I'm on a Mission,
tiptoeing through the
Daisies.  I've got to get
this Celery home
to Grandad in a hurry.
After all I'm only 4
and it feels like I'm
carrying a tree!

BLANKET FOR CHARLOTTE

Amazing I've spent hours and hours trying to upload pics and posts on here, and realise Picasa and Blogger don't like each other and I don't like them either. 
I crochet this Blanket for Charlotte, large Granny square with Crab stitch around the edge.
I hope when I click on Publish a miracle will happen.

Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi

Let the Games begin

New Puppy

My nextdoor neighbour's
new Puppy whispered he
wants to come and live
at MY house.  
I said he could.

THANK YOU DAMIAN LEEDING

WE SALUTE YOU

   

MOTHER'S DAY

EASTER

Wishing my friend Daisy the Doggie and her mum Carolina in Pennsylvania, and all my friends around the world a very Safe and Happy Easter.

AUSTRALIA DAY I L-O-V-E AUSTRALIA

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY

LET'S DO SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR THE FLOOD VICTIMS TODAY

FLOODS - the rain came down - the floods came up

Sorry I've been away from my Blog, but we have terrible floods here in Queensland.  Thanks to all the folk that emailed to make sure we are OK.  Yes, we are, we have a River at the back of us, and somehow the Gold Coast missed out on all the rain.  Just hope our turn doesn't come.  This is a picture of our River taken about 6 one morning, creeping up!
The picture of the road was taken when we were having 4" rain/hour.

Spring Bluff - one of my favourite spots,
we use to take the children here to ride on the Train...
http://springbluff.com.au/index.html

Look at it now
http://www.triplem.com.au/brisbane/shows/thecage/photos/your-flood-pictures?selectedImage=0


http://video.adelaidenow.com.au/1744132605/Family-Flood-Terror?area=endslate2

I just can't even begin to imagine what all the families are going through after being devastated by this evil flood.  I feel guilty not knowing what to do to help.  It's OK to give money and clothing and material things, but I think a lot of us feel bad because we can't give them back their houses, we can't give them back their loved ones, and when I look around today, the sky is a bright blue, with not a cloud in sight, and trees are shiny bright green and the birds are singing, and it is hard to imagine that only a few days ago so much devastation and wreckage was happening around us.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

An optimist stays up until midnight to see 

the New Year in.

A pessimist stays up to make sure the Old Year leaves.

Happy & Safe New Year everyone.

Christmas 2010

A little boy's Christmas prayer: 
Guardian angel pure and bright…
Please lead Santa here tonight

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

HAPPY EASTER

Wishing you a Happy Easter filled with love,
laughter - and Easter Eggs.

AUSTRALIA DAY

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY

My Country
- Dorothea Mackellar
The love of field and coppice,

Of green and shaded lanes,

Of ordered woods and gardens

Is running in your veins.

Strong love of grey-blue distance

Brown streams and soft, dim skies -

I know but I cannot share it,

My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains,

Of rugged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding plains.

I love her far horizons,

I love her jewel-sea,

Her beauty and her terror -

The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ring-barked forests,

All tragic to the moon,

The sapphire-misted mountains,

The hot gold rush of noon.

Green tangle of the brushes,

Where lithe lianas coil,

And orchids deck the tree tops

And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!

Her pitiless blue sky,

When sick at heart, around us,

We see the cattle die -

But then the grey clouds gather,

And we can bless again

The drumming of an army,

The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country

Land of the Rainbow Gold,

For flood and fire and famine,

She pays us back three-fold.

Over the thirsty paddocks,

Watch, after many days,

The filmy veil of greenness

That thickens as we gaze ...

A opal-hearted country,

A wilful, lavish land -

All you who have not loved her,

You will not understand -

Though earth holds many splendours,

Wherever I may die,

I know to what brown country

My homing thoughts will fly.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Have a great new year! Leave the stories of the past in the past. Take the lessons and move on!

MY CHRISTMAS WISH FOR YOU

My Christmas wish for you, my friend

Is just a simple one

For I wish you hope and joy and peace

Days filled with warmth and sun

I wish you love and friendship too

Throughout the coming year

Lots of laughter and happiness

To fill your world with cheer

May you count your blessings, one by one

And when totaled by the lot

May you find all you've been given

To be more than what you sought

May your journeys be short, your burdens light

May your spirit never grow old

May all your clouds have silver linings

And your rainbows pots of gold

I wish this all and so much more

May all your dreams come true and

May you have a Merry Christmas

STAY SAFE

Our thoughts and love go with you, and as the Cherokee Prayer says - may the rainbow always touch your shoulder. STAY SAFE
Love - Aunt C
♥

FIRST DAY OF SPRING

I love the 1st day of Spring. Lots of folk have their birthday

on the 1st day of Spring - and I am lucky enough to be one of
them. To all of my friends wherever you may be, thank you so
much for all the phone calls and unexpected emails from across
the pond!

This is a picture of me on my 7th Birthday with my best friend
Sniggles. I could dress her up and she'd walk around with me
holding her paw, or she was happy being pushed around in the
pram - hour after hour. Then oneday the worst cenario happened -
Sniggles was bitten by a snake and died, and my world fell apart.

CHEROKEE PRAYER BLESSING

MAY THE WARM WINDS OF HEAVEN

BLOW SOFTLY UPON YOUR HOUSE.

MAY THE GREAT SPIRIT BLESS

ALL WHO ENTER THERE.

MAY YOUR MOCASSINS

MAKE HAPPY TRACKS IN MANY SNOWS.

AND MAY THE RAINBOW

ALWAYS TOUCH YOUR SHOULDER.

EASTER HAPPINESS

Wherever you are - I wish you and your loved ones a happy and safe Easter, filled with love and laughter.

Carolyn

GOODBYE 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2009

Wishing you and everyone that is near and dear to you, a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009.