Life on the land has extremes that city people are insulated from.
Today waking before dawn and settling in the write with the view of the ripening oat crop in the first glow of the sunrise, the scene was positively beautiful. This same scene will give us the biggest mouse plague in living memory if the warnings we are being given are correct. Such is the joys of country living. Few who love the country life would change for the city.
Across the country today the norther states are on high fire alert. Now is the time they suffer again as the lush grass growth that follower the intense wet season which in turn followed Cyclone Yasi, dries of.
A fire in the Gladstone area yesterday destroyed vineyards at the Gecko Valley winery.
Tony McRae, the owner, says vines were lost however the fire crews managed to save his home.
"It's 20 years of our life so it's a bit hard to think logically at the moment but we're certainly not giving up," he said.
"It's part of us so we will replant but we might do it in a slightly different way. If that area is going to be vulnerable from fires coming through maybe there's some other spot on the property that's a better place to replant."
That is the spirit of country people, you clean up and get on with it.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-03/bushfire-forces-evacuations-at-island-resort/3206222
Today waking before dawn and settling in the write with the view of the ripening oat crop in the first glow of the sunrise, the scene was positively beautiful. This same scene will give us the biggest mouse plague in living memory if the warnings we are being given are correct. Such is the joys of country living. Few who love the country life would change for the city.
Across the country today the norther states are on high fire alert. Now is the time they suffer again as the lush grass growth that follower the intense wet season which in turn followed Cyclone Yasi, dries of.
A fire in the Gladstone area yesterday destroyed vineyards at the Gecko Valley winery.
Tony McRae, the owner, says vines were lost however the fire crews managed to save his home.
"It's 20 years of our life so it's a bit hard to think logically at the moment but we're certainly not giving up," he said.
"It's part of us so we will replant but we might do it in a slightly different way. If that area is going to be vulnerable from fires coming through maybe there's some other spot on the property that's a better place to replant."
That is the spirit of country people, you clean up and get on with it.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-03/bushfire-forces-evacuations-at-island-resort/3206222
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