Rogues Gallery

When I originally began this blog, almost two decades ago now, I gave everyone  inspired by the movie ‘The Incredibles’.  I have since ‘come out’ (using my own name, because – let’s face it – I cannot pull off Elastagirl anymore!) but have left my kids and husband reasonably anonymous. After all, I did drag them into this public forum with very little consultation…  

THE HUBBY

MR INCREDIBLE is an incredibly reluctant blog star.

He spends much of his life caring for our bovines (which is just as well, as he is resident ‘stud master’ and ‘stud muffin’ here… and yes, I will most likely be in big strife, should he ever read this page of the blog!)

He is mostly the strong, silent type who doesn’t quite know why his wife feels the need to document most of our lives! He nonetheless takes all the photo-taking and blogging in his stride.

THE KIDDOS

DASH is our eldest – a skilled fisherman, budding cattleman, and (our quiet) superhero. While he was a heartkid, he rarely refers to this formative part of his life and is very handsome (of course, I am quite unbiased) and is generally considered the life of most parties.

He is now 22 years old (whhhaaaattt???) has completed school and an Agribusiness Diploma (during COVID lockdowns) and is helping us run our beef business.

It’s fair to say we are pretty proud of this young man.

VIOLET is now 19 – which seems completely impossible.

She still owns the most devastating dimples, loves working with horses….…has been busy exploring the world in her first year out of school.

Texas and Canada featured … and horses!

Both these young humans make their parents pretty darned proud.  We wouldn’t swap them for quids.

THE EQUINES…

Trooper – Mr Incredible’s main partner-in-crime/work (besides his ever-lovin’ missus).  He is tall (over 16hh) and handsome with the superskill of breaking into the house yard and leading poop-fests across my lawn. He is now 22 years old – an elder but still the absolute BOSS in the horse paddock!

BUSH BABE

BB is not really a babe, but does live in the bush and has already babbled on about herself here. She also doesn’t like talking about herself in the third person. (Ahem).

I love this pic but really miss our big Great Dane goofball Axel (pictured) who featured heavily in this blog throughout his 12 years of life…

A highlight of my blogging ‘career/adventures’ was meeting Ree, the Pioneer Woman in 2011… back when my hair was long and brown. 

Until it wasn’t anymore!

But honestly, the REAL star of this blog is this:

And this

(Mother Nature, in case you missed it!)

There are, of course, many more characters included in the Granite Glen archives: Pagi (BB’s Dad), Nana (BB’s Mum), Jeanie In Paradise (BB’s sister) Salina (Jeanie’s horse-mad daughter) and Paris (Jeanie’s baby girl) and my brother ‘Pig’ are among ’em…  no-one in my family is safe, in fact!  They are remarkably patient with the whole blogging thing really.

If you have a favourite you haven’t heard about in a while, feel free to contact me and ask for an update!

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