Rated R

So we woke up early Saturday morning (4:30am)to a thunderstorm. David had to get up and drive to the pump sheds that are at opposite ends of the farm and turn off the pumps. It is not the best job to do in the middle of the night where you cannot see the nasty big spiders.

Later on in the day we were invited to go over to Len Hinkley's (the man we tagged along with on the trip to Midland with the sheep). He was going to be slaughtering a sheep to give meat to a friend and he thought it would be a good experience for us to join in on the experience. Len's property is beautiful and his house is situated on the side of a hill (it was built by a polish, 1 and a half arm man). He took us over to the shed where he was keeping the Mutton..haha. We will not get into the detail of what happened as we do not want some of you to lose your lunch but it was actually quite fascinating to watch. If anyone is interested, I took a video because I am morbid and twisted like that...lol. David got to help out in the slaughtering of it by sitting on the back part of the mutton so that he would not jump up and make it harder and more painful on himself (The mutton that is). We also have lots of photos of Len skinning the mutton and all that. He actually made it very educational for us, telling us what he was doing step by step and why he was doing it. He even let David join in on the skinning. David was weirded out by the fact that it was still warm. It was really cool when he cut the insides out and then gave us an anatomy lesson of the sheep. He took the lungs and blew into them filling them up with air, I guess that is his little party trick that he likes to show off when other people are helping him out. When all the skin and insides were out I helped him bag the mutton and we took it to the cool room. He took the remains in a tractor and set them up high so that the foxes could not get at it. I had no idea that they even had foxes here. Len gave us the liver, a kidney and the heart home with us to cook and try. I have never had kidney and heart before so it will be interesting.

After our big exciting afternoon, Len and his wife, Judy, took us down to the end of their block where there is the Moore River (which is way Moore of a river than Catherine's). They reckon its the best part of the Moore River. Part of it has little rapids where we hope to one day go swimming. Back in the day, when there were no roads, this was a main crossing for men on horses. Now, during marron (big crayfish/small lobster) season they let people onto their block to fish and camp. In return they usually get gifts of marron in return for letting people use their land. Len figures this is easier than having people trample through the bush to find the river.

After a tour of the property we went up to the house and fed all their pet sheep/lambs. This helps them when wanting to herd the rest of their sheep. They also have an amazing sheep dog that does all the work for Len. I got to feed all the sheep and rams with Judy and learned about all of them and how they turned out to become pets. They will not be slaughtered anytime soon. We were then invited in for another yummy aussie bbq with some of Len's yummy lamb. They would like us to come over and help them again in the future. We look forward to the next time we can go over there. We have nice chats with them whenever we get the chance and have come to appreciate their company.

Yesterday we went over to Darryll's to help him move furniture in his house...He is getting Vinyl (?) floor that looks like wood getting put in today and tomorrow. When we finished that we drove his UTE into Lancelin to get some Gas (LPG...do we have that in Canada for cars?), watched the sunset, then headed back to Daryll's house where we watched Australian Idol with him (we are hooked to it...much more exciting than Canadian Idol...we actually know one of the guys on it as well). The lightning storm was coming our way so we had to get back to the farm in time to turn off the pump sheds. Oh, I might add..we had a hot 34 degreees day inbetween two rainy days...starting to seem like Saskatchewan weather over here..Random days.

Today is a rainy day and we have the day off ...so we cannot even go to the beach or anything. We spent the morning driving around and opening and closing fences for the horses and turning on the pump sheds. I am in the middle of reading a book about a famous dog in this area that Len lent us. Tomorrow Daryll has no work for us to do.....yet..... The work is getting pretty scarce...He even tried handing us off to the neighbour but he doesn't have any work either.

Ta ta for now.

Holly and David...