We arrived back at Mullewa earlier this year so got to see all the wild flowers in their splendour. There were fields of all different colours. Arriving early also meant that we had a while to wait until the crops were right. So Steve ended up doing a couple of weeks deep ripping.
This year during the 2009 Grain Harvest our son Pete came over to work with us as a "change in life stage" to see where he wanted to be.
Having Pete with us for 3 months was great although sometimes a bit cramped. Luckily we had the use of the Farm House so Pete actually slept in there, but he was always with us to eat and watch telly (even though he had his own telly in the house) and of course, mum got to do his washing.
It was a really good experience for him driving tractors and trucks and anything else that moved, most of which were worth more than his first house will ever cost. Except maybe this one haha...
Pete had only been at the farm a couple of weeks and the boss, Peter Freeman, asked him to do a tip run. This entailed taking the old GQ Patrol ute a about 200 metres up a sand track. Meanwhile, Peter Freeman had gone out past the tip checking the Crops driving his GU Patrol ute. When Peter Freeman was returning to the shed, he was driving down the same track in the opposite direction whilst looking out at the crops when our Pete came around the corner of the bush and forever they bonded.
The joining of the Utes destroying both to write off. The GQ was bent in the middle and the GU was buckled across the front. Luckily they weren't travelling very fast so both drivers escaped any long term harm thankfully, only bumps and bruises. But now we were down 2 utes before the season even got started.
After all the drama they had to be taken into town to be assessed, so each ute was put on a tandem trailer being towed by Joels Navara (one at a time of course ) but this didn't stop the amusement as the boys pushed the ute on with the old front end loader and as weight goes, Patrols are heavier than Navaras.....LOL.
We worked together on the day shift kickin' arse getting the grain off, unfortunately the season wasn't the best so things ran a bit all over the place and fairly slow. This also contributed to Pete deciding to remain a Plumber to which he returned to Melbourne with us and landed a really good job with Water Pro's which do all the major irrigation for the big stadiums as well as other work, Variety is Pete's forte.
Dianne ended up getting a part time job as a Professional Dishwasher at a Restaurant in Geraldton. She had had enough of sitting around and just wanted to get out. It got us a bit of extra Diesel money and her a bit of sanity!!!!
The harvest finished up about the middle of December which gave us plenty of time to drive the bus home.
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