Wednesday, August 15, 2012

What a blessed life...

Thursday morning. The sun's out, even though its warmth hasn't yet crept into the house. I'm working in the Void, erm, the Study. I'm working on a year 3 unit for the Dutch secondary course Realtime. Enjoyable work, fairly stress-free. Through the window I see Niki, in one of our neighbour Peter's paddocks, having a riding-lesson. How good is that. Talk about endless space... I think they diverted from our own paddock to Peter's because Bruce is working down the hill, with his Kanga machine and truck, to empty the sheds - all scrap metal, junk, debris, rubble and useless stuff is being taken away and it's looking great already. The aim is we end up with empty and neat sheds that we can then decide to do something with. We have some plans, but more about that later.




In the meantime, as part of my early morning cario-vascular training regime, I am doing the finishing touches on the driveway, i.e. a few days ago I planted a huge array of plants on the side of it (kindly donated by our good friend Gio, from Clunes), and I am now watering that area, and mulching to keep the moisture in. Later this week lights will go in so it'll look like a professional landing strip... I'll take a picture later.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Performance

Yarrow was invited, during dinner at the Tattershall hotel in Lismore, where her singing teacher was performing, to contribute two songs, accompanied by the guitarist. She was Very Nervous but performed Very Well, and we are all Very Proud of her! Here's a clip of one of the songs - Tess recorded it on her new iPhone.



At the moment Yarrow is doing a work experience project in Lismore at St Joseph's Nursing Home, working with, amongst others, people suffering from dementia and related illnesses, and she is enjoying the work muchly!

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Equine Sunday

This Sunday we spent the whole, sunny day mucking around with horses. 

Four horses to get out of the paddocks, brush, wash (yes, Samson is white again!), comb, cut (Yes, Niki was on a mission with a pair of scissors), feed, pat, oil (hoofs) and generally provide TLC. 

At the end of the day, in true blue Aussie fashion, Niki mounted as the horsewoman she is... Yee-haw!

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Niki's birthday

On Monday we celebrated my love's birthday. It was a lovely day! Niki's thank you note on Facebook says it all:


And here are some photos of the day ...