So, what's been going on around here lately?.....well things have been very busy because I have finally come out of hibernation......spring has sprung and so have I!. I just cannot believe how low I get in the winter time. I suffer from S.A.D, ( seasonal affected disorder?), during winter. I just get so low. I wonder if anybody else suffers from this?. My sister thinks I'm mad that I can entertain the idea of living in Tasmania, when I can barely get through a winter here!. So there is alot of gardening going on at the moment, Shane has installed an irrigation system for me so I can stop dragging the hose all over the place. We have raised the garden beds, as they were just too shallow, and I have sprouted alot of seeds to sow, and all the mulching has been done. We have also given the chook pen two new runs, which have been planted out with ground covers, flowers, veges, and chook forage plants, and is shut off from them for the mean time, and then when it has fully grown, the chooks and I can forage to our hearts content. This had to be done, as I think they suffer as much as me in the winter time, they just have no fresh green pick, and start to get pretty desperate to enter my vege garden, which is not on!. The bower birds are still here and still eating everything in sight,(damn them!) We have had brush turkeys that made their way here for the first time, and also the crimson rosellas who seem to have moved in, and are just so beautiful to have around. It is a real sign of how dense the scrub is getting, especially after the rains of the past year. It has made such a difference to the landscape. Shane is working hard. He is in the midst of picking season, and alot of the fruit is dropping off after the unseasonal heat wave we had here a couple of weeks ago, so there are avocadoes galore at the moment as he is bringing home alot of fruit that has already dropped off the trees. Great for all our friends and family, but I just look at them and desperately wish they were apples!...Avoes do not agree with me!!. Hey, maybe that's why i want to go to tassie, apples.....Sigh...Shane could be picking apples......Um, anyway.....The kids are on holidays, and they have been having fun just hanging out with friends. Logan and two mates are camping out in the bush, I took Summer and Cleo to see the Smurfs movie, we thought it was good.
These are the cute slippers Grandma was knitting over the winter.
We had a lovely visit from the Parthenides Girls.....thanks Nits!
We spent a night in Ballina while Shane and I went trailer shopping. Had a nice time....but didn't come home with a trailer though.....
Logan and Summer loved the spa, I have a childhood fear of them...while on holiday in Sydney once as a child, my dad started talking to the man who was cleaning the spa filter, and he called us over to have a look at what comes off the body....YUCK!, I have never been in a spa since!!. ( I did hang my legs in though!).
And of course, it started raining as soon as we got to the beach. Oh well, the 5 minutes we had were good!!
At least we got to pick up a some Enid Blyton from the Op Shop on the way home to add to Summers collection!!.
I hope you are all enjoying the spring also.....how are your gardens going?....
I am growing one little plant, am sure you can guess what that is....just shooting through, go to check on my baby and it is gone! Rudy the little punk had pulled it out and thrown it under the couch. I was DEVASTATED! Maybe a little too much...anyway thank god I found it, it was all in one piece, so I replanted it and then whataya know....Spike lands on it in the morning playing with his balloon and squashes it! If this little plant survives it will be nothing short of a miracle! ;) Can't wait to see your place Chookster - it sounds incredible. Am thinking of heading up to Brisbane mid January before school starts back, we will have to make a trip out to see you. xx
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