We're at Wee Waa now!

We left Killawarra on Saturday last weekend after saying goodbye to all the Hirst family.  It was so lovely to spend more time with them all again and we have said we will return.  Bun left them a list of tree varieties for the fruit orchard they have planned for the future.  Perhaps we'll be able to visit in the future so he can prune again for them :)

Bun took this shot the day before we left.  They got just enough rain to enable them to finish planting and Bun was helping move trucks back to sheds so I was able to have a little run in 'Big Red'.  It was a good little run, back and forth to the paddocks, but the dust and 'air-conditioning' meant my hair was a tangled mess by the time I'd finished!

I loved the sunsets at Killawarra!

While we were at the property, I crocheted a couple of hats for the two older girls and then started on something for the baby.  Check out the size of the cute little bootie!!

When we left Killawarra, we headed to Warialda and decided to stay there that night.  This shot was taken from a lookout above the town.  The plan had been to travel to Bingara and then diagonally across to Narrabri.  However when we woke up on Sunday there was rain and low clouds.  After waiting until about 9am to see if the clouds were going to lift a little, we gave in and decided to go through Moree.  We had been at the pub for tea the night before and were talking to some local guys.  They had said that the road from Bingara was good but had some steep sections and had a few curves so we decided that we would take in the scenery another day.

It actually rained all the way to Wee Waa and then stopped when we got here.  We arrived at Robbie and Mick's about 1.30pm so that gave us plenty of time for a good look around and to get some instructions.  You can see what the weather was like in these shots, the sun had just come out when I took these.

Bun spent Monday and Tuesday with Mick, getting used to all the animals that need feeding.  There are 5 camels (self-sufficient), about 60 cattle (about half could be having calves soon), guinea fowl, chooks, ducks, geese, a bull called Reggie and 2 dogs, Jackie and Stroker.

This is Stroker, Bun's new offsider!  He has enormous jumping abilities, being able to just bounce straight up to about 6 foot high!  Bun says that the best way to control him is to ride the motorbike around the boundary of the property every morning with Stroker running alongside!  After he's done about 5kms of running, he's pretty biddable!

I opened the curtains of the van the other morning and saw this sunrise!  I quickly grabbed the camera to get some shots in before it disappeared.

Bun set off on his morning run with some fencing tools to fix some problem areas.

Reggie the bull!  Bun gave him some hay the other day and apparently Reggie was 'very happy to see him' hahaha

Max is the old male camel and Robbie did say that if we wanted to 'desex' Max while they were away, they would be very pleased to have that taken care of!  I don't think it's going to happen lol

The female is quite curious and comes in for a chat and head rub.  However the noise they make is quite funny.  I said to Bun that it sounded like Max had the noisest case of wind I've every heard!

Stroker is curious about the camels but shys away if they get too close to the fence.

He loves to cool off in the trough at the end of his run.

One of the girls at work has a daughter in child-care and they are fundraising, the temptation of these sitting on the counter at work is just a bit too much for me.  I consoled myself with the fact that I was eating one of these on Kara's behalf!!

Bun is helping in the shop on Saturday mornings with me and swears that one of the older ladies today was flirting with him.  He reckons that he 'made the sale'!!  It should be interesting if that continues :)

We've just finished the first full week here so we're almost a quarter of the way through the job already.  

Although I had a big headache at the end of the first day because of trying to absorb so much information at once, it has become easier each day.  Hopefully everything will continue to run smoothly while Robbie is away.  It's a big thing to trust someone with your business, house, vehicles, etc so it's nice to be thought worthy of that trust.  Mick actually asked Bun if we were interested in working for them during the wheat harvest as cooks/helpers so I guess we've made a good impression.

There is not a lot at Wee Waa but we plan to have a good look around on weekends.  Next weekend we will head to Gunnedah to catch up with Jan and Len, a couple we met there in April.  Also Kate and Roger are going to be heading through sometime next week on their holidays so it will be great to see them.

Baby's arrival date is only about 8 weeks away now!!

Cheers for now

Anne