Happy as Larry

 Bill headed off down the paddock on his first mission this afternoon as happy as Larry!

He is planting out some more tree seedlings (dug up from the rubble) in a corner of the biggest horse paddock. It that has been fenced off from the horses purely for that reason. 

The chainsaw is a new purchase. We can already see many branches and small trees that are going to need cutting back or down altogether. This might make that job a bit easier.

We have always been unsure about whether our block of deciduous trees at the front was going to survive the stress of fire.
 There is a mixture of oaks, pin oaks, crabapples, liquidambers, a claret ash and a golden ash.
It is still too early to tell at the moment, but we are expecting to lose some of them. 

The daffodils around them are looking quite happy though.

This is a small clump of special ones given to us by Jamesy.
They are quite dainty and sometimes produce two or three on the same stem ( and very rarely, even four).

The one on the right has two flowers on the same stem. Sadly their petals frequently get chewed by "who knows what".

On our kitchen table at the moment.......

On my sewing table at the moment.......

Photos of this boy on every table at the moment.......

Taken at his second birthday party.
Happy Birthday beautiful little man.