Lynray Station …Come what may and love it!

It’s somewhere around here…

Lynray Station is a new shed that Paewai Shearing has picked up. Because they haven’t been here before they didn’t know what condition the shearing quarters would be in, or what facilities they had (supposedly) for cooking ect. Stafford was asked to be the cook for this shed. He was quietly happy about it after breaking his back shearing the last month.

Well… did we get a surprise when we got here and looked inside the kitchen. This is what we found. A wood fire oven and an iddy biddy sink with a cold water pipe for the tap.

The old wood fire oven

The iddy biddy sink

What a setup!!! Hahaha. It felt like we were in a reality survivor show and were given an impossible task!!!

The term “Come what may and love it” comes from a talk by Joseph B Wirthlin. It became my mantra when Stafford suggested we move to the outback last year. When I saw this kitchen it reminded me of that mantra.

So Stafford was up 4am the next morning firing up the oven and figuring out how it all worked (with me cheering him on beside him).

Well…he made the perfect bacon and eggs breakfast fit for a shearing gang. Morning smoko was a winner with corn fritters, chicken and rice for lunch, scones for afternoon smoko…and he made the meanest roast dinner! Honestly, it came out perfect! He was definitely in his element by dinner time!

Stafford ended up loving this old oven. It must be a gem in the winter time, heating up the place…but the exact opposite in the summer time!