Walk A Crooked Mile.

Nikki

2011-03-20T02:09:00.001-07:00

Night Harness Racing Bray Raceway Ballarat March 19 2011

2011-03-19T16:48:00.001-07:00

Race 7; A.J.Prendergast Memorial Oaks Trial, pacers 3yo fillies, 2200 metres, mobile start.

Results; 4-10-7-6

Race 8; Pace, 2200 metres, mobile start.

Results; 3-6-2-5

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Night Harness Racing Bray Raceway Ballarat March 19 2011

2011-03-19T16:32:00.001-07:00

Race 4; 3yo Pace final, 1710 metres, mobile start.

Results; 9-4-10-5

Race 5; Pace, 2200 metres, mobile start.

Results; 11-8-6-2

Race 6; Pace, 1710 metres, mobile start.

Results 1-8-9-7

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Night Harness Racing Bray Raceway Ballarat March 19 2011

2011-03-19T16:01:00.001-07:00

Race1; Pace, 1710 metres, mobile start.

Results; 3-2-1-10

Race 2; Trotters handicap, 2710 metres, standing start.

Results; 5-8-6-3

Race 3; 2yo Pace, 1710 metres, mobile start.

Results; 10-3-1-9

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Night Harness Racing Bray Raceway March 10

2011-03-15T03:16:00.001-07:00

Race 6; trotters handicap 2200 metres standing start.

Results; 9-1-11-13.

Race 7;Pacers Handicap. 2200 metres standing start

Results; 3-10-8-2

Race 8; 3yo pace 2nd heat. 1710 metres mobile start

Results; 2-3-9-6

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Night Harness Racing Bray Raceway March 10

2011-03-15T02:55:00.001-07:00

race 4; Pace 1710 metres mobile start.

results; 1-3-7-8

Race 5; Pace 2200 metres mobile start.

Results; 9-2-8-3

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Night Harness Racing Bray Raceway March 10

2011-03-15T02:39:00.001-07:00

Race 1; Pace 2200 metres mobile start.

Results; 11-10-9-12

Race 2; 3yo trotters handicap. 2200 metres, standing start.

Results; 9-10-7-6

Race 3; 3yo pace 1710 metres mobile start.

Results; 9-2-1-8

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Night Harness Racing Bray Raceway March 10 2011

2011-03-14T04:04:00.001-07:00

Results and pics to this meeting will be posted shortly.

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My little girl is coming home…

2011-03-04T01:45:00.001-08:00

PSSSST Hey Nikki………………

Its time for you to come home little one.

Bray Raceway Night Harness Racing March 1

2011-03-02T02:50:00.001-08:00

Race 7; Pace 1710 metres Mobile Start.

Results; 11-1-8-10

Race 8; Trot 2200 metres Mobile start.

Results; 1-7-3-9

Bray Raceway Night Harness Racing March 1

2011-03-02T02:25:00.001-08:00

Race 5; Pace 2200 metres mobile start.

Results; 1-8-10-2

Race 6; 3 yo Pace 1710 metres Mobile start.

Results; 10-7-2-5

Bray Raceway Night Harness Racing March 1

2011-03-02T02:06:00.001-08:00

Race 4; Pace 1710 metres Mobile start.

Results; 1-4-3-2

Bray Raceway Night Harness Racing March 1

2011-03-02T01:51:00.001-08:00

Race 3; Trotters handicap 2200 metres Standing Start.

Results; 8-10-2-5

Bray Raceway Night Harness racing March 1

2011-03-02T01:41:00.001-08:00

Race 1; Pace 1710 metres mobile start.

Results; 9-4-3-8

Race2; Trotters Handicap 2200 metres Standing start.

Results; 4-1-11-2

Fuckin’ Looks like I’m home…

2011-02-21T01:46:00.001-08:00

Yeah its taken a fuckin’ lifetime to get to this point. Thanks to those who made so many fuckin’ promises.

Ahh look at that . . . a bath. . . an there’s the water supply.

And that’s the transport parked up . . . .

Now jus’ waiting on my horse . . .

Bray Raceway Feb.19 2011

2011-02-21T01:35:00.001-08:00

Race 8; Ballarat Vicbred Trophy.

Results; 3-4-5-6

Bray Raceway Feb.19 2011

2011-02-21T01:34:00.001-08:00

Race 7; mighty soft pace

Results; 5-10-6-9

Bray Raceway Feb.19 2011

2011-02-21T01:33:00.001-08:00

Race 6; drevers signs 3 yo pace final.

Results; 2-9-7-5

Bray Raceway Feb.19 2011

2011-02-20T02:57:00.001-08:00

Race 5; PFD food services pace

Results; 11.6.2.12

Bray Raceway Feb. 19 2011

2011-02-20T02:42:00.001-08:00

Race 4;Plover Security pace.

Results; 2-3-1-7

Bray Raceway Feb.19 2011

2011-02-20T02:20:00.001-08:00

Race 3; Milestone chemicals 3 yo trotters handicap

Results; 3-9-5-4

Bray Raceway Feb. 19 2011

2011-02-20T02:01:00.001-08:00

Race 2; Ballarat Laundry 3 yo pace.

Results; 6-8-7-1

Bray Raceway Feb.19 2011

2011-02-19T05:18:00.001-08:00

Race 1; Happy Birthday Darren Fitzpatrick Trotters Handicap.

Results; 1-8-3-11

And the rest get posted tomorrow.

Old Ballan Cemetery

2011-02-17T18:28:00.001-08:00

Bray Raceway 10 Feb. 2011

2011-02-11T14:39:00.001-08:00

Race 8; Watershed commercial roofing Vicbred Trotters Handicap.

Results; 6-10-4-9-5

It is scenes like this make it all so worthwhile.

Bray Raceway 10 Feb. 2011

2011-02-11T14:37:00.001-08:00

Race 7; Victorian Harness Racing Sports Club Provincial Cup (8th Heat).

Results; 6-1-5-2

Bray Raceway 10 Feb. 2011

2011-02-11T14:36:00.001-08:00

Race 6; Smiths Trucks Trotters Handicap.

Results; 2-3-10-1

Bray Raceway 10 Feb. 2011

2011-02-11T14:35:00.001-08:00

Race 5; Smarts parts Pace

Results; 5-9-6-2

Bray Raceway 10 Feb. 2011

2011-02-11T14:34:00.001-08:00

Race 4; Noel Mahar Accounting 3YO pace 2nd heat.

Results; 5-7-2-9

Bray Raceway 10 Feb. 2011

2011-02-10T23:38:00.001-08:00

Race 3; Inland Motor Bodyworks Trotters Handicap.

Results; 10-4-2-5-8

Bray Raceway 10 Feb. 2011

2011-02-10T23:37:00.001-08:00

Race 1; American Hotel 2YO pace.

Results; 2-7- 3 –1- 8

Race 2; RSM Bird Cameron Pace.

Results ; 5-8-3-1-4

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T17:53:00.001-08:00

In the stalls

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T17:51:00.001-08:00

Race 9; swift signs premier stakes.

A.G.Hunter Cup tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T17:50:00.001-08:00

Race 8; Hunter Cup.

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T17:47:00.001-08:00

Race 7; 4 yo Bonanza.

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T17:46:00.001-08:00

Race 6; Victoria Derby.

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T15:05:00.001-08:00

Race 5; Australasian Trotting Championship.

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T15:04:00.001-08:00

Race 4; Angelique Club Cup

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T15:03:00.001-08:00

Race 3; Sky racing free for all.

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T15:02:00.001-08:00

Race 2; VHRSC Pace.

A.G.Hunter Cup Tabcorp Park Melton 2011

2011-02-05T15:00:00.001-08:00

Race 1; Country Clubs Championship Final.

(Photo’s are not necessarily of the winners and placegetters.)

A stroll out the back for the last time…

2011-02-04T19:22:00.001-08:00

Went for a bit of a wander out the back of the place . It will be the last time I go out there. From the back of the pine block there is a good view of Dellicknora Valley.

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Lal Lal Falls

2011-02-03T14:26:00.001-08:00

This is one of those sites that used to be beautiful before the environmentalists fucked it up. Many years back now someone fell from that rockface whilst abseiling and died. So they banned all from walking down the path to the foot of the falls. I’m not really sure how they connected the dots between the two activities, but needless to say we all adhere to the new rules religiously.

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Lal Lal Pig Iron Mine

2011-02-03T14:23:00.001-08:00

Out from Ballarat is Lal Lal up the ridge toward the reservoir is what remains of the old Pig Iron mine and smelter. There were a couple of pits, a smelt and tramway that lead out to the mainline. I will tell the story one day.

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Ballarat Pacing Cup 2011

2011-02-03T03:40:00.001-08:00

Above: I Can Doosit NZ. Below: Kyvalley Mac NZ.

Above: Millwood Nebraska NZ. Below: One Way Road NZ and Lady Lunchalot.

Smoken Up NZ. . . Somebody forgot to tell him he was meant to win. . . we will next see him at the Inter Dominion.

The Passage Of Time and Those Before…

2010-12-18T04:49:00.001-08:00

After too many years the gold watch is back on my wrist. Its not the most comfortable to wear. . . half the reason for wearing it. For I know its there every minute of the day. . . Thus it reminds me of the passage of time - most precious of all things. It also serves to remind me of those who have passed before me . . . and the debt I owe them.

Pen and ink sketch artist Exhibition opens.

2010-12-07T18:52:00.001-08:00

The first exhibition by pen and ink sketch artist Dean Haeusler opened at the Polo Red Gallery in Cooma NSW Last Friday.

Second time round.

2010-12-07T15:08:00.001-08:00

Last year was scheduled to get a new laptop to replace the ageing and slowly crashing desktop system. Must say I had a good run out of that old desktop. . . much better than what I had gotten out of several of the earlier, custom, overclocked machines I had played around with over the years. Anyway the chip had broken down and then the monitor died, and the pathetic secondhand bit of shit monitor never worked. . . and because it lived - where I now live, shunned to a shipping container, no internet access. This was all meant to change 12 months ago with the gift of a new laptop . . . but that money I had to use in other directions, so only now has the gift of a new Laptop arrived.

Thanks Mum.

View from the top of the world

2010-08-17T20:39:00.001-07:00

Niki

2010-08-17T20:37:00.001-07:00

Amazing what gets cropped out of photos eh?

Dodge in the bush.

2010-08-17T20:28:00.001-07:00

Well look at that will ya, an old dodge stepside out in da bush.

nothin’ left to believe in…

2010-08-17T20:22:00.001-07:00

As lemmy says, "The older ya get the less there is to believe in. " Ain't that the fuckin' truth. A bit like that card carrying space monkey half a block off Red Square...and we thought those days would never end. Fuck me they were over before they began, or so it would seem, in fact its hard to even remember them now in this anethetised mundane existence. But truth be known my generation rode in on the back of a broken dream, but sadly enough the next generation didn't even have the broken fuckin dream to follow. And now what is it but a squalor of mediocrity, hence a lack of conviction of any sort. As Lemmy said, as ya get older, there ain't nothing left to believe in.

NIKI

2010-08-09T02:02:00.001-07:00

Boof

2010-08-09T00:33:00.001-07:00

“Hey I got an idea.”

“I’ll be a little arsehole.”

Morning frost

2010-07-25T01:31:00.001-07:00

Haircut time

2010-07-25T01:24:00.001-07:00

Pit Bike on Pushbike track

2010-07-25T01:21:00.001-07:00

Boof in harness

2010-07-25T01:14:00.001-07:00

“Hey I dunno why its there, but there’s something behind me.”

“OK this is jus to much, there is now a log following me around.”

And what took place next wasn’t caught on camera, the photographer was to busy dodging logs and horses

“This is bullshit, I’ve already got rid of this log once today.”

Oh Shit…

2010-07-25T00:46:00.001-07:00

Motorhead For Life

2010-07-10T00:55:00.001-07:00

Quotes from Lemmy.

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

Lemmy Kilmister

"...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England."
—Lemmy Kilmister

"Motörhead is nothing if not democratic, but I don't think it's fair to be waving your dick around when people are minding their own business and might not want to see it."
-Lemmy Kilmister.

“Good evening… We are Motörhead… and we play rock ‘n’ roll.”

The layout as it currently is…

2010-04-21T04:55:00.001-07:00

location ain’t everything

2010-04-09T20:26:00.001-07:00

‘Tis a beautiful location. But that’s about where it stops. Two years in this fishbowl existence is about equivalent to 20 years anywhere else. Its about time to move on.

Something special…

2010-03-30T19:26:00.001-07:00

Niki is allowed in the yard, cause she is special!!

There’s somethin’ a bit special in this pic too ain’t there.

Hmmmm interesting…

2010-03-30T19:14:00.001-07:00

40 years old…

an I get an exploding cake.

This is where all my beer goes…

2010-03-30T19:07:00.001-07:00

Ungrateful little shit…

Leg up

2010-03-28T16:42:00.001-07:00

“Leg up Boof…Leg UP”

Junee N.S.W.

2010-03-28T16:38:00.001-07:00

Locomotives in the yard and the Junee roundhouse.

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Junee Hotels

2010-03-28T16:24:00.001-07:00

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Across the top to Tumut

2010-03-28T16:16:00.001-07:00

There’s Brumbies in the distance, and in the distance is where they remained,after walkin’ a mile through some sort of Alpine swamp.

Several of the newly constructed mountain huts along the road to Tumut from Cooma…a token gesture I’d say, with all the signs proclaiming “No Camping”. Bottom one is called Dellaney’s.

Lemmy Kilmister says,

2009-11-29T04:28:00.000-08:00

“Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.”

“I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!”

“In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.”

“Fuck this "Don't speak ill of the dead" shit! People don't become better when they are dead; you just talk about them as if they are. But it's not true! People are still arseholes, they're just dead arseholes.”

Nobody could 'ave put it better Lemmy, your a fuckin' legend.

Quote of the day…

2009-10-26T00:21:00.001-07:00

“You told us to imagine, and we imagined your irrelevance!”

Music

2009-10-25T03:50:00.001-07:00

Anybody interested in,I dunno underground, or simply overlooked american music, try here.

Should be more sites like this on the net…be more like back in the old days then…more a concept of “what can we give…rather than the current,,,what can we take??” mentality that is all pervasive.

Computer still awaiting its heart transplant.

2009-10-18T02:00:00.001-07:00

Still my computer awaits its heart transplant, but the new heart (in the form of a refurb cpu) is somewhere in the mail….surprise surprise, I hate fuckin ebayers who get the money and then wait a week to send off the item, usually with some bullshit explanation. Anyway hence no computer, posts have dwindled off, but killin time here are a few links for the metalheads and punks.

English Russia

2009-10-14T00:01:00.001-07:00

I’m not sure why this particular blog attracts the amount of savage and bitter feedback that it does. Sometimes maybe the details are a little hazy, and on occasion maybe the owner may be accused of leaping to conclusions, but all in all I like the blog and much of its content. English Russia, if you have any interest in Russia,or the former Soviet Union, is worth visiting.

The latest posting is of diamond mines in the far north.

Out Dalgety Way…

2009-10-01T03:25:00.001-07:00

Went for a drive to Delgety, well didn't initially set out with that in mind, but rather was engaged in distributing marketing material for Pen and Ink Sketch Artist Dean Haeusler. And somewhere along the way we ended up out at Dalgety, N.S.W., on the banks of the Snowy River.

Its one of those place where the road begins as bitumen, then becomes gravel, and then for no apparent reason at intervals there are short stretches of bitumen. Years back in this country people always said of such instances of bitumen on a gravel road, that these sections were along the road frontage of local councillors land...cynical perhaps, but often true, I dunno if that is the case with this location or not.

It is elevated country through there, all around 700 to 800 metres, undulating, stony and harsh looking, and I daresay when the wind blows across in mid winter it would be freezing cold. It is in its open sparseness, beautiful country to travel through. The sort of country where the clouds create distinct shadows as they pass over.

And there are signs that once there was a much larger number of inhabitants than there are now, like much of rural Australia these days. Empty and decaying buildings, they must feature in somebody's memories, in somebody's story, but for how much longer? Which will cease to exist first the memory or the building?

There's a bridge at Dalgety, a road bridge across the Snowy River, these days it looks a little like overkill, the amount of water flowing down the Snowy at the moment, a concrete culvert would suffice...maybe one day there will be a decent flow again.

Somewhere out there between Dalgety, Bombala and Nimmitabel, along the old Bombala Cooma rail line, is the Jincumbilly Siding, it lies between Bombala and Holts Flat Siding. There is another siding in there we have yet to visit.

This view is out the window of the old hall that is also out there in that area, can't think of the name of it off hand...the name don't matter greatly, it reminds me of John Prines song about memories and the view out dirty windows.

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More photos from Far East Gippsland

2009-09-28T04:37:00.001-07:00

Buchan Caves, Buchan, East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Looking kinda south east along Dellicknora Valley, Far East Gippsland, Victoria Australia. And looking west from the same location.

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Pen and Ink Sketch Artist – Dean Haeusler

2009-09-27T04:55:00.001-07:00

Here is a recent pen and ink sketch by Sketch Artist Dean Haeusler. This sketch is of an old steam winch that was used at the Goongerah Saw Mill, Goongerah is in Far East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. When the mill was built steam power had long been abandoned in most other locations, but there was no electrical supply to Goongerah so the whole saw mill was steam powered.

The sketch is 16 inches by 20 inches, framed, and available to purchase, contact details can be found on the Artists web site,

Pen and Ink Sketch Artist – Dean Haeusler

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The Turn Back

2009-09-27T04:28:00.001-07:00

These couple of photos taken back in July from Wheelers Saddle, looking across the Snowy Mountains National Park, Victoria Australia.

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STOP CENSORSHIP…EVERYBODIES RESPONSIBILITY

2009-09-23T01:10:00.001-07:00

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Arthur (Art, Ol' Hoosh) Haeusler

2009-08-04T03:39:00.000-07:00

Arthur (Arto,Art, Ol' Hoosh) Haeusler.

Passed away 2 August 2009.
Age 93.

You have swung that swag over your shoulder and taken the final journey.

May you find somewhere in the shade out of the heat of the day to rest awhile.
And put together a bloody good story of it all as only you could.

May we meet again one day...down the track a little.

More Pics from around.

2009-06-21T23:44:00.000-07:00

Dellicknora Valley under snow.

View out the shed.

Da Pets

2009-06-21T23:33:00.000-07:00

Pics from around

2009-06-14T04:18:00.000-07:00

The Natives

2009-06-14T04:11:00.000-07:00

First snow for the season

2009-06-14T04:03:00.000-07:00

Winter must be getting closer.

2009-06-09T21:02:00.000-07:00

Tingeringy Creek

2009-06-05T02:19:00.000-07:00

Still Water.

2009-06-05T02:14:00.000-07:00

Now that it has rained, water has been collected and the brew will be a bubblin'.

At last some rain.

2009-06-05T02:10:00.001-07:00

At last some rain,is this perhaps the first sign of winter. We just hope for more rain at the moment.

Vegie patch

2009-06-05T02:05:00.000-07:00

Between months of grasshopper plague, kangaroos, wallabies and wombats the vegie patch doesn't have much chance of success.

Wombats

2009-06-05T01:59:00.000-07:00

Sketch Artist new home page

2009-06-01T06:11:00.000-07:00

Pen and ink sketch artist, Dean Haeusler, has just put up a new website. Once again under the original domain, which was out of use for the past several years.
Anyway the new site is at
http://deanhaeusler.com

Out the back door and up the hill a bit

2009-05-18T02:51:00.000-07:00

Looking North West across the Alpine National Park

Looking North East into New South Wales.

Down Hobbs Road

2008-07-04T03:59:00.000-07:00

Its not quite Copperhead Road - but we're working on it.

2008-07-04T03:55:00.000-07:00

I guess they ate the horse.

2008-07-04T03:53:00.000-07:00

A little frost

2008-07-04T03:49:00.000-07:00

Kookaburra

2008-06-10T02:08:00.000-07:00

Cold Water

2008-06-10T01:36:00.000-07:00

Its only early June In the Snowy Mountains.
Winter hasn't begun even.
The coldness of the water in this flowing stream is unbelievable.

Pistons in the pines

2008-06-10T01:29:00.000-07:00

Part of a collection of pistons found at an old house site in the pine plantations of Wilmonts, Delegate N.S.W.