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.

Another bird or two, and some random shots of stuff.

This one is a very poor pic of an overstuffed

Eastern Rosella, he was so fat that he was just hopping

along, could hardly lift himself off the ground.

He would not stand still long enough for a

decent pic.

Gallahs are more camera shy than me, you can

nearly walk up to them and pat them and

they don't even blink, put a camera in your

hand and they fly away, so I was pretty

stoked to get this pair on the feeder the other day.

Check this one out, I managed to snap him mid scratch.

Just a quick pic of the girls after the movies the other day,

such a social life these girls have.

A very wild pic of Sheri taken at the beach the other arv.

Look at those curls, her hair was straight until

a couple of months ago, now we can see it getting more

like mine everyday. It looks to be getting darker too.

A very random pic of miss Tiff, I was standing above

her, I like this pic, just a little bit random.

I let Sheri have the camera to take a pic or two of

me, even though I have a severe case of camera phobia,

I must say that she has done a pretty good job,

I mean the subject was not the best but

you know what I mean. Changing the settings to

black and white has eliminated most of the grey from

my wild hair. Cant do much about the wrinkles,

but the way I look at it I earned every single one

of them so they are my badges of honour.

Bloody ringlets, just look at them,

a lady my age should not have ringlets.

The closest I have come to taking a pic of a sunset.

Tiff running along the edge of the sand with the sun

behind her.

Tiff and her friend Sarah have learnt how to do

handstands in sync. part of their gym training at school.

Check this out, remember the sunset pic that was totally red,

when we had to design our new tide guides I gave the pic

and a few others to the fella, he was totally awed by

my pics, so used this one for the guide, with an

old pic of Sheri with a monster Bream that she caught.

Ok, enough of the crap. I am totally not liking the double spacing,

makes my post look enormous.

Thanks for stopping by, thanks for any comments

you may choose to leave.

So until next time be good, if you cant

be good be very careful. Seeya.

Birds....Long post

A few pics of the bird life that came to visit today.

I bet I looked a right clown taking these, I was

laying on the floor inside, while half hanging out the

door snapping away at these colourful birds,

they kept getting startled when I stood up

and would fly away, ha ha, I tricked them.

First a King parrot, I thought he was on top of the

pecking order, boy was I wrong,

then I thought maybe it was Maggie here, but

it sort of sat back and waited it's turn,

these beautiful little Rainbow Lorikeets ruled

the feed box, they would not let anything

else near it.

Love this one, pity about the chain covering his face.

These parrots come by the dozen, granny brain

here, I cant remember what they are.

The ones with all the green are babies,

the bright red ones are adults.

I played with the settings while they were bossing

each other around, I turned onto shutter mode

and got this one in flight.

I had the camera resting on the step and managed

not to shake.

Yesterday while I was at work Mark

noticed a bird we had not seen before, so

I kept an eye out for it this morning,

we thought it must be a pigeon of some sort,

but after a google search we think it is

a Brown Cuckoo Dove.

He has a nice name don't you think?

This is the only decent pic I managed to get

of the white headed pigeon, he is behind

the Brown Dove, they usually

manage to come and chase everything

else away, the other birds are learning to be bossy

and stand their ground now.

And finally 2 Layouts.

I am going to sub them and get rejected for sure,

so I will put them here now,

this one of the Crazy girls fell

together so easily, it was fun to do.

I am really happy with how it looks.

And miss T riding the waves. Not real

sure about this one, its not right but I

am not sure why.

I really need to do some scrap supply shopping,

I am fast running out of stuff to use.

Though I am finding papers I had forgotten about.

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I have a sick Sheri at the moment,

she has the sniffles, hope it doesn't

turn into anything serious.

She said one of the boys at school had

swine flu, and his mum is a teacher and

she still came to school, probably spread it

around to everyone.

Did you pop over to Tara's blog and check

out our little man. He is so much like

Craig at the that age it is scary.

Ok, I have written a newsletter that tells

you nothing, so I had better kick myself off here.

If I have not commented on your blog, it

is because I am lazy, not because I have not

been looking. Thanks for stopping by.