first-hand experience at farm

Faye invited me and Pila to their farm to see the harvest.

Jeff was doing the harvest of barley.

She recommended me taking a ride in the header with Jeff, to get an authentic experience of harvesting, which was great.

The front part of the header is 11 meters long, with lines of blade.

Since they own big farms here, it takes weeks to complete the harvest, quite a bit hard work and toil.

Pila took the photos for me.

falling apart ...

Yesterday the bed in my room sunk from the middle.
I had to push up the mattress to fix it.
The mattress is heavy, made me tired.

Pila was over for dinner.
After dinner she found the table was in jeopardy of loosing one of its legs.
I went into the studio to find a broken hammer!

It seems everything in this building was falling apart.
I fixed two doors since my arrival, and get the router function again.
The drape fell down once.

I just hope the house wouldn't be falling apart either.

Two men, three camels and their car

Today I went to Telecenter to borrow the book "A man, his dog and a dead Kangaroo".


They do have, but someone borrowed it and hasn't returned.
The woman said IASKA should get one for themselves, because every resident artist coming in ask for that book, all wanted to read.

I walked out without that book, and seeing on street some strange scene.

Look like some one kneeled down with a lot of bundles on his back and everywhere on his body.
I hesitated for a few minutes, and decided to go closer and had a clear look.


It was three camels! Two men with the camels are heading to Melborne all the way from Perth. They said they got the camels from a camel farm in Perth.
Couldn't believe my eyes that in this heat, 3 camels showed up and resting under the shade in Kellerberrin, beside the Great Eastern Highway!

I didn't get the book of "A man, his dog and a dead kangaroo",
instead I found "Two men, three camels and their car."

(At back was a train running.)

IASKA and its current show

Hit the road

Pila和我，以及我們的小白車

應該這麼說，
Kellerberrin像是個somewhere of nowhere,
這裡的人和東後寮居民一樣，
都說鄉下地方，nothing to see.

事實上也是，白天，三位60 something, 70 something and 80的老太太輪流來gallery顧攤，
晚上，除了呼嘯而過的trucks和一、兩趟火車之外，安靜得很，
Pila早我一星期到，她很高興我來了，有伴，不然還真孤單

julie the walker 2007-11-03 22:41:47 Trackback Comment