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DustyKat said:
...you don't fart every time you take Grace's photo do you??? :rof:
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Princess and Queen Mothers NEVER fart. EVER!!!!!! :ymad:
And if we did it would smell like roses! Or so I told my husband years ago.:rof:


The hands over the face was a compromise for my husband.
He doesn't want Grace's face on ANYTHING on the Internet.
(Crazy city folks like to stalk cute little farm girl.):yfaint:
I ask him if she covered part of her face if he was OK with that.
And their you have the story!!!!:hug:
 
OMG, I'm just laughing so hard right now... not even sure what's funnier.. the Sarah/Matt story (OMG, can just see Stephen doing that to Emily!), the 'fart' question or Farmwife's exercise 'routine' ! :rof: :rof: :rof:

And, not to get lost in the laughs, WAY TO GO SARAH!!!
 
How's things going "down unda" dusty? (I said that in my head in probably the worst Australian accent known to man!!) :)

Hope Matt and Sarah are still doing well! How are you? i've been a little MIA lately! So much going on around here!
 
Hi Amanda! :):):)

I'm doing just fine hun, thanks for asking!...:hug:...and your accent was fab! :lol:

I can well imagine how busy you are! :eek2: Fair rushing around like blue arsed fly I bet! I hope you are soon with hubby again and settled into your new home. :)

I am away at the coast at present! YAY! I think this is the first time in over 20 years that Mr Kat and I have been away without the kids for more than one night! Yikes! So we just sit and look at each other! :rof:

Matt is at home alone so no doubt he is enjoying the solitude. An introverts dream! :lol:

Sarah is heading home this weekend as are we so Matt's solitude will be well and truly shattered plus Sarah is bringing the boyfriend home...Mr. Kat! put that shotgun away! :ylol: Matt may well find a kindred spirit as he is a mathematician and plays soccer! :yfaint:

Thanks for dropping by hun and please give that gorgeous girl of yours a BIG HUG from her Aussie Auntie Dusty! :hug:

Dusty. :heart:
 
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Sarah is heading home this weekend as are we so Matt's solitude will be well and truly shattered plus Sarah is bringing the boyfriend home...Mr. Kat! put that shotgun away! :ylol: :
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Funny....my daddy left the shotgun out!:shifty: He was cleaning it as the guy walked through.:D Of course pointed right at the door. :ywow:
 
Now why doesn't that surprise me! :lol:

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Catherine said:
My father suggested boyfriend would like to help with milking.
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Good idea Catherine!!!! :thumright:
I'll share that thought with the hubby.
Wait that might not be good...................:ywow:
He might want her to start dating early teens so he could get help on the farm?:dance:
Sorry I'll have to think about that one.:shifty:
 
Glad to hear you are getting a much needed vacay with Mr. K! You soak up some sun and relax! :)

Uhoh! sarah's boyfriend better watch out!! A father cleaning a shot gun when they come in is not good news :) Tom's already getting his ready for when sadie gets old enough to date.

I am leaving here next Tuesday to drive out to Cali! So by next Friday I should be with the hubby again! we will ge ta couple of days to ourselves and then Sadie will arrive with the mother in law on the 11th :) I'm ready to get on the road and get on with it all.

Tell Mr K to take it easy on Sarah's boyfriend :) I gave Sadie bear lots of big squishy hugs this morning!
 
No it did not work with boyfriend who become my first husband. He liked to go to farm and sleep to midday. But my sister's husband still gets out helps with the milking when they visit.
 
:lol: Catherine!

Oh man Amanda, you must be like a cat on a hot tin roof! Wishing you a safe trip hun. :hug: and thank you for giving Sadie big squishy hugs! :):):)

I will tell Mr. Kat and he will get the death stare if he disobey's! :ylol:

Seaside Dusty...
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hehe!! I am dusty!!

I'm really ready to get on the road and get my bed and all my stuff back!

Can't wait to see the hubster either. It's been a month since we've seen eachother :)
 
Things are ticking along swimmingly at present. :)

The wind is fair howling today, so much so it would blow a dog off a chain! The sun is shining though so I thought it would be good day to wash the winter woolies as spring is definitely in the air. I don't know that knitted jumpers really ever date, do they??? I guess not 'cause I have a load that I knitted back in the eighties and Sarah is more than keen to snap them up! Woohoo! more cupboard space for me! :ybiggrin:

This is my favourite jumper from way back when and boy oh boy did it cost a bomb to knit!...

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Had a magic time on the coast. Weather was glorious and I didn't want to come back to reality, oh well hey ho.

Sarah and her boyfriend have paid their visit and we had a fab time catching up. They surely are two peas in a pod! I couldn't get them out of the house and they spent most of their time on the lounge, attached at the hip, and feeding fruit to each other! :rof: Fair dinkum! Did I ever do that! :yfaint:

Back to work time Monday...:voodoo:...but in the meantime loads and loads and loads of catching up to do here! Hush my puppies and prune my magnolia's, do you guys ever sleep!

Dusty. :sheep:
 
Back to work Monday here too. Just got back from vacation this afternoon.

When do the magnolias bloom? Almost ime to break out the woolies here - it's cool in the mornings - but not before I harvest a few more of these
 

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:heart:Glad you had a wonderful time on your vacation!!!:soledance:

:DI just for the fist time this season turned on our heat for the night. Mornings on my farm are now in the 40's or 50's.:ywow:
 
Hi Dusty,
Was reading from way back in 2011. You were getting ready for Christmas and now another one is quickly approaching. Hard to believe our summer is almost over and my favorite fall weather is coming. Love it so! Will hubby and daughter be with you for the holidays this year? I hope I can be with my kids this year, but almost impossible to get everyone together. My Mom wants me at her house. I haven't had Christmas with both my kids present in 10 years due to unpleasant circumstances. Hoping for better luck this year. I miss that so much. Have yourselves a pleasant weekend. I'm fighting:mad2: stomach flu and slept 4 hrs. today and now it's almost 2am and can't sleep!:yfrown:
 
The tomatoes are still looking fab Hawkeye! :)

We are just starting to get the first the blossoms now. The plum trees are always first so the magnolia's will be in about another week with their peek being the end of September into October. Just have to pray the frosts stay away!

The vacation was fab, the weather always helps! :sun::sun::sun: Our wood fire is still going and I am so over it come this time of year! :lol:

Yikes! I don't want to think about Christmas! :lol: I am never organised enough! Hubby and Matt will definitely be here and Sarah said she would be too, so that will be wonderful. :) I assume her boyfriend will have Christmas with his Mum as she is his only relative in Oz.

I am sorry to hear about your kids. :( Christmas can be both a difficult and sad time for many people. I so hope things work in your favour this year...:hug:...and I hope the stomach flu packs its bags and walks out that door quick smart!

Hating the thought of going back to work Dusty. :cry:
 
Now that's what I call a strawberry! Nom, nom, nom...


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Dusty. :soledance: Haha, I could have danced around that strawberry!
 
Do the koalas eat the gerden plants? We have deer in our neighbourhood so we have to plant deer resistant plantings unless the garden is fenced in.
 
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The tomatoes are still looking fab Hawkeye! :)

We are just starting to get the first the blossoms now. The plum trees are always first so the magnolia's will be in about another week with their peek being the end of September into October. Just have to pray the frosts stay away!

The vacation was fab, the weather always helps! :sun::sun::sun: Our wood fire is still going and I am so over it come this time of year! :lol:

Yikes! I don't want to think about Christmas! :lol: I am never organised enough! Hubby and Matt will definitely be here and Sarah said she would be too, so that will be wonderful. :) I assume her boyfriend will have Christmas with his Mum as she is his only relative in Oz.

I am sorry to hear about your kids. :( Christmas can be both a difficult and sad time for many people. I so hope things work in your favour this year...:hug:...and I hope the stomach flu packs its bags and walks out that door quick smart!

Hating the thought of going back to work Dusty. :cry:
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Hi Dusty,
Feeling a little bit better, but hubby very sick now.
It sounds lovely there. Wish I could see it. Our hummingbirds seem to be packing their bags and leaving. Only see 2 now where before about 6. So, I know Fall is quickly approaching.
Glad your family will all be together this Christmas. Say a little prayer that my dream for a family Christmas with my children will come true this year.:ylol2:
Thanx! Teresa
 
G'Day. :)

Still plugging along down under. Things have been pretty hectic of late and there is no rhyme or reason as to why, all I know is I have a shit load of catching up to do on the forum! :lol:

Sarah has had a rough week, :(, bless her. Had the mother of all migraines and of course i went into overdrive on the worry front! Ugh! Main reason being that these buggers of things were a part of her pre remission Crohn's, doesn't take much for me to be thinking Crohn's! Anyway in the wash up of it all it seems there is likely a very plausible explanation. I won't go into detail, for personal reasons, but suffice to say it had to do with stopping something. :) Many a woman out there may well know the answer! :lol: It goes without saying that I hope more than anything that it continues to settle.

I love Spring and it is starting to show itself! The only thing I hate about it, well two things actually. Firstly it is always a stressful time of year because it is the lead up to the end of the university year and I can see the strain it is taking on the kids. :voodoo: Secondly, the magpies start to swoop! Ugh! For the next 6 weeks or so I will spend my time scanning the the skies for the dive bombers from hell!

Nothing nicer than watching the Rosella's have a feed. Those black and white wings in the middle belong to a dive bomber from hell!...

Watchful Dusty. :shifty-t:
 

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DustyKat said:
G'Day. :)

Still plugging along down under. Things have been pretty hectic of late and there is no rhyme or reason as to why, all I know is I have a shit load of catching up to do on the forum! :lol:

Sarah has had a rough week, :(, bless her. Had the mother of all migraines and of course i went into overdrive on the worry front! Ugh! Main reason being that these buggers of things were a part of her pre remission Crohn's, doesn't take much for me to be thinking Crohn's! Anyway in the wash up of it all it seems there is likely a very plausible explanation. I won't go into detail, for personal reasons, but suffice to say it had to do with stopping something. :) Many a woman out there may well know the answer! :lol: It goes without saying that I hope more than anything that it continues to settle.

I love Spring and it is starting to show itself! The only thing I hate about it, well two things actually. Firstly it is always a stressful time of year because it is the lead up to the end of the university year and I can see the strain it is taking on the kids. :voodoo: Secondly, the magpies start to swoop! Ugh! For the next 6 weeks or so I will spend my time scanning the the skies for the dive bombers from hell!

Nothing nicer than watching the Rosella's have a feed. Those black and white wings in the middle belong to a dive bomber from hell!...

Watchful Dusty. :shifty-t:
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Hi Dusty!
Sorry to hear about Sarah. Hope she is okay.
Things here are good, Great weather with cold nights. 72 today and sunny.
Fall is quickly approaching. The hummingbirds I dearly love are gone. That's a sure sign that Fall is here. I do love it though. The leaves changing color and all the fall festivals here.
I don't know about the Magpies. Sounds like the movie "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock. They actually swoop down and attack you? Wow would that be a trip! Carry a trashcan lid with you!!
Enjoy Spring and smell the flowers for me. Ours are all starting to die. Glad to hear from you again! My best to you and Sarah!:rosette2:Teresa
 
Hi Dusty

There have been warns on the Melbourne news this week, to be on the look out for magpie.

You will have to start wearing your bike helmet with a couple of eyes painted on back.:ylol::ylol:
 
@Teresa. I do love Autumn too and after the Summer it surely is a welcome change! Now the magpies, yep, they swoop down and attack your head! and boy oh boy can they leave a nasty gash. We have a particularly aggressive one that lives across the road in a huge pine tree. When Sarah is up here visiting she won't go out to the car on her own in daylight hours! :ylol:

@Catherine. I will! I usually carry a big stick and look like a crazy woman waving it around above my head! :rof:

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@Teresa. I do love Autumn too and after the Summer it surely is a welcome change! Now the magpies, yep, they swoop down and attack your head! and boy oh boy can they leave a nasty gash. We have a particularly aggressive one that lives across the road in a huge pine tree. When Sarah is up here visiting she won't go out to the car on her own in daylight hours! :ylol:

@Catherine. I will! I usually carry a big stick and look like a crazy woman waving it around above my head! :rof:

Demented Dusty.
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Don't blame you a bit!!:eek2:
 
This is what a swooping magpie looks like...

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As if deadly snakes, spiders and all manner of sea creatures isn't enough. We have to have bloody birds that dive bomb you! :yfaint:

On the lookout Dusty.
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They become aggressive when the eggs start to hatch, so they are effectively protecting their young. The behaviour lasts until the young leave the nest. Once you see the young on the ground you know you are safe! Phew!

Not all birds are aggressive but of the ones that are they nearly always the males, just sayin'. :lol:

They reckon that less than 10% of magpies are aggressive but I don't believe that because if that was the case it means they are all living in my town and what's the odds of that! :eek2:

Getting toey Dusty.
 
Oh dusty you crack me up!! Maybe you should start carrying a gun with you? :) Get some bird target shooting in!

do you have tarantulas there? Just curious. i'm terrified of them and find myself back in the land of tarantulas. YUCK.

Anyway, i'm sorry to here about Sarah, i hope that she is okay and starts feeling better soon!

I love hearing updates on how you guys are doing and what's going on over there :)
 
Hey Dusty!
magpie's sound like a menace that needs dealt with with a gun!
I could never kill a bird though. Just love birds. But I wouldn't enjoy
the little mother's attacking me! Keep us posted! Teresa:biggrin:
 
We have a lovely one too on the way to the school bus stop, luckly the girls found a new bus stop. Magpies are protected no shooting allowed.
 
Hmph, unfortunately Catherine is right, they are a protected species. What about me though!

We do have tarantula's here Amanda and all sorts of other freaky spiders! The biggest spiders we have where I live are huntsman. I don't mind doing battle with them, it's the snakes I hate! Ewwww. Some people hate that you kill snakes and spiders but I say better them than me! :lol:

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Hmph, unfortunately Catherine is right, they are a protected species. What about me though!

We do have tarantula's here Amanda and all sorts of other freaky spiders! The biggest spiders we have where I live are huntsman. I don't mind doing battle with them, it's the snakes I hate! Ewwww. Some people hate that you kill snakes and spiders but I say better them than me! :lol:

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:eek:Dusty, I'm with you on the spiders and snakes. I get horrified if one little spider shows up in my bedroom. I hate them with a passion. I don't know why they scare me so much. I have had some nasty bites though in the past.:thumbdown: Keep your eyes open, your head up being watchful and always wear shoes Dusty!!!!!!:thumleft:
 
Okay, so where do I start...

Well first up y'all know that Sarah has a boyfriend and they have probably been going out for about 6 months. So yesterday I was talking to my Mum and long story short she asked if Sarah was serious about this boy. I said I didn't know why? and she said that Sarah has talked to her about marriage. Well I thought it was one of Sarah's wind ups that she has a habit of pulling on Nana. So I tell Sarah about and have a laugh and she says...we aren't getting married anytime soon but if we move overseas in 2014 we will get married before we go!

OMFG!!! I had no idea they were that serious!!! :yfaint::yfaint::yfaint:

I don't have a problem with it mind. I think what I am having trouble getting my head around though is, at that age the last thing on my mind was a serious relationship and how the hell did I produce such a traditional kid from an unwed union! :rof:

Gobsmacked and speechless Dusty.
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She sounds like such a great kid (guess not so much a kid anymore! :)) You must be so very proud of her!

But, who cares about the marriage plans.... :yfaint: I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that she's moving overseas in 18 months?!?! :eek: :lol: Have you started stockpiling those knitting needles? And you may need an motorized rocking chair!
 
Dusty,
It's so hard when they grow up and leave and you slowly realize they don't need you anymore... I used to cry because I missed them so much, but I got used to it. It still hurts and you feel a void, but you have to find people you love to hang with and get busy or drive yourself crazy. It's hard being a parent, but soo fun being a grandparent. You get all the fun and none of the troubles!:panda:
 
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I don't have a problem with it mind. I think what I am having trouble getting my head around though is, at that age the last thing on my mind was a serious relationship and how the hell did I produce such a traditional kid from an unwed union! :rof:

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Marriage is WONDERFUL Dusty. :thumleft:

What you need to start thinking about is how to keep her in the same country.:sign0085:
All of us together should be able to come up with a plan.:shifty-t:
My idea is to make it so where other countries don't want her. I'm just saying! Think about it.
 
LMFAO guys! :rof:

As to marriage Farmwife, I'll take your word for it since I obviously don't know! :lol:
 
Hi Dusty , I know you don't like sport but are you watching the footy or avoiding.

Like footy but thinking of going shopping during the grand final. It's quite a different feeling beening out and about when the final on almost like a ghost town.

Great service in shops.
 
Avoiding big time! :lol:

Matt still follows the NRL and his team is the Bulldogs so he is happy that they made it to the Grand Final. Sarah use to follow the NRL as well but then she saw the light! :lol: He will no doubt watch both the NRL and AFL finals. :puke_r:

I took them to the Grand Final in...ummmm...let me think...2007. It was the most amazing experience to be in a stadium of that size that was packed to the rafters with people but it still didn't change my mind about sport!

I think you are thinking the right way Catherine! Hit the shops while the nutters are at the footy!

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AFL grand final is my favorite day to Melbourne Show.

Just awaiting for the crowds to thin, the morning is always busy with people getting ready for the afternoon of footy . And BBQ.

The girls are going to their dad and are hoping not to watch the footy. They have a chance of not as Collingwood not in.
 
Well the weather sure has been topsy turvy this week. We have had the most glorious spring days of late. Beautiful sunny days and mild temperatures, no need for a fire! That was until last night...first it was rain, then sleet, then sago snow and finally I awoke this morning to snow!...

It was falling heavily where I live but it didn't settle much. A little further up the road though the falls lasted longer and did settle on the ground...

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...in the next couple of days we are supposed to be back where we started! :yfaint:

Matt has finished uni for the year so now has 4 months off! Good golly Miss Molly! :ywow: Just wish they offered some decent courses in the third trimester but alas it is not to be so a long holiday it is for him. Hmmmm, maybe I am just a teensy bit jealous! :lol:

Sarah will finish at the end of next week but has picked up a unit to do over the Summer break so will start up again in January.

Since Sarah was doing uni part time for the last two years and Matt started uni part time in Year 10 they will both finish their degrees this time next year. YAY! Roll on financial independence! :lol: I won't count my chickens before they are hatched though because an Honours year has already been mentioned by both. Mind you if Sarah gets married then...:ylol: I don't mind though, as long as they are well I don't give a toss about anything else! :soledance:

Dusty.
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Brrrrrr, but what a gorgeous photo. It's so good to hear how well Matt and Sarah are doing after all they've been through. Good on 'em both - and their lovely Mum of course.xxx
 
Wow, I thought I heard wrong when I heard on the news tonight there was snow in Australia - it's cold enought to snow here tonight, down below 0C.

Hard to think that they are done University for a bit, but I guess it i going on summer down there, school just started up here last month. What are they studying at University? Do they normally pick up a few courses over the break or do kids work down there over the summer.
 
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Well the weather sure has been topsy turvy this week. We have had the most glorious spring days of late. Beautiful sunny days and mild temperatures, no need for a fire! That was until last night...first it was rain, then sleet, then sago snow and finally I awoke this morning to snow!...

It was falling heavily where I live but it didn't settle much. A little further up the road though the falls lasted longer and did settle on the ground...

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...in the next couple of days we are supposed to be back where we started! :yfaint:

Matt has finished uni for the year so now has 4 months off! Good golly Miss Molly! :ywow: Just wish they offered some decent courses in the third trimester but alas it is not to be so a long holiday it is for him. Hmmmm, maybe I am just a teensy bit jealous! :lol:

Sarah will finish at the end of next week but has picked up a unit to do over the Summer break so will start up again in January.

Since Sarah was doing uni part time for the last two years and Matt started uni part time in Year 10 they will both finish their degrees this time next year. YAY! Roll on financial independence! :lol: I won't count my chickens before they are hatched though because an Honours year has already been mentioned by both. Mind you if Sarah gets married then...:ylol: I don't mind though, as long as they are well I don't give a toss about anything else! :soledance:

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Nice picture!!! Did you take it Dusty?:rosette2:
 
@crossroads - I didn't take the pic this time, a friend did. :)

@hawkeye - I reckon you can have the snow mate, I'll take the sunshine! :)

Sarah is studying Australian history and politics and Matt is doing pure mathematics. This is the first time Sarah has picked up a Summer unit. Matt's uni has just introduced three trimesters as opposed to 'Summer school'. The concept is great provided they offer a wide range of subjects, which they have across all degree area's except the sciences! :voodoo: Matt does tutor so he will continue with that and then said he will start reading up and studying for next year's units. :lol:

Most kids work over the Summer.

Dusty. :hippy:
 
Snow....Here it's not a question of if but a question of when. Last year we had the first snow flurries on October 30th (some places outside of the City ended up with 15cm (6")). We are warmer as we are closer to the water and didn't get any significant snowfall until a month later when we got 30 cm (1 foot)
 
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Seeing snow "Down Under", I thought I'd share a picture of snow from "Up Above" in the Great White North. This is from when we lived in the "snow belt" about 150 km northeast from where we are now. March 2008 coming in like a lion- a view from the garage door as I was cleraring the driveway
 

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Jumping Jehoshaphat hawkeye! :yfaint:

I would think that was fab for a day or two and then be so over it! :lol:

Dusty. :sun::sun::sun:
 
Dusty, that pic was from a "respectable" storm 20-25cm give or take. Back in February 1992 they ended up with about 150 or 160 cm over three days - pretty much shut things down. I was away at University at the time but came home the following weekend and couldn't beleive it.

The novelty does wear off, right now I say bring it on, but by February / March I am ready for the summer weather.
 
I don't now if any one from the USA remembers the storm of 1978.
Still famous up here and I was just an infant at the time.
I still hear that the snow banks were pushed up to the top of telephone polls.
Second story windows became the front doors.

The story on the farm here goes that 6 farm men took turns for 24 hrs. keeping a path shoveled to the milking barns.

My dad remembers walking in town with medals poles sticking out of the snow. That's where cars were. Daddy said the poles were scattered all over the roads.
 
No way! Did you guys get pictures?

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Brrrrrrrrr. Probably an average Winter in the great white north! :ylol:

Dusty.
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Sarah from behind...just sayin'. :lol: and yes, I am bored...
 

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Y'all think that Stella is smelling the flowers don't ya?

Well she's not, she's pulling the petals off with her teeth...delinquent...
 

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Hey Dusty or anyone else in Australia.

Does anyone know what type of bird seems to stay in a tree opposite our house. It goes something like woo woo woo. It makes that noise very early in the morning sometimes all night. How do we get rid of it.. (not kill it ).
It is so anoying i just can't get any sleep all summer.
 
Hi upsetmom!

OMG! Is it this bird!...

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...we get these too and to say they are loud is an understatement!

Don't know how you would go about getting rid of one though other than to ring and ask the local council for advice.
 
Yes thats it...:lol:
It is so so so annoying we have tried throwing rocks up in the tree...:sorry:..to any bird lovers.. to try make it fly away because once it settles there in the afternoon its there to stay and NO SLEEP
 
I hear the blessed things but can never see them in the tree! I guess because they are always way up in the canopy of the tallest gum trees. Grrrrrrrr. :lol:

Being colder up here our yearly visitors haven't arrived yet. :)
 
I'm sorry y'all but I would take that bird over a North American Tree Frog.

They sound like a bird call but are frogs. They call ALL NIGHT long. One night I swore that stupid thing was in our room and I MADE my hubby get up and find it and #@%& it!!!! Never found it. The next morning I told my hubby no sleep tonight until he finds it. There was the dumb thing on the outside of the window. It's GONE now.:wink:


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The only noise that keeps me awake all night here is Mr. Kat's snoring! :voodoo:

All hail the mighty ear plugs or the spare bedroom, for him that is! :worthy:
 
Good on you! :thumleft: How is he going?

Only problem is it puts me to shame now. :lol:
 
The storm of the century! 1978. The one Farmwife was talking about. I pulled it off the net. :)
 
Thanks! :)

Yes I took the avatar pic. It is a weeping cherry in our front yard.

Dusty. xxx
 
That is a beauty of a cherry tree!

I use to love cherry trees. Untill.................:ymad:
I move onto a farm with hundreds of them.
Real beautiful to the birds make their nest and dive bomb you as you go for a quiet stroll.:yrolleyes:
Real beautiful until the bees start to pollinated and mistake you for a flower and you run home scared like a coward.:runaway:
Real beautiful until the harvest is done and the Cherry's left on the ground start to rot
and smell SOOOOOOO bad you no longer what to take a stroll.:yfaint:

Still yours is mighty purty!:Flower:
 
:thumright:Great idea!!! I could use those stupid cheery trees to make the bridge!:rof:

Always thinking of others! :kiss:
 
My pleasure Farmwife! :lol:

Well it's going to be a big weekend in our little town, starting today, and I can't wait! Yeehaw!!!...

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...It's the Thunderbolt Festival and the Turkey Run! Time to kick back and enjoy the festivities. :):):)

Happy Dusty. :biggrin:
 
DustyKat said:
My pleasure Farmwife! :lol:

Well it's going to be a big weekend in our little town, starting today, and I can't wait! Yeehaw!!!...

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...It's the Thunderbolt Festival and the Turkey Run! Time to kick back and enjoy the festivities. :):):)

Happy Dusty. :biggrin:
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Pray for j.bug, she's in the hospital and that's all I can tell you. Please pray!!!
 
Okay so a little background on the weekend in our little town...

Our town is infamous for a bushranger that roamed the countryside in the 1850's and 60's and was killed in a shootout on the outskirts of the town...hence the Thunderbolt (bushranger's name) Festival.

In conjunction with this Festival there is an annual event called the Turkey Run. It is organised by a group called H4H (Harley's for Humanity) and they use the event to raise money for charity. It usually attracts about 500 motorcycle riders.
For those that are into motorbikes we have a guy in the town (Scotty's Choppers) that builds custom motorbikes like this...

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...his latest creation is a replica Batmobile.

I have been doing the domestic goddess thing today! :yfaint: And cooking a couple of slices for the CWA (Country Women's Association) as they will have a stall at the festival. This financial year, across the state, the CWA's disease that they are raising money for (research) is Crohn's. I have offered to give a talk at one of their meetings if they wish, so we will see what happens. :)

Due to the influx of visitors into the town we now have a few little tent cities. This is but one...
 

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Aura said:
Hi Dusty - you all good? Me good - I got a job interview a week Thursday.
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Hi Dusty! Glad to hear that Kirsty, hope you get it and do let us know. I'm pretty confident you will have alot of people here cheering for you!!!:Karl::banana::cheerss:
 
G,day Aura and Teresa! :bigwave:

@Aura - All is good here hun. :) I have a touch of the dreaded lurgy but nothing too bad. Sending loads and loads and loads of luck and well wishes for your job interview! :goodluck: and as Teresa has said...there will be heaps of folk here cheering for you! I was going to say rooting for you but well, hey maybe they are doing that for you too! :lol:

I am absolutely whacked today so having a lazy one. Big day yesterday at the fair which culminated in fire works last night. Phew. I was never so glad to get to my bed!

I will post some photos later today if I can get off my fat lazy arse and do something!

Dusty...
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Take a load off Dusty and rest up. We have just made one chocolate cake and about 100 cookies :thumleft:
 
:biggrin: I haven't heard 'bloody Norah' for ages :biggrin:

We'll I think that will be it for the day. It's time to knock off and rest up. I wanted hubs to have cookies for his workmates on Monday. There is only 2 of us here and I cook for an army!
 

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