A Big Day Out…
I packed the kids in the car very early this morning… they were a little resistant despite the siren call of seeing their biggest cousin (and the incentive of our plan to kidnap her – and her blooming mother –…
Happy (Hairy) Holidays!!
On Friday, Dash’s school had a ‘Crazy Hair Day’ which basically means that kids get to wear casual clothes and get high on hairspray fumes as they endeavour to outdo each other in the freaky hair department. All in the…
Bathing in the late afternoon sun
Feeling a little blue today… too many people leaving this earth: Michael Jackson A lot mixed up but insanely talented – who didn’t mimic his dance moves? Farrah Fawcett THE Angel… what little girl DIDN’t want that hair, that figure?…
Swing high, sweet chariot!
Mr Incredible had a bit of a construction frenzy on the weekend. We have been so busy with Beef Week and then weaning all the calves here that there has been no time for ‘around the house’ stuff. It’s the…
Handling the General
It’s been a while since I shared anything on Admiral’s son… the one you guys named various things but we ended up calling General. (Sorry – I have no real control over anything here at Granite Glen!) We said a…
Giddy-Up Little Red
The below series of pics are of the little piece of bovine brilliance who we ‘helped’ arrive into the world last week… for want of something better to call him, he is being referred to as Little Red. As you…
THAT’s not an icicle…
Do you remember that 1980’s movie Crocodile Dundee?When Paul Hogan was an Aussie and pre-plastic surgery? And remember that line where Mick says: ‘THAT’s not a knife… THIS is a knife!’… And remember how I showed you this: This amazing…
The Scooby Doo Factor
You know how we have a Great Dane puppy? And you know how puppies – when they are little – can be a little nervous of things BIGGER than themselves? And you know how BIG Great Danes can get? Like…
Trek back in time…
Are you sick of reading about puppies and foals and bulls yet? Have my Lovers of Old Stuff abandoned ship in the deluge of all things furry? Can you still recall how I like to wax lyrical about fabulous old…
CAPTION WINNER: If only they could talk!
I feel a little like that Pantene shampoo commercial – the Rachel Hunter one: It won’t happen overnight, but it WILL happen! Life has once again overtaken me at 200km/hr, thanks to my ability to take on way too much…