January 2011
Usually this time of year there is the smell of smoke from bush fires somewhere in the State.
However this year the weather pattern has been clearly influenced by the "El Nina" phenomenon and basically its been wet since December, culminating with the floods that have devastated Queensland.
Our garden has never looked greener and its almost weekly that the pruning shears are heard giving the bushes a "hair cut".
The water tanks fill so regularly that they have to be monitored so that water is directed to the needy plant so to allow the room in the tanks for the new fresh rain water.

Happy days are here again when a tiny and not so tiny baby boy arrives on planet Earth.
Dad (Dougall) and Mum (Isabella) have produced a wonderful addition the Pennefather & Briedis tribes.
Hereby known as Texas Jesse Pennefather.

Several days of temperatures of 40 and as high as 45 caused heat stress to the vegetation around our home.
I noticed that many other houses in our suburb had suffered the same to their gardens and noticeably to the European trees and shrubs.
What remains to be seen is if the trees loose their leaves or even drop their branches or simply die.

Gino & Robert start to place the concrete for a crossover that will allow us to park in front of the house freeing up the garage for storage and workshop

Here is a busy day for Frei. Lots of playground activities then a quick afternoon nap.

It was hard work celebrating Aria's 3rd Birthday

What if we add a friend called Anabell into the equation?....what then ....simple answer More Fun!

The sheer joy of bouncing on a tramp for the first time can not be put into words, only the facial expression can do that. Click on the image to see those teeth.

A recent trip to Canberra's Weston Park allowed Freiya to chase some local wildlife and she did. Freiya chased them back into the bush from whence they came. I suppose they didn't want to hear stories about her Teddies or Donald Duck, Bilby or Raccoonie.... they had their own stories from the bush