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The Ringer (Savage Sams dad) giving my grandson Young Maverick some one on one hints (Thanks Ringer and thanks also to Ringers Ruby) - Waco Kid RO'ing Young Maverick - Jenorado & Ringers Ruby -

An Australian cafe owner in Canada faces having to destroy $8000 in Vegemite after a fight with Canadian authorities — but he has won the backing of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. In an unlikely diplomatic spat, the award-winning cafe run by a dual Australian-Canadian citizen has been happily importing and selling Vegemite to expats and curious locals for years before being hit with an order to cease and desist. https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/north-america/canada/anthony-albanese-backs-australian-cafe-owner-in-canadian-vegemite-fight/news-story/f5549bea5a5d266fb5483af2f921b6c4

Jenorado and my grandson Young Maverick (he also won a buckle taking out First place Junior) -

Thanks Eyesa it was a great three days mate.

Platypus babies are called "Puggles". Yes, you needed to see this today

It was a great three days of competition at the Southern Regulators 32nd Annual Last Posse Shoot at Nowra Rifle Club over Friday, Saturday & Sunday aptly titled - The Wild West Show. Wild Hoss and his lovely wife Mrs. Hoss and lovely daughter Sitting Duck outdid themselves on the catering and hosting, three days of sumptuous breakfasts, lunch's, dinners in the main hall and snacks from the chuck wagon! Great to meet Jackaroo and great to be posse'd up with World Champion Savage Sam and see him in action over the 10 stages taking out overall first place. It was one of those great weekends that when its over your left with that auld lang syne feeling. Jenorado and I did ok coming home with 3 buckles. Posse 1 & 2 Posse 3 & 4

I do like my Bond Snake Slayer.

https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/de-extinct-dire-wolves-born-in-lab-offer-hope-for-tasmanian-tiger-revival/ There's peeps walking around that look like that now

Shooting mine for 3+ years......love it! Yes stiff when new, after a few (make that a lot) of cases....now its a LOT nicer to open. Zero issues with it. P.S I lucked out with some ridiculously beautifully figured wood with mine.

Always interesting to read an o'seas experts opinion.

Folks want 'em - https://usedguns.com.au/gun/710756/ https://usedguns.com.au/gun/710758/ https://usedguns.com.au/gun/696552/

‘THE WITCHETTY GRUB’ The witchetty grub is one of the most famous and popular from the nation’s bush tucker menu. For many generations the larval stage of the large cossid wood moth has been chosen as a key source of protein by the Aboriginal communities. Growing up to 12cm in length, they bury themselves about 60cm below the ground feeding on the root sap of the Witchetty bush. However, the name ‘witchetty’ is now used for any ‘fat, white, wood-boring grub’ including swift moths, longicorn beetles and other wood moths found in Australia; and are said to hold a similar taste. Between November and January, Aboriginal women and children from many tribes would find these grubs by digging around the roots of the Witchetty bush. Historically, witchetty grubs have been a staple for Aboriginal communities, and today is still an important food and nutritious snack when living in the bush. Acting as a rich source of protein, it has been found that ’10 witchetty grubs are sufficient to provide the daily needs of an adult’. The liquid centre of a raw witchetty grub tastes like almonds. Witchetty grubs can also be cooked on hot ashes or barbecued. When cooked, their skin becomes crisp like a roast chicken, whilst the inside meat becomes white and chewy. Depending on your taste buds, these cooked grubs will taste either like chicken or prawns with peanut sauce. Often eaten as an appetiser, they are a quick and easy meal, rich in protein. Not only are witchetty grubs a staple food, but they also serve as one of the top Aboriginal bush medicines. By crushing the grub into a paste and spreading over injuries, burns and wounds are seen to heal more effectively.

Whilst rabbit meat sold well at the markets, pelts – at first – attracted little commercial interest. Yet by the 1880s, Australian rabbit skins were being auctioned in their millions in London, a centre for felt- and hat-making. In Australia, hat-makers established themselves where rabbits were most plentiful: in Tasmania, Victoria (where, according to Warwick Eather and Drew Cottle’s recent study, the number of hat manufactories doubled between 1870 and 1880) and in New South Wales. Whatever the Australasian pastoralist may think to the contrary, the world cannot do without Australasia’s rabbits. Percy O Lennon, The Queenslander, 1929. From the start of the twentieth century to nearly 1950, Australian hatters and furriers bought around one billion rabbit skins, however most were still shipped overseas. Over this time, the majority of export skins went to North America, where buyers sought rabbits as cheaper alternatives to, and even substitutes for, luxury furs such as sable. With creative preparation, rabbit pelts could be made to look like (and were successfully sold as) fashionably desirable furs. Accordingly, rabbit skin prices rose dramatically. Australian papers duly reported on potential increases in the cost of hats, then a widely worn item of men’s fashion. Demand was such that anyone able to catch rabbits could make money by selling skins. PHOTO - About 6,200 rabbits in crates at Woodstock, New South Wales, 1906.

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