Interesting Link

I have been doing a lot of reading lately as it has been soooooo hot here! Low to mid 40's for a week now. The heat just makes it impossible to get out in the garden and even baking bread adds to the heat of the house so I have been buying bread yuko I will in future I will get up in the night and bake the taste of shop bought bread is so horrible.

I really enjoy living a simple life and while i was googling living simply I found a very interesting artical
http://www.quakers.org.au/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=43

Please don't think that because this is a religious group that I am trying to convert you all! I just thought it interesting that the Quakers feel this way about living simply as well. I'm off now to stick my head in the air conditioner.

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Love Thy Neighbour

I got home from work Yesterday to the most amazing surprise! Two huge rolls of hay at my back gate and this huge roll of hay inside ! As I pulled my car up around the front a neighbour pulled up and said

"I was just driving past in the tractor and thought I would drop of a bale of hay for Paul and Kelly, I've popped it over the back fence"

How nice is that! Thank you Lester!

As I was thanking Lester another neighbour called in to say he had slashed all the back lane ways around our tiny town and baled them for Paul and Kelly! Thank you John!

Paul and Kelly the sheep are going to be spoilt!

I really do love living in this amazingly caring community

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I'm back!

And about time!

My computer had died seriously but has been fixed now and is better than ever! But that means I have a lot of catching up to do.

Ages ago now my partner and his Mum and I went to visit a local open garden. It was an absolutely great day and an amazing garden. I had saved that local paper that had a write up about the garden so I could remember its name......but it was so long ago I forgot why I had saved the paper and used it to light the fire!....I think it was called Kambula?? I don't think that's right?

It was really inspiring as you can see by the pics. A really natural lay out with a huge amount of Eremophilas which are very suited to our semi-arid environment. I have had so many deaths when trying to create a English style garden here so growing plants that are suited to the area is important! I have almost finished the recreation of the front garden here and will post the pics soonish. The open garden really was inspirational! They had included man made elements which I found soooo cool, reminding me of a Friends garden in the NT ~*~ Fine Elsewhere ~*~ So needless to say that my poor partner has a list of "stuff" I want him to create for my garden!

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Hey Guys *waves*

Well my computer is still in the shop! But on the upside I am getting so much done that I wouldn't if I was on my computer!!!! I have been re-decorating my kitchen and getting my bathroom ready for painting. I have chosen a cornflower blue for the walls and a beautiful country style print fabric for a skirt around my basin. It should all come together well!!!

Now, it seems I'm quite well know for my frugal renovations because I am featuring in this month edition of Reader Digest ! I was interviewed ages ago and had almost forgotten about it. If your interested its on page 52 in an article called "Ooops, Tales of Thrifty Disasters" hhhmmmm about sums it up hehehe.

As well as decorating I have been flat out baking as this is something I really enjoy. It cuts down the amount I have to spend in the supermarket as well. I bake a loaf of bread every second day because as I live by myself I can't get through a whole loaf any sooner! I buy a big bag of Lauke bread mix, I think it's 10 kgs in a bag? I keep it in the chest freezer so it's always ready to go.
I have been making some biscuits to take to work as well to try and keep the costs down.

I still have to fight the desire to buy cappuccinos as they are my weakness!

There has been a lot going on in the garden as well but as I don't have my computer I can't show you the pictures yet. Jamie has been building a fence to section off the vegie garden and cutting garden from the rest of the yard. This will help keep the chooks and ducks and turkeys out which will be good. As we are still building the fence I haven't bothered with any vegies so far because the chooks would just devour them. I am really looking forward to getting it all finished. Nhill is having a Back to Nhill in early October and as part of that we here atYanac are having a Back to as well. This will be a great chance for those who have ever lived here to come back for a look and to catch up with some old friends and neighbours. I am really hoping to get the side paddock cleaned up before then as it's looking a bit messy. I also wanted to get the side of the house painted but I think I may have run out of time. Might be finished in time for the next Back to in 25 years!

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