Mesmerised
I can’t get over how fast Georgia is growing up! I took a few double takes today. Her face is changing. She is losing her puppy fat. Her eyes are bluer. Her skin is darker. Her hair is the colour of honey. She has freckles dotted over her nose. her lips pout in a pretty […]
Firewood
Well I am feeling a bit sore from chopping firewood. I am determined not to be stranded in the cold if Monte has to go out, and why should I not chop wood? Today we drove the truck up to the top of our property and whilst the children and dogs played (d’Art disappearing into […]
Testing…
After a few glitches with iBlog, we are now using a program called ECTO to blog offline. At present, all my posts are back at gouldings.blogspot.com, should you like to peruse those… For now, I am trying to work out how to pull my posts from there to here, and in the meantime I will […]
Camping…
Over the weekend we took the new truck camping. Monte wanted to pick up his peteroid motor thing that will be our new backup generator. We drove up north and camped in Sprent. The forest was very pretty, although it was terribly windy (and cold, and wet) and the trees croaked and groaned all night. […]
Swimming and Stuff
Today was quite warm – hot even! With temperatures reaching 30 degrees, we all went to the local pool and had a lovely swim! We’re thinking about getting a season pass, so we can go whenever we want to. Georgia had a fabulous time and is a natural in the water. She “swam” at least […]
Why Fangorn???
Why Fangorn? Without going into too much detail, our property consists of several – 6-7 – acres of forest. The forest is noisy and it seems to be alive! We hike in there and are reminded of the ents in Lord of the Rings. We keep expecting Treebeard to appear and lead the way! So, […]
Bonnydoon renamed to Fangorn Farm
The name change came about this evening during a BBQ dinner outside, looking at our forests. We are Lord of the Rings fans and we talk about it a lot so because of our forests, we thought this name works well. Plus, it has the advantage of alliteration, which all good names have, of course! […]
Georgia starts school!!!
a grown up Georgia in her school uniform Right, so, my firstborn Georgia Rebecca May has grown up and wears a school uniform and goes to school and learns stuff… I can deal with this! It’s only two days a week. It’s only for a few hours. It’s nice to have some time just with […]
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