While we all wait...

While we all wait for the Corvid virus to settle down, and hopefully keep inside as much as we can to slow the spread, I've put all my ebooks down to 99c on Amazon for as long as it takes.  If you've been wanting to read them but think it is too expensive, or if you've never wanted to read them but now you're bored as and any escape will help, go for it!

Writing on my current book seems to be going as slowly as treacle runs.  Life keeps getting in the way.  Ah well, it's growing slowly and one day will be born.

In the meantime, here's some pics of Luka and stuff for your viewing pleasure!  We've been having way to much fun with his grooming!

       

He's afriggin'dorable!

The two labs love him too.  Bless their patient hearts!

Rosie is 12 now!  Where does the time go?

We've been improving the cottage again.  This time a fence to keep the zippy poodle safe when the front door opens, and a pergola off the new verandah, and paving, so less dirt gets tracked inside.  It's such a lovely space now.  

Let me help you with that, Dad!

 

Next comes a vegie garden that is safe from the chooks!

Fireys for us has been quiet this year, unlike some of our mates over east, but we did get out to a social event to give the local kids a chance to use the hoses. 

 

  

I haven't been very well for the last few months, so what fires there were, I've missed.

We did get a new baby in the family, wee Elaena Pearl, and what a little angel she is.  Almost as cute as a puppy!

      And other random stuff...

 

A Mothers Day Gift For You

 

A free new story for you! 

Happy (and scary) Mothers Day!

https://tlmerrybard.com/just-one-night-in-the-land-of-fire/ 

Me bad!

How do you go from blogging twice a week to blogging never in a few short months?  I dunno.  I am still saving photos, but not blogging.   I know I'm going to regret it down the track because I forget stuff and this blog makes me remember it, and take photos of life too.  I like that about blogging.

Ah well, we'll see. Maybe my holiday has done me good. In the meantime, here's the pics I've been collecting...

Druidy meditations with the help of a kitty.  It is not conducive to concentration when a cat comes and sits on you and peers under your hood to make sure it is you before settling in to purr.  

Pretty Cyrano. 

Me blacking out at a burn.  Those Xanthorrea really go up, but soon they sprout new greenery and away they go again. 

Photo taken by local paper to add a local element to an article about a show on cable tv called Bushfire Wars.  Our shire and brigade were part of episode 2.  We were actually blacking out a fire when they came to take the pic, so we were authentically grubby.  Yes that's me dead centre.  Only lady on the fireground at the time!  

At a training day, slacking off in the back of the truck. 

Blacking out at a hazard reduciton burn with our wonderful new brigade.

Andrew crew leading on our first fire call of the summer. 

Andrew trying to find the Oxfam trailwalker trail as a crew safety support officer.

My three new Sussex bandits, Blue the Light Sussex, Powder and Puff the Coronation Sussex.  

My way cool new chook shed built almost totally by me!  

Mama guinevere and her singleton chick, a rooster of course. 

That is one scary fierce mama gaze!

Art, of the back yard.  

What i found next to my ear on the back of the shed door when i peered in looking for something one day.  

Jarrah blossom on a tree I planted some years ago. 

The sun setting high above perth at the oxfam trailwalk. 

Neighbours' bonfire, with high winds, in dry spring conditions.   Yep, horizontal flames are ok aren't they? (Answer: NO!) 

Pretty sunset over perth. 

Tuppy in the cone of shame after having a cyst removed from her eyelid.  It looks great now!

More drawing practice.

Gorgeous wildflowers on Perth scarp.

May you all have a lovely Christmas season, no matter what you call it, and to my Druid friends, I wish a very merry and fruitful Alban Hefin! 

Here's your gift from me, a new story.  It is not Christmassy at all, and yet somehow it is.  I hope you enjoy it!  It's called Mistress Munchkin & the Plutonium Dragon.