With Beef 2012 looming fast, it was decided that the best place for our family this week-end just gone was at home. We quietly withdrew the boys’ nominations from the nearby camp draft and settled into some chores, book work and the annual Grass Budget. (The budget which is far more fun & exciting than the cash-flow budget…)
Around lunch time Rob & I were called from the office to be greeted with this little set up under the mango tree. The boys decided to make lunch, in the garden…campfire and all.
They carted the schoolroom furniture out along with the camping chairs. We had a fine array of food, sizzling sausages, onion along with apples, grapes and of course the standby syrup sandwich.
We shared the tea “boiled in the billy”. Mind you this was all a mere 10 metres from my kitchen window!
On Sunday we ventured further afield with some more grass budgeting and a few fences to repair.
Once again, the kids packed lunch and all the gear, including a rug for baby Eliza.
The lure of the creek meant Andrew was left manning the sausages….
We didn’t mention the burnt toast….
but instead enjoyed the smokey flavours of a sausage & egg sandwich with onions on the side…ably prepared by these three little men.
They even found room in the lunchbox for a packet of marshmallows.
But after devouring such a treat at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon, they returned to work “estimating” how many stock days per hectare. All part of a grass budgeting week-end.
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