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Pumpkins for sale. People sell their products on side of the roads.
They leave a box of products there and a little metal box where you
can drop the money.
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Anzac day celebration in Woodstock.
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Roosters arranging their girls for the nights sleep. We had about 7 hens.
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Kitti sitting on eggs.
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A real mother hen.
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Could have built a little bit better chook pen.
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We got more than enough eggs.
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Our colourful poultry.
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Often cows came and ate our garden. There was lots of their poo on the fields.
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After May it didn't rain near at all that year. In june it was completely dry already.
Had to irrigate the garden to get something green.
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The black bantam mother was bravely sitting on eggs. Many of the little
chickens died already as babies.
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In June 2004 we found a duck in Northern beaches in friends' garden. We brought him home and named him Elvis.
He was living with the chicken and roosters.
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Trees were flowering so beautifully.
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Cow poo everywhere. I collected it and used as fertiliser.
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June 19th 2004 we went to the Woodstock dump and saw abandoned cat there.
We had actually seen his mother and siblings a few days before but now
rest of the family was gone and he was the only one left. We brought him
home and named him Misu. That is a Finnish cat's name. Timo's family used
to have a cat by that name when Timo was a kid.
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In July the little Maxi dog was bitten by a dingo (likely dingo rather than
another dog). We had heart dingo's howling in the area a lot and they came
quite close to the house because of chicken. Maxi was very sick for a few weeks.
Maxi belonged to the owner of the house but in April he started living with
us.
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The house needed painting. Timo did some.
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The gas gun was used to scare dingo's.
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We had 4 cats now.
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One day a chicken hawk went into the chicken pen but couldn't get out. It
was flying around the pen. Maxi dog was trying to catch it from outside.
Roosters brought hens inside the coop and then went to attack the hawk.
Finally the bird managed to fly away.
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On Timo's birthday August 13th we took a ferry to Magnetic Island.
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View to Townsville from the ferry.
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