Xmas lights – Outback style

So a couple of our locals came up with a competition to get everyone in the Christmas spirit. A notice went out to everyone, come and join in our Farm Gate Lights Competition. By friday night we gathered under the tree, our five house town now thriving with people. We fired up the barbie, cooked
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Down the backyard

Meet our two new pets. We were given these two ducks with some extra hens. I’ve got small bantoms, so the new larger hens are trying to rule the chook pen. Bossy things they are. These two ducks I’ve put in our fruit tree area which didn’t have a water source. For the time being
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Harvest Rain

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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Australiana – Poem by Lorna Madson

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

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

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

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

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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Wildflowers

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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Writing spaces – part 1

I don’t know about you guys, but I love getting glimpses into writers lives. It’s one of the reasons I love reading the acknowledgements in the books I love. So this is what inspired the next few blogs on ‘writing spaces’. I have asked a few of my writing friends for a snap shot into
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