Introducing Peanut

Introducing Peanut......born just one week ago and having a wonderful romp in our paddocks.

We have had our little Warrnambool family staying with us this week, so there's been some fun and games.

Can you guess who the winner might have been.....??????

.....and then a visit to the bonfire tonight to check that it was safe.

Our workers have been coming and going all week and doing a great job.

The brickies came this morning to patch up the side bits......

Another burnt tree was removed to allow us to get  maximum sunlight on our solar panels that will be positioned on the new shed ( when it is built).

Some bits of loveliness in the garden at the moment.......

.....and another bit of human loveliness!

Dad had a cataract removed from his eye today. The surgery went well. Thank you Raylene. We appreciate everything you do for Mum and Dad.

Strawberry love

Lots happening here today but I couldn't resist beginning with this........

 .......Flynn sent this to Bill to put on his shed!
Precious boy.

The glorious rain we had last Wednesday night resulted in some water coming through the temporary wall.

This part was under the library shelving, ( not sure why we did that now ) so some  shoving and lifting and yanking was required. Gosh carpet is heavy! The books were lifted down....

.....and the shelves were jacked up to allow some air through.
Nothing good to be said about the whole process except that it all got dusted for the first time since goodness knows when!!!!  
The sun and wind from yesterday dried the carpet beautifully.

Amy and Bill spent some time on Saturday putting up some temporary and not- so- temporary fencing so that the dogs could come out for a play.

They did such a great job.
Trip was puffed after 2 laps of the garden.....

..... and Toby didn't lift his nose from the ground for 4 hours!! We didn't get a photo of him....he was too busy hunting!

One of Amy's customers from the bank arrived with two polystyrene boxes filled with tubestock from a nursery where she works.
My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw them all.
One lot is called gold dust wattle, a low growing shrub often used for screening and colour in Winter. Perfect!
The others are a mixture of ruby saltbush and nodding saltbush. They grow to a metre and have red berries in Autumn. Perfect again!
Thank you Anne. They are most appreciated.


This morning the boys arrived at 7 and set about constructing the scaffolding.....

......so that they could get into the roof space.
Mind you I have no idea what they're doing up there, but I might even go up and have a look myself tomorrow......or not.

And the tank arrived this morning too. It will receive rain from the shed which is still not up so we needed to put some water in the bottom of it to stop it blowing away.

And finally some pretty flower photos, taken while trying to avoid being swooped......still!!!

The last flower is a leucadendron.....I really like that one. Can't wait until it grows bigger so that I can pick some stems to put inside.