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Contents


1. Today's Motivation.


2. Inspirational quote.


3. Useful Sites.


4. This week's sponsors message.


5. Editors notes.


6. Article


7. A little humour.


8. Ezineadnet advertisements.


9. Disclaimer


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1. Today's Motivation


Do more


Go beyond what you must do, and do more. That's where you will

start to encounter life's richness.


Don't settle for just getting by. For you have so very much

more to give, and to live.


When you've reached the finish line, that's no time to stop.

Take a victory lap or two, and delight in the pure, sweet

enjoyment of all the good things you can do.


Then set your sights on another, more valuable and ambitious

goal. Reach beyond what's comfortable and necessary, into

the realm of the best that is possible.


Just a small extra effort can produce significantly greater

results, taking them from ordinary to extraordinary. Leverage

your efforts by going above and beyond.


When the work is done, take advantage of the opportunity to

do more. And quickly put yourself far out in front.


-- Ralph Marston


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2. Inspirational quote.


"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of

life, for which the first was made."


-- Robert Browning


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5 Editors notes


Hi


welcome back to our readers and that certainly includes you today.


It has been so cold in the mornings since the fine weather came.

But I know that the farmers need sunshine on the crops after three

weeks of good rain, they are getting it and we are freezing our

butts of !


Someone remarked that the grass on the hills and the crops in the

paddocks are so green they reminded them almost of wine. If wine

could ever be that dark and rich?


Just recently, somone really close to me has been diagnosed with

clinical depression. I was called upon because of that, to come to

a better understanding, or in my case, the first time I understood

at all, anything about mental illness. Even though depression is

fairly common and can be dealt with today. Nevertheless is is no

less deadly than other common diseases. I did not know that. So

dealing with it has changed me as much almost as it has effected

the person.


The change in me was the realization that coping with this issue

made me look at this person in a completely different way than I

had before and it helped clear out some old, ingrained precepts I

had of why people act in a cetain manner. Like, he/she is lazy,

or he/she is so usless, or why wont they do this or that? The truth

is the disease wont let them and it took a while for me to come to

this understanding. Once I had it though it empowered me in that I

was able to think before I spoke or acted and was not then driven

by old preconceptions from the past. So I hope and pray as we move

forward that we will continue to grow from this?


Back to the scene in Australia. There is debate in politics and

in the news about climate change and required action by Government,

State and Federal and other pressure groups.


Funnily enough, Australia in some respects may be like some

other countries in that it has large, untapped reserves of coal.

We also have large untapped reserves of uranium.

But coal mining for power generation employs a large number

of people, who tend to be of a socialist bent and vote labour,

susposedly so that Government will give or keep their jobs.


Our present Labour goverment relied heavily on promoting

environmental issues to get elected! So they are between the

devil and the deep blue sea, but so are the Liberal opposition!


Can we ever imagine these two parties working hand in hand

to implement a policy that creates electricity from nuclear power

that fuels electric cars?


On the local scene here in Geraldton, we have had recent

announcements of a deal struck between interesed parties and

a Chinese consortium to begin the process of building an

integrated iron and steel works in this area, plus of course a

new port. So Geraldton will come of age in the world scene.


As for me, just tapping away at the PC and wondering

if the work in getting systems up and running that will help

us baby boomers earn income from home off our PC is worth it.

If it is we can have some quality of life into our old age.


I keep working and hoping, so till next time, may you enjoy

what you have and be blessed with more.


Kind regards


Stan Maley


p.s. I continue this week with in articles section a snapshot

of times gone by on the farm. Hope you enjoy that?


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6. Article


Back in the old days! I mean in the fifties and sixties in

Australia. We truly rode on the sheeps back. Aftr the second

world war, land was cleared to make farms and the sheep numbers

increased. Up to a million acres a year were being cleared for

agriculture in Western Australia. As a young man with a wife

and children, we entered into this scene. My Father and I

share farmed wheat with a Cocky in Three Springs, went from

there to Mingenew, back to Three Springs and finally arrived

at Jennyville, one mile South of Mingenew in the central

wheatbelt

 

Sir Eric Smart had 80,000 acres of sandy country being developed.

We were allocated 6500 acres of this to run on a basis similar

to a lease. 1500 acres were to be sown each year with wheat

and we were given control of about 6000 sheep to manage as if

they were our own. Not that the sheep cared much about this

arrangement! They were Bungaree bloodlines and some people

called the carstarated ones, hairy arsed wethers! Given that

the micron size of the wool fibres sometines went up to 23

they were proberly right!


Synod and Dunbar were the Perth based shearing contractors

with an eight stand team over at the Dip, central shearing

shed. God knows why, but Smarty always got us up first to shear,

straight after seeding. Bloody hell, cold easterly winds, rain.

Poor damn sheep. Although the shearers reckoned our wethers

stood looking at them with a fierce red eye, over the top of

the catching pen rails! They were glad when the last of the

big wethers went down the shute to the counting yards. At

smoko the shearers would stand at their window looking out

at the sheep, cleaning his combs and cutters,  while the

contracter counted them out at the end of each run.


Just checking!


Half an hour later the bell went and they were into it again,

wool flying everywhere, rousabouts running the board, picking

up the heavy fleeces and then hurling them effortlessly onto

the wool table where the classer and his mate skirted the crap

off them, rolled each one, classed it according to micron and

style, put it in a bin ready for the presser to make a bale of

wool with the old Ferriers press. Shearers cursed the shed the

weather, the rousabouts, the owner and then last of all the

sheep, as their handpieces ploughed through the wool, leaving

the sheep white and skinny, down the shute! Sweat poured off

the men as they raced to beat the next blokes tally, ever eyeing

off the gun on stand one.


My job as the farmer was to muster the sheep keep them in a

mob in front of our one ton Holden ute, while tippy, our ever

keen sheep dog, pushed the mob along towards the shed. We worked

together as a team, me and me dog, a few whistles, some yelling,

but we got there! Then we pushed them up into the shed until

the penner upper got 'em and took over.


The shorn sheep without wool were like a flight of mad seagulls

to drive anywhere. First Tippy and I had to push them through

a round shower dip with arsenic powder in the water to kill

any lice. You reckon they wanted a cold shower after having

their wool off. Like hell they did. But it got done and off

home they headed, like a arrow out of a bow. Wish they had

come over here like that!


Sad to say we lost sheep that night, a wild storm came up and

lashed the night with rain followed later by cold winds.

The freshley shorn sheep were driven by the gale and left the

shelter of some bush only to come up against a fence to the

mercy of the elements out in the open. Their fat freezes inside

their bodies and bursts the blood vessels. About fifty I think

all told, valuable animals.


So that is a litle tale of shearing as it was back then. I

am sure it is done a bit different these days, but I haven't

been in any shearing sheds lately and because of drought,

low prices and animal lobbyists the sheep numbers in Australia

have fallen away till that great industry is but a shadow of

its former self.


Sad really.


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7. A little humour.


Q: What do you call a sheep without legs?

A: A cloud.


Q: What happened to the clock that fell into the sheepdip?

A: It lost all its ticks.


Q: "What did one sheep say to the other sheep?

A: "After ewe"


Q: What would you get if you crossed a goat and a sheep?

A: An animal that eats tin cans and gives back steel wool


Q:What is a sheep's favorite newspaper?

A: "The Wool Street Journal"


Q: What would you get if you crossed a sheep and a kangaroo?

A: A woolly jumper!


Q: Why did the lamb call the police?

A: He had been fleeced


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