keeping on with life...........

Life as usual has been busy...............
varying between so good to pretty crappy..........

always looking for the beauty in things.....sometimes the unusual and quirky.........still taking heaps of photos..........its amazing what you can find..........

The canola crops in the district are starting to flower...........always such a pretty happy crop............

I am giving a weighted vest a try when walking..........this one 5kg..........Anyone used them before???

Plans are being finalised for my next retreat.............gosh what to take to sew..........need to start planning now...........I mean it's not like i have any projects that might need some work...........LOL.........

trying to decide if I want to take my machine or just hand sewing............

Found these bugs in the wood pile..........Goggle tells me that are possibly Amycterus abnormis (Ground Weevil) but I can barely find any information about them...........they are pretty big.......about an inch long or more...........

Last night was a full moon........so bright........but I had fun playing............

And the first of the daisies have popped out with the rain.........we had some rain before we went away and then again while away.............

More playing with the moon..............I love being out with a full moon...........although photos never ever do it justice..........

no trip to the paddock for wood this week...........we had picked up some iron bark posts when we pulled down an old fence...........finally cutting into them.............need to clear this pile before it gets warm...........I don't want it sitting around near the house over summer............

We still have a month or more of fire weather...........it will go..........

A flock of cockatoos that were out the front of the house.............

Back in July I got to have dinner with Khrissy and Deb @ Frog Cottage Designs........been ages since I saw the girls and we picked up just like it was yesterday and lots of laughing............

Khrissy gave me a chicken that Deb made...........I love it..........I am keeping it on my desk at work.........sits under my computer screen.........

I have one at home too that Susan and Maureen gave me awhile ago and it sits under the computer screen at home...........I can give them a squish anytime...........so lucky..........

I am so blessed with the friends I have............

I got a new trolley and put it together yesterday...........Pretty dumb idea doing it on the deck as I dropped a nut thru...........Mr Chooky got it for me.......it will go into the Chookshed..............

Finally a flower especially for you to enjoy.............

Have a fabulous Sunday..........

Don't forget keep walking.......

Catch you later........

Chookyblue........

 

NT..........

This will be in reverse as all the pics came in reverse...........

Just got to go to the Northern Territory (NT) to see my son and his family.............

The last night we had to kill hours to get a red eye flight back to Sydney.............

Departs Darwin the very early hours of the morning............

Darwin night lights............

Our dinner view..............

Enjoyed the sunset while waiting for our dinner booking............

You don't swim in the water in the NT........mostly crocodiles are in the water.........

I was too slow to capture a Freshwater croc jump off this log...............

beautiful falls that don't get a lot of tourists..............there was someone on the rocks here.............there is no way I would swim in this water...........there is a huge croc a few kms up stream that would snap you up before you could blink..............

my boy is great at finding beautiful spots to show me.............blooming hard work walking back up the sand on the steep bank here but I made it...........Daly River.............

Anyone want to open the gate?????

 I definitely wasn't................

Its a Golden Tree Snake............This was the biggest one my boy has seen.................

heaps of pandanas near the water ways up there...............

Was so excited to see a buffalo in the wild............also dingo and a croc.........

Got to go to Katherine Gorge again...............We saw it from the air a couple years ago............This time we did it from the water................It is such an awesome spot...............

We did two gorges and had to do about a 400metre walk between the boats to continue up the second gorge..............definitely worth going...........

there w a few fires on the side of the road in our travels...........this one was crackling well when we headed to Katherine in the dark............

There are heaps of sections along the highway that have been burnt.......

a huge snake skin...........would not like to run into this snake..........probably a python but I don't really know..........

Helped move some cows...............

perfectly still morning on the Douglas River.............

it was a bit cold over night while we were up there........there was a bit of steam coming off the river one morning................

mirror mirror on the wall.............

Sunrise walk.............

a rock ledge across the Douglas River...........would be able to walk all the way across I think but I big croc lives in the deep water here so definitely not testing it out....................

cows at a waterhole............

wide open roads............speed limit 130km/hr............

One leg of our flight up was on sunset and I don't remember flying at this time of the day...........

so pretty above the clouds............

And that brings me to the end of the trip................or in the case of the photos to the start..........

Had a great time..........lots of time with the boys..........

poking around checking out the property and surrounds........

beautiful warm weather during the day..........bit fresh over night but nothing like home.......

didn't scare anyone away with the lily white legs.............

I'll be back sooner next time.........didn't realise how long it had been since my last post until yesterday..........

Catch you later...........

Chookyblue.........

quilts, wood, cows...........

Another month has almost disappeared.......... 

that means 1/2 the year is gone..........

Last post I told you we were pulling down a fence........I pulled the barb off the top and left it on the ground. Last weekend I went back and had a go at making some barb wire balls.............

they are still a work in progress and they are coming along ok.............

This one was going ok..........at the other end of this length of barb is another ball being rolled this way..............it's not too slow a job..........fiddly and a little challenging to get started.........you need a helper.............a decoration for the garden...........

There were some quilts hanging locally in Outback Arts Gallery.............I only have a few pics to share............But I had one hanging below on the right.............

They only had 1/2 the gallery this time but some beautiful quilts on display................

I got over to The Crafters Cottage last week............got a few more bits for Chapel Street........just for a bit more variety...........some fancy zips and a roll of fabric..........I think it is 3in wide..........

The sunsets and sunrises have been rocking out a great display..............

always good to see a full dam..........

That big log on the ground was the target for wood chopping............

Big old box tree that has been on the ground for years..............

Diesel being king of the log..........the first time he walked on the log he was shaking like a leaf.........but then he got the hang of it..............

Some nice good wood to keep us warm this week.................

Playing with the cows in the cattle yards and this calf was camped on the ground and she was not worried by me at all.............

Those eye lashes...................

One heifer was very close to calving so we left her in the yards for the night.........I went back just after dark and she had just calved and the calf was on the wrong side of the fence so I had to sort that out..........it was still all wet and gooey from being born............

they have mothered up well.............

I love baby calves..........they are my favourite..............

Catch you later...........

Chookyblue.........