Journey to farmlife

22 April 2009

The last few days have passed peacefully. The pup has settled at last (in the laundry) and not crying all night. I think it had something to do with the big fluffy blanket I relinquished in the hope he would think this it’s the bed! The chickens are well and they’re all just going about their chicken business, doing chicken things.

The children have happily gone back to school after a very quiet holiday. We spent the last few days visiting friend back in the old neighborhood and was nice. Yesterday Jonathan decided to take the ducks into the big dam for a swim. Michaela eagerly joined him. Unbeknown to me they planned on taking the tinny out and then release the ducks in the middle away from the dangerous reeds. Jonathan however forgot to check the plugs were in place in the boat. If he had he would have seen one was not there. Oblivious to what was about to transpire, he pulled the tinny into the water and they proceeded to climb into the boat. You can imagine that it didn’t take too long before the boat started to fill. Michaela had realized by this point what had happened and in typical girl fashion started to yell on top of her voice. I’m sure the whole farming community heard her voice.

I raced down to the dam fearing the worse and I must add didn’t have time to put on the boots. I found Jonathan drenched, with Michaela crying her eyes out. “Mom” she yells, we’re sinking and I have a wet bottom! I can see the funny side of this scenario now but at the time though I was fuming at their ignorance. My feet had got so sore from running down there and I was not impressed! Well Jonathan managed to get the boat out – don’t know where the missing plug got too! After chasing the ducks around the dam he finally retrieved them and came back up to the house sulking and sopping wet. The ducks were none the wiser to the commotion.

The past few nights we have been painting the kitchen. It looks wonderful! I’ve decided to change the splash backs to difference tiles and will go looking for tiles soon. The kitchen is slowly coming on.

This morning the garden looked like an aviary. I must have had about 15 cockatoos and lorikeets flying around in the garden and in the surrounding trees. It was so beautiful.