There are stones out in the back paddock.
I went up to a farm where my besty Alex was working for a year. The property was his great-uncles. A fair sized wheat/sheep farm near Goomaling (gotta love those aboriginal place names).

1 night we went for a wander with a 6-pack and a big, fat doobie out into the fields.

We had a few drinks, smoked the joint and spent a few hours staring at the clear, un-clouded sky & talking on our backs in a big wheat field.

It was fun and we both learned a lot about each other (even tho we'd been friends for about 7 years by then).

About 2 years later Alex decided to top himself.
I remember that night with a lot of warmth and happiness.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 28 May 2012, 11:49, 5 replies)

Nice memory
Shame about the context.

Click
(OTT, Mon 28 May 2012, 12:25, closed)

^ this

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:17, closed)

Hey
it's not like it was the closest we ever got, but it fit the brief and it was something we both remembered with a warm, fuzzy glow.

My daughter always insists on going to "visit" him when we go to the cemetery where he and my mum were buried. Even tho she never knew him (my daughter that is. My mum was at his funeral).
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 29 May 2012, 10:38, closed)

That would be Goomalling, I believe. I grew up nearly next door in York, and worked on farms around the district. Way to skive off was to ask the local farmer(s) about accidents; that took care of the day. My only big accident was getting leg caught when throwing hay bales off the back of a trailer - leg slipped down between the stacked bales just as I threw the bale - leg rotated from knee up - foot bit didn't. Bugger! Old joke from York days: Authorities have identified a new form of rural child abuse: Leave the farm to the kids.
(Eumundiman, Tue 29 May 2012, 4:38, closed)

Alex managed to roll the landy while he was there - car was fucked
he took off a little bit of bark but was whinging cause he didn't get any time off.
Stress leave, pffft!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 29 May 2012, 7:25, closed)