Enlighten Festival

A couple of weekends ago it was the Enlighten Festival, so Bill and I and the kids went in to have a look. We got some dinner from the Noodle Markets and caught up with a friend of mine and her husband and one of her sons. Kerrie and I had gone through Teachers College together so over 30 years we have known each other. We enjoyed checking out the evening and the lovely mild weather. The buildings looked good. I was hoping to ride into the balloons one morning with Bill, but in the 10 day festival the balloons only went up twice and not on the days we could have ridden in! It has not been typical autumn weather for Canberra this year, warm, humid and muggy- reminds us more of Sydney weather- all a bit crazy!

Rutherglen via Melbourne and Glenrowan

Amy and I had a quick trip down to Melbourne for some top up Neurofeedback treatment. We drove down on the Wednesday, leaving at 6:30am for a 3pm appointment, go stay the night with my mum, which is always nice to catch up and check up on her. We then had an appointment on Thursday at 12 noon, then head for home staying overnight somewhere, to tiring to drive back the next day. This time we stayed in a B&B at Rutherglen which is about half way between Canberra and Melbourne, a bit of a detour of the Hume Freeway but it was a lovely place to stay.

On the way back we called in at Glenrowan and checked out the Ned Kelly stuff- I always like going on a road I haven't traveled on before, or go through a town I haven't been before.

When we arrived at our B&B at Rutherglen we had a cheese platter awaiting, it was lovely sitting out on the balcony. The B&B was in an old bank. I had some home made lemonade, not being a drinker, and Rutherglen being a major wine area. That filled us up, so ended up just having a few tapas plates for dinner in one of the eateries in town. Everyone was so friendly.

In the morning I went for a walk around Lake King, a small lake in town, there were lovely river red gums lining the path. Nice way to start the day and burn off some energy before the lovely breakfast that kept us full for the rest of the day till we arrived home. 

Working in the Backyard

Have been busy out in the backyard with a few jobs over the last few weeks. One job has been putting up a new fence between our neighbour at the back. It ended up being a bit of a drama as the fence went down in one day but then he didn't come back till the following week to actually put up the fence. Normally it wouldn't be a drama but with dogs it was a bit of a hassle. We had to train Luna to go out the back in the old chook yard, she wasn't to happy about that at first. When we were all home we could check that Terry's place was secure and she could go for a wander. She would go and sit at their back door, tail wagging, hoping to go in and have a visit! The fence guy eventually came back and had it finished in two days, was most apologetic, had another job on at the same time. We have cleared the side fence of all the bushes as we are getting that done as well, as it is barely standing. He has promised to get it done in three days, and he did do Terry's other fence in three days so that should happen this week hopefully. We had the young men from church come around and help do some clearing- they got so much work done in one night it was great!

I picked up these metal bulrushes last week, they go perfectly with the reeds I potted up and make a nice little feature outside the back door- am very pleased with them.

Here is Eddie the Emu I picked up in Yea with Amy on our recent trip to Melbourne for some Neurofeedback treatment. He is made out of old horseshoes.