What on Earth is Going on...

With this CRAZY weather? I mean, it's boiling hot one day, freezing the next! So far, this spring we've had hot, we've had cold, we've had rain, I've heard of sleet and hail in some districts and we won't mention the wind! Mainly because I really hate the wind, it drives me nuts.

I think that having exceptional hearing is a bad thing because when it is windy, you are adversely affected by it. I really avoid being out on windy days and today was no exception. It is days like these that I'm glad I work indoors.

We spent last weekend out in the heat of the day, well, it wasn't meant to be stinking hot but it was. We managed to dig over twenty holes with two tractors and some helping hands. The posts are in the holes, now I'm just working on setting the posts. Sort of one post a day at the moment. The wind doesn't help there either...



That is the end that I've finished with. All that is needed are the rails.



This is the long side. I've done three posts on it. Only so many more to go...

Its a project that has been long time coming and its been good to get it done. Slowly but surely, I will get this place looking like it should! And it will be great to finally have a proper arena fence. Who'd like to come and sit on it for a while with me? You're all welcome!

We Have A Winner!

Before I get razzed on for not updating...

Here goes.

The photo I entered in an online competition WON!

It was well deserved I thought. Here it is again just to remind you...



As for the garden...well...it didn't do so well. But, it was its first outing in something like a garden competition and I didn't think it would actually be that good first time round. Especially, as there was a great lack of information as to how or what needed to be done. Anyway, if the garden looks as good as it does now next year, I'll consider putting it again.

We've also started on the horse arena fence. Yesterday, a group of friends and I spent a few hours with two tractors, a post hole drill and afterwards, lots of fluids! So, the posts are in, they just needed to bedded in. Over the next few weeks we'll get the rails on and it will be looking very TIDY! And like the horse arena it should look like...

On Competitions...

Its been a HUGE weekend with us racing around to get the backyard spotless and set up for the local town garden competition. I had entered the outdoor movie screen area into the "Entertainment area" section, along with the backyard into the "Back Yard" section. We spent the weekend whippersnippering, mowing, pruning, weeding, watering, planting in the garden. I emptied and refilled my small swimming pool that we call a pond, got things generally tidied up and the place does look fantastic...All I can say is pity about under the house! Oh well, that's the next big project really.

The judging was yesterday, thankfully a lovely day weatherwise, not too hot, no wind and for the judges it would have been a lovely day for them wandering around other people's gardens.

We find out in a couple of weeks if we've done any good! I'm not really sure how we went, one of the judges sounded impressed with the size of the place. The judges weren't locals so I think that that was a good thing.

As well as the garden competition, I'm still joining in on some photography challenges. The most recent one was for a "character portrait"...So one afternoon, when I wasn't gardening, Seth and I went out to the airstrip to make use of some aircraft for a photo shoot. I was pretty happy with most of my results. Some of you will be amazed and possibly a bit shocked at just how similar to his dad the young pilot looks...

Seth himself, enjoyed being a model for me. I thought I was possibly going to have the reluctant teenager on my hands but he even suggested poses for the camera, which made my job a lot easier!