Skip to main content

Rainy Weather

May, 2015

It is so much better living in a house than a caravan during cold and rainy weather, but still impossibly hard to keep the boys indoors, in clean dry clothes. I'm the world's biggest nagger, 'you're wearing socks, get off the wet grass! Oh no, the trampoline is wet! You're soaking wet again! We've run out of pants and socks. Get into a warm shower! You're going to freeze. What?! Maxie is outside in the mud and rain?! ...' And so on.

The garden is dripping and green. The house is cosy with the fire going and kids' movies playing. The sandwich press is busy making toasties, and the smell is sweet from baking Anzac biscuits. For once, our house is the romantic one with smoke curling out of the chimney.





(A familiar Flack sight, that one, children on the trolley)


(Dusty built towers out of the kindling)


(We need to improve the bathing situation)


And the dog sleeps on ...


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Our 3rd Christmas in Nambucca Valley

December, 2016 This is the Argents Hill (population of 221) Christmas  Party. Couldn’t be more beautiful. Christmas Carols, Macksville. Salvation Army puts on an incredible show here, we love it more every year. And our town over the Christmas season. You can only feel good when you hear the fiddle playing in the pub as you notice a new set of Converse strung over the power lines.  This town has all the good things in all the littlest ways. Heritage town, heritage fuel station, heritage car. We were  driving to Coffs Harbour but had to put the destination on hold to do a few laps in Bowraville to get a better look. My brother  and his fiancee brought their snorkelling gear to Scott’s Head and swam me out to see a Wobbegong Shark who was sleeping under the rocks! Amazing experience. Must get some gear now.   And our fun few days of camping at Hat Head, NSW. National Park living is always so relaxing and restoring. We t...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Greater Port Macquarie

It's nice to have a break from the holiday parks every now and then, and we had that in mid-North Coast when we were able to stay with longtime family friends. We literally set up camp in their horses paddock - power and water connections into the horse stable and all. The horses kept us company and did really well to have us there, with Dusty and Maxie following them around, climbing the gate to pat their noses, stirring up their feed while they were trying to eat. It really gave another unique learning opportunity for Dusty. How many 4 year olds can say they took a week long internship learning the care and feeding of horses in nothing other than a horse paddock? Dusty learned so much that week he insisted that HE knew the best way to dress, feed, and care for horses and the owners had to learn from HIM. Generally he knew his stuff, too! So even though we'd moved on from the amazing South West Rocks coastal town to a rural country property, we were again happier and loving th...
1 comment
Read more

Autumn Arrives

May, 2016 This is what you will find at Shelly Beach - #7 Beach in Australia - at 5pm in Autumn. We are so thankful we can call this our local swimming spot. The colours of my morning in for  also. Avocados - preserving and making chocolate breakfast smoothies. Pineapple - preparing for fridge containers awaiting little fingers t hat steal pieces during the day. Grapefruit - juicing to store and use in dressings. Turmeric root - boiling with cinnamon and ginger for tea with honey. Saucepan - full of root vegetables and Asian flavours for breakfast (and dinner tonight). Loved my morning touring our home-place checking in on our food and picking macadamias, pecans and turmeric for our day. And as usual, a little more sightseeing.  Revisiting this coastal temple - I never run out of love for visiting lighthouses in Australia !! Arakoon, NSW
Post a Comment
Read more