THE MAGIC KENNEL & ROAD TRAINS WITHOUT CATTLE

My Dad is amazing. I don't know how he does it and I am kind of afraid to ask in case it breaks the spell. But for years now he makes the world around my kennel move. For some reason he calls my kennel his car but whatever it's called he does something with the kennel key and everything; people, houses, trees and sky, all start to move. He can even make them go this way and that, and make people we know appear in amazing places. I sit on the seat and watch. It is like TV but better. Yesterday I watched things go past for hours and I went into a kind of trance. 

The best thing was the other day when he made a really big road train appear. One minute we are sitting in the kennel and he is steering the world to fly past in the front, and somehow a massive truck is there. Dad photographed it and I sniffed it. It was brilliant because all the cattle smells were still there even though they weren't. I really couldn't get enough of it. 

Dad started talking to the driver and he was cooking some of the cattle into sausages. That's where they must have all gone. The driver was really nice. He said he'd been droving cattle out by Halls Creek before this job for about seven years. We both like cattle. 

He offered some sausages to Dad but Dad didn't want to say he was a vegetarian for some reason. He took some for later which were really for me. But I'm not a vegetarian and I got up and sniffed where he was cooking the sausages and helped him choose some for me.  He gave me lots of them. They had coriander and garlic in them as well. Dad wasn't happy because I'd already had breakfast.

It was great start to the day and after that I just sat in the kennel and watched as Dad made things appear and disappear for hours. Sometimes I lick my paw because I am a bit neurotic. Its always the same paw and I don't know why I do it. 

You can see I have my old dog coat back. Its an R.M. Williams one and I look great. We found it in the lock up in Hermannsburg. When it is really cold I put the other one on as well.

We are in Burra in South Australia now. Dad is organizing a singing festival for next March. It will be great for me because I can meet everyone and we can sing together like I did with the Hermannsburg Ladies Choir a little while ago. I hope you join us. Dad has written about it this week - BUZZ ... BABBLE ... BUBBLE ... BURRA.. BACKHOUSE 

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Tommie xx