CROCHETED GOODNESS

On my last thrift shop jaunt with my lovely friend Carolyn I found this little bit of crocheted goodness. It wasn't an easy find, as with most good thrift shop finds it happened to be tucked under a rack of trench coats in a box labelled dog bedding!! I mean what is wrong with these people to put something like this in a box labelled "Dog bedding".

This clearly is a rug/blanket that has never been used in fact I would go so far as to say that it hadn't even been made up for long. The wool still smelt new and any of you good thrift shoppers must know how quickly things take on the smell of mustiness & mothballs, or as my kids describe it "Dead Grandpa's"

They started to say this many moons ago after we had to clean out my Grandpa's (their great grandpa) flat after he passed away. Oh what delights they had discovering that yes he really was young once and DID once lead an extraordinary life.

Anyway this lovely blanket has found a good home here & will be well used in the coming months as the weather starts to cool. (it's a GOOD single bed size even hangs over the edges a little)

I can't help but wonder what lovely dedicated hands took the time to crochet this and WHY was it sent to a thrift shop.

???????

Is the lady still in this life, was it hard for her to knit - although I don't think so it looks so well done BUT were her hands crippled with arthritis & did she give it to someone as a gift who clearly doesn't appreciate homemade goodness.

I will never be able to answer these questions but what I can do is use & lovingly care for this beautiful blanket. Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Caroline xoxo.......

SUNDAY FISHING

Fish for dinner tonight.

We went up to Noosa, took the barge across to the Noosa North Shore then there is four wheel drive access down onto the beach, which faces open ocean.

It's one of my favourite places to go, the weather was beautiful and as you can see Emerald was the one that caught all the fish today. Beautiful fresh bream caught in a nice little gutter in the surf where they come into feed. We caught them on just a little bit of left over raw chicken thigh that I had so it really will be a lovely fresh, frugal costing dinner tonight.

You can see other photos of the area from my previous posts here.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

MISSING HIM!!

I am missing Soldier Boy

On another note.....my darling 86y.o Granny sent me a little money treat in the mail today.....and the note that accompanied it .....to buy some new underwear for yourself - such a sweetie. Guess she's worried I might be hit by a bus. Aren't families just the most, most precious of things.

CAROLINE xoxo

BRISBANE

We had to take a trip into Brisbane recently.

Oh and I hate peak hour traffic x 1000

Here are a few pic's I took while we were in there.

(or in other words a history lesson for above child)

It was all made slightly bearable for him though with a visit to one of our favourite places

The Pancake Manor.

The Pancake Manor has been running for about 30yrs. I remember my Uncle & Aunty taking me there when I was quite young.

The Pancake Manor is housed in the old St Lukes Cathedral which was built in 1904. You can read about it here.


Have a great weekend everybody

CAROLINE xoxo...

NOT MORE FLOOD PICTURES

This is the Stanley River flowing over the Main Rd. This closes the road, but, luckily the water recedes fairly quickly from this area.

No School or Work these days.

This photo came out kinda eerie as my black 4wd sorta blends in with the flood water. You have to really look to see what is car? & what is water?




This is our walking path I often take the dogs for their walk along. The white rails belong to the little bridge where I sometimes take the dog leashes off and they go for a swim & explore. The water is usually 4-5 metres under the bridge & the dogs run down a little track to get to the waters edge.

Not today though, as you can see the water is up over the bridge and t'was flowing fast towards the other side.

CAROLINE xoxo

WET WEEK-END

Rainy weekends are good for playing these.....with loved ones, and

snuggling up together, drinking hot chocolates with to many marshmallows on top to be called decent.

What are you doing this weekend??

CAROLINE xoxo

IT'S RAINING STILL!!

This is the wall of the Somerset Dam. They open the wall to let the water run through to Wivenhoe Dam that supplies Brisbane with it's water. You can read about it here in my flood post last year.

You can feel the mist of the water as it gets let out, even from quite a distance away where you view the wall you can still feel it. You would think it would be quite noisy to, but surprisingly it's not that loud.





This is a couple of hundred metres down stream. The water's looking like a pane of glass.



It has just not stopped raining here, which is kinda good I suppose as I live in a major catchment area. We have had more "rain days" this year then sunny days now. I had to drive into Brisbane today to get a Ute liner for Casey's new car. It was bliss to be able to see a blue sky & sunshine in the city, but when I started driving north towards home I could see the rain clouds. As soon as I drove to the top of our range the rain started pelting down again. I guess that's what you get living among the ranges.

Sorry the photos look so dark today....just blame it on the weather.

REDNECK 21st PARTY

So we headed back to Roma again.....not for anything as fancy as the Roma Cup Races of my previous post.

But this time for Lacey's 21st Party, and a Redneck Party at that. I really think we could have filmed an episode of "My Name is Earl" at this party it had all the right ingredients and then some more. Everybody got into the spirit of things & dressed up....Mmmm maybe not, maybe they just dressed normally LOL!! Gotta wonder.

Check out the "Girls" They look a little different to my last post hey!! where we saw them all dressed in their finest.


Take a look at these boys, only us two mothers could love this pair,
and what would be a good Redneck Party without big chunks of meat cooked on the spit!!

Some really got into the action and turned up on these beauties.

(Oh & Kimmy which way does a bike helmet go on anyway??)

Well of course you need to go Jelly Wrestling if your a Redneck, & Stick horse Barrel Racing

and Apple Bobbing & what about the hilarious game with the toilet rolls (what ever that's called)

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY LACEY......Hope you had a real "Cheap" time LOL!!

ROMA CUP RACES

I know I haven't posted for a while...at first I was just to busy soaking up the sun on our Summer Hols....then back to school came around all to quick...and you know how it is time just gets away.

This was a post on the Roma Cup Races I did way back in November & for what ever reason I can't remember??? didn't post it. Found it in my drafts folder tonight so thought I would still post it anyway.

BUT wait there's more....Just wait till my next post when I show you the other side of these nicely dressed decent people.

Anyway... it was a great weekend..... because of the company no doubt!!

"The Boys"

"The Girls"



Emerald, Carey & Faithe






Talk about hot weather I think I'll go to the beach next year!!

Are you coming C & C??