Hues and views
Ever heard that saying: A woman’s work is never done?
Well, cattlemen relate to this better than anyone. Not ’cause they’re so in touch with their feminine side (there’s a whole other post there!) but cause work out here doesn’t wait. It just sits out there in the paddock, breeding and multiplying while humans sleep and otherwise waste their time.
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We went for a drive over the Easter weekend – to the other end of the property (about half an hour away by dirt road). We took the little ute and crammed all four of us (plus camera, naturally) into the front, delivered a trailer to retrieve molasses from a leaking tank, visited my brother and family at their house, and then drove home via a different road, checking fences and cattle and waters along the way.
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This is a fairly standard weekend activity – fitting in something vaguely social with work-related tasks. Work just permeates life. Broken fences, steers in the wrong paddock, water pumps that need starting. While ever you are here, there is some kind of work to be done. While I do miss the total “us” time we had as city-dwellers, without the interruption of work into our weekends, I have to admit I am getting used to it.
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And while we do have to put up with lots of dusty, bumpy drives in cramped utes with tired kids, driving across black soil flats with the clouds above threatening to burst, we do get rewarded. By visions like this…
It was worth stopping the ute for…
And this.
And this.
And this.
(SSB muttering in background: Come on woman, black soil road – rain coming, let’s go!)
And this.
(Snapped post Easter shower, after we had cleared the black soil flat, as a gate was being closed.)
Thank goodness I went for this little weekend drive.
Nuff said.
BB
5 Comments
Pencil Writer
Great pictures! Love the rainbows! They have the lowest arch of any rainbows I’ve ever seen, but that doesn’t diminish the beauty–of rainbow and country! Also love the rain drops caught on the gate. And a belated Happy Easter to you and your family–though we’re still enjoying the last quarter of the day!
debby
I’m glad that you went on your little drive as well. Gorgeous. So is the drought over for you folks?
Bush Babe (of Granite Glen)
Hello ladies… Don’t know why that rainbow looks so low – it was over a pretty huge area and over flat country… yep, nope, dunno! Debby, the drought is, well, lurking. Like a shy blog reader… you know its still there, but it hasn’t shown itself properly for a while. It was terribly drought striken here when we arrived but we have enjoyed some lovely rain in Jan and Feb. Not floods. Not enough to fill our big dams. But enough to green up the countryside and keep us all sane. And here. Keep you posted (ha!).
BB
Alison
Oh gorgeous! I love rainbows, especially rediscovering them with children.
LOL @ keeping us posted. Nice one.
baby~amore'
Glorious rainbows. Glorious rain.
My husband has a yearning for farm life I think. We spent easter near Dubbo on a mini farm 1100 acres – about 90 head of grazing cattle.
He loves tractors and stuff too … one day you never know.I posted about our little adventure.
How big is your farm ? is you don’t mind saying.
My Little Drummer boys