Yay! We grew some beetroot! We have a lot of trouble with bugs in our garden so its been nice to have some fresh produce. The girls and Michael picked these ones yesterday and there are some more in there to pick still. We’re going to make this beetroot dip over the summer. I’ve just [...]

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Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Family, Michael, Photo a day, garden

This morning I decided to go around and write down all the fruit trees, vegetables and herbs we have growing in our garden, we knew we had a lot but we didn’t know just how many!! I know other people grow much more, in fact we could too as our greenhouse is very lacking in [...]

Tags: fruit, garden, herbs, plants, trees, vegetables
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After reading Pip’s post (Meet Me At Mikes) I decided to write a ‘doing’ list too. So, here goes:
1. Cooking – making double of each recipe and filling freezer.
2. Picking up toys (constantly).
3. Laughing at the things my girls do and say.
4. Knitting (socks mostly).
5. Sweeping away chook poo (gross I know), Helen the Hen [...]

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Last weekend we packed up the car and drove off to Buntine to visit our friends Sarah and Duncan. Buntine is about three hours drive from where we live for a non kids family and about five hours for one with kids. More toilet stops, more rest stops, more sight seeing stops and more food [...]

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It was definitely a ‘pain’ cry which drew me to the surface from deep sleep. Poor Miss L, her teeth had been bothering her for the last week and still not broken through. I got up, quiet as possible, trying not to disturb the others in the house. This week in particular I was trying [...]

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…….for a cold front which is coming through. Actually, its been through and we are now feeling the after effects. Last Saturday both girls came down with colds and I spent most of Saturday night up 1-2 times every hour settling L. By Monday morning I had the cold and was pretty miserable by Monday [...]

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At midnight new years eve, 17 years ago Michael and I were at Adventure World. A group of churches had hired the place for the 1991/1992 New Years Eve celebrations and we went along. At approximately 2 seconds to midnight we agreed, while sitting on the now non-existent forts, that we would be boyfriend/girlfriend. That [...]

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So, firstly let me say happy new year to anyone reading this! 2008 was a completely crazy year for us. There were some very very good times and some very hard times. A quick summary of the year:
Jan – Started the year in a very hot Geelong, Victoria visiting my brother and family.
Feb – Michael [...]

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Recently Michael and Kezi went off to City Farmer’s to buy some chicken feed for our two unproductive hens and came back with two more little chooks. The two we have are large and black (Australorps) and these are small and brown (can’t remember the type). I’ve called these two Honey and Mocha, this is [...]

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When we bought this house we counted 11 types of fruit tree. Since then Michael has put in a few more as well as herbs and strawberries with plans for a vegie garden too. Just look at what is on its way;

Eaten already!

Passionfruit

Grapes

Mango

Peaches

Nectarine

Tomatoes

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