Yabbies anyone???

Hands up if you have never been yabbying???

That many ???

You really don't know what you are missing!!

Apart from the initial embarrassment of having to buy "Lambs Fry" at the supermarket, the fear that someone might just see it in your trolley and think that you eat it.. it is a great country thing to do!

Sunday, we spend the afternoon in the glorious sun, checking nets and bringing that captures home and into the laundry tub before cooking. We have half of our dam empty, due to no dam fill this year, and the other half will be dry before to long, so we took the opportunity to do a little yabbying before it too dried out. My best friend from Dimboola brought the family over for the afternoon for the experience. I am the godmother of both of her girls.. so that was very nice!

I really need to get motivated food and exercise wise.. I am starting to feel sluggish and blah. I know that if I exercised more I would have more energy.. but man.. that first step is the hardest!

I have all of my friends laughing at the moment.. they think I have something for pumpkin. Often, I will test a recipe, type it up and email it out.. my last five have all been pumpkin based!!! LOVE IT!!!!

I have also given up eating potatoes.. for a few reasons that just came to me like a light bulb last week. They are high GI... Basically no nutritional value what so ever.. so I figure I might as well eat sweet potato or pumpkin. They have also been quite expensive ($13 for 5kg) when I can get pumpkin for 80 cents a kilo.. why would I eat them???

Little Hugh turns two on Friday and I am so excited about it! Having a party for him and I am making a Sheep cake!!! Van't believe my baby is nearly two! I love it when people ask the age of my kids and I can roll off my tounge.. 2, 3 and 4... then to see the look of horror that usually followed witha comment like.. "You must have been busy" - Yeah I was, but anything since is a walk in the park! Light at the end of the tunnel! Love having all of my kids close.. they play together just so well, hardly ever have sharing problems ot jealous issues! Very lucky parents!

Ok.. little fragmented post.. but need to get some order back in to everything...

Will it ever rain again???

Firstly.. again.. I should apologize for not posting more.. but some days I feel like it and others I don't. You will have to take it as it comes...

Weeks just fly... they get busier and busier...My kids have to go to Horsham on Saturday's for swimming lessons... like you do.. so half of the weekend of over before it even begins! Then usually I have to take photos for the paper, sporting event etc.. but have this weekend off. Have a 40th tomorrow night and my god-daughters 4th in Dimboola on Sunday.. another weekend gone!

Jack is going to be digging this weekend. We have to install a grey water catchment to the house. Currently, like most farm houses, the grey water runs into the paddock. But with no water, we have to now reuse this water to keep the garden alive! Jack thinks that we will be carting water to drink by December... pray for bloody rain!!The effects are going to be huge, if no rain comes. The 2002 drought was bad, but we still had water. This is so much worse. Devastating, heart-breaking to see the effects the drought has enviromentally and emotionally to the country. One of our dams is bone dry and the other will be dry early next year. It's fucked! I guess we are lucky we have income off farm.. but most don't! The government will not let anyone go hungry.. they will provide enough to keep food on tables.. but no money will undo the heart-ache that is going on... Farms that have been in the same family for years, just slowly dying.
I will take some photos to share soon...

My 4 week challenge ended last night and I can fess up to a 700 gram gain over the 4 weeks.. how stuffed is that! But no counting this week and on the wagon again!
Enough fart-arsing around... didn't go through all of this hard work and 4 dress sizes just to become slack and put it all back again! Today's WW quote is "When you believe you can, you can" - Well I KNOW i can... so watch this space for more

Have a gret weekend all..