'Go in! Go in! Wherever you are!'

So...we have been home about 4 weeks and it is still early spring and already we have seen 6 snakes which is more than we saw all last summer. Will saw one yesterday, as he came home, slithering down towards the dam and I encountered one today as I was out gathering wood for the fire. I was about 2 metres from it before I saw it and it was very agitated so I backed off slowly and ran back for my camera. It had disappeared when I returned.All these snakes have been Red Bellied Black Snakes, highly poisonous, but, if there is a silver lining, they predate on the more deadly Eastern Brown Snakes.It all makes you very wary as you wander about around here. You know they are out there.Heading off to the 'Book Cave' the other day I saw 6 piglets down in the Kiwi Fruit orchard...

Fed up and board.

So...Ros and Andrew came up for the weekend and we thought while we had the extra hands we would try and get some of the ceiling boards up. None of us had ever put any ceiling boards up before. We began on Saturday by putting up some batons across the ceiling downstairs and then set about putting up the first board, but the idiosyncrasies of Blue Moon House made working out the angles and measurements very difficult. When we finally got a piece cut we raised it up to the ceiling to find that it did not fit correctly. That was enough for one day. On the Sunday we tried a different approach and successfully managed to get three boards up.

Heeeeeeere's Rhonda!

Return of the 'Book Cave' Book of the Week.

Yet Another 'Swell' Day Out!

So...it is that time of year again when the 'Swell' Sculpture Festival is on at Currumbin on The Gold Coast. We drove the three and a half hour route down yesterday morning in Sky Blue.