The photos on this page were all from quite a few years ago. I do have more recent pictures and will put them on here as soon as I can. In the meantime, this is what we all looked like a few years back. 

On the left there's a picture of me with my mum and brother, Cody. This picture was taken in early February 2002. On the right there's a picture of my mum Sarah at the Pearl of the North Rodeo, Darwin a few years ago. We always went to as many rodeos as we could and spent a fair amount of time travelling to and fro across the countryside.

Above, my brother Cody riding High Tower at Warwick in 1999. He has a very distinctive riding style and it's easy to recognise him even at a distance without being told it's him on the bull.

On the right, me at the Pearl of the North Rodeo, Darwin in 1999. This was the same rodeo that the photo of my mum, above was taken.  My nana took this photo and nagged me into putting it on here. Well, you know how these nana's are, and I like a peaceful life, soooooo ... She also said something about the gap in my teeth being a right of passage - whatever that means hahaha. I just wanted all my teeth back!!!

We live in a lovely little house in the country.  Our nearest town is Katherine and it's about 12 kilometres away.  That's Katherine as seen from the air in the photo on the left.  It's not a very big place and when I was younger, I used to go into town each day for school.   I went to boarding school for a year, learned a lot and had a great time. I made a lot of friends there and missed them when I returned to school in Katherine again.  It was good to be back in my home town again though.

If you click on the map at the right, it will open to a larger map so you can see where Katherine is located.  It's right near the top of Australia in crocodile country!  You'll need to click on your back button to return to this page. 
 

I think this picture is really great.  It was taken during a helicopter muster at Limbunya Station in the Northern Territory.  You can't see any cattle in the picture ... but they were there all right.  This picture is really just to show you how beautiful the Australian bush is.  Can you imagine being out in this country?  Just look at the cloud reflections in the water!  Where do you find rivers like this?   We were lucky enough to be at Limbunya for a while, and it's a truly lovely place. There are gems like this in many places in the Australian bush. You can go for hundreds of miles and see nothing but scrubby trees, sparse grass, parched desert etc etc, then out of the blue, you'll go around a rise and be faced with the most beautiful scenery. It's quite amazing.

We used to have two little dogs called Jack and Jill.  Now we only have Jill.  Jack and Jill were both Jack Russell terriers.   Jack was a real ratbag  but Jill is just a sweet natured pet.  Jack got into every bit of mischief going.  If something naughty happened, you can bet your cotton socks that he was in the middle of it!  Jack was my dog.  He was such a little devil (hahaha).  I miss him an awful lot, but we still have Jill and she's just the cutest little pet.  We used to have another little Jack Russell/Terrier dog as well called Jenny.  She was really cute too ... and just as much a ratbag as Jack!  The two of them were always into mischief somewhere.  

Jack gave us all a big fright a few years ago when he went after a cane toad and got poisoned.  He was only a little fellow and we all thought he was going to die.  We got to the vet's surgery at the speed of light and the vet stayed up all night taking care of Jack until she was sure he was going to be OK.  It felt like we all held our breath all night until we knew Jack was alright.  It's awful seeing your pet so terribly sick.  I hope it never happens again to any other dogs, that's for sure.

We have had horses at different times as well.  My mum had a bull dogging horse called Spook which she used to ride in Steer Undecorating events sometimes.   He was a real big boy!  Sometimes I rode him and it was like sitting on top of the world he was that big!  We were very sad when Spook died and we miss him an awful lot.  He was a part of our lives for quite a while and every time I go into his paddock, I expect to see him there.  I don't think we'll ever forget Spook.

I have had two ponies and a horse as well and have put some information about these on my 'About Me' page.  

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01 Oct 2009 08:55 PM