The Jondaryan Woolshed

Friends arrived today

Has been very windy here today, the worst we have had, also quite cool but it has also been a very good day as Graeme and Leslie Coogan have arrived and are staying for a few days, its good to catch up with friends from home.

We also have our friends the Stevens and Bassetts from Brisbane staying here with us for three days.

Forecast is for rain tomorrow, hope they are wrong.

Cheers for now

Just have to love the locals!

One of our towels after a draught horse used it for a handkerchief!

They also love guy ropes apparently

Freezing Here!!!

Had a couple of very cold mornings, 4 degrees and a stiff breeze, supposed to warm up again on Wednesday.

Jan and Ron moved on this morning, heading West and not sure where they will end up but they now have a GPS so wherever they go they will be able to find it!

To Tony and Sue I have an email reporting your blog post but for some reason it is not appearing on the blog, anyway Lucille says we sill stick to the coffee machine. Depending on type of whip it takes from one to three days, for me anyway! Oh and happy birthday to you both and pleased to hear the Kings Meadows Cuisine is up to your standards!

All the best to "The Coffee Club" guess this Wednesday is the last for awhile?

To all the people packed ready to travel, go and unpack all that stuff that you think you might need!

Look forward to seeing some of you soon.

Resting up

Have spent the last few days resting up, I have done some whip making demo's on the old school back verandah and Lucille caught up with our washing, nice and quiet here in the park now.

We took the Storays for a drive today to Toowoomba, had to get a few things, the girls got some bargains!! from Lincraft and Spotlight, I have an order for two red hide whips so had to buy more leather, $320 later and I had half a bullock hide, maybe have to sell a few more whips I think! Had lunch in town, back to van for afternoon tea/happy hour.

Heritage Festival

A very hectic three days involvement here with the Jondaryan Heritage Festival is now over, Loved every minute of it!

Had a great time with all the other volunteers (well over one hundred of us) Lucille spent all her time helping the camp cook Audrey feed us all, she was in the kitchen by 5.30am and not back to the van till after washing up the tea dishes, some very long days and all the cooking done on two very old wood fired ovens in a bough shed, only traditional stuff here!

My time was divided between helping run the camp oven stew stand and working in the whip plaiters demonstration shed, it was great to meet some of the other members of the whip plaiters association that I am a member off, only a couple of us in Tasmania but this area has many members and they meet on a regular basis to run workshops etc.

On Saturday night we had a BBQ followed by a bush dance in the wool shed, the place was packed to the rafters and a great night, everyone joining in with the dancing and all the kids had a great time as did the adults, in fact the whole weekend has been a wonderful family event, we can highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.

On Monday Jan and Ron arrived, good to see some friends from home, today we had happy hour and tea together compliments of left over catering food that was given to Lucille.

Looking forward to a day off tomorrow, the Storays and us are going for a drive to Nobby and will have lunch at the pub there that is famous for being the pub where Steele Rudd used to frequent and write most of his material for the Dad and Dave serials and his books.

The weather has been mostly very good, sunny days and not to hot, in fact we have had a couple of frosty mornings, quite chilly, making us feel right at home!

Jondaryan Heritage Festival

Start of the Grand Parade

 Didn't like the stew

Couple of my whipmaker peers at the festival

The kids had a great time

Some of our sale items - above and below

Main Entrance to Jondaryan Wool Shed

Camp oven stew

Had a couple of showers today but they did not last very long and the sun was soon out again, I soon got a sweat up digging a couple of post holes!!! The things we do on holidays. They are looking after us well here though at Jondaryan Woolshed, morning teas of scones and damper, hot lunches all provided, lucky we are doing lots of walking to work all this food off!

Two of Lucille's quilts and a couple of my belts were sold from the shop today, it's good to be not spending money and actually making some for a change.
Did some whip repairs as well today and more whips coming tomorrow so all looking well at the moment.

Cheers for now Chris and Lucille

Long Drive

Big drive today, hooked up the van and travelled about 100 metres from the caravan park to the creek paddock, still have power and water and a  much better view, some of the neighbours are a bit cheeky though, I left the car door open and a draught horse decided to have a look inside and give my steering wheel a good licking!

Put most of mine and Lucille' goods in the shop today, hopefully we will sell a bit of gear.

Did some volunteering this morning setting up power boxes and power outlets for all the campers that will be arriving here over the coming days, it is a long weekend here and the Woolshed is having its annual Heritage festival over the three days.

The view from our annexe

 "Friends"