Summer is here

Summer has finally arrived here, well for now anyway and it sunny, hot and sweaty. Creek weather. That's where we are heading this afternoon, to our creek, then to our friends creek a bit later (there's an abundance of creeks around here).
I worked in the vege garden this morning, trying to tame the grass, till about 11am. Then the heat caught up with me and I had to go inside and put the fans on.



This spring, Gladis (with a little help from Roddy), gave me three cute little chicks which have now grown into three handsome poults. I think the white one is a rooster. Gladis was a very good mother and I ended up putting her and her nest in the chook trackor, away from the others, for the duration, which seemed to work very well.

We also inherited two ducks via my sister, who seams to be a font of of spare poultry, Ferdinand and Marmalade. After much indecision on Marmalade's part I think she has finally decided to start sitting, luckily in her night house. Ferdy, bless his ducky heart, is being a very vigilant father, staying close to the pen, keeping watch and generally hassling anyone who comes too close.
The ducks have been a lovely presence around the place. We let them free range around the house and they are very friendly especially Ferdy who likes to give you little 'kisses' on the back of your legs as you walk around.


Till next year
Happy new year to all. Hope you all have productive and happy 2011s.

We are in

It’s a slow, sweaty, overcast boxing day here in the Barra. Ryan is out wrestling with a diamond back python, taking a break from whipper snippering our incredibly overgrown veggie patch. Noah is on his new Christmas trampoline which we have all been excitedly calling ‘tramapoline’ and I am writing this post from the Dairy!!! That’s right folks, we is in! I have one word to describe living down here: AWESOME. We moved in on our 7^th Dec (self imposed) deadline, which was an exact year from our arrival and my birthday, very auspicious. Thanks to all the Plaggarians that helped move us in. Love yous.

We had a pretty low key Christmas day. Had turkey lunch with mum and dad, then went for a nice long walk in the evening. We had a Christmas eve get together up the mountain at Bryony’s, with all the lovely PLAGGA people.

We have been flat out finishing off the dairy so there hasn’t been much time for anything else. Nose has finished pre-school for the year, complete with graduation, disco and Santa visit (where N hid under the table and refused to come out even with lolly incentive). We still have playgroup out here every Fri where two mums take turns in looking after all the kids for the day. Great ladies (and gents) and a fantastic little group of kids for Noah to grow up with, including two more on the way (Chay and Bryony, not me!) Ryan still busy at Bev’s in Port Macquarie helping her build a studio with Jimbo. PLAGGA is still going strong, tackling such daunting projects as trail building, construction of an enclosed orchard (well starting it) and and building a cow proof fence.

Hope everyone has had a great Christmas. Thinking of all my old Freo crew and missing you all heeeeeaps! Congrats to Son and Claire on your mum to be statuses, Sonny you must be nearly ready to pop! If anyone from Freo ever reads this blog I would love some good old fashion gossip: births, deaths, raunchy affairs?

Will try and update this more regular like, as now we are in the dairy things should slow down a little (yeah right!!)