Helping Skippy.

Or in this case, Benny.
Yes, as the name suggests, I, along with a few of my siblings have just spent the last hour and a half trying to stop this wallaby from hurting himself further. A full grown male as we found out when wires came out to take him and look after him. :) I'm so glad he was only a wallaby not a real kangaroo.
While sitting with (or on) him wrapped in blanket as the first photo shows, the kids wanted to give him a name, after debating a few minutes they named him Benny after the kangaroo from the Silver Stallion story's.
He wasn't pleased to be held down and I had to fight to keep him still a few times, but he calmed down in the end. Somehow he had hurt his leg and wasn't able to hop. He tried to get away when I first went down there, but he would keep falling over. Once I covered him up i was able to look at his leg, it seemed to be lightly cut in a few places, It must of been worse then it looked though. It didn't seem to be broken at all, but I'm not a expert so i have no idea just how bad it is.
The wallaby wrapped in the blanket I used to cover him up with. He freaked out when ever his head was uncovered, so we only have this one photo of his head.


After 'Benny' was put into the wires bag, doesn't he look so sad! hopefully his leg will be OK and he'll be back with his friends soon.

Kids and Wattles

At long last, our last goat gave birth to two lovely little baby girls. The first one looks like her Mum, marking wise, but her mum is brown not black. The second one is just weird colours. lol
We are still thinking of names, Starting with the Aug, for August.
The black one is very close to being called Augustin.
My little sister wants the brown/creamy coloured one to be named Rose, I was trying to talk her out of it when I realised the day before there birth was the feast of St Rose of Lima, saying that aloud, the kids started jumping round saying "lets call her Lima!"
I'll give it a day or to, if no one comes up with something better, they will be given the names the kids like. lol
If anyone has a August name idea, please leave a comment telling me. :)




I was walking in the paddock after taking the above photos, and this group of wattle trees in flower caught my eye, they looked so lovely, I had to get a shot! At this time of year, with the sun shining on them they are giving of a strong, sweet scent

A close up for those of you who haven't seen a Wattle trees before. Unless I'm mistaken, Most of you who I know read this blog haven't seen them before.

August photos.

Its that time of year again, The lorikeet flocks are back. :) only rainbow lorikeets in these photos, though we have had a few scaly breasted lorikeets around as well.

Its been raining today, so Allie retreated from the ceiling and decided my bed would serve him for the day. Yes he has been there all day, i went and found a old towel and put it under him, I'v had to many bad things happen with that cat and my bed before!

And Pippin with his ball. He looks very pleased with himself there!

more cat pictures

more cat pictures

Fun photos.

When I first brought Pippin home he looked like this.

He hated balls and was quite scared of them.

Now days, this is the kind of thing he does to try and catch the ball in his mouth.

I even caught him trying to play with the ball on his own, he'd hit it with his nose, then pounce on it. The kids all love throwing the ball to the dog now, and often say while playing "hey look, its the soccer dog!"