Have moved house onto a huge farm. Except for the rats, mice and spiders it’s a joy to be there.

A huge orchard of mature fruit trees so far this summer we’ve enjoyed peaches, nectarines and plums. Soon to harvest are the pears, apples and figs.

It’s a beautiful thing and how God intended us to enjoy food, fresh from the backyard!

Hoping to plant in the veggie boxes before summer ends.

Well that’s about it from me. Until the next blue moon, enjoy life! :)

It snowed today, beautiful drifts of snow landing on everything – but in October?! How strange. In 2007 it snowed in July, that I can understand but the middle of spring it doesn’t happen very often. In any case it was a beautiful sight for those of us who don’t get to experience it very often :)

So I’ve been on a campaign to convert as many people to Mac as I can find. It’s more than just a ‘fanboy’ thing.

Why? Because PC is so unequivocally crap.

Since moving to Mac over a year ago I spend far less time trouble shooting why things don’t work and more time doing the productive things I need to do.

I have to say that 99.5% of the time if I have a problem with my Mac, it’s user error.

When people say ‘Oh but they are so expensive’… and we look back at what they’ve spent getting their PC fixed, removing viruses, money spent in downtime while trouble shooting errors etc – they realise – oh wow, actually by spending a bit more upfront – I’m going to save money and my sanity! *loves that light bulb moment look on their face*

What I can I say, Mac just works!

So, here they are…

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION 2010

Deliver a healthy baby boy
Build a chicken coop & get chickens
Start a vegetable garden
Buy a Cabana Caravan (26/02/10 bought one)
See Jenna (Booked her ticket to Aus for 2 months arriving beginning of June *yay*)

There was a point in the film, where the clock is ticking down the final minutes of his life and it took me back to the night when Steve and I sat in vigil on the 2nd December 2005 minutes and seconds before the hanging of a young Australian boy Van Tuong Nguyen after being convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. I don’t know the circumstances of how he got in so deep. But I felt compassion for him because I have done stupid stupid things in my life, and I think how thankful I was able to find a new way, a new life and grow and evolve into who I am today. He never got the chance to do that.

So glad they found me through Google, though I have tried so many times to find them with no luck. There are not many people I know I can be my usual spanky zany self with and those two were some of the few. It was so crazy cool to banter with them again and I can’t wait to finally do it again soon.

I used to have a fetish for frogs, and they used to send me lots of froggy stuff in the mail, my fav ever being a huge stuffed frog who can reach around your waist and neck, I love him to bits though he freaks little kids out a bit hehe. I owe them some postage loving big time, so time to put my thinking cap on for what to send them…

OK well I just had a massive meal at the pub after this morning weighing in my best weight ever in ages (lol) so I better scoot for a few klms on the treadmill before I fall into bed. Toodles.

Edward

So we have a few new additions to the family. Edward and Zachary arrive on July 4th. Edward is the one with the one white leg and Zachary is the one with the Nike stripe (LOL). They are Damara sheep, or also known as ‘hair sheep’. They don’t require sheering, nor tail docking, a lot like goats but less adventurous in escaping which will suit my property. No more sitting on the ride on for hours in the back paddock (hoorah!).

Not sure how Robert and Alice will react to their new siblings, but I am sure in no time they’ll all be fine. The boys will still be bottle fed when they arrive, and too small to interact with Bob and Alice yet so they’ll only be able to greet them through the fence.

Zachary

Edward is currently 3 1/2 weeks and Zachary is 2 weeks. The names you ask? Well, Edward after the lead character of Twilight who is very easy on the eye and I love his romantic character (so girly I know but hey we can all dream right?) and Zachary after Zachary Quinto who plays Sylar in Heroes, who is also very easy on the eye and an intriquing character.

Robert was named after Robert Goren on Law & Order – Criminal Intent who I also find good looking and an intriquing character and Alice, well she wasn’t actually named after anyone, I just though Alice was a cute name. Yeah I know, what can I say – a little strange but hey, that’s me right ;)

We are looking forward to our holiday towards the end of July to go see Jenna, Steve’s family and our friends in Europe. I miss France, I feel so relaxed there – the people and the architecture. It’s been so long since we’ve had a holiday! I am really looking forward to it, especially since we are going to be treated to camping ‘Rock n’ Roll’ style with Steve’s dads band and a group of their awesome friends by a lake :)

It’ll be nice to have one last opportunity to enjoy summer this year!

So I have a huge crush on Robert Pattison, he is so hot in the movie though my mother and sister strongly disagree, I reckon he is a lil cutey. I’m looking forward to the next movie coming out later in the year. In the meantime, am enjoying the books.