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2024 - April 8 - April 14

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The days are starting to get a bit cooler and day light savings has now ended. The last two sundays Gary and I have gone out into Gunbower Forest where there is a wood coop for collecting firewood. Its hard work but the scenery is beautiful and both days the weather has been perfect! Unfortunately this Sunday when we went Gary managed to get a sliver of wood in his eye while taking his safety glasses off for a few minutes and then forgetting to put them back on while cutting - that meant a trip to emergency at Echuca Hospital on Sunday night to get it checked (thankfully nothing there but a nasty scratch to his eye - apparently Im a good eye nurse as they thought I flushed it out really well) He now has eye drops for several days and hopefully no permanent damage was done. I think hes grateful for all the eye drop training I had with mum as Im quite good at putting drops in eyes! I havent managed to finish anything on the crafting front but Im still working away on the blocks for
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2024 - April 1 - April 7

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Now that Ive finally caught up - back to my regular programming! Ive been back home for nearly two weeks now and settling back into life on the farm (although I do miss my Queensland family and the warmer weather!) Calving is going along well and we hit a pretty exciting milestone for the farm - calf number 3000. When I married Gary and came to the farm to live we just hit calf number 2000 so for me this is exciting. It would be even more exciting if it was a red friesian but you cant have everything LOL The weather is also getting cooler which Im not enjoying - Gary keeps joking that I have turned into a Queenslander. One good habit I got into while up there at Sarahs was going for a half hour (at least) walk every morning. Ive kept on doing that since Ive got back home however wearing a lot more layers! Heres me in Queensland wiht my "friend" the turtle statue Versus me at home with Ruby the horse! On the crafting front I have finished two things - firstly this note
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2024 March (yes all of the month) books I read!

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Right o Ive done what I made in March - heres what I read Buckle up its a lot! Firstly the physical books - Good Girl, Bad Blood (Good Girls Guide to Murder Part 2) by Holly Jackson This takes up where the first book (Good Girls Guide to Murder) finished Pip has sworn she will never investigate another murder or disappearance but when her friends brother goes missing and the police arent keen to help she cant help herself but step in. This book is equally as good as the first which plenty of twists that you really dont see coming Of course its a 5 star read! I quickly followed this with Kill Joy by Holly Jackson (good girls guide to murder 0.5) Its a small book and the prequel to the first book. It tells of the friends all playing a murder game and how they solve it. It was an ok read but not as good as the other two books Its a 3 star read for me Next was Playing with Fire by Tessa Gerritsen. Not the usual sort of book I would read I think it was given to me by a friend howeve
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2024 - March 24 (yep all of March in the one!) crafting stuff

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What a crazy month March has been! Half spent in Airlie Beach half spent home on the farm! Ollie arrived in all his cuteness (see seperate blog post) and amazingly while up in Queensland I did get quite a lot of craft stuff done! So sit back and relax and watch it all unfold! Firstly the biggest finish - Around the Corner Quilt designed by Wendy WIlliams - this one was huge and a big learning curve for me - it has wool embroidery, curved piecing and lots of other tricky things - and did I mention its huge! I bought the kit for it as a BOM (block of the month) several years ago so its good to get this one done Next finish was these socks - pattern is Twizzler Socks and the yarn is from Freckled Whimsy - colourway is October is my favorite colour so obviously Ill keep these ones for me! This pattern is a great one for self striping yarn for those sock knitters reading along Next is the licorice allsorts cowl - oddly I had tried to sell the kit yarn for this but had no takers so Ive m
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Ollie

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The 4th of March 2024 is now a very special day for our family - it was the day Ollie (Oliver) Michael Sterling arrived! There was a lot of waiting for his arrival and Sarah was 11 days overdue I had been in Airlie Beach awaiting his happy arrival for 2 weeks - Gary and Aimee came for a week but unfortunately missed out on his arrived by a couple of days. Oh he is such a cute little dude! Kris, Sarah, Evie and Jessie are totally besotted with him as are we all! So enjoy the cute pics below and excuse me my lack of blog posting!
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2024 - February 26 - march 3

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goodness its march already! and in theory the start of autumn - however we are finally having the hot days we usually have in summer On the farm we are starting to get paddocks ready for sowing seed that wil grow into feed for our cattle over winter and spring snd only a few weeks off starting to calve again As always busy times on the crafting front ive finished a cute little baby singlet Ive also still been working on the block of the month blocks but nothing really to show this week and yet another pair of socks! On the reading front ive finished one physical book ~ the book that wouldnt burn by mark lawrence I found it a bit wordy and hard going Its the story of two children who live in a library of sorts thats is attacked by what they think are their enemies To be honest i mostly skim read it and didnt enjoynit that much - even though this is the type of book I normally really love so its a 2 star out of 5 for me on the audio book front im still listening to the time travellers
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2024 - week 8 - February 19 - February 25

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whoops sorry this is a day late so ill make it quick! no finishes on the crafting front - but i have been working on my 2023 block of the month owl and hollow that i am starting in february 2024 - we dont follow a timetable here! hoping to get the first months instalment done by the start of march and inhave the uncompleted block pictured to complete plus two embroidered ones to get done as well and on the reading front ive finished one physical book ~ the things we leave unfinished by rebecca yarros (yes the author of fourth wing but this book isnt fantasy) its the story of georgia and noah - her grandmother was a famous author who left one book unfinished and noah is charged with finishing it and tells of both their story and also her grand mothers by going bsck and forth between the two I definately didnt see the twist coming and inreally enjoyed this book yet another 5 out of 5 stars read and shows that this author can write in several types of stories hope you enjoyed this qu
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