Big Thirsty Aussies

Well, the girls had a great visit with their cousins. A good time was had by all. We did the Greenfields to Hyams walk and the red weed on the beach was incredible. School reports came home this past week and although they were both fantastic, these new reports that the government has introduced are absolutely s#$!thouse! I liked the more personal approach of the old system but I guess the government chooses to get rid of any semlance of being human from all aspects of life.

In between bouts of coast slashing wind and rain, we were able to make it out for our Sunday walk-about. The pictures of the waterfall are from Yesterday on our venture out to town. It is forcast to continue raining here until next Friday and I should be well and truly sick of it by then! I already am. The combination of big seas and record tides has left not a whole lot of beach left for walking but really good viewing anyhow. Not sure where the buoy came in from we just found it near the Moona Moona creek mouth. Also found, a hat, a fishing rod, a dead shark(small type), steak knife, and a lot of kelp and good shells! All of the above had barnacles and weed growing on them so had been to sea for quite some time, weather makes for good beachcombing! Oh except the knife which was most likely a clue in a triple murder or something and now is covered with Boris's prints.....He doesn't like prison meatloaf! It has been the wettest June since 1964, with 2 weeks yet to go! Rain nrin...

A bit of Weather building up! At Dandaloo for the Queen's Birthday! We spent a very very cold weekend at Aunty Jo's up the hill. We had to sit in front of the fire, drink beer, and play cards......it's all good! Here is Smokey, the newest fixture at Dandaloo. He's very old and missing one eye..... As long as introductions are about here's Bentley- father to quite a few this year.....the old bull Roger broke his..... and has been re-zoned as hamburger its a folk eat bull world out there! It was really good to see the place so green as it was basically a dust bowl a couple of months ago. We are getting a lot of rain at the moment, and some of it is actually even falling where it is needed. We went to a bingo game (fundraiser for school) and do you know that nowhere on any card was the word BINGO.... different but fun except the bit where I didnt win anything... Kaiya won a tiny prize of lollies and coke-yeah she NEEDS more sugar!