News, views, reptiles and roos
Hey you! Yes… it’s me, startling you after a week off from blogland. What can I say? Sometimes life takes over and my urge to blog gets drowned in the everyday.
Lots going on here, however, and the views at the moment are incredible.
One of the things distracting me from actually opening the window for you here, into Granite Glen, is doing some redesigning of the blog.
I really love my little black blog, but I know it has caused some of you some issues which I am trying to address…
The changes won’t be shocking (I don’t think) but some seriously-needed tidy-up work being done, and I am attempting to make reading it just a little easier. Because while I am often ALL about the pictures, sometimes I just wanna talk, you know? Hoping to unveil it here very soon…
Another thing holding me back from uploading posts has been a broken camera lens. My darling, much-used-and-abused little 18-200mm copped one fall too many and decided to pack it in. I have been waiting for it’s replacement to arrive. I am now the proud owner of a Nikon 18-300mm lens – which allows me to sneak up a little closer to my prey!
Hoping my bird pics improve a little…
Am adjusting to it’s TTL light meter (back to manual til I work it out!)…
But loving the extra length… these shots of the kids’ horses Pickles and Sandy all taken from our deck looking north down the house paddock.
We are also still in recovery-mode from the recent floods, and had another 30mm of rain this week. I have to say that while I still ADORE the sound of rain on the roof, that ‘set in’ feeling did give us pause as we wondered if we might be flooded in. It won’t take too much to make everything run off into creeks and waterways again – and while it would be less-than-ideal for us as we rebuilt fences and road crossings, it’s those who were really hit hard a couple of weeks ago that I worry about, should the waterways once again struggle to hold excess water. The level of physical and emotional damage wrought by Cyclone Oscar in these parts cannot be underestimated – especially those who till the flats by the creeks and rivers who lost so much soil and equipment.
A friend told me how her 13-year-old son, home from boarding school had spent most of his holidays helping Dad level paddocks, plough them up for planting, and build new fences around them. He was so very proud of the result, she said. Then it rained, and rained, and rained… and from their house they watched all their weeks and weeks of hard work get literally washed away. He spent the last two weeks of his holidays cleaning up the devestation – with not one word of complaint. So not fair.
On a lighter note, Mr Incredible discovered one Granite Glen resident who was taking advantage of post-flood conditions here. S/He was lurking in the power box for our house bore (which is only JUST working again after the flood), with her eye on a big fat frog also sitting in the high, dry spot.
Axel was very wary of the inhabitant of that drum, used by Mr I to ferry her home … wonder why?
After some coaxing, she emerged… maybe a younger relation of Monty‘s?
She is a fast mover (late afternoon light catching me a bit here)…
And you can see why our garden hoses sometimes make me jumpy!
Our jackaroo Cal managed to catch her with the broom…
And test her s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g abilities… quite impressive!
Dash and Violet got a quick feel of her dry smooth scales before the boys released her into her new abode…
The shed, where she can keep the rodent population under control! She’s still there, so we are thinking there must be a python-smorgasboard available.
So – what have YOU been up to in the past week? Please share in comments…
♥
Amanda
PS Did you spot the roos alluded to in preview?
12 Comments
Colin (HB)
Hi
Did wonder why no blog reports.
1. Certainly the rain has made winter fodder far better for you. But I think enough is enough, eh?
Let it go south where it is urgently needed, southern NSW, Victoria and SA.
The incredible emergency services and the bush fire fighters would love to see it.
2. Photo #6 what it that animal in the photo, left hand of the bay pony???
3. Snakes!!!!!!!! Well I suppose the pythons are good to keep down the rodents, but I had one – 8 foot long wrapped around my leg and giving me “love bites” is no fun. I was quite sure I was going to die, after a leap of Olympic Gold medal award, in 1966 – pity no Olympic medals or games for my almighty high and sideway leap in “66”, in PNG and they have nasty snakes of equal length up there, I was going to die – taipans!
Going in a very fast car to the Lutheran Mission hospital, my driver kept asking if I felt this or that, imagination can run wild, I did.
4. Pouring rain at present in Brisbane with wind gusts (2.23pm) – aaah will it never cease?
Very interesting and informative blog as usual from the Granite Belt.
Colin
Bush Babe
Q2 – see my final question in blog post – will give you a fair hint!
Colin (HB)
Oh I forgot to put, my encounter with the snake was at night. I can still see in the daytime!!!!
Never too brilliant at night.
Lynda M O
“So – what have YOU been up to in the past week? ”
I have begun a new job-taking care of a ten-week old little guy named Wyatt. We have asked too many times, “Wyatt burp?” He’s cute and has big blue eyes and is easily comforted and only fusses when hungry or poopy-butted. I love the whole baby gig and so couldn’t be more excited. His mom teaches art to high schoolers and so that’s cool, too.
Hope your month is less exciting than your last few weeks have been.
jeanie
My last week has been alternating coding macros and being on the phone at a temp job.
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Tara
Remind me never ever to go into your shed! Yikes!
My past week? Ho hum. Same old same old. Dinner with a girlfriend was a highlight though, did my best to consume my bodyweight in sushi!
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Debby
Like Tara, I made a solemn vow not to enter your shed. Unlike Tara, I doubt that you’d have to remind me. My week? Working out, playing with William, working on an apartment, being domestic at home. Learning a new self-talk.
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Debby
PS I forgot to ask. Did Monty stick around? And yep. I saw the roo right away. Since your lens is our eye to your world, we’re all celebrating your new lens right along with you.
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Theresa in Alberta
Eeeeeeek!!! Poisonious or not poisonious, that is the question. But if it keeps the rodents under control then I guess it earns it keep eh 😉
Kelly
So you wait until the “PS” to mention the roo! I KNEW that’s what I was seeing, all blurry in the distance, but wondered why there was no mention of it!
Geez…most folks just use cats to control the rodents. I kinda like your snake idea!
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Scotty
Work, mostly, but am heading off to a BB in the countryside very shortly – will put some pics on FB as I go…
🙂
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Debby
Is it just me or is everyone hearing Cher singing the title of this post?
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