91ml.........yippee........

it's raining and raining and raining and raining................2inchs (50ml) while I was at work yesterday...........took twice as long to get home after work.............the car is covered in mud..........but once home before I went to bed we had another 1 1/2 inchs...........not much over night so the total is 365 points(91ml).........fantastic start to summer for us here with no crop but if you are still harvesting and most in our area are only 1/2 way thru (like dh's harvest contracting job) there will be downgrades of grain etc now...............they are also forecasting wet weather for a few days so it will be awhile before harvest can resume...............I have a day off today and I am not going to battle the road and get bogged..........and we still have more rain forecast so will see what happens with that..............

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

catching up.........

Now where was I ...............heading to the markets...............yes well they were great markets.............plus a few special orders which is wonderful........

was having a lovely afternoon after the markets (it was pretty warm in the morning) enjoyed lunch with some family.........casually headed home thought "great a nice quite arvo" (home phone it is "out" again) So i was sitting out in the garden in the perfect spot where you can get mobile reception trying to avoid the "ant hightway" just near my feet and reporting the home phone out (which take 10 MINUTES - great service - NOT) when dh rings the mobile and asks do you want to go and pick up a part - can't really say no so DRAG the kids out of the pool and head off for a nice drive...............4 hours later arrive home with 2 kids asleep at 10pm - boy were they going to be "foul" on Sunday..............He told me the silos looked great in town under lights...............here the best he could do with his mobile

Also the silos did another record the other day................in a 23 hour period they received 19,300 tonnes of wheat. Last year the total harvest for the area was 33,000 tonnes.............pretty amazing...........

Sunday I had plans for a nice quite day and the kids were not tooo bad.............but my neighrbour came down just before lunch and we enjoyed some wine and nibbles then coffee and some chocolate all the way from Finland (she LOVES my blog friends) and the day was totally written off.............it was cloudy and we had no idea of the time but we chatted and had a good catch up..............we have not had a day like this for ages...............

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SSCS

Monika, Ranette Susana and Marica have received parcels and are very excited..........

The sleigh is now delivering to Leanne M, Levin, Cathy, Yvonne L, Diane, Nemo, Mar and Sheila

.........take care til next time.............
.......Chookyblue..........

new cards

These are some of the new cards.........I am totally smitten with succulents at the moment...........

lots of new cards lately..........markets tomorrow.....

........these are available on Etsy in my shop.............my cards are also available locally in the Australia Post Shop.........hopefully they will go well there...........

.....also got some calendars.........they look great........these are the pics on the calendars below..........each month has a different photo and the dates have nice big boxes to write in...........the calendars will be in the shop very soon.............

If you are feeling lucky head to this blog.................it is worth your time.............

Take care til next time..............Chookyblue............

Harvest in town............

Here is a run down of the silos in town............mostly wheat is grown in our area...........34 deg cel today good harvest weather........town is a hive of activity.............trucks in and out everywhere.........headers (harvest machines) moving thru............the other day I saw a massive field bin....(storage bin used on the farm)

this is the start of the line up of trucks...........(hope your watching AC)

then around the corner and way back further.............2-3 wide lined up here...........lots lined up........must be about 100 trucks around the silo area.................

they are all waiting to come here..........first stop is to get the grain tested..............

Then they drive onto the weigh bridge to be weigh............and told where to go........

..........there are several piles of grain dumps............some grain was here before they started............

there are trucks moving around out there everywhere so I had to be careful where I got..............not get in the road............

these grain augers are amazing...........very big.........

unloading wheat into a bunker..............all gets tarps over it when not in use.............here it looks like a sand pile..............

I think there are 5 bunker dumps they are putting the wheat into..............

We'll see how much this one grows during harvest...............

I won the battle with the mice also............yippee................

take care til next time............Chookyblue.............

PS lots to show and tell you about but I need to take some more pics ..........

dh gone stripping..........

Now if you are thinking naughty things stop right there.............lol.............Ric Rac get your mind out of the gutter...........Oz Country Quilting Mum knows what I am talking about............it is that time of the year when harvest of the crops is starting in our area............we don't have much but dh is contract harvesting for others...........not hot enough to work til midnight yet but they tell me once everyone got going this arvo after the rain the line up at the silos was pretty bad..........I will be checking it out tomorrow...........when harvest cranks up the silos can run 24 hours a day but that has not happened for a few years.............drought kind of kills that......

.........overloaded with work at the moment...........computer programmers have alot to answer for some times.............and I must go and finish my polkadot swap or miss red geranium will be hunting me down.........lol............

Unreal sunset tonight...........the colours were totally amazing........better then usual and that can be pretty good............also got some great mail from Paradise...........pics to come............

SSCS mail.................

Betsy, Pat, Tammy and Oddbjorg better keep an eye out for the SSCS mail.............

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

SSCS parcels........

Thanks for all the comments/ideas on the Swap ettiquette post...........

Wonder where this will turn up.........you sure can't miss it is from the
SSCS..........you have til the 25th Nov to post.......... Don't forget to
email me a picture and let me know when you post your parcel..........
If you are worried about your parcel email me a pic and I can check it
out..........I am sure you will be fine as all the others have been... you may be nervous if this is your first swap but you will be fine.......any
postage questions look here........

These people should look out for mail............Monika, Susana, Colleen,
Marica, Rhonda

.........take care til next time.............
.......Chookyblue..........

Swap etiquette..........

Found this post "Swap Etiquette" on Calimity Kim...........a fair bit to read thru but worth the read - even the comments................whats important to you in a swap?

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.....I am planning my parcel for my SSCS partner and one thing is for sure she is overseas.........so my questions is

"what would be your favourite tidbit/extra to include in your parcel from Australia".......

...wonder who will get there wish................my lips are sealed but I am very excited about my SSCS partner..........as there are about 56 SSCS from Oz other aussies may peek here to see what you wrote so overseas girls tell us what you like..........give us ideas.........

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

updates and invasions...........

Thanks for all the lovely comments on my garden.............I must say I have lots of bouganvilleas and they give such value in my hot dry climate.............outside is looking good .............inside I am battling a mouse plague...............I had a small invasion a week to 10 days ago but since Sunday afternoon I have caught 25 .......yep you read that right............they have moved on in..........the site of us chasing one around the kitchen with the brooms the other night would have made funniest home videos I am sure............today we pulled out the big guns so hopefully that will be the end of that...........I am not scared of them but they are such a filthy little animal..............enough of that on to the good stuff...............

A few people asked what range these fabrics were from............ Woodland Bloom by Lila Tueller for MODA (right) floral says pattern no 16010 and the (left)spot says Pattern no 16012

Anni Downs - Hatched and Patched's new book "The world as it should be" (I showed the kits here) is now available on her website..............click here and scroll down.........retails $21.80AUD.........also kits should be available any day or so .........email and annoy Pete (Anni's dh) if you can't find them on the website............

edit: no need to hassle Pete the kits are now up on the same spot as the book.............

.........take care til next time.............
.......Chookyblue.......

... if you want to see where fairies live head over here..........I believe in fairies..........do you?