Month: September 2020

Hello!

Hi!!
I haven’t managed to get photos of the rocks with my ‘real’ camera since we arrived home…
As you can see by these snaps, I sensibly didn’t take my camera out with us on The Great Fossicking Day.

Wow – we spent pretty much 6 hours wallowing in the mud!! And loved every bit of it!!
The above photo of Jeff was after he washed off a bit!!

Thank goodness for gumboots and rainpants!

We found a spot where lots of other people have been digging and I guess we were pretty much working through their spots rather than digging our own new trench!!
The rain had washed off the mud from the rocks on the top layer so it was easy to spot some nice pieces without digging too!

This unusual piece of agate was my best find! I hope we can polish the face of it.
That square bit actually runs through the whole stone.

The colours varied too… from the reds and oranges to the blues and blacks!!

And lots were translucent!!

The ladies at the Ross Cafe that we stopped at were really interested in our little adventure, we promised to stop in on our way home and share some of the spoils!
So we did!! It made us smile a lot to see others get totally excited about rocks!

Anyway, we’ve still got heaps to sort and take photos of and tumble… will be an ongoing process!

Sorry I didn’t get any other location photos – using the camera really wasn’t practical, then when we were not covered in mud it was dark!!

It was a very nice view from our little lounge room in the cottage we stayed at!
It was also bliss going out each evening for dinner – no thinking about what to cook or dishes to wash!!

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!! (Soap Workshop booked tomorrow with Sharon!!)
Cheers!

Driving Day

Hi!

Look at me…away from home but wrangling some technology on Jeffs old tablet!

We got away not at 6am

Or 7am…

Anyway, we got away and it was a lovely warm sunny day for the most part.

We stopped at Ross for a bite to eat. We were hoping to browse antique and bricabrac shops but nothing was open 😣😣

Ross is an old convict town… I’ll have to look up some history on it later before I lead you up the garden path. But I think women convicts were held here.

The town is full of gorgeous buildings and homes.

Lots of stone walls…

It also has a gorgeous bridge

It was nice to stretch my legs.. we still had a way to go.

The wind was crazy strong actually – the tablet was like a wind sock… trying to keep it steady to get a shot of the church…bit dodgy…

Anyway… onward! Bye Ross…

We arrived in Dover around 3ish and checked in to our cottage….oooo such a view out front!

Not bad, eh?

We unpacked the car and decided to go down to the digging area just for a pre fossick peek

Mostly these were chips and scraps of diggings from others… but we were pretty excited about it

Anyway, thats an on the road update…wish us luck tomorrow!

Cheers

Small Soap Update

Hi! I haven’t been going mad on the soaping front lately… Just snapped some photos of the recent ones.
The above one is the ‘raw’ version of the circles (Below)

I decided not to trim the rest as I was losing too much soap. The design will appear as they are used. Its a fun technique and I am keen to try again and fine tune!

The latest Taiwan Swirl cut – turned out rather lovely.
New fragrance, lavender and cedar… really like it.

(The bottom layer – again… the pattern will emerge as its used, so no need to trim and waste soap)

And this last one is apple and sage… another really pretty fragrance!
This pattern has possibilities if I use a few colours next time!

Anyway… thats all from me.
Must continue packing!
Cheers

This and That

Hi – how has your weekend started?
We had a bit of a sad morning start as we had to dispatch our white matron chook. She’d been on the downward spiral the last week… and not eating the last couple of days. 🙁 Its the right thing to do but its the worst part about owning chooks.

The day was mostly spend putting gear together to drive south on Monday.
The pic above is a PLB – personal locator becon. We finally got one. We’ve been talking about it for a while. Seemed sensible to have one ourselves since we take off to remote places to hike etc.
Its a LOT lighter than the one I hired when I did my solo trek!

A workmate of Jeff’s dropped by the other day with her husband and some sour dough starter for me!!
The pressure!!!
I am a bit clueless on this whole sour dough thing… I didn’t really have time to research the whole thing, so I just followed the recipe she gave me and hoped for the best.
It didn’t rise a lot and the final product was a bit flat, but it sure tasted pretty good, albeit a bit heavy!!
I’ve got more starter to ‘feed’ so am keen to have another go.
Sharon and Paul do this a lot so I reckon they’ll give me some training!

After packing and doing general domestics today, I ventured outside to plant some seedlings I picked up the other day.

I got three tomatoes for the hothouse to get a head start there. Also some capsicum. There weren’t any chilli seedlings available which I would like to get too. They are slower to establish and I am not taking chances with a cold spring this time and seeds.

I dug through some of the cow poo straw and planted the tomatoes and one punnet of capsicum. I ran out of daylight before I could muck about with the second punnet

I also covered the capsicum with some bottles as they are a lot smaller and didn’t want them to be a slug feast.

The ‘Mad Hatter’ capsicum I decided to leave in – but gave it a good pruning

You can see its huge and leggy. I forgot to take a snap of the final look after its snipping.

There is a lot of new growth showing so will leave it and see what happens.
Speaking of snipping… when we get back I need to cut back all the bushes on the outside of the hothouse… they are so tall now and along with Tentacular the Spectacular passionfruit… its getting a bit dim in there!!
(Add to To Do List)

Anyway, thats about it!
Market tomorrow (I hope)(Just to look not to sell) and packing the car!

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend
Cheers!

Flowers

Ok – hello!! Feel free to just admire the photos and skip the reading!! haha
What a drama!! 😀
I hate not knowing enough about computers and techy stuff to be able to sort things out myself… although I do try and end up nearly blowing a gasket and I am positive my blood pressure might have spiked about 2 hours ago!!

So… you all realise I have been writing blogs since getting my new PC, but for some reason couldn’t answer comments??
I spent over 2 hours the other day with a tech person from BlueHost and didn’t resolve issue… thought it was a weird new computer setting.

(Adding the pretty flower photos is helping me with the calm)
Today my blog decided that I wasn’t allowed to write posts either – I’d click to create a new post and then it gave me a sign in box… which I filled in but was rejected.
Mystery… why was my password now being rejected??

I’d actually had a really stressful day as I had to take Pip to the vet (Digressing Story)
We are planning on going south early next week, to fossick for agates around the Lune River (Cringing as I am listening to rain not just pour, but bucket down with a vengeance outside right now) so we needed to get Pip a steroid injection to last until we get back, so Wonderful Cousin Beau doesn’t have to give him tablets.
I don’t deal well with taking him to the vet. Its completely irrational.
We gave him Happy Pills so he was all mellow but waiting for the 5pm appointment wasn’t great for me. (I should have shared his pills)
I cry all the way home while Pip then strolls out of his box, rubs my foot with his head, eats up a storm then gets wrapped in his blankie as happy as a little clam.

I think I might have issues….

So… by the time my wordpress locked me out for no apparent reason, I might have had a hissy fit.

The most ridiculous thing is… is that I hadn’t signed in originally (on new PC) with an admin password. I’d forgotten its existence as for years, the old computer just stored the original passwords and sorted that out for me.
Thank-goodness I didn’t throw away the bit of 4-year-old scrap paper with the details on it!!! I thought I transferred the right usernames and passwords to a little book.

So… can anyone explain to me WHY I could still write posts up until today?? Anyone? Kinda explains why I couldn’t answer your comments but one would think if you aren’t signed in as admin – why can you see anything at all? (And write posts lol )
This is going to keep me up all night.


Oh – and my email isn’t working.
I’ve decided I don’t care until later next week.

Anyway… I think I have the blog worked out now… no excuses not to be replying to your notes etc!!

(Maybe tomorrow though)

(Mind you, I am suddenly getting a ton of spam… yay! So somethings definitely changed)

Thanks for getting to the end of my little Friday Saga!
I am going to play a mind numbing game before bed and I will be all better haha

Hope your upcoming weekend is fabulous!

Cheers!

I am a Muffin

Apparently log in passwords for adminning your site is different to word press in general.
Argh
BUT this does not explain how I was able to write posts up until now on the new PC – although it might explain everything else not working – like the comment replies.

More investigation nec.

I’ll return when I wrap my tech-challenged brain around it!

Cheers