Merry Christmas,

I hope you have had a good one!

We have had a very quiet day here,

just the 4 of us, our visitors will

arrive tomorrow (I can hardly wait).

I really didn't feel like having

Christmas at all yesterday,

but now the day is almost over

I am not ready for it to end just yet.

I tried taking Christmas photos, but like

last year they are not the best, a lot

of the tops of heads, while they

were looking at pressies, or just

plain stupid looks on their faces.

I am sure one of these days

I will get a decent pic.

Now that I am feeling the Chrissy

spirit I will add my favourite

Christmas song.

The War is Over by John Lennon.

So this is Christmas,

And what have you done?

Another year over,

A new one just begun.

And so this is Christmas,

I hope you have fun.

The near and the dear ones,

The old and the young.

(Chorus)A very Merry Christmas,

And a Happy New Year.

Let's hope it's a good one,

Without any fear.

And so this is Christmas,

The world is so wrong.

The rich and the poor ones,

Who held on so long.

And so happy Christmas,

For black and for white.

For yellow and red ones,

Let's stop all the fights.

(Chorus)A very Merry Christmas,

And a Happy New Year.

Lets hope it's a good one,

Without any fear.

So this is Christmas,

And what have we done?

Another year over,

A new one just begun.

And so happy Christmas,

We hope you have fun.

The near and the dear ones,

The old and the young.

(Chorus)A very Merry Christmas,

And a Happy New Year.

Let's hope it's a good one,

Without any fear.

War is over,

If you want it.

War is over,

I would add a photo or two but I really

cant be bothered. Maybe I will

do another post later, but please

don't hold your breath while you wait

for me to do it, just in case, LOL.

Stupid blogger, when I don't want double

spacing that is all I can have,

now when I need it, I can't have it.

Even after editing. Grrrrrrrr

Here I am again, 2 days running. Lol.

Just thought I would come on and tell you

Tiff has chooks, her and Mark have been

building a chook house for ages

(neither of them have any idea),

I would have taken a photo of them but the

man that delivered them seen a snake between

here and the chook house, and it was not

the 8 foot of scary from the other week,

this one was black, ewwww.

Here is the Chrissy photo I have

uploaded to Bonsscraps photo challenge.

Isn't he just the cutest little rock monster???

That is it for me for now, I had better go and make

a start on the scrapping I am supposed

to be doing. Where am I going to find

some summery type photos,

seems like the sun never shines

around here lately.

Ok, I am outta here, be good.

Some scrapping to share...

I have been trying to do some 8.5 x 11 in

pages, Tara thinks they are easy, I

struggle with each and every one.

It still takes me the same amount of

time to do as a big LO.

I think maybe I stress too much about the

whole thing.
This first one is Zayne and James @

Zaynes birthday, way back in Oct.

Next we have Jed and Zayne at the beach

when they came down in Nov. I think

I need to add 'brothers' somewhere

but cant decide just where to put it.

Really like this one.

This is an older pic of Tani.

Sheri, relaxing on the beach, all rugged

up for winter, would you believe the next

day they all went swimming, hard

to pic the weather each day lately.

Tiff with her gorgeous freckles, funny

but you can hardly see them irl.

Really buggered up with the yellow on this one,

I cut it to size and then scolloped the edge, making

it too small, so I had to mount it onto something

and being at work of course I didn't have anything

suitable. Grrrr, I take heaps of stuff with me too.

The only good thing about LO's this size is

how easy they are to scan, but they are a bit

hazy in spots.

I am competing in a CC over at bonsscraps,

come on over and check it out.
I hope to be back on here sometime

over the weekend, so I will chat to you again then.

Oh CRAP...I am so slack

Gee where has the time gone, I have

been so totally slack lately,

I did try to log on once or twice

but ran into a few little problems.

What have I been up to in the last month

or so. Unfortunately not a real lot.

We had 8 foot of scary in the shed a few days ago.

This little beauty was sitting on top of the work

bench, I didnt see him when I pulled into the

shed. Sheri was having a stress attack and

I had no idea why, thought she might have

seen a spider, boy I could not have been further

from the truth.

We watched him for a while and then went inside,

didn't think to see where he actually went.

They tell me it is a diamond Python and

not at all dangerous, unless he desides to

give you a cuddle, but I was not going to

get that close.

We also had a visit from the Young Endeavour again,

I will add a photo of that later.

Tiff has finished primary school, my baby

is going to High School next year,

I am so not ready for that, she is

not big enough I am sure, maybe

she should stay in year 6 for a bit longer, lol.

I will have to pop over here again later, I

have done some scrapping but have

been too slack to take a photo of anything.

I am still trying to get the girls in the same

place at the same time to take a santa

photo, now they are growing up

they have more important things to do

every weekend.

Be good, and if you cant be good,

you better be careful.

How did you all get on backing those four

legged things yesterday? I think I should

have held onto my TAB tickets to hand

in next year, I think my selections should

be crossing the line by then.

Favourites indeed!!!!!

I did get a third place prize,

I slipped out of the shop at

lunch time and raced over to the club

to put on an extra bet, after finally getting

around to actually looking which

horses were in the race,

lucky I did or I would not have won a cent.

Pauly I could have used your special skills

on Sunday, I had this lovely old gentleman

come in and ask me to make him a cup

of coffee, sorry I said I cant do that for

you, so he says well then how about

a cup of tea, still the answer is sorry

I don't drink tea or coffee so there

is none in the shop and he

certainly would not be able to

drink it if I did make him a cup. So then

he decided I should get him a beer,

we are a fishing tackle shop not a cafe or pub.

Then he tells me it was his 80th birthday

the day before, I wonder was he still

celebrating and didn't know what he

was doing or was he just joking with me.

Guess I will never really know for sure.

He sure brightened my day for me.

Hey Ho.....

I am still around, a little bit confused about this here blog

of mine...I was starting to think that nobody

was updating their blogs, this silly one is not showing any

updates, even after I have been and looked at them.

So I have been slack and not even worrying about

mine. Now I see that life has been going on without

me....Never mind....I will bore you with a couple of

photos and some LO's.

This photo was taken looking back towards

the blue pool on a bright sunny day,

the water was so clear you could see all the

rocks and stuff on the bottom.

Nearly same photo taken this arvo, just at

the end of the storm that blew through.
Looks like a totally different spot.

This is just a random photo of the harbour, Mark

and I went to scab in the fish waste trailer

but there was someone else already there,

so I took this photo so that we didn't have a wasted

trip into town, and so we didn't feel too stupid.

We thought we were seeing a rare bird the other

day, he was sitting in the trees just down the

road, this is a crap photo, but the best I

could do, after a bit of research on google

we think it is a white goshawk, (whatever

one of those is) not so rare after all.

Not sure that too many people see

them though.

I down loaded a free digi set from Kaiser

the other day and had a play, not sure

that I would bother taking that up though,

took me all arvo to do this. The digi set is

called 'Tag This'. I had a play with the

pic of Zayne in the corner, I shifted him

from a pic, took out the background, changed

opacity and flipped it to suit the pic.

Been a bit slack on the scrapping lately.

I think these are the latest ones.

Not sure about this one, a bit thrown together

and all over the place.

Too much time to waste at work, sat and doodled

a border, pretty happy with the way it turned out.

I could not get a decent pic of the LO, the photo

is not really that washed out.

Look what I found on the step the day after Tiff

was all dolled up for Halloween (which I do not

believe in). I was very brave and put

the camera on Macro and got in real

close to take this pic.

I have played with this pic and only left

Tiffs eyes coloured. She so does not have blue eyes.

They are usually gray so I am loving this pic.

Not so in love with the mouth though.

Sheri wants me to submit this LO.

As I said I don't believe in Halloween, so I have

called it 'Fright Night' instead.

I got a bit conned so that she could go

trick or treating (something else I so do not

believe in.....Encouraging kids to go

knock on strangers doors, really).
Tiff and her friend organised the night

with a friend but 'forgot' to tell me about

it until it was too late to call a stop to it.

Lucky I know the family she went with and

was ok with them taking her.

Sheri loves my spiders. I had to make

them, the only thing I had that looked

spooky was the paper, which I have had for

ages and never knew what was on it.

If you have made it this far down the page, thanks

for sticking around this long, thanks for visiting

and if you happen to leave a comment I thank you

again....That is it for me....Seeya

Hi, I am still here. I have been so slack lately,

too much effort to log onto this. Especially

when it is chucking a wobbly and wont let me

sign in. Ah well, never mind I am here now.

I have been whale watching most days

since we got home. The poor things are camera

shy, as soon as my camera is turned on

they dive and forget to come back up

again, so needless to say it has taken

me a few days to get some decent pics.

I have taken some other random shots while

I have been waiting though.

I thought there might be some in front of the

Blue Pool the other day, so I raced

down the steps to take a pic, not until

I turned around to go back up did I

remember how steep it is and how many steps

there are. I think there is ninety something,

lucky I stopped part-way.

I spotted this cute little lizard up the top

near the viewing platform, he was very obliging

and let me take his pic.

A couple of nights ago I thought there might

be a whale jumping off Michael Lerner Lookout.

I am s*#t scared of heights, so it was

quite brave of me to go there.

I took my life in my hands and went out on

the track, sounds good, but....

the track is about 2 foot wide at it's best,

rather steep, with about a 15 foot drop

on either side with not much decent

foliage to break a fall, being sandy

it is a little shifty under the feet too.
I took a deep breath and told myself that

some idiots will do anything to get a

pic of something, it didn't make me feel

any better about what I was doing but I did

see a whale (a long way off).
Here are a couple of the pics I took whilst there.

Looking back towards Bermi.

Looking back up the track.

Looking down the track towards the ocean.

I stopped when I got to this point, way to

scary to even think about tackling.

I held onto a tree for dear life while I took this pic.

A different day, looking back towards town, the water

was so clear and such beautiful colours.

I took my Polaroids off and took a pic through them,

they make the colours so much better.

Today I got to take pics of the whales up close,

but first I had to show you this, it was stunning.

Oh, and this, the camera was sort of pointed in the

wrong direction, the whales were higher up. Lol,

too busy yapping to see what I was doing.

Obviously I have taken these while standing on

the bank. This mother and her baby kindly

came in very close. I wish I could have gotten some

better shots, it was getting dark so these are as

good as it gets for today.

This one was coming right out of the water

until I pointed the camera at her.

The tell-tale splash that shows you where they are.

The sound of them hitting the water is quite loud

when they are this close, and they tell me if you

are snorkeling when they are calling to each other

that it is almost deafening.

This one and his mate were lying on their backs

tale slapping, pity I missed getting them in sync.

I have heaps of photos I would have liked to put here,

but I thought you most definitely must be getting bored

by now, so here are just a couple of faves for now.

Phewww....Marathon post there.

Must not be so slack, yeah right, I keep telling

that, but then I don't listen.

I have other pics from Zaynes birthday,

and the holidays, but I think I have

tortured you enough for now.

Oh, yeah, I finally got a new washing machine.

I convinced the Man of the house that the

other one was past saving. I think the

neighbours were getting sick of the bone

jarring grinding noise that was coming

out of it, I could hear it 60 mtrs away.

Now I have to work on getting a new toaster,

ours is temperamental to say the least,

I decides on a daily basis how it is going

to cook the toast, warm bread or charcoal.

The handle wont stay down unless

I call it a Poofter...any other name

and it pops right back up again.

I tried talking nice to it, but that didn't work at all.

Cripes, look at the length of this post, sorry

peoples, I do get carried away don't I?

Thanks for stopping by,

I have Lo's but will load them another time.

Seeya, be good.

It's Raining, Its Pouring

We Tani and Zayne for the first week of holidays,

and I think it has been raining everyday.

All Tani wants to do is play in the sand,

it is way too wet to even think about taking her.

We have managed a few trips to the park, but

it is so cold and miserable that we didn't stay long.

It is not good for the shop either, nobody

is going fishing so we are not doing much, still have

to have the doors open though, just in case.

I am taking the kids back tomorrow and I think

there will definitely be snow up the top,

I might have to take the long way home, it will make

it interesting. I was hoping to go over the top

and see some brumbies like Sheri did last week.

Maybe on the way back, weather permitting.

I might come back later and add a pic or two.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you are

drier than we are at the moment.

Missing Mojo...

Don't you hate it when you are all set to scrap and nothing is working,

wrong photos, wrong papers and absolutely no idea what to do with

the stuff you have got. That was me yesterday, no matter how hard

I tried I could not put anything together.I trashed a few pieces

of paper after I chucked a tantrum and ripped the crap out of them,

last week the double sided tape would not stick to anything,

yesterday when I tried to dismantle the train wreck I had started

it stuck, ripped holes in the papers and generally got under my skin.

I packed everything away without putting anything together,

I thought this is it, mojo has flown the coup and will never come back.

Today, I kept calm and used this beautiful pic of Tara and Zayne,

I have been wanting to scrap this for ages but it just never seemed to be

right. I started with the pic and this BG paper and the rest just happened,

I was finished the whole thing before lunch, I must say I was

pretty happy about that, I didn't loose my temper once.

I have loaded two pics, this first one shows nearly the proper

colours in the papers and flowers,

then this one shows the finished LO. Or maybe the nearly

finished Lo, I am thinking I might machine stitch around the

edges of the striped paper, my machine is too heave to lug

to work with me so that will be a wait and see if I can be

bothered sort of thing.

Pity the camera made it look so pink.

I also started another page, but got side tracked by customers.

Hopefully I will have a chance to finish it tomorrow

before the troupes get home.

That is enough gibberish from me,

thanks for stopping by, and any comments

you might happen to leave me,

be good, and I will be back again soon.

Phenomenon!

Phenomenon

I have been thinking about this pic all day.

It cant be from the setting sun.

The rays radiant outwards from the sun

when it is behind the clouds,

since the sun was behind me, there is no way they

could have appeared like this.

Thinking...thinking...thinking...

I don't think it was the moon either,

I have never seen it make any rays like this,

I think i will have to keep thinking about it and

see if I can work what was going on.

Mark thinks I am mad, of course it was the sun.

Me I am not so sure, what do you think?????
Okay, that is my little bit of silliness for the day,

but really what do you think?

A couple of recent photos...

I have not taken many sunset shots lately,

the sun is in the wrong place all the time.

I did venture down to Cuttagee the other

arvo, this is about the only one of the pics

that has anything going for it.

We had a bit of dust from the storm on Tuesday,

it started out just looking like fog, but as the day

went on it got thicker, we didn't get the red glow like

Sydney did. I took these photos after work,

this is probably as bad as it got.

Looking back up the river you could not see

the mountains across the back,

and looking out across the bay,

Mt Dromedary disappeared. It was

pretty yuk tasting the dust all day,

I think that was the worst thing we

experienced, that and the dirt on everything.

I stopped at the boat ramp to take this pic this

afternoon, the sun was looking pretty good when

I left the shop but by the time I got over there it

was behind the clouds again.

I took the scenic route home and stopped at

Um Ah Point to see if there were any

whales close by, and instead I seen

these amazing sun-beams.

It looks as if the sun was rising instead of

setting. The sun was actually behind me.

And look some Lo's.

This one of Sheri, I love this pic, Sheri

is changing so much lately. She looks so

different in this pic, look at all the curly hair.

I didn't have the right letters in black to make

the word I wanted, so I inked some pink foam

ones with versa ink. First I used pinecone on the whole

letter and then black along the bottom to

represent the change of the title.

I am pretty happy with how it worked.

I was on a roll with the journaling until

Tiff came and talked to me, instantly I could not remember

a word I was going to write, so have ended up

with gibberish.

I love this pic of all the girls, they are all looking in the same

direction and all have their eyes open and a smile

on their faces. Usually someone has a silly face

of some sort. Don't think I cant say I actually like this,

I don't do bright, so it took me a few days to finish,

I simply could not work out what to do.

I have had to use numbers in the title,

again I didn't have the right letters.

I am pretty stoked with the paint job on the letters too.

I don't have a title for this one yet.

I took this photo two weeks ago, Sheri has

been spending lots of time with Darrie cause

she will be moving soon, I think we will all miss her.

Both girls are very girly girls so I have done

my best to make a pretty girly page,

but I really don't know what to write,

everything I came up with sounded too cheesy.

If anyone has any ideas for a title for

me please feel free to tell me.

That is it from me for now.

Mark and the girls are going to Gundagai

for a few days through the week,

it will be Marks Mums Birthday on

Thursday. Pity one of us has to be

in the shop or we could all go.

Never mind I will get up there the next week

for Zaynes Birthday/Naming Day.

That's it, I have no more chatter,

so be good, thanks for stopping by,

and I will catch you again sometime.