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We are official .... our new sign......

We took Jessica (DD) and Jason out to see Scribbly Gums today and we installed our new sign that Phil got for his birthday off me!! It goes so well and I am really happy with the way it looks - thankfully so is Phil.

Jason and Phil putting up the sign


Finishing touches

Carlos and Megan (neighbours) also stopped by and wanted to know where the sign came from so they could also buy one ..... looks like it is a winner!

Thanks For looking
Carol

Saying hi on Saturday

Well here we are on Saturday and I feel that we are finally in Spring. The days are warmer and I am even in a T shirt as I type this - unheard of a week ago.

Today we went out to Scribbly Gums and had a great time. Last week I bought three kanagroo paws...a green, a bright pink and a white one. They looked so great that I had to buy them for $9.50 each. Well we have a little kangaroo paw patch outside the front gate at Scribbly Gums and we added them there! It was rather funny though - a womabt has christened the log where the kangaroo paws are just to show us who really owns the land!

Phil and I bought 2 waterlilies and we (read he and I managed the situation) planted them in the dam. As we are not having stock we thought we might as well make it a feature. Phil stripped off and in he went into the 'loathsome mud' as he called it. Anyway we will see how the waterlilies go - Mum and Dad bought them for his birthday.

We have looked at the land to see where would be best for the sheds, house, vege patch and the studios. We have a better idea each time we visit. And it was also great to see red tailed black cockatoos there today...... so awesome.

Phil has a great surprise coming for his birthday - but I have to keep it a secret for another week because he might read it here..... so I will post a photo or two when I can, once he opens it.....it should be great! Talking of birthdays ....Jason (Jess's DH) is 30 this weekend. Fantastic - I need to talk to Jess about his gift.....I'll keep you posted.

The other great news is that we are all booked for the trip to Tasmania in November.... We are staying in the most amazing places - old places (as in Colonial), a retreat, an eco village, a resort and little B&Bs all over the place. Our plan trip is booked and paid for, as is the car and accommodation. In October for our wedding anniversary (3 years) we are off to Eden..... we must also book the trip to see the whales...... better do that!

I have been scrapping again and here are a few layouts that I have posted onto the competition site for the LSBS Cyber Crop.

Doesn't time fly - first they are babies and then they are
grown people with their own ideas and lives.
My children make me so proud.
Just in case you need to know who is here:
Phil (DH), me, Matt (DS), Ken (Matts Dad), Heidi (Matt's previous gilfriend)

This little guy changed our lives in so many ways and he was
so much fun, as well as naughty and mischievous.
He loved us all and our lives are richer for his part in them for 12 years.

I don't usually do collages but here is one I did for a challenge.
Not sure it is me, but it was a bit of fun.....

Well it is time to do more 'stuff' thanks for popping in......

Love
Carol

Welcome to our new home - Scribbly Gums

Hi there everyone we have a new home site - Scribbly Gums - it is 100 acres of natural gum forest in Lower Boro and we (especially me) are so delighted I am finding it hard to concentrate!!!!

So instead of being really painful here are the details:
100 acreas of gum forest - especially scribbly gums which I love....mmmmm a pottery line called "Scribbly Gums' is coming to mind as I do this......
3 dams
Lots and lots of wildlife
Sites for studios, sheds and a wonderful home - my imagination is going a bit wild
And a site for a guest house so friends and family can vist

So here are the photos.....

This is the driveway into the property most of the trees are scribbly gums .....

Main drive into the property


This is just like a parkland and there is a far amount of fallen timber that we will be able to have wood fires for ambience and kilns - we have so much


The cleared area near where we might put the vege patch -
the yellow ford,
which is used by the owner of the property (to look around),
and his son (to do wheelies on the grass)
will be removed before we take full ownership


A bit more of the cleared areas - with black wattle and gums


The 3rd dam near where the vege garden and house will be located.....
a few wombat burrows in the side... it is the lowest of the three dams on Scribbly Gums


The property is 90% wooded and just lovely!


We thought this was great - a wombat burrow in a termites nest....
warm in winter, cool in summer ....... clever wombat!

So today we have cleared some of the ivy in Phils place in Watson which should go on the market in a few weeks.....

Jessica, Jason and Matt are all in Nowra at a party tonight ....

Phil and I are having a glass of something - me Chardy - Phil Coopers and celebrating that our offer for Scribbly Gums has been accepted and then will do something about dinner!

Dad is recuperating from his pacemaker operation and is fine today apart from a nasty laceration on his forearm which I dressed today. Mum is wonderful too and I am going to take her shopping in a couple of weeks with the fantastic plastic to buy some winter clothes.....

I am so excited with our new property I will be boring now if I continue.....

Aussie bush
Aussie rain
Aussie smells
Nothing is the same
....but Paradise

love you all..... Carol

Welcome to the Weekend

It has been a thoroughly Autumn Day today - a bit rainy, cool adn grey skies.... however it is hard to dampen my enthusiasm as we have looked at the property in Lower Boro and it seems pretty perfect to me.....

Phil and I feel pretty much the same - there is heaps of bush land - great amounts of scribbly gums, black wattles and stringy bark on 100 acreas. Lots of wildlife especially wombats and kangaroos and birdlife - heaps of chuffs, rosellas and finches. It is around 1 hour 15 mins to Canberra only 11ks on a dirt road the rest is bitumen.

Because it also has cleared spaces for buildings and flat areas for vege patches - if it works out it will be wonderful. So now we are going to investigate further as to building permits and other things like phone lines ...... but it is sounding pretty great at the moment.

Here is the link to Phils property on all homes http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/ah0073?slid=-228945935

And here is the one we are interested in
http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/ah0073?slid=167217828

Apart from that I don't have much news tonight ..... I made some cards yesterday and am now preparing for the retreat is a couple of weeks..... I have to pack enough but not too much - it is hard to figure out what I want to do and now pack too much - especially with flying there.

Work is so busy at the moment - I won't bore you with the details - but I feel rested after the last couple of days so I will be back to it on Monday!

Dad is going to get a pacemaker fitted on the 23rd April - next week - we are crossing our fingers that it all goes okay...... They do so many and it is under a local anaesthetic so that is good. Max and Edith are helping Mum out by offering to have her stay for a couple of days so she can visit Dad and have lots of company.

A quote for today (bit long so I apologise)

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.
Leo Buscaglia

Love Carol