Good Grass

This is the time of year that is all about grass. Not just the Weeds vs. Lawn kind of grass, and certainly nothing illegal.  But grass we’ve planted, grass (and some other things) we’ll cut, and grass our sheep eat.

The end of winter rains, the start of summer sun, and green stuff just starts springing from the earth everywhere.

Of course in the past week or so we’ve had a disastrous couple of inches of rain which have drenched and flattened pasture feed and made soggy and mouldy our still standing crops. Up the road at Williams and out East at Hyden it was an actual flood, sweeping away fences and closing roads.

But let’s not think about that now. Let’s close our eyes and go back a few weeks, to that warm, dry, happy place where the livin’ is easy, fish are jumpin’, and the pasture is high…

Good ryegrass (Italian tetraploid)

Not so good Wimmera ryegrass

Clover. Mmm, clover…

Yep, that pasture is high.

Do you see what I see? Look carefully…

See them now?

Hello!!

No cow tipping in our parts, so we get our giggles by creeping up on unsuspecting sheep.

It’s easy to do when the grass is taller than full grown ewes.

The sheep trails are almost grown over.

This is also the time of year when we get ready for harvest. Hay cut and baled, canola swathed, wheat and oats standing waiting for harvest and we’re hoping it doesn’t rain. Everything is golden and ripe and lovely.

And yes, in reality it may have bucketted down for a week before our harvest even got going.

But we’re luckier than some.

Reader quiz: what is this and how did it get there?

(bonus points for the non-Australians)