Harvest Rain
Wednesday, 07 December 2011
Well Mother Nature has thrown a spanner in the works with massive amounts of rain during harvest. Our area has had from 80 to 130 mills and it is still raining. We went out this morning to take a few pictures, see below. With farmers already dealing with sprouted grain, this is not going to
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Xmas Shopping
Monday, 05 December 2011
This weekend just gone, I went with a friend to Perth where we shopped for 47 kids for our local Christams Tree. We are going down in numbers but for a 5 house country town we still get a massive turnout each year with past and present folks. It’s the 86th Christmas Tree in a
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Australiana – Poem by Lorna Madson
Monday, 28 November 2011
It’s been a while since i’ve put up another poem but I was talking with someone who really enjoyed the poem in Heart of Gold. But for the book we had to shorten it and could only use a few select verses. So now I’d like to share the proper version with you. Enjoy. (Sorry
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Power problems
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Having your power go out is never great. It happened again today while I was at work. It surged on and off and took out half the shop, and caused one of our computers to fry and stinck the place out. So the end of the day was spent guessing the price of beer and
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Bluey & Tiger
Friday, 18 November 2011
I went out today to help my friend with her horses again as we met the farrier near this paddock. These two horses belong to another lady, but I helped look after Bluey and Tiger (the pony). And it was a good excuse to catch up with my friend 🙂 Here’s Wayne at work on
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Bush Living
Saturday, 29 October 2011
We are a funny lot, country people. We get excited about things like rain and even this new section of road. It wasn’t a long stretch of new bitumen, but all the same its still less gravel we have to travel along. Not much happens around here, so things like this are exciting for a
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Seasons
Friday, 21 October 2011
I love my lilac trees. (Not as much in autum when they drop their leaves everywhere and the gutters get blocked) But right now they are full of tiny flowers that sprinkle down in the breeze like snow. (actually I wouldn’t know, I’m guessing here as i’ve never seen snow!) Their leaves provide us with
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Author writing spaces
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
I have another photo of an authors area of writing. I had to wait for the lucky Kylie Ladd to come home from her travels but it was worth the wait to see such a gorgeous bookshelf. I read After the Fall a while back and loved how Kylie dived into all those complicated feelings.
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Wildflowers
Friday, 30 September 2011
On the weekend we played our wind-up day of golf. There was only six of us (huge club, I know) but we had a gorgeous day, the sun was warm and all the flowers were out. My golf was so wonderful that I spent most of my time in the bush taking photo’s of the
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Author Areas
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
A few more pictures have come in so i’ll share these with you. This first one I’ve actually seen on TV. And I love the fact that Matthew likes to surround himself with toys, posters and figurines from his favourite movies to inspire him. He looks really happy to be there…sometimes I can’t stand my
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