At last look only 6 people on line; I'm one....

Are you asking for everyone to tell what they do for a living?

No mate, I was just bored and still awake after work. Idle chit-chat really. The rest of the family arose not long after so I went to bed ;-) I'm bloody awake again now though.

i am just sitting here waiting for everyone to wakeup
we are going to try out mary k mine and and east Liechhardt dam
keep dreaming and planning because it will happen we are livin the dream now

michael and lesley

Michael,

Where is Mary K mine and East Leichhart dam, I have never heard of them. Have you been there before? Are you planning a long trip or just a few days at a time?

Chris

I wouldn't call the Queen's birthday a holy day! Didn't know I had the next 2 days off 'til the end of my shift last night and the in-laws visiting today and staying over-night. Still dreaming of the next camp fire though.

hi Chris
sorry for the delay in repling i had to work today
east leichhardt and mary k mine about 60k east of mt isa
we went for the day
regards michael

Also known as Wollumbin State Forest.

Oops what was I thinking ? RIGHT at the top LOL

Hahahahaha Footy. You've been taking navigation lessons from my SWMBO lolol

Gramps, I was looking at map from wrong direction. :))

Yep, that's one of her specialities hahahahaha

Well I did try turning the computer upside down but all this stuff fell out :))

You guys! When do the dancing girls come on? What was the name of the two old blokes that made all the wise cracks from the audience in the Muppets? LOL

Footloose, going by your directions, I'm thinking of Mebbin NP, used to be Mebbin State Forest. It's off Byrrell Creek Rd?

hahahaha that was Statler and Waldorf (can't find a piccy at the moment) and I think Miss Piggy and the dancing girls are in dispute at the moment :))))))

Found one !

Bugger !! That's the mother-in-law's accommodation

meant this one (I think???)

BWare, thats the one. I sometimes overnight there as a stress relief kinda thing.

Hahaha. Which one are you (be careful, Footie's going to read this)?

Obviously I'm the suave, debonair and handsome one on the left :)))))

Dunno about that Gramps. My wife asked me how old did I feel . When I told her I felt like an 18yo she told me I couldn't have one !

The name's Blonde, James Blonde.

Hahahahaha I told mine I'd trade her in on two 18yo's and still have enough change for a third in the not too distant future LOL

When I threatened to trade mine in on a newer model she said fine. The old bombs are always bought by young men !

Gramps, just be careful that you dont blow a fuse, you might be wired for 140 not 218 :)))))))

hahahahaha you'd think we would have learned by now that when it comes to being uppity with the fairer sex we are playing way above our capabilities. We should just slink away and lick our wounds LOLOL

Al, I bet you are pleased youe wife doesn't read your posts on EO. If I said here I would trade he in for three 20s she would hit me over the head before she told me I couln't keep going. I better watch out as she does look here. I better watch my ears before they get boxed.

Being young(ish) and foolish I'm trying to encourage my lady to get involved. Maybe I should quit while I'm ahead.....

Bware, never fear , the guys here are true gentlemen once on the road (I have my spies :) Its only because they're not on the road that one finds references to the fairer sex (Well ah duh Footy, if they were on the road they wouldnt be here now would they ?)
As long as your good lady doesnt wear a T shirt slogan that a guys wife I met at Dalhousie years ago was wearing. It said
"My body is my own but I share it"
She only wore it for about 5 mts before changing. It definately wasn't suitable for mixed company. Sometimes when in the bush we forget about the nicities. Reminds me of one of Len Beadells books where they saw some people coming and his missus had to change and brush her hair. :))

John,

I only make those comments when she is out or tucked away in bed. I'm not suicidal LOLOL

Al,

are you saying she looks over your shoulder so knows what you have written? I have to be polite as Heather gets up to see what has got onto EO and probably has a laugh at what Gramps has said.

F'loosie,

tickled by the though of the lady you met. It wasn't you that took the tee-shirt off to share what was under it was it?

Bware,

May be unwise as I have been told off by a local engineer because his good wife inhabits EO now. Hello Sharyn M. Sharyn has a good source of information , and Des loses his wife for a while during the working day;-)

John,

She has been known to do that and then deliver a short sharp blow to the LHS of my head just to be affectionate :)))))) She's OK with the time I spend here as she figures it's safer than letting me loose in hardware/electrical/gun/4wd stores.

Her logic is that I'll get so much information my poor little brain will overheat and I'll never make a decision to purchase anything LOLOL

As I said in another post to Footie, we are definitely playing out of our league when we decide to get uppity with the fairer sex hahahaha

Blows to the head I get are the one liners that could level a medium sized mud brick villa rather than the straight out physical. Come to think of it, everthing is mental these days. LOL

The main thing with purchases is to make sure they are justified afterwards Al. Like the work I did late yesterday with the winch - worked like a port-a-power on the feed out wagon.

Al in regard to what you said to F'loosie about playing out of our league, I hope you don't have the metaphorical equivilent of the Pol Pot in your family.

LOL .. she let's me get away with a fair bit actually but every now and then she has to bring me down to earth "for my own good" so to speak. Pol Pot ... no, Hitler/Stalin ... close ... ouch!!!!! :))))))

I save the retro-justifications up for the really good stuff. May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Gramps, if you think that's bad...Most of MY money is tied up in HER investment account :)))

hahahaha Footy. SWMBO has always stuck by the adage "What's mine is hers and what's her's is her own" LOLOL

And I thought that I was the only retrenched spy on here :))

I didn't know James Blonde was retrenched; or is that TOP SECRET INFORMATION - only to be viewed by all EO forumites!

Look out Bware. Now they've told you, they'll have to kill you :)))))))))

As long as it's Octapussy, I don't mind :-))))

John, you are the only "voluntary" farmer I've ever heard of. I always thought farming was just plain never ending hard work with a lot of good luck and good management thrown in. Doesn't sound too voluntary to me :((
As for driving around listening to people, hey cut it out ! That's my job :))

Nice JohnR, VERY nice. I guess everything is voluntary, philosophically speaking; thanks. As Dame Edna says, 'I think there's something in that for everybody'.
I'm going through some fundamental changes in the way I view/participate in life and it's amazing how much this site has contributed. Ooooh, that's scarey! I hate pulp psychology but it's probably mid-life crisis time! I'm not thinking of leaving my wife for Bo Derek (not very often, anyway), but it occured to me that there's nothing really stopping us from selling our possessions, storing what's valuable and setting off into the sunset... Of course the mother-in-law just rolled her eyes when I slipped that idea in over dinner tonight LOL

Bware, I thought I had a chance with Bo Peep...ooops Bo Derek when I noticed she liked short tubby funny men. Then I noticed she didn't mind older men. Great. Then I got older and thought hmm, all that chassis and no motor LOL

LOL Footloose, I have one word for you - Viagra. But on our budget maybe that inexpensive product called 'imagination' is better.

Nope I need Niagra not Viagra. Something to keep it going down :))))))

Well I'm glad you guys left that till after midnight. We'll need a 'sealed section' on the Forum soon LOLOLOL

I was actually talking about Bo Derek having all that body and no brain :))) Not me, my chassis is rusting away and I sure could use a new engine LOL

Ahh, Gramps. I was wondering when you'd finish your afternoon nap :)))

hahahaha Footy, Netherlands 1 Serbia & Montenegro 0 so far

Well naturally I thought it would be you with the problem and not Bo Derek, who wouldn't? Although in my mind's eye I do see you as Antonio Banderas.....When he is this voice of the pussycat in Shrek 2

Clogs 1-0 against Monty Pythons eh ? Must be time for me to go and turn the Telly Savalis on and relax in my ironside :))

BWare, there is nothing wrong with looking at Gods art. Its like window shopping at the butchers.
Pussycat in Shrek2...hey cut it out, I resemble that !
More like Rumplestiltskin ...if you've got 18yo eyes LOL

At the butcher's? Man that sounds a bit sick, and not as in 'sick dude'. Is it all those ox tongues? lamb loins? or perhaps pigs feet 'Mr Footloose'....Something you'd like to discuss with us, hmmm?

Hey guys, I don't know a thing about Shrek, you better cut that out of contributions. Monty Python is different as I have the best three of those.

Heather just bought the BBC series of Francis Urquhart's exploits as a politician with the best initials in the political business - FU. Loved it first time around. Its good in camp to ensure you get a good nights sleep to watch a bit of DVD anf three double sided DVDs should provide hours of awake time. There was a nice journo there if I remember rightly to challenge Bo Derek's looks. F'loosie, I reckon you need some fish oil on your chassis.

Being a farmer means a capital base, being a voluntary one is a matter of circumstance, I prefer not to have. I always like return on my capital to be positive. I won't elaborate on my listening role as it also has some decision and leadership roles attached and close to others.

Bware, could have got you some pigs components a week or so back when Rockcrawler was here had we been good enough. No I am not a butcher.

Heather was watching or snoring through the tennis so I read "18 Hours" as I was tucked up to sleep. I didn't catch up who Serbia & Montenegro were playing with. The Age Green Guide forgot they were playing anyone though Serbia and Montenegro were playing one another or them selves. Be a good open game with only one goalie.

You know, John, people have sometimes referred to me as cryptic, but your role a la listening takes the cake :))
I listen to form opinions and to be reasonably well informed. It's an academic thing with no possible use in my situation. I have no agenda, no wheelbarrow to push. It's liberating, and must be an age thing. (or a financial thing. Not sure about that)
The older I get, the more I suspect that work is what gets in the way of living.

Bware, obviously you haven't seen young ladies lining up in any sort of beauty pagent. All body but why the vacant stares and permanent smiles ? Surely the most important thing is the personality? And you can't judge that from just looking, can you ? So you might as well be looking through the butchers window. Its all meat , just in different packages :))))))))))

F'loosie,

Actually I seem to have lost out at listening recently as the guy who organises the listening posts seems to have lost his organisational ability if he had it. Just as well he doesn't come to EO. Gawd, time slips by, ggrrrr

In regard to what you say on the beauty pageant to Bware, I agree. You don't go through life with just a dreamy looking twit partner unless you can't help it or yourself. LOL You need to have a sane and intelligent partner who can help balance you. I think I have seen some pretty surreal art work at times and reckon that truly artistic people may be marvels of partial sanity. Beauty you see on the catwalk is just as surreal and has gone as soon as you mind moves on.

John, listening posts eh ? Sounds political or commercial, and I dont think the latter is the case. Perhaps it's a farming organization that sends people out to listen for the pitter patter of raindrops ? :))
As for beauty it really is in the eye of the beholder. I used to go out with a minor model years ago. It really was a case of beauty and the beast. Thank goodness it didn't last.
A friends sister is an international model, you've all seen here in the glossies. She lives in the big A, works in Milan etc. But when she comes home she's just a somewhat gawky young woman with freckles. (and 5 houses ) Amazing what makeup artists can do. I once told her that if I didn't get out of bed for more than 10K a day I'd never of learned to walk :))

John,

What did you think of '18 Hours'? I heard a radio interview with the guy last week and it sounded interesting.

F'loosie, I will have a week of talking to the company suppliers early in August. Political, I couldn't possibly comment. I won't lower the Forum to political jousting ;-)

I went out with a minor model at one stage too but soooo conceited I couldn't bear it. Mate I wouldn't mind being close to an intelligent gawky woman with freckles though - especially if about 190cm tall. LOL A tall order you may say. Houses would be unlikely to be a benefit to me. Have three here on the farm and another in town through the SF.

Al, am enjoying 18 HOURS but will finish it over the next few days at the rate I put it down late at night. Bought a copy for my mates 60th this weekend at the same time and I am half way through since Friday. With two birthday parties on Saturday night thats no mean feat. I read Kokoda quite quickly while tripping last year in Queensland and that was thicker.