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Welcome again
Another weekend just flies on by, they seem to go very quickly when you jam so many things in. However I love my job so I am happy when Monday comes around. So welcome to this weeks SLF and I am informed that this weeks “files” are not going to print so you will only exclusively view them on the blog. Well here we go….

Washup of the floods
I was back in the area last week albeit briefly and there has been some damage done to the local roads in the area. But we have to consider ourselves lucky as I went through Bridgewater, Charlton & Donald last week. Boy Charlton looks like a bomb had hit it. And what about the farmland around Serpentine, fair dinkum it will take ages for the water to dissipate on that flat country. It really is devastating for farmers in the flood hit areas. Check out this http://www.thefarmtrader.com.au/articles/flooded-central-western-victoria

Harvest drawn out
Just thinking then about how long the harvest has been drawn out this year, with many still not finished. It reminded my of the late Alan “Dumb Bastard” Marshall who used to harvest the oats in about March and auger them straight into the combine from the header and start sowing them. Now that was efficiency.

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Mooned
I reckon I saw something rare the other morning. As the sun was going up the very full moon was going down.

In China they let it rain - WTF
Talking to my old mate Ross “AR” Loats the other day at a fuel station at Donald and we were talking about the floods and he said “we just have to do what the Chinese do when it rains, They let it rain”. Then he starts laughing and so do I because I have absolutely no idea what it was all about….

Hot bed
Talking about Ross Loats, my Yarrawonga mate Dwain “Daryl” Duxson was telling me he used to turn Loat’s electric blanket on 3 at Bendigo Country week cricket and the old fella used to wake up in a sweat. For those that know Bendigo Country week is in early Feb and the weather is usually a scorcher, certainly not electric blanket weather. When Duxson stopped going to country week Hayden “Howard” McLennan then took over this very important role. Poor old Ross

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