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Hello!
How is your weekend going??
It was a very spring day – swinging between sunny to windy to raining and back again!
We did a quick lap around the river track. Jeff was trying out his new backpack . Its nice seeing a bit of colour out in the bush now too!

We were going to do two laps, but ended up just doing one as Jeff wanted to mow and I wanted to get the front path cleaned up.

It was good timing actually because when we finished the first lap it was raining a bit anyway, so we just went home and had lunch. By the time that was done, so was the rain!!

Pretty much everything around the yard looks shabby. So much work to be done to get things nice & not least get the vegetables in!!
But we also figured that having the front look a bit less scruffy was a good thing to work on.
Jeff got out his mower and I tackled the weedy path. We want to get a couple of loads of new woodchip for it (tomorrow??)

Things look so much nicer after a spruce up!

Jeff helped me finish off the path and boarder.

I stuck the spade in and cleared the grass from the edging which improved things no end!

I am now looking forward to seeing the path topped up with its new woodchips! A vast improvement!

I realised with horror that I had completely forgotten about those poor rhubarb I brutalised and replanted!! I hadn’t watered them since the day they got moved!! I went down to water them yesterday and saw they were actually pretty happy looking!

The garlic is going along well too… although the whole area needs a good soaking! Can you believe it is dry after all that never ending rain??

Sneaky chook followed me into the garden!!

I found two little lavender plants growing in the front pathway!! One is really quite sturdy. So I put them in pots and if they look ok, I’ll add them to my stall.

The outside snow peas are doing fine.

Baby cherry plums appearing!!

All in all, not a bad Saturday!!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Righto! I know you saw the above picture yesterday, but…
I am so tired!! Its silly to feel so tired being on the computer most of the night and day – I feel more perky after digging in the garden!!
So… after a lot of agonising and some consultation with one of my sisters who I was lucky enough to catch online to pester, I settled on my 13 images and ordered 25 calendars.

January: Barn Bluff as seen from Cradle Mt Summit

February: Mosses from Cradle Mt NP

March: Fossil Bluff

April: From the garden

May: Face Track, Cradle Mt NP

June: West Coast Beaches

July: Liffey Falls

August: Driftwood at Black River Beach

September: Pandani

October: Spring Dragonfly

November: Anniversary Bay, Rocky Cape NP

December: Rock colours of the NW Coast

So… there you have it!
Now a bit nervous that they print them nicely!
I need to also go and source some large envelopes to present them in and cut up some cardboard to package.
The local shop will take 10 and a few other people have expressed interest at buying some, so that’s a nice start!
Tomorrow I will think of prices and look into postage. (Don’t want to rush these things do we?? haha)

Might be time to get some dinner and go find out where I was up to in Battlestar Galactica!! 😀

Cheers!
PS – This is not a hard sell, but if anyone is interested just let me know in the comments and we will talk 😀

G’day! Just a quick fly-by from me!
Its been a lovely day – long one so I am rather ready to curl up in bed with a book early!
Mum and Dad are the last of our immediate family who hadn’t done the Dove Lake circuit.
Its close to a 6km round trip – bit of ‘up’ towards the latter part of the walk. My parents did a pretty great job although everyone is pretty tired now.
The weather wasn’t too bad – a light drizzle during a lot of the day and clouds mostly covered the mountain – but as you all know it can be a LOT worse!!!
I’ll sort the photos for a proper post tomorrow (probably) as we haven’t got much planned.
Hope everyone’s Monday started splendidly!!
Cheers

Hi there!
Parents requested a Sloth Day and it was pretty nice!
It was raining – a lot – so being cosy by the fire spending time catching up and enjoying their company was perfect.
Mum and I did a bit of knitting/crochet, Dad played some computer games and I gave him a lesson on how to play the new version of Bejewelled! 😀

Fiona dropped in to catch up with us all so that was fun. We got to relive a few of the funny moments of the Overland Track hike for my parents, which amused them greatly.

We had a really fab dinner… I’d been saving some of the nice steaks for when they arrived and was able to add home grown pumpkin and potatoes to the plate as well.

You know… I might even manage that early night I have been aiming to achieve for a couple of weeks!

Cheers

Hello!
A lovely day – well… it was a bit dodgy weather wise but not so bad that we were stuck inside all day!
We decided to do a bit of a walk around the river. They have finally (after two years) built a new bridge and fixed the track after it all was washed away in the floods.

Its a bit fancy – and well above where the old bridge was, so little chance of it being washed away again.

So now we can do the entire circuit again!

Some of the paddocks haven’t been refenced so it gives things a lovely open feel.

Lots of pademelons living around here! Didn’t have the zoom on to get up close to these fellows!

Plenty of birds to see on the way.

The tide was on its way out so it gets muddy looking.

Mum got a bit warm so her arctic jacket became her arctic skirt!

We got to the bridge near town and Mum and Dad opted to walk into town and meet us there rather than walk the full circuit.
I told them I was putting them in training as we plan to go to Cradle Mountain Monday to do the Dove Lake walk… hee hee

(Weird tree stump lichen/fungi growing on the splinters. It looked cooler in real life…)

The wattle trees are looking gorgeous! I was pretty amazed at the size of this one and a few others. I hadn’t really seen them grow that tall!

Anyway, it was a lovely day finishing up with my parents taking us and  other cousins out to dinner tonight, so we are all full and happy!
Cheers!

Hello!
I went out visiting today! I hadn’t seen my cousin Leonie in an eon. They recently finished building a house so I went for a sticky-beak and a good long catch up! Was awesome!

I confess I did take my new cardigan out for a walk in Wynyard!! (Even without its buttons and pockets!) I am looking for button inspiration. I don’t know what I want. I suspect I need to see it first!
I made the pockets but will get my clever dress-making mother to help me position them correctly before sewing them on.

Re Phone. Still not connected. Still know nothing.
I am trying the ‘scatter-gun’ approach (Basically I am messaging and emailing everyone that I can to annoy them into fixing the problem.)
I did get this gem of a message that might amuse you as it did me:

“I have confirmed with my team here that the NBN Faults team are not able to contact customers via email. They would need an active phone service to contact you directly.”

Yes. An active phone service would be lovely. And if I HAD an active service I suspect we wouldn’t be having this annoying conversation!!!

Stay Strong 😀

Cheers!!

Hi there!

No photos from me today!
The rain returned so I did some other things.
I did get back out to Spotlight and picked up the last packs of that green yarn as my niece Emma has expressed interest in having a similar cardigan made. (And because I am an awesome Aunty I am going to do it, I’ll get her to add it to my points tally because I am fully expecting her to help Jeff and I out when we are old and senile since we don’t have kids haha)

I finished the cardigan tonight!! I am so pleased with myself – its taken less than a week (helps when you don’t get distracted making other things). It still needs buttons which I won’t hurry about – I want to find the right ones for it. I’ll probably make some pockets for it too, but for now, its wearable. Its pretty heavy too… I think about 2 kgs, but its amazingly snug and I can’t wait to go out tomorrow and prance about town in it!!
Will get some snaps taken in the light to show you soon.

And we still have no phone and proper internet connection.
I braved getting back to their (not so) help(ful) chat line with Agent #10 and gave them my case number and all the details that I have to repeat every time and re emphasised that we did NOT have a mobile phone. According to the 4th agent I was messaging on Thursday last week it was put into the notes in bold type.

Whats the first question? What is your best contact number?
Its not that hard is it?
I answer “Since Telstra cut us off we have no phone – no landline and we do not own a mobile phone” (For the squillionth time)
Next question… “There is this mobile number associated with your account, is it active?”
Happily for the agent, we were typing not actually talking on a phone because I might have said a ‘few’ rude words at that point. (I couldn’t help it… they burst forth!)
Was time to break out the CAPS LOCK again to emphasise in no uncertain terms that We. Have. No. Mobile. Phone.
Oh, says agent. That must be frustrating (you have no idea…) but it would be so much more convenient for out specialist team to be able to call you!
(This is me starting to twitch)
Yep… sorry to inconvenience you. Like because not having our service for a couple of weeks is not inconvenient for us at all!!!!
I will bet my bottom dollar that I will not hear a thing despite all the new set of promises made today until I contact the help line again and go through all this again and  train a new agent into accepting our lack of mobile phone status.
I think getting our phone service back might be quicker if I just sign up with a new carrier. The only thing is, the cost is something I don’t really want to have to bear right now.
Oh well… first world problems!! It actually amuses me how completely incompetent one of the largest communications companies in Australia actually is.
It is a pain, but happily, since I am not welded to phones and we have limited internet access, its not the be all and end all.
(But boy oh boy once the phone is back the billing team is going to get a call from me!!)

Anyway, time to chuck another log on the fire to see if it will burn over night for me, and get to bed!
Hope your Monday starts fantastically!
Cheers

End of the week, but not the end of the rain!
Its still pouring down, even as I type tonight.

Pip spends a lot of time sensibly snugged up in blankets.

There was a short time this afternoon where the rain left off so I ducked outside to see if the chooks were paddling about and give them some food, stock up on firewood, collect the eggs plus I also jumped the back fence to go pick up another bag of pine cones

I also hunted up a fresh cabbage as I made a stir fry for dinner tonight. Nice to have a couple of fresh things left in the garden.

I spent most of my free time today continuing on my crochet project of a hooded cardigan

From this snap you can see how the folded hexagon shape (the star) creates one half of the cardigan.
Tonight I have sewn up the sleeves, added the hood and now lengthening both the sleeves and the overall length with whatever yarn I have left. Its heavy and cosy.
I don’t want to go to bed. I want to keep working on it!! I have never made something so big thats wearable. Bit keen to finish!

Anyway… Pip continues to snore in his blanket… I am heading back to the couch
Hope everyone has an awesome weekend planned
Cheers