It’s when you shear the sheep’s face and crutch…just to give them a bit of a spruce up.  I know…I KNOW what you’re thinking.  WHY… would you want a job shearing sheep bums all day!  My thoughts exactly…hahaha

Just to show you the end product, here’s Collin the pet sheep walking home after his makeover.  I wasn’t quick enough to get a before photo.

Wills job is to keep the pens full of sheep for the shearers

While everyone else is hard at work the kids and I have been busy exploring.

We were in such a rush when we came here we forgot the school books…oh well…we had to make do with this as our classroom!!!  The kids didn’t mind one bit!

These nasty things are called three cornered jacks.  They run rampant out here in the outback.  They’re as hard as wood and it doesn’t matter which way they lie, there’s a hard spike ready to stick into your feet.  The kids soon learnt to always wear shoes.

Just hanging out at the shed

After a long days work it’s time to relax.  It’s starting to get a bit cold already here in the outback.  The open fire in the dining room was really cosy.  Jill lent us an Australian history book with a lot of information about the shearers in the olden days and the old Aussie songs like “Click goes the shears”.  It was quite cool reading some of the stories while being in a setting that they would have experienced back in those days.