It has been a while...

I have to admit to having very little motivation regarding the blog of late. I finally got into action and thought an update was in order. It has been nearly three months since I bothered last and as you would imagine quite a bit has transpired, here are some highlights.

After the new year we had a few southerners visit which was great, we caught up with the Klein klan and Mark Van de Heuvel and his partner Faye which was fantastic, we shared some beverages and a BBQ and had a great night.

We showed the Kleins around Street's beach, young Ashley showed me how to eat ice-cream like a
BOSS!

Rachael, Damian and the boys very generously shouted us a ride on a Jetboat out of the Gold Coast. We went down a fortnight ago and we had a ripper time! I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone, it is all kinds of awesome!

As you would expect we have been continuing to work feverishly on the front garden, I can finally say it is finished. Well we will still need to plant some additional plants to fill some gaps. I like to - for my sanity - consider it complete! I reckon it looks great! Knocking down the fence at the front helped open up the garden and it looks much better. I am not unhappy about the length of time taken, there was a ship load of work that went into it.

No fence!

Mulch done!

No fence

Charlie wants to come...

Looking north west

Looking good I reckon!

There are one or two little things to get done, I want to get a new mailbox, remove the pencil pines at the entrance and down the side of the driveway. All the irrigation is working as it should, the local birdlife like to drink the water that accumulates in the Bromeliads.

In the last few days we have noticed a critter digging and turning over the mulch in search of tucker, it could be either an Echidna or a Bandicoot. The markings initially indicated an Echidna but I am not convinced, to help solve the riddle I have purchased a game trail camera off the eBays interweb thingo, it should arrive early next week. Hopefully we will be able to identify the culprit soon.

Holes that look a lot like an Echidna snout

Emily had her school house captain elections a few weeks ago, she was fortunate enough to be named the Walker house captain, we were all well chuffed! Rosie has finally lost her two front teeth. Both girls are now playing netball at Graceville for the Raiders Netball Club, they are both excited about it, but by god sport is ridiculously expensive up here, it is a disgrace and makes sporting endeavour in Ballarat down right bargain basement!

Hopefully I can provide further updates more frequently!