Go Cowboys.

Our region's team in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition the NQ Cowboys have made the Grand Final this year, hopefully on Sunday they'll have a lovely win rather than another painful loss, it took a decade to recover from their first GF loss.
Jimmy showed his support on our fence today.
In case any foreigners or Victorians read this Rugby League is not Rugby, it's a different game and the main winter sport in NSW and QLD. This is the game Jarryd Hayne played before going to the USA to work hard on being a part of the NFL competition, not Rugby as I've heard some USA commentators allude to.

Flood victim.

This bench grinder looks buggered right now but hopefully after a pair of bearings that I've ordered arrive I'll have it back running again.

Daisy scores another clock.

Daisy's built-in clock is in the instrument cluster so only visible by the driver, and also is quite inaccurate as well as taking a bit of work to adjust, so I bought a new pretty one for her.
Working out how and where to mount it was quite a head scratcher but I settled on drilling a hole and using a plastic rivet style clip to mount a hanging strip for the clock.
I suppose like many owners I've never put a CD in the radio's slot, car makers seem to be always years behind the times but at least daisy has a USB input built in, so I didn't have to rig up a Jimmy device to do it.

Street view comes to Philippines.

I knew it was coming and now Google has started its coverage of Philippines. This is the highest bit of highway they have, and I can guarantee we don't have any roads as high as this, nor any mountains in mainland Australia for that matter. This is nearly as north as their coverage goes so far, it stops just a little further north where it also claims to be the high point but Google's usually accurate altitude favours here.
So far it only goes about 100 km south of Manila, so Olivia and Jimmy are eagerly awaiting shots from Albay.

Never any Cowboys merchandise.

Four cars are left, two are Roosters but that's no surprise as even in their own area they have few supporters, unless you grab stuff in NQ when it's freshly stocked and at top dollar there's never any Cowboys goods for sale.

Nope nothing Cowboys.

Mosaic Yasi.

Quite poignant for those of us here but not a storyteller mosaic.

Getting up to date here with some modern looking gear.

The Lucinda jetty ships our sugar far and wide.

For visitors finding the mosaic is not a simple task. The highway through town follows the green dashes, a detour along the blue dashes will lessen the legwork, be warned though if you decide on the roomy northern car park it has a one-way entry. The magenta line I've drawn on Mercers lane marks the location of the impressive 50 metre collection of mosaics. For those who bank Westpac it's right next door.

Mosaic again.

Mechanisation comes.

Some will no longer have jobs.

Ingham gets a skyscraper and aerial spraying means another farm job contracted out.

Into our time now, showing the show plus a little splash of the end of cutting season festival Maraka that happens in October (before the season ends) and horse racing which is universal to practically every town in Australia, including Betoota which hasn't had any residents for a decade, and only a population of 1 for decades before that, but it does give the girls a chance to dress up.