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...