Sunflowers

Goodness, check these babies out! I have never had much success growing sunflowers till now. I planted the seeds into mushroom compost. They're in the sunniest position of the property, getting full sun for around 8 hours a day. And ofcourse, the weather here is ideal, perfect sunny weather intermingled with bursts of rain. These have got to be the happiest flowers ever!

New bus!

What a big week it's been, esp for Curt. Not only did he get to be all manly with his chainsaw felling great big trees, he also went to Coffs Harbour to buy himself a bus. It's a 73 genuine Kombi with a terrible paint job but fabulous mechanically. Curt's had a bounce in his step and a glint in his eye ever since he picked it up. He and Kombis eh! It's a real love affair. He goes out there and tinkers with it every chance he gets. So wonderful to see him get another kombi. That other unregistered one never got a look in. He basically snubbed it from day one...when he found out how much work it'd take to get it registered in NSW (it has Qld plates)...so it's been basically just parked up there for months. It'll make a great parts bus tho! And will act as a storage shed for his tools.
Anyway, meet the Mystery Machine! That's the name of his new love...

Cocos palms last days

When we moved here, we were told by a few people that the cocos palms, as beautiful as they are, can become a real nuisance. You see, they drop thousands of these seed pods which are act like ball bearings when you tread on them. We've nearly come a cropper on several occasions. Worse still, when they start to ripen, the fruit bats bring their families for feasting. These fruit bats are the size of tom cats and make these dreadful screeching noises all night long. So now that the fruit is ripening, the decision to cut down the two cocas palms was an easy one! While Curt was at it, he felled the pawpaw tree overhanging the balcony too...for the same reason. Bats love em...and since neither of us like pawpaw and we'd prefer drinking water without batshit, that went down too.

Short n Sassy

Breathing new life into the hair, I told my hairdresser for short and sassy this time. She's been dying to expose the curls from under the top layer of straight hair so I gave in. And glad I did.
Another addition to the bedroom is this wavy full length mirror from our favourite shop Ikea. I figure if I want to lose weight, I need to see my whole body more often...lol

Froggie television

The rain brings with it flying insects of all varieties...and frogs! While we're safe from the insects inside with all our flywire, a whole world of action is going on just outside our window. We'll be watching telly and to the right of our vision, we'll be treated to the movement of a frog going 'splat' on our window as he's chasing an insect attracted by the light. Check these guys out!