So I just lugged up firewood for the next two days in slushy falling snow. Welcome to Australia! It's snowing down to 600m this weekend, and since we're at 870(ish)m, we're probably going to be getting snow and ice on and off all day. It's not really sticking, but it's certainly cold and miserable out there ( Read more... )

The persistent car problems reached their crisis when we visited Sydney for Mardi Gras - Mum's mechanic bluntly informed us it had a laundry list of faults, half of which needed doing before rego, which was in two weeks. The cost would be more than the car was worth ( Read more... )

No snow on the ground this morning, but given it was trying to snow (slushy ice falling with rain) last night at 3am, you get the drift. It's icy, guys. Fortunately, there was an ember left in the grate this morning, which made lighting the fire so much easier, and our stalwart local wood guy delivered this morning even though it's stinking cold, ( Read more... )

Caught another two mice in one trap last night, bringing the total to eight fewer in my kitchen now ( Read more... )

Day one of the market, and we cleared $600, which makes it the best year ever already. But man, I have very little left. Only five adult hats left out of about 16, only one pair of gloves left out of five, plus we sold a scarf, a cowl, a shawlette, and got a commission for a hat and a scarf and possibly a pair of gloves ( Read more... )

Caught and relocated two more mice, also caught and lost two, due to fumbling the trap/losing the lid. But I'm up two, at least, and they still seems to be going for the bait, so I'll keep setting them ( Read more... )

For now, here's a few of it in its newly cleared state. It's hard to tell just how overgrown it was from these "after" shots; I may do another post if I can find a bunch of photos showing just how bad it was.

( Garden 2.0 )

We were in town the other week, and we swung past the big charity shop, just because we hadn't been in there in a while. I grabbed a few books (which I photoposted about at the time) and Emma went out the back to the furniture section and had a sit down on a really comfortable sofa ( Read more... )

So, today was the Million Paws Walk, which we didn't get to, which I'm quite down about. It's the first time since we got Pip that we haven't, and I feel more than a little guilty for not going and supporting the local volunteer branch of the RSPCA ( Read more... )

I guess we were a little low, here, or there was some kind of warmer air current or something, because while the temps felt and still feel arctic enough, we didn't get any snow that I saw last night. Rain, yes, snow, no. Orange, however, got three inches or so, and there were the typical pass closures for the roads to Sydney, so maybe next time. I ( Read more... )