Stop and smell the roses

well not roses but I just love home grown flowers. I picked these up in Woodend this morning from a little organic grocer, they smell so sweet.

We decided to take the day off from our regular Saturday routine, catch up with family and let the kids play and forget about work, dance, market stalls, hat orders, impending birthdays and how just how many days till Christmas??

Trip to the snow

For months we have been promising the kids a trip to play in the snow, and we finally did it! I took a week off work and pulled them out of school for a few days and we took off. Only a 3 hour drive to the nearest snow resort, not really a resort more a little village with a toboggan run.
Kids had a great time, we did quite a few hikes, played in many playgrounds, ate at alot of country bakery's and even rescued a horse from the road!
Some of my fave pics, we hiked to the summit and that's where the real snow was so they attempted to make snow angels and a snowman and they all ate some. lol. On the toboggan run it was man made snow so more of an ice chip than fluffy and white but still a great experience.

Next vacation? Queensland!!

Sheep and Alpaca Show

I took Oliver the the local Sheep and Alpaca show yesterday. When we get our farmlet I want some sheep. I have pretty much settled on the Wiltipol Sheep, despite them being marketed as lean meat sheep (we do NOT eat lamb). There pros - no shearing, no tails, good in wet conditions, high baby production and they apparently stay in there allocated paddocks, ha!

And to protect all my lambs, we will be needing a few Alpacas. Brown ones. One called Kerry and the other Rupert, lol.

Not sure how Oliver will go with the whole farming thing, he stepped in sheep poo and complained about the smell and was worried the sheep were going to bite him. But he was curious about the judging and seemed happy enough just to look. Really need to step up the hunt for our land so we can get this project happening.