New member of the family

 

There is a new member to our extended family. My mum has got a new puppy. It has been 18 months since their beloved spike drowned outside their house. He was a very old kelpie who had gone deaf and blind.
Now there is a new and energetic little bundle of doggie energy in their house.
He is the cutest little thing, and little is the word . He is a cross between a mini fox terrier and a shitzu.
When he is fully vacinated I will be able to have him over for play dates with my boys. Cant wait.

 

 

hens in a row

 

After reading the lovely willows blog a while ago I decided to have a go at making her coney dogs. But of course I needed to do a little tweeking to them to accomodate my family. I used veggie sausages and a kangaroo sausage and a chicken sausage. I also made a bean/tomato sauce for the vego dog. With all these changes I am really happy to say that they went down really well. Thankyou Willow.

 

This has been the view out my bedroom window lately. I have not worked out why these native hens choose to sit in a row like this but it looks rather cute, and atleast while hey sit they are quiet. If you have never heard a native hen then let me tell you they are loud and are best described as a squeeky bed spring, over and over and over. Hmm they look good sound horrible.

 

cooking can be fun

I have been doing sone cooking lately. I dont mean the type of cooking we all must do so we can have food on the table for dinner but cooking for fun. And if you know me you know that i dont often put cooking and fun in the same breath. I know shame on me for being like that.
This first recipe is Latkes which are apparently a jewish food. I saw an old program of martha stewart where she made these. Then 2paw had a photo of some she had made on her blog after watching the same program so I thought I should give them a go. And I was really impressed with the results. The kids loved them too.

 

 

And so I move onto the bread section of my cooking. Now bread is something I do love to cook and do think of as fun. For lunch today I decided to make rolls and I must say they were fabulous. So light and soft with that ever sought after crispy crust. YUMMY. A good looking loaf or roll never fails to impress me and even get a little excited. There is still hope for me where cooking is concerned, now all I have to do is get excited about cooking other foods.

 

 

Gerry's birthday

It has rolled around again. Gerry, my Hubbie, has had his birthday and we were so luck with the weather for the day that we decided to go out for lunch. He headed off on his bike and rode to this wonderful spot for lunch. I of course drove with the kids.
This beautiful spot is further down the channel from us at a place called Peppermint bay. We sat out side and enjoyed the view and the lovely food.

 

 

 

 

New beginnings for the new year

 

With the beginnings of the start of the year and thoughts of out with the old and in with the new I found this site in the city the other day. This is one of those times when the old and the new must stand together. I really love these old sandstone buildings, I think it is a shame that progress has to change the environs of such lovely buildings. Checkout the tassie tiger on the top of the building.

 

This is one of my favourite roses in my garden and I have been so pleased to see that for some reason the possums have left my roses alone this season. Having roses fully bloom and then drop petals on my bush is something of a novelty for me to watch.

 

And talking of possums. After all these years of living here and being dissapointed each season when the wildlife has got into the garden and eaten more than they should, I decided to buy a little hot house. I have been so impressed by its anti-possum etc properties. I keep going up to see these wonderful plants. The frogs also think it is a great place to hang out. The smell of fresh(real) tomato plants and the sight of frogs must be high on my list of things That I love.

 

Happy New Year

I wish evryone a happy new year. This post I am sorry to say I have not got around to adding any photos, yet, hope to do it later.
I have had a great christmas with family and lovely food. But with the good also comes a few trials to overcome. On christmas day, while cooking the lunch I was drawn outside by one of our dogs only to find our beloved cat struggling about and unable to get up. We moved him up stairs to the bathroom and tried to make him as comfortable as possible. I checked for snake bite, ticks and any wounds but could not find any. I had to race back to the lunch and finish cooking.
We had a great lunch and we talked to our vet who thought it was a stroke. He told me he may recover, or he may not.
The next day we all packed up and headed off for the beach, Having to seperate the dogs and our poor cat in the car. We had a great enclosure for the cat so he could be outside for the holiday. But in the morning he had dissapeared. I could not believe that our boy had enough strength let alone escape from his enclosure. We put up posters, asked neighbours but there was no luck. I thought I would not see him again and he had dragged himself away to die.
That night before heading to bed I thought I would search again, just in case. And there came a cry from his enclosure. He had returned. I was totally baffled. Not only did he vanish but he also turned up again. I have no idea where he went, why he did not answer our calls and how he found his way around an unfamiliar place.
I tried not to think about it too much but to just be thankful he returned.
He is doing so much better now, he can walk by dragging his back leg a little and has a little movement in his tail, but his purr is as loud as ever.

Not wanting to be left out the poor dogs who had a great holiday playing backyard cricket, running on the beach and swimming decided to get tummy bugs at the end of the holiday. And poor little pepper was not able to keep his food down either. The old girl seems to have missed this bug though.

Walk against warming, upper florentine

 

We had a really great day today going to the upper florentine for the walk against warming rally. The bush is being protected by some great caretakers. Some of them were found on the platform many meters up in the trees. Others were camping in the forest to do their best to save one of Tasmania's wild places.

 

As you can see from these photos the forest is just a spectacular place and well worth saving. I spent much of my childhood exploring the forests in a small town near the florentine. It holds so many great memories for me. Walking through such magnificant areas filled with moss covered trees, ferns and fungi of all colours is like food for the soul. It is impossible to be unmoved by such pure beauty.