Rest of April

The week before Easter Bill drove over to Adelaide to meet his sisters and clear out his parents house as it has been sold. I should have taken a photo of the hi lux and trailer all loaded up when Bill arrived home. We now have a pile of stuff in the lounge and spare room that we need to sort through and discard or find a place for- not looking forward to that job.

This trailer was full to the brim!

Just some of the stuff in the spare room including two spinning wheels and a 6 boxes of spinning related stuff- Amy mentioned she would like a spinning wheel!

Went for a walk with some friends on Easter Monday from the Botanic Gardens to the Arboretum. Canberra is an amazing city, you are 10 minutes from the city centre but could be out bush miles away. Just loved this amazing tree.

 Lovely view of Lake Burley Griffin from the side of Black Mountain

 Lovely autumn leaves- love this time of year.

Anzac day we made Anzac biscuits

Amy and I gave plasma at the Blood Bank on Friday it was Amy's 10th donation.

April Catch Up

The Macaws have been a bit naughty of late and rather noisy, we figured it might be because they were a bit bored and needed entertainment, so Amy and I went of visiting some of the local St Vinnies stores and checked out the baby toy sections and found some toys that are keeping them entertained. This play gym was a bargain at $5 - they love it and we can keep tying things to it.

The Macaws went to the vet for a check up recently and the vet snapped this photo of these 3 ratbags to put up on their Facebook page- a lovely shot of all three of them.

 Got to catch up with my neice Mia at church the other week, she is looking all grown up these days.

Mia has come home from Ireland 6 months early to start Year 11 here in Canberra and seems to be doing really well.

Amy has been on a cooking spree lately, these were some of the yummy carrot cup cakes she made, she has also been making macaroons, but i didn't get a photo- eaten up too quickly.

 I planted my veggie garden late this year, through in some okra seeds I had and managed to get some- grew them for the birds who love them in their budgie bowls each morning!

Had our Good Friday Easter Picnic at home this year with just the Garcia's. That meant Easter Malamute Luna could join us, We had bacon and egg rolls as per normal, just in our own home. Bill was away in Adelaide so we decided to have Brunch at home, was nice catching up with the Garcia's.

March Catch Up

I have been slack with my blog lately, life has been a bit hectic so here are some photos catching up on life for the past few weeks.

I had a weekend down in Melbourne catching up with mum- she put me to work while I was there. We cleaned out to her pantry- should have taken a before and after shot!

Weeded her courtyard and gave it a good sweep. We also checked out some new stoves at Harvey Norman, got a new cartridge for her printer and had dinner with Mike and Leeanne, Kim and Fil and Natalie so was a nice weekend away catching up with family,

 The next week I was kid sitting , house sitting and dog sitting for a family friend. Fizzy the dog got lots of walks while I was there. Amy came over on the weekend and brought Jack and his pram so Jack and Fizzy had a play date and enjoyed a walk together. 

Fizzy was in bad need of a hair cut so he had a bath the night before and when Amy came over she brought her clippers and gave him a trim. Jack watched on glad it wasn't him for once having a hair cut.

Amy is very pleased with herself has finally managed to get the hang of french braiding her own hair, this was one of her earlier attempts she is getting better each time.

Possibly a future start up- delivering ice coffee to you daughter at work when she has your car!

 Daylight saving has ended, the last few weeks or so it has been rather dark walking the dogs in the morning, here we are setting off at 6am under the street light in the first shot- we need the flashing lights to warn everyone we are coming,

 The swans are a little more cautious  in the early morning light but still come over for their cornflakes

Jack lets us know if we leave him behind on the walk, loves his pram walk in the morning

Late evening walk last weekend down in Merimbula. It had been a cold, wet windy day but we managed a walk around a different side to the lake. I had to go down for church so Bill came with me, always enjoy my time down at Merimbula.