do the job efficiently. Re eartags, yellow and white are easiest to read and use large ones so you write big letters/numbers on them. Get Z tag pen or other correct tag marker pen- don't use black texta as it won't last. </p><p></p><p>Better go make the pavlova and the brandy caramel sauce (my 83 year old mother has made the pudding and fruit cake). We are all going to my sisters family tomorrow (an hours drive) as they have a swimming pool- it should get a lot of use in next couple days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diana55, post: 976203, member: 12968"] Merry Christmas to everyone and safe travelling to those visiting family and friends. Its 39C, hot winds and dusty today but supposed to be few degrees cooler tomorrow. A white Christmas would ne nice. One of our windmills (pumps water from dam into overhead tank from where water gravity feeds to troughs and house garden) has rusted out main pipe and we didn't realise until last evening when there wasn't any water in the garden taps). Pipe is 40 years old so it had a fair innings. Had to take 3 small mobs bulls (each mob taken separately) to the dam for a drink and then they wanted to fight on the way back to paddocks so had to 'sool' the kelpies in to break up the fights. Needed a video to record the action. Had to repeat the procedure this morning but luckily my niece and her boyfriend came to help put out hay and grain and the 3 of us on quad bikes managed OK. The DTD had to climb to top of windmill, unbolt heaps screws and remove rusted pipe. He has now driven to closest town (1 hour away) to get new pipe and parts. Of course everything is now metric and the old gear is imperial so that will probably mean using joiners. Not a great Christmas Eve job but have to get water back on ASAP. Phoned friends in northern Saskatchewan yesterday and they told me about Facetime (free on an Ipad or Iphone) so as we both had Ipads, we then talked and viewed each other live, for 40 minutes. What fun. Moved Ipad around the room and saw their Christmas tree and decorations and snow (from their porch), then we did the same. Unreal. They still have a great canola crop unharvested under 2 or 3 feet of snow as the snowfalls started a month earlier than usual. Our barley crop was so poor that we just put sheep on it and didn't bother harvesting. Every country has problems for farmers. Congrats on new grandson Jilleroo and I'm pleased Tulip is OK. The DTD made the same blazing saddles commment about vegetarians and their mung beans...... Enjoy your size 14 jeans Suzie, great achievement. What was Skyfall like-worth viewing? I hope you are feeling better Ken. Jed has all the correct instincts with the heading. An advantage of the dog working opposite you is that you can drive ahead and get the dog to bring the mob to you. My DTD prefers a huntaway type dog but kelpies like to head the mob. Good luck with your steers Havinago. We have an arrow crush but don't like the headgate so look around a bit before you buy anything. There is nothing more annoying than equipment that is difficult to use or doesn't do the job efficiently. Re eartags, yellow and white are easiest to read and use large ones so you write big letters/numbers on them. Get Z tag pen or other correct tag marker pen- don't use black texta as it won't last. Better go make the pavlova and the brandy caramel sauce (my 83 year old mother has made the pudding and fruit cake). We are all going to my sisters family tomorrow (an hours drive) as they have a swimming pool- it should get a lot of use in next couple days. [/QUOTE]
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