So much has happened...

Where to begin...

June 2018, I left my job as Disability Support Worker. It was a really hard thing to do. Sadly my body was no longer functioning at its best for the work required. My arthritis in my hips and wrist was getting worse. Cortisone injections so far are keeping most of the pain in check.

Early July 2019 we had 1/2 of our property cool burnt. Was very interesting to learn from the Aboriginal Rangers from Kyogle about fire, moisture and timing. When we had huge fires around us later that year we had nothing to worry about as the cool burn took care of the grass we had on that side of the property. Last year we were the only ones in our village to cool burn. Hopefully this year there will be more.

Russell and I are empty nesters now a days. Tim’s old room is the spare room and Josh’s old room is now my prayer/craft/reading room. Love it though when they visit. Currently they’re living together and getting along really well.

We sadly lost Jasper December 26th last year. We now have Pippa who was born 22.10.19. She’s teething currently so anything is fair game for being launched at with her teeth 😬

These last holidays we had our bathroom renovated. Got rid of the bath and could walk in with a wheelie Walker now if we needed to. So loving the new shower!

Nothing much has changed really since the government has asked us to stay home as much as possible. It’s what Russell and I do anyway.

I hope you’re doing well, wherever you are!

Happy 53rd Birthday, Russell

Yesterday was Russell’s Birthday... Love celebrating it. Russell, Tim, Josh and I went out for lunch at our favourite Chinese Restaruant and feasted :) Caramel mud cake was the order of the day for dessert :)

Always so good to see someone I love have their face light up when we all sing Happy Birthday! Love it! Never gets old :)

Onto Butter Käse

So next we wanted to try another cheese and this one sounded pretty easy to do. So we did... Now it’s waiting to mature in the bottom of the fridge too...

Russell’s New Toy...

Russell bought himself a 3D printer. He has been printing all sorts of things off that thing. My goodness. From pot plant holders to plant labellers that machine is just amazing. He is in the process of mastering window rollers so that we can replace some in our windows :)

Kombucha Candy

Make some more for Tim a couple of weeks ago... Needless to say he started picking at it when it wasn’t even don’t in the dehydrator... Love that he loves something that is so good for him :)

Camembert update...

Here is what the cheese looks like after about 3 weeks. Normally professionals would pat down the sides so that the mould doesn’t look so fluffy though we are keeping it as it is. We may pat one down later :)

Mummies at the Museum...

My baby sister and I went to Brisbane and enjoyed a day out in the city. We went to the Queensland Museum and saw some Egyptian mummies from the British Museum alongside allot of artifacts. We even took the train in which I had not been on in over 11yrs. That was surreal...

Afterwards, we wandered around Southbank and ended up in Max Brenner, as you do, for a Chocolate fix... That was just Divine!!!

Was such a lovely day out with Lis... I definitely slept well that night!