Monday 29 May 2017

Blue arsed fly


My offsider.


Offsiderssss I should probably say. 


The last couple of weeks, I feel as though I've been running around like a blue arsed fly. Barely had any time to stop and smell the roses. Yet I have still managed to find time to take lots of photos and blog about it, so I guess I'm not as busy as I think I am.


My darling husband bought me a second Double Delight (my fav) after I managed to kill the last one. Lets hope I can keep this one going. It seems happy enough at the moment.


Which is more than I can say for my strawberry. This one had the facebook friends stumped and so I took it to a nursery, where the diagnosis of caterpillars was a bit of a shock and if I hadn't seen it under the microscope myself, I probably wouldn't have believed it. 

I decided to give straw-bale gardening a go, as I currently don't have a vege patch and no raised beds, so I converted the old chook house into my new garden. Everything seems to be happy at the moment, so we shall see how we go. 





In more exciting news, we got a new car. My darling girl was getting a bit too small for our growing family so we bought a Nissan Patrol Y61 "Legend Edition" of course! We are pretty excited about it, owning our first family car. 



It's soooo shiny!! 


And Roomy!! 


So back down to earth, I've been out and about taking a few photos here and there. 

Master G was none too impressed when I insisted that he wasn't allowed to eat that!! 

We had over 2 inches the other day so there is still a bit of water lying around. 


G-man is getting pretty excited about feeding the cows now!! He's pretty cute because he grabs a hand full of hay and runs towards them going "yah yah yah" and wonders why they run away. 


Love the shadow in this one. 






Good cow Pirate!

"OMG she's eating my hay"

Don't know if I want to share my hay if it's that good.









And I needed some potash for my garden, so I thought I would take the opportunity to get some photos of my growing belly. 








A lady from my photography group said it looked like an old witchcraft photo. Anyhow, I had a bit of fun, and I love fire, so can't lose! The next few I had a bit of a play with and I quite like how they turned out. 




So that's my last couple of weeks! 

Have you been doing anything exciting lately? Any new investments? Been feeling like a blue arsed fly?

I'm super excited to be heading to the Maleny show this weekend with my gorgeous friend who is only a couple of weeks behind me in her pregnancy (I'm hoping for some photos), and my beautiful mother and stunning cousin. So us girls should have a ball I'm thinking. 

Thursday 18 May 2017

Gathering of the clan.


So it's raining again, seems like it's a reoccurring theme in my blog posts, but I'm not complaining. Gives me a good opportunity to do some blogging and not feel guilty about jobs outside.





Garrett got better acquainted with the black mare. 

Yeehaa!



And Moolabell 







Now I have a storey for you!! This turtle attacked me!!! I'm serious! It lunged at me, I couldn't believe it, I nearly died of fright! I was trying to nudge it, gently, with my foot so it would move for bubba to see him and he attacked me! Maybe it was a she. I couldn't believe how quick it was.

 A similar thing happened to me once, when I went to grab a huge big black headed python on the tail. I said, "Crikey, look at this big beautiful specimen" and just as I grabbed the snake, he spun around to get me...... couldn't believe it, pythons are supposed to be placid aren't they? Apparently not. Anyhow, I don't think I'd make a very good wildlife warrior. 

See the evil eyes!
Last weekend, we made the journey out to my grandmother-in-law's place for her 80th birthday and a bit of a family reunion. Was lovely to see some of our aunts and uncles and cousins that we'd not seen for a long time.

It's such a blessing to be a part of a family with such wonderful people. I will never forget 6 years ago when I was pinned against a rail by a heifer, subsequently splitting my pancreas in half and lacerating my liver, I ended up in Brisbane having to have the half of my pancreas removed. I won't go into the details but I was pretty knocked around and came out of the surgery with 7 tubes going in and out of me. My aunt and uncle (in-laws) that I think I may have only met briefly, once before, came to visit 3-4 times over the 10 days I was there. Offered any assistance they possibly could, including the loan of their vehicle for my mum and Justin if required. Such kindness is a rare and beautiful thing and as I said I feel very proud to be a part of this family.


I woke around sun rise and went to capture the sun rising between the mountains, but no sooner had I caught these few rays than it went behind the clouds. These images were taken at my father-in-laws place 'Birtley Station' just outside of Springsure.





Bow, the very spoilt, very special old girl. Eric's favourite working dog who I think may now be enjoying a well deserved retirement 


My boy Chief breaking ranks to come and say good morning to me. 
While catching up with family, we went to visit the Old Rainworth Fort and an old family friend out there. Was a lovely little heritage spot to see and well worth the visit. I had the opportunity to get some photos and test out my lenses.



One of the categories at the Marlborough show this year was 'still life' and it's never really been a subject that I've focussed on, but I thought this was a good opportunity to get some.







The lighting in the old building was great. 

















Nanna and Garrett having a play!




Check out the clouds in the background. How weird.


This is Lorna, a lovely lady and family friend who runs the fort. 





Cousin Ben, who is normally on the otherside of the lens. 






But all too soon we had the long drive back home. I'm not sure whether it was the pregnancy or what but I was pretty exhausted after the long drive and I was only a passenger. G-man got to sleep for the most part which was good. Slept for 2 and 1/2 hours, so he must have been exhausted too. 



Other than that I've been taking photos where I can. 


Giving my saddle some much needed love. 


Doing some gardening. 



Getting some, not-so-helpful, help. (Especially when he pulls out the plant I just planted.)

Thirsty work 

And growing! I think I still look as though I've eaten too much. But there's definitely a baby in there, I'm 18 weeks now and I can feel the kicking mostly at night. 


Are you getting some of this rain? We've had an inch today so far. While I was writing this blog I was interrupted but a bit of a paint drama, I didn't get photos because I wanted to contain the situation, but there was black paint everywhere!!! All over the floor, door, walls and not to mention hands, feet, clothes and face! A quick, 'just in case', phone call was made to poisons, who reassured me that it shouldn't be toxic and that it would likely come out the other end the same colour as it went in, although I don't think he had much! How reassuring! 

Well it's smoko time, time for some carrot cake and cup of tea and to watch the rain tumble down.