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Hi all, guess what I actually remembered what my

password is, so long since I have graced my blog

it is not funny. I have been taking some photos

but not everyday, I am really slack, lol.

I was getting sick of only seeing sunsets

with the occasional sunrise chucked in.

I think I will start again when there is more

sunlight in the day.

Update on my stupid washing machine, after

a bit over 3 weeks it is sort of working,

Mark is not the best Mr fixit, seems like something

always gets broken while he is fixing the first

problem. Thanks to everyone that let me use

their laundries while mine was out of action.

Enough of that for a minute.

Here are a few of the Lo's I have done

over the past couple of weeks,

first Baby Ellora, Scotts little one.

Her hand is all blurred in the pic,

she was stretching.

Think I have used this pic before,

I was at work the other day and had nothing to use

so scrapped this again. My plan was to use only pink

and green, think I may have got a bit mixed up

seems to be a lot of brown there as well.

This started out as a sketch challenge over at

http://u2schallenge.blogspot.com/
I had trouble with the sketch so it has been

turned and twisted and changed a lot.

I so don't like using 2 photos.

I don't think I will put it onto the site,

I have messed it up so much.

and here is our Tiffy again,

I decided it would be a good idea to

try and use some of my little bits and pieces

of paper that I seem to lug around all

the time. That upside down heart is not

part of the LO, I didn't notice it until I

re-sized the pic.

That is it for the Lo's.

We have a bushfire burning on Drom at

the moment, it is a bit scary for the

people living close to it. Some have

packed their stuff and moved out until

it is under control, which could be weeks

away. We think they should just water

bomb it, its not like there is no water

around, I am sure the ocean wont miss any.
I am going to try to take a pic of a whale

playing tomorrow, I spotted some

tonight but the light was wrong

and my pics did not work.

Ok enough of my rot, I have been

checking out all of your blogs, just been too slack

to log on to make any comments.

Thanks for stopping by.

Here I am again, woohoo, 2 nights running.

I had to take Sheri over to Narooma tonight to

her friends place, so I stopped and took

these photos of Narooma at night.

I used 2 different settings so the pics

are the same but different.

They were taken from the car-park at

the boardwalk looking back across the river

towards town. It is lit up like a Christmas tree.

The following LO's were the ones I promised before.

I cant get a decent pic of them, the colours are

not quite right, but you get the general idea.

The photo corner is pretty spastic in the family

one because, lol, that was where is landed when I

dropped it, oops, and because it had glue all

over the back I had to leave it like that, I

am still deciding what to do to disguise it a bit.

Maybe a flower, but not sure.

And this one of our little man.

I have had that song about 'Sweet wonderful you'

hanging around in my head for ages, so

I thought I might as well chuck it on a LO.

Thanks Tegan for the pic, I used one of the ones you

sent us. Shows his sweet cheeky little face beautifully.

And look Tara not a flower in sight, he he he.

I have another LO too, but I am trying to load

it onto the blind scrapping site that Vicky

mentioned in her blog, I just have to wait

for an email first. I will load it here tomorrow or

sometime.

I was going to scrap all day, but only got the one LO

done after spending a couple of hours at

the next neighbours place doing some

washing, I think she will get sick of us very soon.

Ah well, I think that is about it from me for

the night, catch you all again maybe tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hi, just a few random pics from the last couple of

days. I am not even going to try to work

out which day I am up to.

These flowers are from my next neighbours yard.

I snapped these while waiting for the washing

to finish. My machine is still not going,

so I have been borrowing her machine.

Thanks heaps for that Mrs P.

Last night the moon was almost full.

Do you know how hard it is to take a pic of the moon?

It was so bright while I was looking through the

viewfinder, so I mistakenly thought it would

fill the whole pic, wrong, wrong, wrong.

So I had a play around with some of the settings,

these following pics are the best I could get.
I tried the Auto setting, then the sunset

setting and finally the Shutter button settings.

The ones with the longer shutter setting just

did not work at all, too much light getting in.

This is the one using the shutter button,

I think it was on about a 3 sec timer,

it was about the best I could do.

And just because you are probably having withdrawals

from not seeing a sunset for awhile,

I took the next two tonight.
Honestly, you would think there was nothing else

to take a photo of around Bermi.

I have a couple of LO's to load too, but I think

I will take a better pic tomorrow, the night

time photography is not the best.

Sheri and I have decided that we should

spend tomorrow scrapping, so we are

going to do the blind scrap that Vicky

mentioned in her blog.

Here is the link: http://u2schallenge.blogspot.com/

Why not pop over and have a look.

That is it from me for the evening, hope you

are all having a wonderful Friday night and

are not doing anything too strenuous.

Thanks for stopping by, catch you again

tomorrow when I load some LO's.

I have lost the plot!

I have no idea what day I am up to.

I went back through my photos and they are mostly

sunset shots, and a lot of the kids at the beach.

Quite a few of birds in flight, so I

have decided you just get a few of

the better ones.

This one was the setting sun behind a smoke screen.

I love this bird, I was actually lining up for a

sunset shot when I noticed him/her.

I snapped this pic,

and clicked for the next shot and just captured it

in flight. I have been trying to get close enough

to one of these birds to take a pic for ages.

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What have I been up to lately, not a lot.

Work and trying to do this stupid course

that I was encouraged (forced) to do.

I had the Mr-fix-it-man look at my

washing machine today, the good news is

it can be fixed, the bad news is the gearbox

is on its way out, so looks like we start saving for

a new machine.

We had a ram raid in town a week or so ago,

what is the world coming to.

They done so much damage, it is scary, all

for a couple of slabs of UDL's.

They stole a car in Narooma, then another

one here to use as a get away vehicle,

rammed the booze shop, then took off

in the second car, drove back to Narooma

and done burn outs on the golf course,

tens of thousands of $$$$$ worth of damage.

Mark had to pass the damage to get to work,

he held his breath all the way to the shop

wondering what he would find, luckily

they left us alone this time.

Time I was in bed, I tell you I don't know

where the time gets to,

I spend the day at work thinking it will never

end and then the evening flies by.

Did you pop over to Sheri's blog to check out the

photos she took when she went fishing

with her dad.

Night all, be good, and

thanks for stopping by.

A couple of Layouts from the past few weeks.

This was nearly done before I left for

Batlow, but I had not decided what to do

for the flower centres, so

I carted it up there with me and chucked

the buttons and things on while I

was at the Tuesday Crop.

Then I started this one at the crop,

I didn't finish it because it was just wrong,

and besides I was laughing and having so much

fun the last thing I felt like doing was scrapping.

I changed one piece of paper and it was heaps better.

I had to hand doodle the flourishes on this one,

it is a pain being at work and not having the

things you need to finish a Lo.

Our little man, using the Duchess papers from Kaiser,

and some sass lass paper.

Tara says I have too many flowers for a boy

Lo, I say pfffft.

I think this would have to be the only time

I have pictured something in my head,

and actually made something that looked

the same, and I am totally happy with it.

That is it from me for now, I have another LO

but it is not quite finished, I will take a pic and load

it later. I will also try to do the other photos too.

My camera is chucking a bit of a wobbly at the

moment, I think I have tired it out and it needs a rest.

It is not focusing properly, I might have to

reset the factory settings.

My washing machine finally gave up this morning,

it has been acting up for a few weeks now,

I left my Mr Fix It to have a look the other day,

um, not the best idea, he is not real handy (lol).

My laundry looked like someone had been

massacred in there, I cant believe how much

blood there was, even after I made him

clean it up. Goodness only knows what he

did to himself, I thought it best not to ask.

I rang the real Mr-Fix-It this morn,

he will come have a look on Tues.

Probably cost me and arm and a leg

and he will tell me it is not worth fixing,

it is only 9 years old, not time to get a

new one just yet.

Oops I am raving again, sorry,

I will catch you again later,

thanks for stopping by.

Hi, school is back so now maybe I will get a chance to

load some pics. If the whacked out computer

will let me, between in and the stupid

washing machine I am beginning

to think that everything electrical

has it out to get me.

These are just a few random pics of the
crew that I took whilst in Batlow.

The 5 kids all together.

The 3 Scobies

Oh, boy, nearly the lot of us,

Tegan and Mark are missing,

they were manning the cameras.

We have, Mum and Dad, Me,

Tara, Craig, Mark, Sheri, Tiff,

Jaiden, Tanika and Zayne.

What out, this boy is pretty accurate throwing

this rocket thing, he could hit you from a fair distance.

Tani looks like she is playing

a mean game of footie.

Chook face, he has started saying 'book book'

which sounds like a chook noise.

I love this photo, dribbly chin and all.

The 3 grandkids.

Nanny's model.

Jed being co-operative, he is not

loving having his photo taken.

Mark and Zayne.

Our official photographer, Tegan,

with her U-Beaut camera.

Super cool Jed wearing his glasses.

He wasn't too happy about me taking his pic,

I think he looks pretty cute though.

His glasses are nearly the same as mine,

which worked out pretty handy, I used

them a couple of times.

Ok, that is it for now, I don't think I will

ever catch up with the photos, might

have to skip a few.

Thanks for stopping by,

catch you all later.

Phewww, marathon post.....again.

Nearly a week's worth of Photos.

I am home alone tonight, so I will endeavour to

load heaps of photos. Tiff is at a friends place, and

Mark has taken Sheri and her friends camping

for the night. I personally think they are

going to freeze, but it is something they

have wanted to do for ages.

I can't remember what number I am up to,

or the order these photos should be loaded, so

I am just doing a bulk post, I will

work out the rest later.

The snow on the way up on the Monday,

we were supposed to have chains but

after consulting a policeman and a

service station owner we decided

to make a run for it and hope for the best.

It was a little worse than I expected but

not overly bad.

A steam engine at Yarrongabilly.

The sun on Blowering Dam, way more water in

there than the last time I was up that way.

We were down the street in Tumut on Tuesday

when we noticed this amazing rainbow, at the same

time I got a message on my phone 'Quick Rainbow'.

It was so bright, and full I could not fit it all

into one photo, so I have joined two pics together.

I have not really done it justice, I could not get

a photo that shows how bright it was.

If you look closely you can see all the colours

and then some extra ones underneath.

Family day in the park, with some macro

photography, these daffodil/jonquils are

a bit confused I don't think they should

be out in flower at this time of the year.

I will load family pics later.

I have called this a watsit, simply because

I really don't know what it is.

I think a seed pod off a pine tree looking thing.

The setting sun from outside Mum's place one afternoon.

The setting sun taken from the road below

Mrs Barons place, not sure of the name of the road.

Batlow taken from the forestry rd near

Skeins place. I could not quite tell where

Mum's house is, I took the photo from

miles away.

Looking back at Snubba with the setting

sun reflecting on it.

Same day, nearly the same spot up

on the hill. These are for you Vicky.

The sun is pretty awesome in Batlow

you just need to go looking for it.

A tractor in a paddock coming down the hill

from the cemetery. Bet you never knew it was there

Batlow peoples, did you.

Leaves on the train tracks at Tumut.

A very random tree in a paddock between

Batlow and Tumut. It was a bit hard to take

a pic of this, I was parked on a corner with log

trucks zooming past every couple of mins.

Trees in the snow on the way home again.

I skipped the chains again, and prayed all the

way that I would not get pulled up, probably a little

bit more snow than on the way up, but still not

too bad.

I have wanted to stop to take a photo of this

birds nest every time I have driven past it.

Pity it was so far off the road and in someones paddock.

I nearly froze my buns off getting the pic.

The wind must have been gale force and

blowing straight off the snow.

Same nest taken without the zoom.

Then would you believe I found another nest,

this one was not far out of Cooma, the other

one was at Seven Gates.

Ok, if you are still with me thanks for sticking around.

I will now try to work out where I am up to.

I will be back with another weeks photos and a

couple of Lo's later.