Saturday, October 31, 2015

Bird Aviary


A couple of months ago Amy and Bill brought and outside aviary to put the birds in to give them some outside time. It sat outside the front side fence for a couple of months as it was heavy and we had to undo the fence and recruit some muscle to move it into position. Well a few weeks back we finally moved it. It has taken a couple of weeks to then start setting it up, clean it up and put in some of the infrastructure so that was last weekends job. Here Lyra is having an inspection but Bill and the dogs ended up in there as well. So looks like I have a dog house I could send Bill to!




 Jack had to be included as well. Wonder how many weeks or months before the birds actaully get out there- always slow progress at our place!


This is not the photo of Luna I was trying to get, she was actually lying here on her back with her feet up in the air- it did not look at all comfortable but she had been like that for quite a while, but as soon as I snuck out with the camera to take a shot she rolled over.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Catch Up Photos- Ziggy the Macawa and Luna at Floriade

Have been a bit slack with my blog lately here are some photos I meant to put up but never got around to.
 Who would have believed a year ago that Luna would allow this to happen without eating the birds!

 We discovered Ziggy loves mandarin- he is a bit messy though!
 Ziggy and his messy mandarins

  Strawberries are another favourite
  Amy and I went to dog day at Floriade with Luna- it was awfully hot so we didn't stay long but the  flowers were lovely.
 Amy and Luna




Mum's 80th Birthday

We traveled down to Melbourne for mum's 80th birthday. Amy ended up staying at home as her Eclectus Parrots had been sick and at the vet for about a week so she needed to stay home and care for them. Bill, Lachlan and I drove down Friday morning and with 3 drivers it wasn't too bad a trip!

We helped set up Friday night, we had the party at the retirement village where mum lives, they have a lovely communal area which had everything we needed, pool table, table tennis table, sound system and big screen for all those family photos and a baby grand piano which meant we could be serenaded by Joshua- it was a great venue. Mum had organised a spit roast company to cater so most of the work was done for us.

  Setting up the room the night before.
 Mum and a lovely bunch of flowers from the retirement village for her 80th 


 Mum and her flowers and her cake


 Josh played the piano and Natalie played the violin as part of the entertainment
 Mum with 11 of her 13 grand children
 Kim, Gary, Mum, Sue, Simon and Michael
 As above with Jeff and Fiona Goss who came over from Adelaide
 Filomena, Leeanne, Mum, Sue, Bindi and Arlene
Mum with her son in law - Bill and the daughter in laws