Floods again.

The Bridge. A little higher and the lower walk way could of been covered

The Footy field, now a lake.

underwater Steps

This is a tree may give you some idea as to the depth.

The convent gets its feet wet.

RSL Club under slightly

A clothes line.

Flowers.

Just a few photos of flowers I thought I'd share.

my favorite photo for now.

ok so its not what most people think of when they read flower...

If you zoom in on this one, you can see a bug on the flower. (or if you look closely)

On the 8th of November

Our long awaited foal arrived. I had gone out for the day, and didn't get to see her birth. When mum and I saw her for the first time she was already up and walking around.
We are not sure on her name yet, Probably Lamilla, (Or at least I hope) though mum wants to call her Topaz, and Anthony wants to name her Dancing ramila (trying to say Lamilla) Horse.
Here's some photos I took on Sunday.... or Monday evening.

She is a bit shy, so I was pleased to have her come over and look at me.
As you can see her Mum doesn't know if that's a good idea. lol

Can you see the white hair around her eyes?


Here she is trying out her legs.

The story of a pigeon

On Sunday morning as we drove up the driveway, home from Mass, A pigeon was spotted in our chook/chicken cage. It was flying round crazily trying hard to find a way out. So after changing out of their good clothes, my little brothers went in and caught him. He had cut himself up a bit, from running into the wire, I would guess. When Luke carried him up to the house, I ran and grabbed my camera.



I had spent and half on hour the day before trying to get a photo of a bird in flight, with no photo to show form that effort I wasn't going to miss this! I shot a few of the bird before we let him go. Then I stepped back to get my "bird in flight" photo, I can see now I could of done much better if i had of stood somewhere else, Next time I'll know better. :)
When Luke first opened his hand, the pigeon wouldn't move, after a few moments he said in wonder "I think it likes me" Then it was gone.

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.

The Garden

The garden is starting to look like a garden. The winter flowers are blooming just a little, and the plants are greening up again. I have added new beds and planted new flowers, some of the old plants are not doing as great as i would have liked, mainly due to the slugs. Well I thought I would share some photos.



This first one is taken from the garden seat. You can't see any flowers in this one but the are there.



This next one is a close up of the Mary stature, around the bottom of the stand there is a few pink flowers still blooming.




In the right bed there is also some purple and yellow pansies left. The rest will be floweriong soon I hope!

Baby Calf.

After many weeks of waiting, our cow gave birth to a lovely heifer calf. Now we can have fresh creamy milk again, and enjoy watching this little girl grow.

I went to take her photo, and she stuck her tongue out at me!

More about Goats.

After my last post about the goats, four more baby's arrived! The last for this season, all up we have seven little kids running round. :)
Emily left a comment asking their names, so I'll post them up.

Mayonnaise,
Maybe,
May-not,
Mayniac,
Maynia
Maylan (like Mulan... if that's spelt right. lol)
And
Mayeline (Madeline)

If you hadn't relised, they all have May names because that's the month they were born.

But today we found that the goat weren't the only ones with baby's, the Ginnie pig also have had there own set of baby's! They haven't been named yet though.

Our new freinds.

Saturday morning, while I was busy helping Mum get everything ready for our guests that would be arriving for lunch, my younger brother, Nick, came in and told me two of the goats had wandered of alone. Now this would not be the kind of thing he worry about other then the fact that they were due to give birth in a few weeks. I didn't think much of it, after all they would often go of on their own, beside I was to busy to go and check them. A few hours later I went out to take the rugs of the horses. I looked around and saw the all the goats but the two who went off were there. Now I begin to think that perhaps my brother was right, but I was hurried so I didn't do anything about it. I went inside and dressed for Mass. After Mass our guests would follow us out. As soon as we were home I sent Nick down to check on them. Moments later he came flying back up yelling something. "Ah it seems he was right after all" At first it was hard to understand what he was saying because he was so excited. Well after some minuets I was able to learn that there was three new baby's. I also found out that both Mums gave birth in the same place, and it seems the same time. Now both goats take care of there own as well as the other mother's baby/baby's. Its rather strange but nice to watch them sharing and helping each other!
Now the kids are three days old and very playful. I had to get some photos to share.

The first one at the top is both the mother goats with the kids.

The twins, testing a falling tree trunk for fun.

This is the only photo I could get of the other one, He was a bit shy and was hiding behind Mama. But he seems to be happy to play if stood back.

And last but not least is the carpet snake that has moved into the shed roof. It must be warm up there or something.

A May Day.

Its been one of those days when you can not possibly stay indoors. The air has a cool feel, and yet it isn't cold. So I put on my boots and headed out to the Mary garden. Its a small garden which I began caring for a number of years ago. I'm afraid that over the summer it has been neglected some.
Firstly we had had so much rain, that the grass patch in between the three gardens, started to grow quite fast. The space is much to small for the mower to get into, and so i was on my hands and knees with a pair of grass cutters. I gave up on this soon, as each time I managed to get the grass short it would rain and the grass would grow and I'd have to start all over again! So first thing i did was get in there with my grass cutters and start cutting. Perhaps i should also tell why i dislike this job so much. The garden is a much loved home of the green ants! And because its is so very loved, it is also well protected. If you have ever been bitten by one of these little critters I'm sure you'd understand my hesitation. I'm very thankful to say that they left me alone today. I have also put in a few new plants, taken down a old fence, raked, lit fire to the dead branches, grass, ect that was laying about placed a chair in front of the garden and wedded. Off course I didn't do this alone though out the morning most of my siblings came out at one time or another and pitched in here and there. Even Anthony who is only 4 came and gave me lent some help.
Now I just have to sit back, and watch the new plants grow... well kind of, after I water and weed each day, And battle the grass, I guess I'll need to keep cutting that back.
After all that's done, then I'll sit down and enjoy the peace and quiet of the garden.