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Unicorn · December 07, 2015, 10:27:45 PM

Quite the Conserve Lady there RG!!!

Geez, I remember having blackberry jam sandwiches for school lunches for months on end.

Once when I was around 19 I was driving home just on dusk with 7 x 2kg bags of sugar (for jam making) on the back seat and hit two large steers doing 100km. You could say the XB falcon, the steers and the sugar were a write off.

Roobarb .......

(sorry, best I could do on short notice :blush:).

robbiegal · December 08, 2015, 05:06:20 PM

poor steers
you know when you hit those critters!!

bet mum wasn't happy about having to postpone the jam making bonanza!!

Unicorn · December 08, 2015, 06:02:03 PM

Yes, it was sad for them, they were full grown but they didn't suffer too much. It was just when your lights don't light much up but there's not enough light to see without them on. The lights were on low beam and picked them up about 20 metres ahead, so at that speed I didn't even get time to brake. A car coming the other way saw my lights just disappear and locked his car up which was fortunate as my car crossed his side of the road and went down a 7 metre embankment. He had a rifle with him and put the one that rode the bonnet / engine bay down straight away. The one that went over the roof had already passed away.

The next batch of sugar came home with me the following day.

Pedro · December 08, 2015, 06:44:57 PM

Gee Uni sounds like you were fortunate to get out of that one yourself. Must have been quite a shock.

Pedro

Unicorn · December 08, 2015, 06:59:18 PM

Too true Pedro, if that bonnet had not come open and bent back over the windscreen I would have had a steer in the face. All I got was a sore knee where it hit the ignition area of the dash.

robbiegal · December 08, 2015, 09:55:28 PM

eek
yes my brother hit a big bull and the car (and he) was so smashed up he was found trying to get out of the car through the side triangular window ( remember them!!)

bull was killed but the brother made it through

Unicorn · December 08, 2015, 10:05:29 PM

Sounds terrible RG, I know that I was incredibly lucky! I only had to climb into the back to get out as the front doors were jammed.

trout · December 08, 2015, 10:20:50 PM

I hit a bullock between Fitzroy Crossing and Timber Creek back in the late 70's in my HR Holden.
It was a pretty ratty dirt road back then
It stove in the front end and wrecked the radiator and water pump, it took me 3 days to effect repairs with the aid of some kind people from a aboriginal community in Fitzroy crossing who helped me find a radiator I could retrofit and limp into Broome minus the bonnet .
Miraculously I had a seatbelt fitted and I was actually wearing it ( a rare thing back then) and walked away with only my pride injured.

robbiegal · December 09, 2015, 07:42:25 AM

jezz guys
all the more reason to eat beef and keep less of the buggars off the roads!

trout · December 10, 2015, 10:01:31 PM

I finally got around to setting up the campervan in the front yard to have a good squiz at it, I haven't worked out how to add the sides to the annex yet :angel:
It's an oldie but a goody and is a huge step up from my usual camping set up of a tent and a tarp that nearly always comes to grief when the wind comes up

The Disco tows this with ease and there are racks on the top so I can load the boat up :yahoo:

Here are a few pikkies I took today after we christened it with a couple of icy cold beers complements of the solar power set up on the fridge :good:

robbiegal · December 11, 2015, 10:27:01 AM

sweet
where is the solar powered air conditioner?

trout · December 11, 2015, 10:53:43 AM

Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='82528' dateline='1449791821'sweet
where is the solar powered air conditioner?

HeHe
That's what the beer is for :angel:

Unicorn · December 11, 2015, 12:52:47 PM

:laugh2: .... Those lovely red cans of coolness.

That's a nice setup Trout!

robbiegal · December 11, 2015, 02:06:53 PM

so does the little van tip a bit when you both get into bed?
looks like the bed sits outside of the main body of the little van ?

robbiegal · December 11, 2015, 03:44:47 PM

my veggie patch is pottering along
got a bit of garlic but not as much as i'd liked maybe about a kilo or more
carrots are springing up
like others here I have silver beet , plenty of potatoes , bit of lettuce, zucchinis have just started to have babies , rhubarb
snow peas have been going berserk for weeks/months and the beans have tiny baby beans on them today
started a herb bed and the plants love being in the soil and out of pots so my herbs are very impressive
ah, oh to be a full time veggie gardener - would be bliss