where were we at...........

Well I've done a few posts of things but I realised I missed August and Sept completely..........

So here's a quick summary of the last few months.........

August.......

Got some new chooks and they are doing great.........laying heaps of eggs..........

No idea now what I cooked scones for but hey they were good.............

Bridget had lambs.............Milly and Billy.............They have grown up and about to leave home...........

Loving seeing livestock drinking off mum............

We'd had some rain and the paper daisies were insane..............these yellow ones were the best I have ever seen..............

I picked lots..........

The countryside was a picture of green and flowers..............

I dried lots of bunches for the retreat I co hosted in September..........

more on that later...........

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September was full on...........but I did survive..........

on top of everything else I hurt my back and its sure taken it's toll........

A very big wakeup call with everything piled on death and illness makes you reevaluate many things..........

This beautiful grevillea was in the hospital garden when I was with Dad...........

Sadly he passed away.............

We had a crazy trip to Darwin for my son's wedding............what an emotional roller coaster..............

random photos.............

I should have said no to this drive that Fairy Girl wanted me to take her on as I was in agony with my back in the car but I the enjoyed the early morning light and the calm was nice...........

Here's a photo of Fairy Girl and I at the wedding............

There is so much water around Darwin............

That brings us to an end for September..........

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Onto October..........

Lots of cousins to see at Dad's funeral...........

then I really just shut down for a lot of it as I needed too..........

We sold most of these steers............they did well.............

Fairy Girl went for a photo shoot at the pink daisy paddock and I got to go with her..........

There was a few zooms.............more on the Cancer Fundraiser in another post.............

I had been doing some gardening and heard this garden was open so I took myself off for a visit..............

It was beautiful..........

I was so inspired..........and been enjoying plenty of time in my own garden............

Boy Wonder and family were home for a few days which was such a surprise and I thought only Boy Wonder was coming..........they helped with some gardening also.........

Mr Chooky was rarely around for weeks while he helped friends with harvest.............

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Then November came around......... 

I ran away from home with my Quilting buddy Miss Jules to a retreat in Qld for a few days..........

I went back to work just part time last week........

I've been off since early September when Dad got sick...........

I took a longer break...........my poor body was in need to repair and some extra care.........

Addy and the lamb are doing well............The dodgy lamb died - it just wasn't doing well or drinking enough either...........and another one accidently got run over.......not by me thankfully.........but someone did get told off............

Its been a firey month.........mostly machinery starting fires while harvesting..............

In our area we have been pretty busy..............

This was my view to one of the fires.........Mr Chooky has been picked up by one of the neighbours to get onto our brigade truck.............I was coming along with a ute and tanker trailer..........a young bloke I found at the fire jumped on my hose............I think we made a good team..........

I know this posted started off nice and green with heaps of flowers but it has hardly rained since.............so everything has been tinder dry.............this one took off in the wind from the crop stubble and into grasses.............

We had some big trees that caused issues during the night and sparks were blowing long distances into dry grass over the road.............It was very windy that night..............

Sunrise the next day and lots of trees burning on the edge of the fire...............

We managed to hold it and all was good but you can see the dust and ash that was being picked up by the strong winds in this photo............grit kept being blown into our eyes...............

A pretty sunset...............

the clouds to the east had the sun on them as it was setting............so pretty...........

there was 3 layers of clouds............one going east, one west and another south..........they were hiking it too...........

We have just started feeding sheep this week and it is raining today so I hope we get more..........

Agapanthus have started to open which I love............

Finally I put some christmas lights up...........

the only decorating I will be doing here............

"The lamb" was helping as the poddies are in the extended front garden yard.......

There have been some cracking storms around...........

we got 20mm overnight and I stayed home from work as they have forecast 40-80mm today...........and there was lots more rain between home and town............

we'll see what happens............last time they said forecast 25mm and we got 2mm............

I am hoping to do some zoom time over the weekend since I don't need to water the garden..........

 fingers crossed it will be way too wet to garden...........

Have a great weekend..........

Chookyblue........