COLOURFUL VISITORS

Lovely to look out the kitchen window and see two rosellas in the backyard.  One was showing a great interst in this blackbird and 

followed it around the yard until the blackbird decided enough was enough and took off :0) 

Beautiful markings

 

HOMESICK

THIS WEEK  i'm really missing sunraysia - the space, the river and its wildlife, the huge skies, sunsets, the desert saltbush landscape and orange groves and vineyards.  and friends.   

I need to get out and walk more, yesterday on the beach i found so many beautiful shells, all the same kind but endless subtle colour variations.  and i saw a new bird, a firetail or red-browed finch - a little stunner.

very happy

to see this

familiar 

little fella

the trees along the foreshore are dramatic

friend fran described this pic as molten silver - so true

sunny rang while i wandered along the sand, etta chattering loudly in the background :0) and when i got home she'd sent some lovely pics of etta in her new jumper knitted by jenny having fun with grandpa ronnie

ETTA AND RONNIE

WEEK THREE

 SETTLING IN SLOWLY.  The garage is still full of cartons two high.  

the little new holland honeyeaters just love the banksia outside the front door.  i was having a lazy morning yesterday watching Insiders and tony burke interview while take photos thru the vertical blinds.  the blinds in this house are two different colours, a deep dull mulberry and cobalt blue - yeeck!!!

the weather has been seesawing between wild and woolly really 

cold days and mornings like this, completely still and serene, 

although the air is still pretty nippy

HALLS GAP WEEKEND COMING UP

 I CAN'T WAIT for the Halls Gap weekend, we've got the big Northview house again for a long weekend. I'm really looking forward to seeing this little possum again.

and by then i should have most of the work done here. the house is in pretty good shape, just a garage full of boxes to get through now.

TWO WEEKS HERE

FIRST THING I DID - GOT CROOK!!  Both sunny and gail (who stayed the first night) had light coughs left over from bugs they'd had and i got it.  and i've had a slightly stuffed head and morning chesty cough ever since.  i don't feel bad but i'm not 100%, to be expected after six months of working my butt off 

PICS FROM THE LAST TWO WEEKS

Lovely to see the white-faced heron here

some lovely moon shots - the full moon shines through the kitchen window

through the kitchen window

GAIL CAME TO STAY again after a week, we had a good walk out on the 

St Leonards pier.   There was large seal out on the rocks, fast asleep

LOVELY to see the little red rumped grass parrot here too - familiar faces

      A BIT OF LOCAL HOME DECOR

   

THE MOON

One of the great

 constants in life

 the wonderful  company of

 the moon  wherever i go.

 

Full moon on Wednesday

and here it rises over

the bay.  I'm looking

 forward to that but in

 the meantime a few

 shots in the middle

 of the night

MOVING

MOVING DAY was only made possible by sunny's arrival, i don't know how i could have finished up everything without her with good old bob taking away the last minute stuff, and dee cleaning after we left.

one last look at the lock and thegoa lagoon before we leave

ONE LAST SIT ON CAPT. JOHN EGGE'S LAP

    

'bye boxes, see you in indented head

the guys arrived at 9 and by 11 sunny and i left.  it was a nine hour drive and we'd missed our dinner booking at the portarlington golf club by the time we headed thru geelong half an hour later than planned.  monday night and nothing open in geelong so hallelujah when we found a little pizzeria open in drysdale.  it was heaven  -  a really fresh delicious pizza and a glass of wine then a five minute drive to the motel which turned out to be a large room with three beds, table and chairs in the middle and a u-shaped kitchenette as well.   really good 😊

all the major 

food groups -

coffee and a 

beesting from

the Birchip

Bakery :0)

looks like we had a tiny stowaway

next morning we had a few hours before the removalists arrived so walked along portarlington and indented head beaches and drove around st.leonards.   My beach is Half Moon Bay, the prettiest part of indented head and only  5 minutes from home.

My section of beach, the old Ozone wreck off Half Moon Bay

 Nice to have a view of the You Yangs, the beach faces east - full moon in two days :0)

the guys arrived 

and unloaded - 

said they had lunch 

from the local 

fish'n'chippery and 

it was great.  

good to know

In the afternoon luke came down with etta.  the afternoon was slipping away so i encouraged sunny to go down to the beach with them before it got too cold.  i can't even remember why i didn't go but i was  busy doing something. my head has been so full of things, i can't think straight.  but it's great to be here, the unpacking can take as long as it takes.

it's sunday now and that was tuesday.   the house is still full of cartons in every room but the rooms are slowing taking shape.   gail came to stay first night which was wonderful, then jenny came over next day to help with unpacking and cleaning.  yesterday jenny and rob did a delivery of half my big plants and pots and today jenny and freddie are doing the same.

last night as i was saying 'bye to jen and rob after dinner at the st leonards pub we met the neighbours, a lovely young couple Chris and Fran, who have three kids and use the house as a weekender.  it's a holiday house on the other side too so very peaceful, no yapping dogs or revving motors :0)

Right now i'm coming down with a  throaty thing, the first in about three years.   and no wonder, my body is finally allowing itself to relax and i'm simply tired.   now if i can just find a plug the right size for this bath, i'll be truly happy!!!