Iron Roof Irony

It's the drip drip dripping
that really gets to me
When the roof won't stop leaking
and the rains won't seem to ease.

When the water reaches the buckets limit
and it empties everywhere
water trickles through the floor
along the hall and down the stairs.

Its really a problem we don't need
this mouldy mildew mess
When mum and dad aren't coping well
as cattle prices aren't best.

The rains came too bloody late
and they had to sell the stock
and what use to drive me really mad was that tick tock bloody clock.

So now the skies have opened up
and wet us all like shags
Dad reckons us boys will have to go
we'll have to pack our bags
He wants us out, to find some work
and help the family farm
mum cries to him- don't make them go, keep them here safe from harm.

But its not only the stock that Dad has lost
the bank wants to take the lot
you'd think they'd have enough
without the little that we've got.

So now I'm laying in my bed
still listening to that drip
and wondering if my brothers and I
will still have to take that trip.

EVERYTHING looks like a snake!!! :(

So out here in countryville snake season has started, oh yes good and proper. We have gone from flood, in which we were attacked by mossies big enough to saddle up and ride, to now SNAKES!


Now normally I am prepared for such an invasion...I remove all fruit from my fruit bowl in the lounge and replace all said items with bullets for my 410 shot gun. A very colourful arrangement of red really matching my lounge suite.

So today when our little 'snake dog' started with his usual yap of " I found one I found one I found one" I went to investigate (without my rifle) and there he was, Mr Brown. After flying inside       ( like Flo Jo) and returning armed, he had gone....I will say that EVERY step and breath is taken extremely seriously at this point.

I then spent the rest of my day looking for our slithery friend like a stealth bomber floating in mid air stepping weightlessly, after all I have my 4 year old niece coming to visit the farm on the weekend and much to my frustration and dismay I couldn't find him...although EVERYTHING looked like a snake....a twig....the grass....my own shadow....and my garden hose could have had enough holes in it to become a soaker..:(

Day one of snake season and I'm down 1 point, not happy at all. If I could just get a email out to them or a memo of some sort I would simply explain the importance of their boundary and my boundary. The rules are simple, don't come into the house yard and live....really is that too much to ask???

Hooray!! I'm jobless....

Feels very weird typing/saying that as I have worked more or less full-time since leaving school all those years ago. My decision to resign was primarily based on the stress my Real Estate job was having on my family and most of all myself. I would often drive home in tears and frustrated at just how much my dream job was making me feel, I could never attend Miss M's school functions and this would upset her. So the guilt of being a working Mum and helping to provide for my family would eat me up inside. I then made myself sit back and think about how much different my life would be if I didn't work...sure I could attend those School functions and see my beautiful girl full of joy, but isn't not being able to provide for her more important?

So I have decide to have a break from working and see how we all go....and I'd hate to say, but I do miss working. I wake up and pace the floors wondering what I'm going to do today....tomorrow...the next day.

So after scrubbing my house like its never been scrubbed before, only to have the tractors fly past and send clouds of dust right back in, I tried the whole cooking thing.....yep those cookies are still in the cookie jar....and last nights left overs weren't taken for lunch today by Mr B...:(

Surely I'm good at something other than being in Real Estate?????


It's so quiet here....even the fridge sounds like its screaming....

I did have an exciting plan to slash outside, only to find the slasher has been taken to the other farm...so I hopped on the ride on, and have to say that was a hairy experience..snakes are everywhere at the moment so I spent most of the time mowing with my knees around my ears and my feet on the steering wheel...must have looked a gorgeous sight!!!

Bula!!!

We have recently arrived home from our family trip to Fiji, and what an exhilarating experience it was. From staying in the 5 Star Outrigger Resort to learning that all wait staff at that 5 Star Resort are paid between $3.50-$4.50 per hour!


One...just one Cocktail will pay for one of the waiters full shift....so what did we do? We tipped like we've never tipped before...we visited their villages and bought all our gifts directly through the people living there, we learnt they have only an hour of running water a day-so they all walk down to the village tap with their buckets and basins and wait in line patiently for their turn to gather as much water as they can.

I was in awe at how well mannered and happy the Fijians are, considering the 3 world they are living in. Each time we saw a Fijian they would yell "Bula!!!" with the biggest smiles I have ever seen, they never once complained, it was almost like they were brainwashed into being happy 24/7.

I will say that I was extremely happy that our 10 year old daughter got to experience all of this, she saw the silver service she received by these gorgeous people with the huge smiles and then she saw the squalor they lived in. We didn't need to discuss any of this to her as she realised just how easy our kids in Australia have it and if she gets her big britches on and decided to complain or whinge, I'll simply remind her of the Fijians and how happy they were just to be alive-no matter what the situation was.


Now on a nicer note, Fiji was bloody great! The Island itself is yuck, however the Outrigger was awesome. I will totally recommend it to families, as that's what the Fijians do-make mum and Dad happy by keeping the kids occupied with lots of learning and fun!


You can't help but fall in love with the locals and the romance of the resort, that is why I suppose my partner and best friend Bryce proposed to me there....I won't say it was a beach proposal, or a romantic candlelit one....it was a Bryce proposal-one of a kind and that's why I love him!


Do me a favour and visit the Resorts website, you'll be quite surprised at how affordable it is. Montana cried when we left after not getting to say goodbye to her Meimei (Fijian for Nanny) for the 3rd time...she will hold a place in her heart for that place as we all will!

http://www.outrigger.com/hotels-resorts/fiji/outrigger-on-the-lagoon-fiji


So click on the link above-you won't be disappointed!