I am so sensitive to touch that one hair falling from my head on to my naked back threatens to bruise me.
I am so sensitive to smell that one odor molecule of the scent of a rose is enough to evoke love in my heart.
I am so sensitive to taste that the flavour of one [...]
I feel the cold.
I always have.
And it sure is cold these days.
But as long as my feet are warm,
my neck and my chest.
And my head,
Ha ha!
I’m okay.
Others commute in Tshirts and shorts.
I need to wear a scarf, some gloves,
a hat and warm shoes.
My ankles can get frosty cold
and my [...]
Gert and me, we’re battlers,* see.
We faced the drought that began in Walcha in ‘79
Side by side,
Flank by flank,
Shoulder to shoulder,
Boldly wandering further and further
For grasses and rubbish and snatches of willow
Down by the river.
River! Bah! Pools it became;
Mudholes only.
Not gushing, not running, not even trickling
Just stagnant, waiting pockets of liquid.
Here you see us, Gert [...]
It was fall weaning time on the “Rocking P” Ranch,
The owner was Roderick Macleay.
Cows and calves were all milling within the corrals.
Rod’s cowboys had found them that day.
Shorty Merino was working for Rod,
An experienced cowhand, of course.
His nickname was due to his absence of height:
Could hide next a sway-backed short horse.
They were cutting out steer [...]
In summer time, the sun is hot
And sucks up moisture from below,
Then forms the clouds up in the sky
In lumps and bumps away to blow.
The wind comes up and sends the clouds
Around the earth, and then quite soon
They lose their rains upon the ground
To help the grass and flowers bloom.
When rain should fall in winter [...]
