When Sport Got Stuck Under The Old House

On the day of Caterina’s birthday party Shane came around because Justin went to the party. I had just finished the plans for my new pedal boat. When Shane and I went with mum up to the woolshed to get some boards and drums for it we took Sport our little fox terrier as well. There is and old abandoned house and he just happened to go under it. After we had finished getting all the materials we noticed that Sport had gone under the old house looking for rats! We called him for about ten minutes and he wouldn’t come. When Shane and I had nearly finished the raft and it was quite dark Sport turned up. He had realized that we weren’t there and ran 3km down the road and back home! He was dirty, smelt like poo and was sweaty. A true DIRTY DOG.

A Bit Of A Disaster

When it rained a few weeks ago I had my raft in the river. Justin’s one was in there too. When we got all that rain the other day the river came up. I had my raft tied to a secure log in the water. Justin had his tied to a log closer to the bank. When the flood came up it took Justin’s raft with it. My raft was tied to a log that was now under the water so when the flood raised the water level my raft got taken under. All the drums got filled up with water and when the river was high you couldn’t see my raft! After the flood had gone down I went to check it. The only thing that went missing was my oars and a small hammer that I had on the back other than that my raft was O.K. I haven’t checked it lately though so who knows it could be gone! If it is I am going to build a pedal boat for the pond.

Our XPV

About two months ago Justin and I went halves with our possum plucking money and we bought an XPV. For those of you who do not know what an XPV is, it is an Extreme Performance Vehicle. You can drive it around on the ground or it can take off and fly! Our best flight is when we launched it from our hill and it went about 50 metres down the paddock then caught the wind and flew back towards us then it carried on and went over the pond, under the power lines and over the road and into the other paddock. When it got over there we had to walk a long way to go and get it. There was no gate for about 200 metres up the road and then we still had to go quite a way to get it. When we tried to fly it back it ran out of battery and we had to go and charge it on the charger. It is a great toy.