Slow Cooker Lamb Shanks

Dinner tonight....one of my favourites for this time

of year.

Lamb Shanks done in the slow cooker with fresh onion, baby carrots,

bunches of herbs & a generous splash of 2006 Heathcote Reserve Shiraz

with plenty left over to have a glass tonight.

along with a delicious loaf of nutty wholemeal bread I cooked in the

bread maker this morning.

I put the Lamb Shanks on at about eleven, so by the time everyone arrives home from their

busy day around seven we will all be able to sit down to a nice hot meal, much welcomed on these cooler nights.

What 's for dinner at your house??

Caroline xoxo

PS-It's making the house smell wonderful!!

The Pumpkin & Gourd Harvest

The cold weather we have had has just about killed off the Pumpkin vine and the Gourd vine has already finished.

SO......time to harvest. I am in-visioning Hot Pumpkin Soup on a chilly night.YUM!

But...the gourds does anyone know what to do with them??

Caroline xo

KATY PERRY

The Katy Perry

Concert last night was totally awesome

Anyone for a cupcake??

Caroline xoxox

Just Because.......

your a good friend to me

& yesterday you told me I don't blog enough these days.....

SO....I decided to do this post "JUST" for you

IS this a SON of yours??

Sorry I dress him this way when he come to our place to visit BUT I did do a good job on his head dress didn't I (Stolen from the pink house garden no less) with much procrastination on whether the red berries were poisonous AND if our sons would decide to eat them if they had one to many drinks. Mmmm they become most child like again don't they??

Lotsa love from our house to yours

Caroline xoxo

Looking forward to seeing this ultra handsome young man again this week-end Ha!Ha!

ANZAC Day - Ragged Bloody Heroes

Today is Anzac Day where we as Australians come together to lay our respect for the men & women who fought for our country.

With my eldest son in the Army and my youngest son who will play the drums with the Army cadets at four different Anzac day marches, our day will start early, we have to leave here by 2.15am(So I'm praying blogger will publish this respectfully on time :-)

Please take the time to listen to this wonderful song- Ragged Bloody heroes by Luke O'Shea and his band Medicine Wheel. Some of the footage in the clip sends tingles down my spine as my skin goose-bumps.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

LEST WE FORGET

Snorkelling

Snorkelling on The Great Barrier Reef wearing SUPER sexy stinger suits.

So where did we go??

I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I had been on holidays.

(I took this photo from the plane)

Can you guess where??

HINT- It's one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world.

Caroline.....

Paved Paradise & a ?

I've always liked this song it has such a good message behind it, but the other day I found this clip on u tube which highlights some horrifying statistics.

So my question is -

Do you think musicians should use their public position to highlight valuable causes more??

Let me know what you think.

Caroline

LAZY!

You think he would move, Don't you??

We have just got back from our holiday today & as the gardens were so dry I pulled the hose out to water and this happened.

I pulled the hose out & across Maverick thinking he would get up and move, he stayed this way for a good 1/2hr.

Funny Dog!!

Chloe

Chloe is recovering slowly, despite having to take her back for another day at the vets because she reacted to the anti-venom after I took her home. Apparently it is common when the dog has had anti-venom previously.

So it turns out because it was the second time around she should have had an anti-histamine shot & also a shot of cortisone at the time when she was given the anti-venom.

She is a lot lot better but not quite back to her old self.

I'm off for a few days, leaving Chloe in the hands of my darling daughter & wonderful house-sitter"H". I have known "H" for ten years & she has been house sitting for me for five of those years. She is absolutely wonderful but this time just a little bit of me may still worry for the "little dog"

Back soon to share with you my doings.....

Caroline xo