The Kids are Complaining!!

The kids have been commenting (aka complaining) that there's never anything new on sliprail. Meg said "that sliprail blogger is pretty slack" and Drew said "I check it every day but there's nothing new on it"! I haven't had the urge to post anything lately, mainly because NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!! It's two weeks since the last entry and I've wracked my brain for something interesting to share but there's not a lot there............so here's a wrap up of the last fortnight.

The last time we met, the kids had enjoyed a fairy party and a pirate/go-kart party in T (children of their cousins). On the Monday we had a Pizza and Beer night at our house with some of the staff; on the Tuesday Gibbo drove to pick up the guru of the Japanese Wagyu industry from the airport in Brisbane, brought him back to D and took him out for dinner; on the Wednesday he took him to Surat; on the Thursday he drove to Warwick and spoke at a field day; on the Friday we went to see our accountant and then to the bank to see our agribusiness manager. On Saturday (last weekend) Meg and Chris came home and brought Lachie (of pirate/go-kart party fame) home for the weekend while his parents went to see Tim and Faith. On Sunday we had these for breakfast.

I really like the pattern of Meg's skirt.

This week has flown too. On Monday Ferg came to stay; on Tuesday he and Gibbo left early for a 3 day KLR Training course in Brisbane; I stayed home and attended to the livestock. Gibbo has 46 PENS OF POULTRY to feed - yes, you heard me correctly - FORTY-SIX. No wonder I don't like doing them. Add my 18 pens and you can see why it takes a while to feed up in the mornings. Here's the help, being helpful.



On Thursday I went to Brisbane with MF for a group meeting on Friday. After it finished we caught up with the kids and went for an early dinner (Meg had a 4 day weekend so she was visiting Chris). Meg and Drew had been shopping earlier in the day; she spoils him. He loves it. So does she.

Meg's job in T is going well although she is finding out that there are some frustrations involved in managing people. Drew is still loving College life and is coming to terms with the pressures of being a Uni student with workloads and deadlines. Chris is enjoying his course and his job. Gibbo is crazy busy and can't wait 'til we own the new farm. Then he'll be even busier. I am just going with the flow as much as I can, keeping on top of finances, dealing with the accountant, the bank and the solicitor. A persistent situation at work continues to present challenges that I feel fall on my shoulders; my mindset at the moment is to deal with it one day at a time until we are through the rough patch.

This morning I took an editor and two photographers around the feedlot so they could grab pics for an upcoming article in a trade service magazine in which chefs are being partnered with the person who actually produces the product they use. Gibbo's partnered chef is from Urbane in Brisbane. It's an interesting concept; goat and lamb will also be featured and both grain and grassfed british bred and wagyu (organic) beef. We could have done the goat story too. We could have used Peach hey Meg? You could have been the producer, Gibbo could have been the butcher, I could have been the featured chef and Drew could have been the customer at the end of the chain, eating goat curry. A real family affair!!!!