You know you are in the country when!!!!!
Yep you really do know when you are living in the country when driving along the road to Bairnsdale you come across a sign beside the road saying something like, caution cattle on the road ahead!!! Yeah O.K. seen that sign dozens of times before and never see anything!!! Just like the kangaroo and koala signs!! WELL BING BONG!!!!! WRONG!!!!!!! In the distance it looks a bit like fog on the road, but it is moving!!! Yep there they were, a little bit of a click clack on the road and the odd Baaa! there they were about 200 odd sheep trotting along the road, no one in sight with them at first glance, of course I wound down the window so rapt to be so close to sheep. The poor buggars were frightened coming face to face with my car!!!!! then suddenly there was one yes only one sheep dog rounding them up and they stopped in front of me!!! Of course I was not going anywhere!! The dog then let them move on and as they trotted by the car they baaa'd a bit more. Some of them had been shorn and looked rather ugly, while others had their full coat of wool on. A couple of little lambs were in the middle of the flock it was a wonder they did not get hurt. Talk about rapt!!!! And of all times I did not have my camera with me!!!!! DAMN!!! Gee I get excited about simple silly things eh!!! It made my day. Then as they passed there was one sheep that just stopped by the side of the road, the dog was trying to make it move with the owners commands, he was sitting in a truck on the side of the road with another dog in the back with a muzzle on yapping away. Eventually the farmer got out of his car, hobbled across the road, grabbed the sheep by the back and carried it back to the truck, threw it into the back of the truck with the two dogs and off he went! And off we drove as if nothing had happened. All back to normal again...just another day!!!!!
posted by Jill @ 7:40 am
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