DRY AS A BONE opinion column in Bush Telegraph by Gerard Walsh - A lighter look at rural life

IT IS not easy driving along the highway and seeing some grass that would keep a few livestock alive losing its protein by the day.

Last week, I reported that there was two-metre-high grass near a highway bridge at Sandy Creek known as Rabbit's Bridge.

While the height of the grass on the Greymare Creek flats is a lot less, the grass looks like it would have made fair hay if cut and baled in summer.

I recall, 20-odd years ago, deciding I'd better pick up all the wire and rubbish outside our sheds before the longer grass returned. Little did I know the majority of the next 20 years would be drought.

There has been plenty of time to pick up the bits of rubbish, old nails, etc, in the years since and at the weekend it was interesting to see that the fire west of Ballandean stopped close to buildings as there wasn't enough fuel (grass) to keep it going.

No one expected the North Korea and US leaders to get together so there must be a way we can start baling the grass on the side of the road in future years.

I started talking about the long grass after a 1000-litre tank fell off my ute on the way to Greymare a couple of weekends ago.

There has been no definite lead but I can't expect too much on something worth just in three figures.

One person suggested, seeing it was poly, it might have disintegrated when it hit the ground but the remnants should be there.

I have worked out in the past couple of weeks that there are a lot of readers of this column - as I have got a lot of "Have you found your tank?” in the distance.

Thank you for reading a bit about the lighter side of farming each week.