Weekend In Transit

First stop Nowra, quilts to deliver :)  Stayed with Shayne and Brad and as always had a lovely time.  Got to catch up with Tarquinn and Tikal.  Here seen eagerly awaiting the arrival of their brekky.

Tikal is enjoying his new home and new friend Tarquinn.  He is steadily eating his way to a fuller figure too!!

They are both very handsome boys :)

Shayne has some interesting chooks, as ever, including this one, who for reasons unknown has not grown any feathers on its head and looks for all the world like a vulture chick!!

And this lavender millefluer pullet who has the prettiest colouring I've ever seen.

Shayne's one wing rescue goose has adopted a clutch of call ducklings and when I say clutch, I mean every duckling in the grow out pen!!  She is doing a fine job of mothering them.  Surprised it has worked so well as they are not young ducklings, but they have taken to her as much as she has taken to them :)

Zena is recovering well from her operation and seems very happy in her new environment.

Next stop Canberra and a visit with Scarlett-Rose, granmotherly treat this visit was bathing the baby :)  Which was apparently very tiring, as this turned into the biggest yawn!!

When I arrived she was sleeping, but a couple of gentle bumps to the bassinet and et voila she was awake!!  LOL!!

She is a darling little baby :)

Home via Alpaca Magic Open Day, the wind was playing havoc with this girl's 'do'!!

Forest Gump called in for a visit.

Dozens of visitors walked around the paddock in amongst the llamas and alpacas who took it all in their stride, including Lla Traviata:

There were plenty of young crias for the crowds to see:

Lla Tina:

 Lla Toison:

And this gorgeous spotty girl, who had too much fleece for me to be able to see her name.

The mini donkeys also drew a crowd... including some inquisitive llamas!!

 This is Tuscany Rose (bottom), we have her mother here at Maison Mauve, she looks a lot like her, Tiana Rose (top).

Berry Auction and the Trip Home

Back from yet another successful but very tiring weekend at the Berry Auction - first time I've come home empty handed!  Very hard to sit on my hands, as there were some very very nice birds there :)

I stayed with Shayne and Brad - which was wonderful as always - thanks guys :)  In the early morning before I left I took some pics in and around their lovely house:

Shayne's muscovy ducks taking a tour of the garden with me :)

Minto, one of my very favouritist dogs - doing 'spin'.

Prior to taking the above pics I had attempted to get Minto to 'spin', get the background right, hold the camera.... all at the same time - this was the result!!  LOL!!  Something had to give, eh?

Shayne with some of her pekin chicks, later I delivered these babies to a lady and her 2 little kiddies in Goulburn :)  They were very excited about getting new chickens and this time, not all roosters!!

Took the back way home through Neriga, and that means crossing Oallen Ford - always pretty... and good if its not too deep to traverse!!

After Crookwell, it turns to granite country - I love it!  Huge lumps of rock stacked on top of each other, hillsides festooned (big word score right there) with boulders and the lambs leaping about all over them!

 A ewe and lambs crossing (or messing about in) Old Man Gunyah Creek.

Stopped at Pejar Dam, and left the car at the top, wandered down the downstream side and stood on a big rock that was very high up to take this one pic.... then got the heeby geebies and almost had to crawl off it!!  Hopeless!!  Pleased I managed to hold the camera still for this though!

St Barnaba's Anglican Church at Narrara, cold and isolated spot, complete with graveyard that seems to have a very high proportion of children's graves :(

This ewe and 3 lambs have been running loose on Corringle Lane for weeks.  Every second time I travel down it I miss seeing them, and think, good, someone has fixed that problem, but then next time.... and there they were again yesterday.  When I first saw them the lambs were all the same size, but I suspect that 2 are twins and the ewe is their mother, the other little guy has left his mother behind and is now 'dry' and thus not doing nearly as well.  Wishing and hoping their owner will notice them this week and return them to the paddock!!  (I've tried to find the owner, with no luck thus far.)

Home safe and time to enjoy watching some TV with my feet up - Kiki kinda happy to have me back ;-D

Tomorrow I hope to take pics of the new black alpacas, who are settling in nicely and learning about new things... like ducks!!  Today there has been a bit of ducks scaring alpacas, and alpacas scaring ducks which has been funny to watch!!