Re: Devastating News...

[Lindsay]

On 2/05/2016 9:37 AM, Rod Outback wrote:
> The Western QLD branch of the CIA (Corbey Intelligence Agency - NOT to be
> confused with the Caravanners Insomniacs Association!) are devastated to
> announce of the sudden passing of 'Lord Kaw! Kaw!' Corbey, yesterday; 1st May,
> 2016.


LOL.. Is there anything left to shoot? :-)

[Lindsay]

On 6/05/2016 7:10 AM, Rod Outback wrote:

> Lindsay,
>
> The visiting hunters last week nailed a half-dozen cats,

They WHAT?

I thought that at least, whilst you were laid up, a general and all
encompassing ban on the killing of felines would have been in place...



and a handfull of pigs,
> along with a LOT of Pokk-hoppys. I know there are a few more cats and foxes
> floating around, but I suspect the 1080 baiting we did a fortnight ago, might
> have knocked those numbers around a bit.

Do the cats take to the 1080?


> I'm working on feeding a cat lving in a culvert in our western-most paddock on
> the main road. Puddin seems to now be quite taken with the taste of prawns, and
> so might either step into the trap soon, or might be silly enough to have a
> sunset snack on the pile outside his front door, and in range of a maroon
> Landcruiser about 150 metres away...


Hahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaaaaa.. Jesus.. your feeding it prawns,
before feeding it lead... Theres something in that...

One of my mates was out stalking deer, came back and reported cat prints
in some mud.

I happen to have 6 cans of Home brand cat food sitting on the shelf in
my garage, and my plan this weekend (oh well tommorow until i come home
on Saturday or Sunday), is to put said cans of cat food in range of my
shed, coz i currently have what is known as a grade 4 hamstring tear in
my left leg, and because of that, a sore Achilles tendon in the right.
As I type, I have my left arse-cheek sitting in mid air... :-)

So the current plan is to chuck some gear in the ute, slab of VB, 2
bottles of Ballantynes scotch, a bottle of vodka that the girl at Dan
Murphys missed with the scanner, some sausages, eggs, bacon, steak; and
I'm out of this shithole named Melbourne. Havent seen my block for
nearly 2 months. Construction has come to a complete halt, as I need my
electrician mate to start calling the shots as to where everything goes...

>
> The Pokk-hoppy numbers around the house have fallen to a few that seem to
> hurriedly hop past just before sunrise, and nothing during the day. However, as
> we get into the seriously dry winter weather we can expect in the next few
> months, we will start to see more of the Pokk-hoppys appear during daylight
> hours. There is a very choice little area of green grass out where my bio-loo
> system pumps the treated water out, and so I expect I might get a Pokk-hoppy
> come graze with me, when it gets a bit drier in the paddocks.

Ours seem a bit seasonal... there were hundreds of the bloody things
getting around, but the numbers seemed to have dropped off last time I
was there...

> About the only animals that seem to be on the increase, are the birds (I counted
> 25 red-wing lorikeets watering at the house here the other day), and the bloody
> dingoes. Between ourselves, a couple of neighbours, and the council trapper, we
> have nailed something like 75 dingoes within 40 kms of our homestead over the
> past 12 months, and something like 20 of those have been in the past 6 weeks.

Jesus. :-( wild dogs are the biggest drama in Gippsland, and there has
been a concerted effort to wipe 'em out, and it has worked in my area,
but further east, there are still plenty....


We
> seriously hope the baiting has had some effect, and we must be doing something,
> as much of the remaining dog activity seems to have become much more
> intermittent.

Hope you're getting some water... we are getting a bit, but nothing
fantastic. Had some rain flood the back of my factory.. got video and
photo's so the local council can re-imburse my losses.. Again :-)

Keep punchin, rod..

>
> Cheers,
>
> Rod.
>