The Adventures of Cejae

Wow, this farm work is hard.  It is not even lunch time and I am poooped, ready for a nap.  It has been a big big day already.  We had to get up with the roosters this morning, yep they have roosters here, roosters must not sleep they are cockadoodledoin way way before the sun comes up, I dunno how Nanna and Pa put up with it all.  Anyways I am getting off track, seems today was the day I had to learn to drive the header.  The header is a very important job on the farm, the header strips the wheat off the plant and puts it into the silo.  Pa can then sell the wheat and do it all again next year.  I dunno about this farming game, Pa said the other day that if he ever won lotto he would just keep farming till it was all gone.  I dont know what that means, but I think it means that Pa would like to win lotto. This morning Daddy took me out to show me what NOT to do when driving the header.  It seems that uncle Cowan (the chief header driver) h...

Well Daddy told me that we were going for a holiday at the farm.  Well I tell you, this place is not a holiday.  It is incredibly hot and that makes me grumpy.  Plus there is still farm work to do, it never ends.  Here is what I have been up to over the last couple of days. For a start, I wanted to go out and play, but Nanna was having none of this, she said there was farm jobs to do. Here is Nanna laying down the law to Zander and Me.  She says we are not allowed outside unless we have our hat and shoes on.  yeah yeah Nanna, I know, I am ready to go. First job was to pick all the strawberries.  Nanna needed em to make a pie or something.  Here is Nanna giving us the run down on how to pick them.  See the pot Nanna is holding, she needed it full. Turns out I am a great strawberry picker, here I am getting stuck right into it.  Those little red suckers were so much better in my mouth than in Nanna's bowl.  Zander thoug...

Hi everyone....  Well it has been a massive couple of weeks since my last post.  For a start, we all went to Jack's birthday party.  It was fun.  We played a heap of new games.  For a start we did the ball pit, just like at my party, just that it was bigger and had more balls. Here I am playing balls with Jack. (not the birthday Jack, Another Jack)  He is a bit cute I rekon.  I might marry Jack.  Only when I am bigger though.  Maybe next week. Then we went and played in the sand.  This was heaps fun, I used my digging skills that Nanna taught me.  Everyone thought I was a great digger. See how everyone is impressed with my digging skills?  Everyone was asking me how I got so good at digging.  I just said that I have a special Nanna that teaches me digging.  Everyone was impressed with that. Then Jack wanted to know how to play the music dinger thing.  I had no idea how to play, but I pretended that I knew ...

The buggers tricked me again...  They threw another party for me, this time it was the City Nanna that did all the organising.  I thought it was a bit weird that Nanna and Grandad stayed over on Saturday night, but I didnt say nuffin, I just waited to see what was happening.  On Sunday morning, they tricked me into have 2 morning sleeps, when I woke up there was THIS in the back yard.... Yep, correct again, Daddy had put up a jumpy castle and Grandad had put all my toys out in the back yard.  So of course I had to have a go on everything.  First it was into the shell with all the toys in it. Can you see my new party dress that Nanna had made me?  Nanna is very special and smart like that, she makes lots of my coolest clothes. Playing with my toys outside in the sun was pretty cool fun, much funner than playing with the toys inside.  But then Grandad said he would take me on the jumpy castle.  I was so excited I poo'd my pants, so Mummy had to...

Well we are finally home.  Daddy was crapping on about all these facts and figures, things like we did 4900 K's, used 625 litres of fuel and sat in the car for 59 hours, but i wasnt really listening cos it didnt really interest me.  But I am getting ahead of my self, I said I would find out who was having a party, well well..  I tell you, the buggers tricked me, it was MY party, even though it wasnt really my birthday yet, Farm Nanna threw me a party, cool eh?  But I am still a little miffed that I had to blow up balloons for my own party, but anyways, I will get over it. Now sit back and enjoy the pictures from the day. first Mummy dressed me up in my pretty party dress that city nanna had made me for.  cool isnt it? Then I made sure that everyone knew it was MY party by telling everyone at the top of my lungs.  When i was done, everyone knew it was MY birthday party.  I also told everyone to eat up and drink lots as we had plenty of food. Then...

Well I didnt get to drive the ute again today, but I did get up to some other fun stuff.  Nanna was working in the garden because she said it was a nice day, so she made me help out with the hard stuff.  you know the digging and carting the dirt away. As you can see, I am hard at work with the digging.  Digging is Ok fun, but i dont think I am very good at it. As you can see I am having fun now.  Mummy said that I am a great digger.  She said, "thats great, just bloody great"  I think that means I am a great digger. Then it was time to move all the dirt away, moving all the dirt was hard.  Nanna did not help at all.  Then I had a bit of an accident. The barrow fell over, but dont worry there were no injurys or property damage, just dented my pride a bit.  but Nanna and mummy helped me clean up the mess.  Then it was inside again to get me cleaned up.  Which was just as well, as Daddy was having some problems on the compu...

Well I tell you there is no rest for us farmers, we just drove over 500k's to get home to the farm, then no sooner we get home, we have to start the farm work.  Pa made me help out.  First we had to go around the sheep again.  Here I am helping shoo the sheep, the buggers listened too, see em running away when I am doing the shooing? Pa said I am a good sheep shooer!! The next bit was the best bit.  Pa let me drive the ute.  Yay..  no no my legs are still not long enough to do the pedals yet.  So Pa did the pedals while I did the steering, Pa said that I am a good steerer. The picture is a bit blurry cos Daddy said that  Pa has a heavy boot and that made us go pretty fast, I didnt change the gears though, Pa did all that. After that, we had one last important job to do, we had to check the rain guage to see how much rain we have had and check the crop.  Pa gave me the very important job of guarding the ute, to make sure that Pip ...

Well I must have spoke too soon.  Turns out that we have had a day of torrential rain, the locals say that it was a just a shower, but I tell you, I have never seen rain like it.  But we got the show and shine out of the way, and I will tell you, I do not like show and shines, they are boring, all i got to see was a lot of headlights and bumpers, yeah exciting stuff.  Sometimes daddy and Pa did get me out of the pram and carry me, but they said I was a havy little bugger and put me back in the pram and it was back to looking at bumpers and haedlights again. So I was glad to get back to the motel and work on my walking.  I tell you I will be terrorising everyone pretty soon....  check this... Yes sir...  getting pretty good eh??  By the time I get home, I will be able to make Nanna chase me all over the house. Daddy did not win anything at the show, he rekons that his car needed to be cleaning, I think that if he cleaned it anymore there would...