We put up the Christmas tree the other night.  A black one, with silver, black and red ornaments. I think the White Stripes would be pleased.

The dogs certainly enjoyed the event.

Woodchopping

Steam engines on display

Show jumping

Sweet baby farm animals

About a month ago, we planted two different types of baby trees around our back fenceline. The trees are Tasmanian blue gums (the compact variety – up to 8 metres tall) and variegated pottosporums (up to 9 metres tall). We chose these two trees because they’re very quick growing and they make good screen breaks. We have [...]

While I was at work on Wednesday, I received the following text message from Tim:
“Shit a brick half the shed roof just flew off and is now sitting in the back yard!”
Now, we’ve had a sheet of tin fly off the roof at the end of the shed before, so I thought that he was [...]

Last weekend we did a few things around the house. I did some gardening and Tim got on the roof to clean the gutters and check the condition of the roof.
He took some photos of our garden and our surrounds while he was up there.
As you can see, from up here, there’s a lot of [...]

Just because I can’t resist, here are some more photos of our lovely Smokey boy.

Well, if you read my last post dated 19 March, you will know I mentioned that a move to Tasmania was coming up. Although we hadn’t planned to move to Tasmania so soon (we were going to leave it for a 2 or 3 years before moving down), I decided to move so that I [...]

Well bad news for the super huge silver ring that I bought a couple of weeks ago. I went to 4 jewellers and not one of them is willing to resize my ring! They won’t touch it with a 9 foot pole! Apparently the setting at the top is so wide and chunky that if [...]

I just finished sewing up some bags and I decided to list some them on etsy. Here is the link to the shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7048297
I’m doing this as an experiment to see how well the bags sell. I have never had any luck with etsy for my Tall Poppy craft and sewing supplies. Hopefully it might be [...]

Tim made chicken pie last night. Its one of his specialties.

Here’s the ingredients:

1 pre-cooked BBQ chicken
2 leaks
1 stick celery
200g mushrooms
1 large carrot
1 cup liquid chicken stock
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and pepper to taste
2 sheets filo pastry
1 egg (to glaze pastry)

This is enough ingredients to make 2 pies approximately 25cm in diameter.
Slice the leeks, carrot, celery and [...]