Showing posts with label Childhood Cooma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Childhood Cooma. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2009

Brown Snakes


One particularly hot day on the farm in Cooma the adults were drenching the sheep. However, the heat was bringing the snakes out and Amy (who was only very young at the time) saw a alrge brown snake in the hay shed. Being already scared out of her wits by the snake, she then walked back to the house only to see another snake on the front step outside the house.
To this day, when she is stressed she dreams of flying snakes.

Sambo The Sheep


When I was young we lived on a farm for awhile in Cooma. On this farm lived a really angry sheep called Sambo. Sambo used to charge you and try to head but you whenever he saw someone. He did this because he had been raised with humans and saw them as his competitors. One day I was crossing the field with Amy and Sambo appeared out of nowhere charging at us. The fence was a fair way off and there was no way Amy would make it with a broken leg.
Then, out of nowhere, Dad appeared driving a truck and ran along side of Sambo and bowled him over with the door on the truck. Sambo was well and truly scaddadled.
We made the fence.