New Work

encaustic and home made indigooil paint on board

A little something I made yesterday

I love it

I think I will make a few more of these.

But what to call it

x te

Birds and fishing moon

This is George

Cedric our Drake

Sugar

Sophia, Blonde, Big Roy, McChicken

Another Blonde, Hedley

Harriet, Mother

Isabella

A question was asked about the identity of the duck in the last post

so here I have pictures of everyone

who currently lives at our place

George we raised from a duckling

she is now71/2 years old

and our smartest duck.

The rest of the ducks we have had for about 5 years

and they were farmed out while we were away

the chickens are new since we arrived home

Mother is so called because when she came to us

She had a single tiny chick with her

That chick has now grown up

and is McChicken so named because

she is enormous

with the longest legs

So there may have been some loose talk

about GM

hence the name.

And this the moon I was lucky enough to see last night

down at the beach

Floating majestically

among the clouds.

x te

Rain!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looking east towards the morning sun

Boy o boy have we had some rain

It didn't seem to bad yesterday in Albany

and we set off home about 1.30pm

Chook yard

We stopped in Denmark

Did our weekend shopping and visit to the library

and Post Office

The first sign of trouble

 a big sign just west of town

indicating care should be taken

because of

Flood Damage!!!

What the?

Well several of the gravel roads had been washed down

onto the highway making for a tricky drive home

 

Looking North

And when we got home

Half of our gravel road had washed onto our

driveway

making for a boggy silty mess

 

Duck Pond

And the 4000 Litre tank that Dan emptied into the big tank last weekend

Full

Off a 40sqm roof space!!!!!

Now that is a lot of rain

Thank goodness he cleaned the gutters as well

And it continued to rain all night

with thunder and lightening

The Vegie Garden

Thank goodness for raised beds

So these pics are what it looks like this morning

Now that the sun is shining and the skies are blue

Just like nothing happened.

Now to get the washing on the line

x te

Update

Heard while we were in town this afternoon that from thursday evening to friday morning we had

200ml of rain!!!!!

and then it kept rainig till this morning at least another 20-30ml.

Unbelievable.