Florrie has been doing some good work for us going to and fro from KTown carrying the bits and pieces for our new home.
As you may know, the trip to the site has some.....challenges. Up hill , down dale, through rainforest, across the first farm, through a creek crossing, until finally at the site.
Just like the majority of the other machinery on our farm Florrie came to us late in life, after she had already had a full career carrying stock. But a quiet retirement was never to be had for Florrie, who commenced work with us way back in 1995.
One of Florries first trips was out to visit me in Eromanga when I was governessing. On this trip she acquired her first battle scar. An air-conditioning vent that was located somewhere air-conditioning was not meant to be. This altercation with a fencepost also rendered the ‘step’ into the cab rather precarious.
This air-conditioning vent has only recently been rendered (literally) inoperable due to a threat of non compliance of the roadworthy type, and a tub of bog.
Although Florrie plied the roads between The Head, Killarney, Toowoomba, Warwick and anywhere dad could sell timber or cattle, it was on the Teviot Road she would really come into her own.
Driving down a road that is officially too steep to have bitumen on it, in a fully loaded *cough overloaded*, truck, with hot brakes and no heavy vehicle licence is an experience that either makes you or breaks you.
Florrie, you have carried cattle to the sale yards, logs out of the bush, cleared a farm, moved furniture, hay, tractors and junk. You may have rust, falling down roof lining and your very own eco system – but we couldn’t do it without you.
So Florrie – we salute you.
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