61mm of lovely steady rain down here and fine outside at the moment...

Yeah weary the doom and gloom FB pages have fallen silent today as the great rain event of Tuesday night in to wednesday hasnt yet eventuated..

Much like Cyclone Malia that some FB pages had hitting as a Cat4/5...

and bunyip I guess your chomper situation is a great excuse to be able to buy only the best melt in the mouth Wagyu ribeye steaks is it...

Geeez Sheridan, only 25mm here and we aren’t that far apart.

We just had 20mm here..thats a nice drop SM..its quite humid here today

I put out a row of Cherry tomatoes today..My original row from a month or so back were actually getting some black areas on the stem before I replanted from the pots so i planted them deeper and some obviously made new roots from the covered stems and are now 1m bushs on stakes with fruit on while some curled up and died...I just overplant knowing that some are going to kark it..
I picked a bucket of cucumbers the other day but the largest vine just curled up overnight..but some are still going strong...Not sure what variety they are but an old fella has a stall at the servo and has been growing them for 20 years or more around here and they are seeds from those...Whilst Lebanese and continental and burpless all get varying degrees of powdery mildew these ones just dont and they grow rampantly...

You did well to get Rump for $13 a kg Bunyip...Down here at our IGA you cant get a whole rump for less then about $20kg and then its always a bit hit or miss as to whether its steakable or going into the crockpot or curry....Bingle bay beef is also available locally ..its Blenners brand where they bring down the weaners and store cattle from their tablelands property up Kirrima Range road west of Blenco falls and fatten them on the Brachiara pasture on the hills on the back road to Bingil bay....Its nice looking beef and sought after but you pay quite a premium for it..

and yeah i have never tried wagyu..could it possibly be any better then a prime Rib fillet..?..a good one of them is juicy and fatty enough for me..

Good morning :)

34mm here this morning and showers still blowing through.
Got totally soaked on our walk from a couple of short sharp showers.

Scott our IGA is affiliated with one down south and seems to get good beef and has some good specials.
I've had a bit of Blenner's beef and it is good stuff but out of our price range most of the time.
We tried a couple of different Wagyu bit in Japan, the real high score stuff was to much in my opinion
but the lower grade was very nice & yes I'd say better than a good rib eye. :)
Some of the best meat we have eaten was old cow, full of flavour and not tough at all.
The thing with Daintree beef & Blenner has to watch it too is killing when they are full of water and
the meat has no flavour, when the grass is low in nutrients after a long wet and they are not doing
their best is not the time to be killing.

Cheers

12mm down here and a bit humid and drizzly..

Do we think thats it for the Monsoon and any other potential cyclones..?..SST is currently just over 27c..

Interesting thoughts about the feed content and sappy growth there Bunyip..I remember seeing some covered movable feed troughs around the paddocks at Blenners..id imagine they would suppliment high protein feed during such periods and to attain the required fat scores as i never seen any actual farming or forage crops done there....It was originally a dairy farm and so have silos ther for grain storage then they grew bananas on it..its very nice red volcanic soil on the hills running to alluvial soil on the creek flats.......they also put out a lot of Urea or some nitrogen ferts..you can regularly see the lines on the hills where in patchs the fert spreader didnt quite reach....Some of it is very steep country and I'm stuffed if I'd be driving a tractor down some of the ridgelines there...about 30 years ago a mate of mine who adjoins there property heard faint screams in the distance and upon investigating found one of the Blenners trapped underneath a rolled tractor on a steep hillside..Very lucky man to make a full recovery..

Just 5mm in my gauge this morning.

Scott I don't know much about that area, but I also love getting taken down a rabbit hole when you start on local history.
That Volcanic soil would be better than anything up this way.
Yes the covered feeders are for supplements & minerals that they need and don't get from the grass.
The hills scare me, had a good mate from up the village, died a few years back but he had taken tractors up and down
most of the Daintree valley hills, crazy bugger. Sounds like old Blenner was very lucky.
Like anything some people put a lot more into their beef than others, unfortunately you don't always get the return to
cover the extra and that is why so many just do the minimum and sell [censored]beef into the market.


Have fun plinking


Cheers

Edited by user Saturday, 18 April 2026 10:27:32 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I finally dragged the new generator out of the box. With the cyclones around lately it gave me an excuse. A bit of overkill but it should keep the neighbourhood beer fridges cool as well in an emergency . A photo:

Another lovely day here, no rain overnight and blue sky this morning.

Thanks Bunyip, I'll follow that good advice. It's funny, the cyclone risk was so low I haven't even bothered to put fuel or oil in it yet.

Apr: 190.5mm
YTD: 1775mm