Hi All,
This is going to be a first…more pictures than words! I decided that it was a lovely rainy day and that we would celebrate by taking photo’s of our morning and our processes to celebrate the very first lighting of Brunhilda this autumn…
Saturday is cleaning day…you can see the dogs are delighted…
Steve just cleaned the loungeroom and the boys just put their seal of approval (or is that disapproval?) on it…
Steve putting the firebox door back on Brunhilda after oiling the catch
Earl thinks that he isn’t getting his fair share of attention…
Steve talking to Earl about dogs that demand attention…
Earl thinking about what Steve just said to him whilst maintaining his position…
And completely disregarding what he has just been told. Earl had to be physically removed from his new preferred spot (and yes, I will be washing that cake rack before I use it again 😉 )
Steve feeding Brunhilda after her long hibernation
Steve just about to close the firebox door on Brunhilda after giving her a degustation platter of treats to keep her happy
The dogs have just realised that Steve is lighting the fire!!!
The kettle goes on IMMEDIATELY and the dogs couches are all ready for their inhabitants for the next 8 or so months
Proof that it has actually been raining and I am not just fibbing
Every year this Clematis vitalba grows back from a large old stump that I think I have hacked to death the previous year and has gorgeously scented flowers that are perfect for the bees
According to Brunhilda the new pope has been elected…Pope Frances the first… I RULE! 😉
What happens when possums are robbed of their stolen nightly bird cheese by the wrens having a late evening snack…revenge is terrible 😦
Brunhilda’s food of choice
Various jars of “flours” that I have made after making almond, coconut and soy milk and dehydrating the pulp. I make my soymilk with organic Aussie beans and will be growing my own next year. I have 1 cup of tea a day with soymilk in and don’t consume it at any other time so I figure it won’t be something that I have to worry about 😉
The lower portion of one of our pantries. The noodles were an added bonus (along with 2litres of whole milk) when Steve got home and unpacked the groceries and found them. He didn’t buy them so I guess someone left them behind and we were not going to take them on a 100km round trip back to the city. We have lost groceries before, I guess this time was our bonus but neither of us want to eat those noodles!
The shelf groaning with grub…better than being empty I say! 😉
My soymilk maker, lots of empty jars and herbs in the spare pantry in the middle room and all of those paper bags are packed to the gills with dried seeds ready for next springs planting events
Dehydrated okara in the foreground and on the left Kid Creole and on the right, his coconuts getting used to homemade coconut milk and doing a very good job now that they understand that they won’t be getting cows milk any more 😉
A Grey Shrike Thrush waiting for me to move away from the window with the camera to come and get some tiny cheese cubes from the windowsill
The view out my kitchen window and the only safe place that I could put my shoes away from the weather and Earl, twin problems for shoes on Serendipity Farm 😉
Earl attempting to play ball. For a dog, he is considerably unco!
I swear I saw Brigadoon!
More proof of rain and don’t the trees look happy 🙂
The tree that fell down reasonably close to the house in the wind and rain on Thursday. Now we just have to work out how to get it safely onto the ground!
Bezial showing his appreciation to Steve for lighting the fire for his basking pleasure 😉
Pretty much where you are going to find the dogs for the next 8 months 😉
Steve says “there’s no use crying over spilt milk”…
Fair enough…but this is kefir! 😦
Draining kefir to make it as thick as Greek yoghurt to use in recipes
Still raining…the feral cats live underneath that large conifer
A bit more rain (that last nude rain dance that I did at midnight appears to have done the trick 😉 ) and the nerines are loving it although Steve is muttering about having to bail out The Mumbley Cumumbus tomorrow 😉
Steve and I are officially genius’s now. We took this panoramic shot with a camera that doesn’t take panorama’s. We are learning so much about photoshop and pretty soon will be selling our own BigFoot, Alien sighting and Tasmanian Tiger photographs…autographed for the tourists ;). Let us know if you want any terrible photos doctored, we HAVE THE POWER! 😉
Well that’s it, that’s all folks…not quite wordless but for me, it’s a miracle. Enjoy your weekend and see you on Wednesday when words will return (sorry Bev 😉 )
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