tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278677252024-03-14T02:16:17.918+11:00Amongst Gum TreesA family of six, living on 25 acres in rural Australia.
Baking, gardening, quilting and fermentingMarijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.comBlogger749125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-26095016666318143872019-05-06T06:53:00.000+10:002019-05-06T06:54:52.533+10:00April<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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April flew by in a flash with many busy days.</div>
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Work is booming, the kids very active with (after) school activities and the end of school term 1.</div>
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The athletics presentation on Friday evening and thus finalising the Summer sport season. The following morning: the first soccer game of the Winter season. For me it was the pinnacle of 4 months of organising and registrations, clocking often 15 hours a week. My work as a registrar is done for this season, I’ve decided that this will be my last year on the committee for the soccer club, it’s just too many hours and too much stress on top of my already busy days. I’ll be doing registrations for the athletics club instead and are still helping out with he breakfast club and P&F committee at school.<br />
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Alex got his yellow belt in aikido, he’s so very proud of himself.<br />
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Taking on new stockists, including this deli in Yamba.<br />
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Rrrrrrripping out the 35 year old carpets. I’m loving the spotted gum floors in our bedroom.<br />
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Making the most of the rain predictions: planting time!<br />
Choosing to change my kitchen garden to more permanent plants and adding the last trees to my orchard: persimmon and tangelo.<br />
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Rosella, a pretty hibiscus flower that turns into fruit that makes awesome jams and sauces.<br />
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I had been asked to do a foodie workshop for a special council event. </div>
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We decided on smoothies and had a great time whizzing them up.</div>
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With 3 basic smoothie recipes, all favourites with our kids</div>
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with an large variety optional of extra toppers</div>
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and other stir-ins to personalise and boost up that smoothie.<br />
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Autumn has arrived well and truely now. We celebrate it with maple roasted pecans </div>
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and Autumn granola back on the menu...<br />
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Easter baking<br />
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A very Good Friday, taking the kids and the dog for a run in the between the showers.<br />
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The Clarence Valley compromises over 10.000 square kilometres with a multitude of rivers and creeks. With the Pacific Ocean to the East and the Great Dividing Range to the West. Besides the sprinkling of small towns, most of this farming land. Needless to say, we still have a lot more exploring to do, we drove <a href="https://www.myclarencevalley.com/inspiration/itineraries/half-day/river-revelation">one of the 4 drives recommended by the tourist information</a>, which is about 200km long. Totally amazing, such an eyeopener to see how close we still are to our pioneers history.<br />
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Chilling out at Cangai Creek<br />
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Sunday morning exploring on horseback. Our own little creek in the backyard is rather dry at the moment, even with the bit of rain we’ve had over the last couple of weeks, the waterholes are still dry. The horses are very pleased with the green grass though!<br />
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My little chatter bird in the mulberry tree, keeping me company while planting the garden.<br />
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Easter breakfast,<br />
I love this crazy bunch.<br />
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Anzac parade, with Tim in the drum band this year.<br />
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Full Moon get-together. A paddle and swim in the dam, great food, playing spotlight with a rising moon and roasting marshmallows for dessert. Our kids love these evenings.Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-9792353778001475762019-04-10T21:05:00.002+10:002019-04-14T16:17:03.701+10:00March<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And another month flews by! The fact that we’re already halfway into the next month, before I’m getting to writing this should be a testament on how busy I have been...</div>
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Soccer registrations, a new registration system, a new hope, totally crazy: 3 months of phone calls, messages, battling a new system into submission, organising coaches, getting kids organised in teams and preferably registered before they start their first game. A monster job that once again took so much of my time, energy and head space and I’m currently considering making this my final year on the committee. The responsibility for 230 players, combined with everything else going on in my life, is weighing very heavy.</div>
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And yes, I have issues saying “no”, because I like to help, because I know I have the right skill set and because I want to invest in a stronger community. But is it worth it, when it starts to give you anxiety?<br />
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Something that I chose to take on was the Regional Master Food Expo, where I was asked to have a stall and provide a masterclass on macadamias. An honour, people that love food and don’t mind me going on and on about all these things that make my heart sing: local produce.<br />
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The day was a great success, meeting many new people and customers. The masterclass went well, I had kept it very flexible, talking comes easy and let the audience give it direction. Turned out they loved the talk on macadamias but were intrigued about the bush foods that I’ve started using in my products, so we rolled with it.<br />
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Since I was already in Yamba and having left home at 6:15am with a packed car, set up the stall, ran a stall solo for the whole day, chatting to customers and an hour masterclass snuck in. My head was buzzing. After packing up, I took 45 minutes on the beach. Catching my breath, stretching out the kinks and just listening to the waves, breathing.<br />
Sand between my toes is a great energiser. The banquet in the evening was phenomenal, a perfect ending to the day.<br />
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The cultured honey is so satisfying to make.</div>
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How time, love and patience can transform a plain honey into something magical.</div>
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So thick and smooth...</div>
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Chester has been dreaming of rain and paddocks full of grass, no dust trailing his every step.<br />
End of the month, after many misses, we finally got some rain. It has been glorious, the changes the landscape makes within days, the new grass so vibrantly green.<br />
A rainwater tank overflowing with hope for the garden.<br />
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Tim’s 11th birthday party (part 2).<br />
Instead of presents, from us and his mates, he asked to go to Tree Tops in Coffs Harbour with his best mates. Massive zip-lines, ropes and challenges, we had awesome fun.<br />
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Friday Night Athletics. Alex after finishing his own training with the U6 was still bouncing around with every and asked if he could run in Tim’s race with the U11 and U12’s...<br />
He ran in the lead for the first two rounds and finished in 5th position. Pretty good for his first 1500meters...<br />
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If the kids aren’t up in a tree somewhere, you’ll find them on the water, enjoying the canoes.<br />
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Tim has been getting a lot more active in the kitchen. Baking pancakes, wizzing up smoothies and whipping up a batch of (oven) doughnuts. With the school holidays coming up next week, we’ll get to work on expanding his repertoire, to the great delight of his (always hungry) siblings.<br />
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Alex’s school trip, I think he made a new friend...</div>
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A solo road trip, visiting my horse Laura, who has been in training in Uralla.<br />
Having had such a massive couple of weeks, I decided to take the long way, to clear my head, through the mountains, and along the plateau. A drive that always puts a smile on my face. The pretty winding roads through the rainforest, the cattle grazing the road shoulders once you hit the plateau, a cuppa in Glen Innes, a cup of soup in windy Guyra and along the treelined New England highway, showing a pretty Autumn display.<br />
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Laura was amazing to ride, in the two days I was there I rode for at least 7 hours! (a new saddle has appeared on my Christmas wishlist...) A bit of work in the arena, trail rides and my first whiff of cattle work. I am hooked! Reading the herd, splitting them, singling out certain calves, herding them through obstacles, with my trusty companion not being faced by anything you throw at her. She has gotten home this week, we’ll be starting lessons on dressage this Friday. Not that dressage eventing is my game, but working on perfecting our communication is. She’s horse that needs stimulation, challenges or will make up her own entertainment.<br />
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Tim has been taking piano lessons at school, he’s loving it. Alex has been trying to work out the left behind sheet music and is showing great interest. Tim has been teaching him the basics, he started his first piano lesson at school this week.<br />
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Sophie has been taking riding lessons at a local bush riding school. She’s making lots of progress and has Sander now intrigued as well... Looks like I’ll be getting some company on my rides!</div>
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Laura started training, she got picked up for a 5 hour drive to her trainers place.<br />
Chester was not happy...<br />
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But most of all he would like some rain, the paddocks are so bare...<br />
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Two weeks in, Laura is doing great. Cattle work can be very technical.<br />
At home I’m practicing with Chester on opening and closing gates while riding and picking up kids at the bus stop. Riding easy while his leg is taking a long time healing from his abscess.<br />
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Breakfast smoothies for a great start of the day, we’re going though our blueberries rather quickly.<br />
It’s all great practice for a workshop I’m supposed to be running in April...<br />
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Our dragon fruit has been flowering and producing it’s first fruits. The flowers are so big and bright white, filled to the brim with bees.<br />
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The kids have counted 21 flowers!<br />
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Sophie’s riding lessons</div>
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For weeks we had been looking for a second kayak, for Tim’s birthday. However no luck, the day of his party a friend mentioned he had a couple of kayaks taking up space in his shed. He delivered us 4! We now have a whole fleet, we didn’t see much of Tim and his mates all weekend...<br />
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Also David is becoming an old hand on paddling the dam. Do you see his friend in the tree?</div>
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Cyclone Oma, so far south. It got very windy for a couple of days, but all the rain that got predicted didn’t eventuate... We really could have used it...<br />
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Birthday cake at the Full Moon gathering.</div>
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Boys are making lots of progress with athletics this year.<br />
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Sander fractured his finger with volleyball and required surgery. While his finger was getting screwed back together, we made the most of our time in Coffs on the break wall.<br />
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And even got to see a sea turtle!<br />
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Full Moon rising over the paddock<br />
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My garden is a sorry mess. Not having had any rain for months on end, combined with very hot and windy summer days, water is very precious. I’m hand watering my orchard, taking u many hours of my week. The permanent plants in the vegetable garden are being kept alive by a drip irrigation. But for anything else to grow, I’ll need some serious rain. We’re onto the third day of Autumn, we’re getting a little bit of drizzle during the night and the temperature has dropped a bit for now (you know you’ve gone through a hot summer when the kids are wearing jumpers as the temperature drops under 30 degrees!). It has given me enough confidence to plant out one (out of 7) garden beds. Knowing that at least I can keep the watering up, without stretching myself even thinner. </div>
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Hopefully when the busy registration part of the soccer season is past us, I have a bit more free time again in my weeks.</div>
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I’ve been asked give a Master Class on macadamias at the upcoming Regional Masters Food Expo on the 30th of March in Yamba.<br />
Being part of the Gate to Plate movement we have in our valley which focuses on the exquisite ingredients we’re producing locally. A fundraiser for the Gallery Foundation.<br />
If you would be interested to Go Nuts! with me: tasting, trying and experimenting with macadamias and their wide variety of uses. You can find more info and tickets here: <a href="https://gatetoplate.com.au/">https://gatetoplate.com.au</a>Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-9793788721934130332019-02-11T14:01:00.001+11:002019-03-03T11:44:43.281+11:00Where did January go?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With some monster orders rolling in at the end of the year, working from home while the kids had school holidays was doable, but busy. But when Sander had a day off and took all the kids to Mulligans Hut. Bliss...<br />
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Camping<br />
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Climbing<br />
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Mungo Brush Campground. Part of the Myall Lakes National Park.<br />
Where you chuck the kids into the lake at the end of the day, followed by the laundry and dirty dishes. We tend to camp pretty basis, without electricity and wifi.<br />
A campground without tap water however, was a new experience for us. We got used to it pretty quickly, but back at home being able use the tap for a drink or to flush the toilet became a whole new luxury...<br />
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The vast sand dunes of Dark Point<br />
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Bringing out some new items, just in time for Australia Day.<br />
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Using native spices brings cooking to a whole new level. Like these Aussie Sprinkles, they shine with the kick of wattle seeds and the slow releasing aroma of cinnamon myrtle.<br />
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Chester got himself a hoof abscess. Not able to walk on it, he was one sorry sod for a couple of days.<br />
It’s been weeks, but still slowly healing. I can’t wait until we can go riding again...<br />
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Thankful for good friends with horses. Horse riding to and cooling off in the river.<br />
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Keeping work fun, bringing out some limited editions. Like this Sweet Chilli Sauce that makes use of the massive glut of chillies currently in my garden.<br />
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Another Aussie Pride: swagman macadamias. With salt bush and many other native herbs.<br />
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The school holidays tend to be the time for massive growth spurts. They all went up at least 1 clothing and shoes size in a matter of weeks!<br />
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On the Tea Garden-Nelson Bay Ferry<br />
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Kayaking with dolphins<br />
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I had been asked to do little gifts for all those attending the Clarence Valley Australia Day Awards.<br />
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My biggest job so far. But so happy how it all turned out. Doesn’t it look cute?!?!<br />
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Another day of packaging, while the kids played nicely.<br />
Ao they all got homemade ice cream.<br />
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Our first dragon fruits have taken off!<br />
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Cooling off at McPhersons Crossing.<br />
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Enjoying the evening when it finely starts to cool off.</div>
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Perfect for dinners outside with friends.</div>
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Celebrating good friends</div>
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Alex turned 6, our adventure kid had his mind set on a kayak.<br />
Pooling together all his birthday money, he had one waiting by the side of the dam for a birthday morning paddle. Then spend just about all day paddling around!<br />
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A pretty day by the water.<br />
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With the other kids getting a turn,<br />
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or a ride!</div>
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But was able to be tempted out of the water for birthday cake...</div>
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The weekend after, we had his birthday party, we ended up with about 30 kids!</div>
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We set out treasure hunt/orienteering track with 15 clues and activities.</div>
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Divided up in 4 teams, they had to traverse, climb, jump and dive through the climbing hall, tree house, pool, “lion cage”, slack-line, helping each other out over fallen trees and having to paddle out to the tree in the water finding tokens. They all had great fun. </div>
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More cake, although a little droopy by the 36 degree day, was a treasure packed castle defended by a dragon.Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-21285953442594327742019-01-01T12:18:00.001+11:002019-01-01T12:19:44.360+11:00Thank you 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Camping at Hat Head.<br />
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Adopting this ex-race horse. Free to a good home after finishing his last race (and getting dumped at his agistment). We renamed him, to celebrate his second life: Chester, after the guy the dug our dam a couple of years ago. It was the most beautiful thing, this massive chestnut coloured horse, looking like a kid in a candy store. Splashing and rolling around in the water, such delight.<br />
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Picking blueberries at a local farm.<br />
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Alex turning 5 and starting school<br />
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Our annual camping at Woody Head.<br />
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Iluka<br />
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Pizza<br />
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A massive make over for the bathroom, toilet and ensuite.<br />
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Catching up with Erik, a friend that dates all the way back to the sandpit.<br />
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And deep water soloing.</div>
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Horses at a friends place.<br />
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Saying goodbye to our little friend, Moon Dancer.<br />
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Flowers in the Dragon Fruit!<br />
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2018 was a soccer year. Taking on a committee position as shared registrar and treasurer became a massive job. Learning so much.<br />
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Meeting up with my youngest sister Lisa in New Zealand. Tim gets to come along, </div>
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Snuggling up at Lake Tapoe.<br />
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Mountain biking in Rotorua with Lisa. One of Tim’s highlight of our trip to New Zealand.<br />
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Crazy hikes and loving it.<br />
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Tim loved having some time off from his siblings.</div>
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New Zealand is such a beautiful country, I think I’ll have to go back again. With Sander and the other kids...</div>
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Dry, dry, dry. The Valley all smoggy from all the bush fires surrounding us. We had one starting at the end of the street, it circled back all the way to our back fence. A frightening day, but it all ended well.<br />
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The kids tree house, still going strong.<br />
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Spring time. The fruit trees all decided to flower this year, for many their first year.<br />
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Enjoying the fire pit and the many Full Moon gathering it hosted this year,</div>
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Starting the new orchard.</div>
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Winter in the gully. All the hundreds of wattles are in flower, turning it everything yellow.<br />
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Salsa night out.<br />
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Winter mornings.<br />
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David turning 4<br />
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Baking brioche.<br />
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Taking some time out together, for walks on the beach<br />
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Home amongst the gum trees<br />
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Picking up a rundown picnic table, our birthday present.<br />
Sander enjoyed the challenge in returning this blood wood to it’s former glory.<br />
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School holidays are fantastic for making lots of different things with the kids.<br />
Making butter, cookies, tomato soup. Learning all the basics.<br />
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He has worked so hard for this. Blue belt in aikido.<br />
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Loving our weekly library visits.<br />
Some books make you laugh, think, discover or cry.<br />
This one did it all... “My mum is a foreigner, but not to me"<br />
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Playgroup<br />
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Enjoying the quiet<br />
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Birthday kisses<br />
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The pool, it’s a wonder the kids haven’t grown webs between their toes...<br />
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Lots of cooking with the kids, for David the native bush tucker workshop was a highlight.<br />
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Frost in Glen Innes<br />
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Team Monkey<br />
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Going for bike rides, finding new tracks on the old stock routes that surround us.<br />
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That stubborn tree<br />
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Selfies...<br />
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Learning to ride a bike<br />
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Cold Saturday morning soccer games<br />
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Fire pit master<br />
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Going on walks around the dam<br />
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My babies<br />
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Trying to get a new quilt together, this was not my year...<br />
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Enjoying the pretty sunsets at the soccer training, every Thursday afternoon.<br />
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A busy year, weekends are for taking a break.<br />
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Going Nuts!<br />
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Salsa lessons<br />
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Expanding my business with taking on new shops to stock my products.<br />
And getting help with the packaging from my friend Nerissa.<br />
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The garden decided on a growth spurt this year, after many years of trying to make roots in the heavy clay soil.<br />
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School holidays are the time for board games<br />
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Clarence Valley Food Inc. started this year, promoting local growers and producers. This was at their first get together. It’s mind blowing how much and how diverse our valley produces.<br />
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Experimenting with a new line of nut butters<br />
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Team curly whirly.<br />
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The winter was harsh. The coldest and driest in a long time.<br />
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Into the mountains for hikes<br />
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The Winter festival in Glen Innes<br />
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Dogs are so good for the heart.<br />
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Hoping for rain.<br />
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New septic system, after the old one turned into a boggy, stinky mess.<br />
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Fathers Day...<br />
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Experimenting with cultured and flavoured honeys<br />
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Talent shows<br />
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Into the bush, we spend so much time in our own forest this year.<br />
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Mulberry mayhem.<br />
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Playing around with marketing and getting to know Instagram.<br />
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The start of the new cabin.<br />
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Family visits.<br />
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Returning back from New Zealand with some very exciting kids (and relieved grandparents).<br />
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A family favourite.<br />
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Overflowing gutters with pelting rain. Who needs a ladder when you have an Alex?<br />
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Jacaranda season<br />
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Taking a breather with weekends away.<br />
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Looking after the wildlife when the temperature hit the 42degrees.<br />
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Friends<br />
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Taste testing my new Australian dukkah. With native spices from all over Australia.<br />
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Trying out your new pocket knife.<br />
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Chillies galore in the garden this year, we picked at least a hundred.<br />
Perfect for pickled jalapeños, sweet chilli sauce and curry paste.<br />
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Making it into the newspaper<br />
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Going electric.<br />
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First go at tiling.<br />
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Aikido.<br />
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Finding new friends in the garden.<br />
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Kids got board games and vouchers from Santa.<br />
Their favourite by far was a voucher for Tree Tops in Coffs Harbour. An obstacle course with zip-lines in the trees. An exciting challenge that all of them relished,<br />
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Going trail riding with Sophie, a beautiful morning in the bush.<br />
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What an awesome year it was. It certainly flew past!Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-64230649489812187202018-11-29T16:30:00.000+11:002018-12-02T09:17:41.310+11:00November, handy man at work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How we love the view over the dam...</div>
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So for our shared birthday we bought a second hand picnic table.<br />
A bit run down, but easily weighing 400 kilograms!<br />
Tim and Sander took it apart, in order to transport it home.<br />
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Making a slab with mostly leftover building materials,<br />
left Sander with a crash course tiling.<br />
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This beautiful blood wood underneath was all the encouragement needed! </div>
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A couple more weeks of sanding and varnishing and it should be ready for many more years of love.</div>
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Adventure School Camp for Tim.</div>
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Perfect weather for the pool.<br />
David is very proud he can now not only dive up things from the bottom, but also do front flips in the water.<br />
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Smashing my gardening goals in the veggie garden.<br />
So dense and green!<br />
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School Captain speeches for Tim, gearing up for Year 6 soon!<br />
Although disappointed, he was pretty happy to see that his two best mates did get the job.<br />
Not to simmer in his disappointment, he has already taking up with the school principal about all the improvements he would still like to come to fruition at school.<br />
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Soccer AGM done for another year. So relieved that many more parents put their hands up for roles for the upcoming season, only registrations for me, with help!!! It will keep it fun and doable, last year was way too stressful, running on a bare bones committee.<br />
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With Tim and Alex both doing athletics this Summer, I’ve already let myself being roped in to coaching the U6 & U7’s. A great way to finish the week.<br />
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Tim has gone electric.<br />
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Looking after our friends on crazy hot days. Chester was still busy shedding his winter coat, when we got hit with a 39 degree day. He perked right back up after a cool down with the hose and a snack.<br />
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The same goes for King Parrots...<br />
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Pear blossoms!<br />
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Lots of cooking fun with the kids.<br />
We’re back to lots of baking and making.<br />
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Aikido, for the oldest three.<br />
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A cooking workshop at the local Aboriginal Centre:<br />
lesson 1: crocodile tacos.<br />
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Lesson 2: Native herb infused pizza bases topped with warrigal greens and more freshly picked herbs. David is very much enjoying our Monday lunches... </div>
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Updating my labels and getting ready for Xmas orders<br />
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And a new point of sales: Farmer Lous, the local green grocer. The got me a whole shelf!</div>
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Getting ready for another Full Moon get together.<br />
Waiting for the guests to arrive, while the pizza dough rises.<br />
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Marshmallows!<br />
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More work on the cabin.<br />
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The bathroom is ready<br />
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We still have to put a finish on the inner walls<br />
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And some proper furniture.<br />
I think a long bench would be perfect here (for sewing!)<br />
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And extra couple of layers of oil on the outside and the colour has become a lot better.<br />
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Reminder to wear shoes when walking down to the cabin: bull ant bites are horrible!<br />
Or “bully ants” as David call them, because they slow you down...<br />
He needed to be carried, or go back to crawling because with his foot so swollen it was too painful to walk on it.<br />
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Helllllo mangoes!<br />
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Boys hard at work putting in more trees into the orchard. This month we’ve added: 2 avocado trees, fig tree, brazilian cherry, coffee tree, panama berry, pomegranate and many more natives for the butterflies and bees.<br />
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Sophie turning 9.<br />
Very happy with her dress, books, fairy wings and painting set.<br />
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Sandcastle birthday cake for her mermaid party.<br />
For Sophie, everything is still fairies, rainbows, unicorns and everything else happy, beautiful and sparkling.<br />
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Birthday kisses from Laura.Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-3500505346233614022018-11-04T06:00:00.000+11:002018-11-04T08:31:21.737+11:00Thank you October, you were amazing!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mulberries<br />
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Expanding my range with cultured honey.</div>
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These flavoured versions are mind blowing.</div>
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October is often the month we have loads of juvenile king parrots visiting.<br />
Far from shy, we often have 8 of them chatting away...<br />
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...or cheering you on<br />
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Coming back from New Zealand with rain, lots of it.<br />
Here you see one of the dam overflows, releasing water into the gully.<br />
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All the rain is doing wonders for the garden, which is now is full blown Spring growth.</div>
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At last, the start of the cabin build!</div>
Coinciding with my parents flight out of Amsterdam, the pressure in on!<br />
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Laura approved<br />
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And of course a massive thunderstorm rips through just before the roof goes on.</div>
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Quickly erected, wired up and a toilet hooked up onto the new septic system, it has already hosted our first overseas visitors and a Tim’s mates sleepover.</div>
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It will still need a couple more coats of oil on the outside, a finish on the inside walls and doors. And a bit more permanent furniture, other then the comfy queen size bed. </div>
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Any friends and family visiting, we can now offer you a place to sleep, with a gorgeous morning view over the dam... Be welcome...</div>
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Jacaranda’s are coming in flower. The start off of the Jacaranda festival.<br />
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When you have a massive basket of eggs sitting on the kitchen bench, you make brioche.<br />
Letting the dough rise long and slow in the fridge, with a dash of sourdough starter, improving the taste big time.<br />
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Sunday morning baking, scrolls with homemade fig jam...<br />
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These two...<br />
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The reality of having your whole family living on the other side of the world. When they visit you have them all to yourself, for weeks on end. Leaving many good memories behind.</div>
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Planting out the new orchard with the kids. It’s making my heart sing.</div>
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I managed to find a lemon myrtle tree, treasure! Growing alongside are an aniseed and cinnamon myrtle and a macadamia tree.</div>
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So far we’ve planted out mostly natives, wanting to support our local bees and butterflies. </div>
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Besides natives, we've managed to plant a lemon tree, we’ve transplanted bananas, a lychee tree and a have quince tree on standby. A friend has kindly taken cuttings from his trees, soon we will be planting out coffee and Brazilian cherry trees.</div>
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We’re still waiting to plant: apples, avocado and a lemonade tree. Dreaming big!</div>
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Saying yes to all the challenges that come onto your path for a whole year brings you to many interesting (and scary!) places. This year has brought me outside of my comfort zone many times.<br />
This week I got asked for a feature for the “Keeping it Local” in the local paper.<br />
They did a video feature of Nerissa and me at work as well...<br />
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And what’s with the accent?!? Hearing yourself talk on video is weird, big time...<br />
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Making jacaranda ice-cream with the children: frozen blueberries and banana, yoghurt, macadamias and a spoon of quince paste, to get the colour just right... Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-37056104386459865912018-11-01T06:55:00.002+11:002018-11-01T06:55:43.687+11:00Family Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of nights in Cumbalum, on a farm stay between Ballina and Lennox Head.</div>
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The perfect location for day trips, like going for a hike and a swim at Killen Falls.</div>
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Beach and ice creams in Lennox Heads<br />
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David ended up with a bad asthma attack. A parents nightmare seeing your child gasping for breath. He’s had them before, often when he gets a cold. But since free sailed the last couple of ones, we were hoping he was growing out of it. Sander ended up taking him to hospital during the night, a couple of days medication and he is back to his old self. It has scared me enough to keep an asthma puffer in my hand bag, at all times.<br />
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Gliding on the thermal waves, man and eagle alike.<br />
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Farm stay highlights<br />
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Making a run for the waves<br />
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Stop-over in Newrybar, enjoying the deli at Harvest.<br />
Blue cheese, salami and olives. A kids delight...<br />
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Loosing the fights with the waves</div>
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The most amazing swing, in a fig tree!</div>
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14 days in New Zealand, North Island.</div>
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Taking along my eldest, Tim, who turned 10 this year for a catch up with my youngest sister, Lisa, free for two weeks with a mandatory training break. </div>
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Nothing planned, just a return flight and camper van.</div>
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My calm was tested before I even left Coffs Harbour. Our flight into Sydney was canceled, which my travel agent forgot to mention. But he got us into Sydney on a later flight, rather bumpy with a massive thunderstorm ripping through on the other end, keeping us in the air for another half an hour. An end sprint saw us having our bags pushed back onto the plane that had already given up on us, making it to Auckland after all, just after midnight.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">With so much stuff happening in my day to day life: planning, organising, checking. My head could do with a break. So I made this deal with my sister on the first day, we would swop roles. Where as she normally just have to follow her training schedule from the Dutch Rowing Federation, she would now take on the role of planner and organiser. Where I would just have to drive, or hike or wherever else she would get us into. Quite a bit as it turned out! Then, what else do you expect when you go on a holiday with a professional athlete?</span></div>
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Hiking we did, onto just about every mountain Lisa could find.</div>
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First day, I made the ignorant comment off: ”It getting to four 'o clock, we better start looking for a campground soon”.</div>
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Which got answered with: “We still have almost 3 hours of daylight left, lets do this hike”.</div>
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That set the tone for the rest of our holiday. Eat when it gets dark, let’s go.</div>
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Awesome!!!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Where mine would get us to some excellent coffee and food, Lisa would manage to get us on another windy gravel road...</span></div>
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We ended up chugging away quite some kilometres, on foot and by camper van.</div>
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Wherever we went, the scenery was amazing. The amount of photo’s we took was crazy. Every turn would bring another surprise.</div>
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Winding our way along gravel roads, for 230 kilometres on end, barely seeing anyone. </div>
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On to some hidden lake.</div>
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Boat trip on Lake Taupo.<br />
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My first go at mountain biking, in Rotorua meaning I’m now spoiled, I loved it.<br />
Where Tim & Lisa quickly took to the more difficult trails, riding their hearts out.<br />
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We lost count of the many, many waterfalls we saw on hikes and along the road.<br />
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Wherever we went it was so green. With Spring in full swing, we couldn’t get over the many flowers popping up wherever we looked.<br />
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Feeding lambs at the farm of one of New Zealand's Olympic Gold rowers was great fun.<br />
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And so were the hikes he advised us to do. Even though they were rather crazy!<br />
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Rough, wild and windblown.<br />
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Hiking is so more relaxing, without the snakes!<br />
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Old mining tunnels.<br />
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Writing cards for the home front<br />
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Napier, one cute little art deco city.<br />
Where we free camped along the black pebbled beach, where we gave aid to a sick baby seal and walked along the boulevard. We loved driving along the many different orchards covered in blossom, the many, many beehives brought us to a local honey factory where we tried many of their gourmet honeys as well as the amazing hokey pokey ice-cream...<br />
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...well earned after having conquered Te Mata Peak.<br />
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Caves, glowworms and natural bridges.<br />
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Whirinaki Forrest - Hiking amongst giants and...<br />
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...fern trees, so many fern trees.<br />
And although this one was one of the “tamer” hikes, it was my favourite, just magic.<br />
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Playing "the floor is lava” at Mihi.<br />
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Bubbling mud, geysers and steam in the forrest.<br />
Soaking in the thermal pools at night, rather smelly, but totally fascinating!<br />
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Even into the second week, the waterfalls didn’t stop amazing us.<br />
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Most nights we free camped. Keeping it peaceful, quiet and simple.<br />
The first night was the stuff from horror stories, including a woman screaming on the top of her longs in the middle of the night, being chased by a ute doing burn outs. We survived this sibling spat and decided it could only get better from there. Which it did.<br />
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Time away from the pesky little siblings, outdoors and trail running. Tim was in heaven.<br />
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Tairua, more free camping with a view.<br />
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The Coromandal Peninsula, so pretty!<br />
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Swimming and slowing down on secluded beaches.<br />
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At the very last night we rocked up at a free camp. It turned out to be the parking lot at the local rowing club, still open. </div>
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And so Tim went for his very first row, guided by his auntie.</div>
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The next morning, we left Lisa behind in Cambridge, where she’ll train on Lake Karapiro until December. </div>
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Making our way back to Auckland, switching the head back on, navigating, organising, a camper van to return, a bed to find and flights to catch </div>
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Which gives us all the reason to go back another time...</div>
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On home soil again, Not sure who they missed more, their mum or big brother...Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-13400505781615452322018-09-20T16:26:00.001+10:002018-09-20T16:32:02.824+10:00September<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Emerald Beach was one of the beaches we hadn’t been on before. Not only the beach was a gem, so was the cafe we found. A beautiful lunch and an amazing playground. We’ll have to go back, this time with the kids.</div>
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Quality time, together.<br />
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The Sunday afternoon standard...<br />
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Tim and Sander have gone bike riding for the last couple of weekends. This time Tim went by himself, to visit a friend an hours ride away.</div>
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The track is an old stock route, that rarely gets used these days. Rather rough too!</div>
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Both Sander and I grew up riding our bikes, to go to school, sports or visit friends at the age that Tim is now. I fondly remember the 10km ride to a friends place in the next town. We really wanted to give Tim this freedom as well. However this is Australia, there is wildlife to consider, making us a little more cautious. So in went a mobile phone with tracker in his backpack. Right next to the bottle of water and granola bar. At least he can ring us in case something would happen, but we could also check if he took the right turnoffs for his first time solo. Am I helicopter parenting? </div>
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He came back a couple of hours later, with his friends in tow. Ready to jump in the pool.</div>
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Although still a bit fresh, the kids have declared the pool open for the season.</div>
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The horses have been enjoying all the green shoots popping up after the recent rain. However with all the wind, it doesn’t take long for the ground to dry out quickly again. They’ll be getting hay for a while longer. We’re hoping for a nice top up of rain. However, we finally have a new date for the cabin builders to start. With my parents arriving on Wednesday, they won’t be ready in time as it is...<br />
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a parrot at the back. We just need the old rocking chair...</div>
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Home is having space to breath, to play, to dream.<br />
The kids spend most of their time outside.<br />
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Riding bikes<br />
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Playing on logs</div>
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And building new inventions</div>
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Enjoying a cuppa with company. This juvenile king parrot has been visiting us every day. </div>
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Happy for a chat and a couple of sunflower seeds. Life is good.</div>
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My sister rowed the final of the World Championship. All that hard work, jumping through hoops and determination is paying off. Another week and we’ll both be on the plane to NZ!<br />
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End of the soccer season<br />
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A massive learning curve and quite the eye-opener.</div>
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Setting new and more efficient systems in place, we’ll be taking it to the next level.</div>
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The creamed honey experiments, truely fascinating.</div>
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However the weather has turned too warm for a good setting of the crystals. </div>
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This week was a rather smokey one, with a grass fire that started a couple of houses down from us.</div>
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Fire trucks kept going passed us for three days. They’ve contained the fire with down-wind back burning and fire breaks. We can still see some smouldering, but the we should be safe from here on.</div>
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This is the back fence of our property. Seeing how close it got is quite confronting.<br />
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Saying thanks to all the volunteers at the Rural Fire Service.Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-91440827889149887822018-09-14T20:44:00.002+10:002018-09-15T07:11:01.697+10:00Spring Time Happiness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The time for possibilities, dreams,...</div>
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New growth.</div>
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New products<br />
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And experiments.<br />
Cultured honey is a highly anticipated new product range I’m playing around with at the moment.<br />
It’s looking promising, the only downside my impatience, the culturing process takes a couple of weeks!<br />
I’ll need to build up my starter, to be able to tackle bigger quantities and hopefully have a couple of big batches started before it gets too warm.<br />
It will hopefully produce a beautiful, thick creamed honey. While the experiments with added flavours are terribly fun. Taste wise, lemon myrtle will be hard to beat...<br />
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Our septic system has been giving us headaches for many years. After the 5th time of opening up the trenches for tree root removal (not a very nice job!) an upgraded system was put on the list.</div>
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With all the gum trees around us, notorious water seekers, it was just a matter of time before they would be clogged up again. They found their way back in no-time. It’s a mucky, stinky mess.</div>
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With plans for a guest cabin as well, we decided to combine the two projects.</div>
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Making it also possible to have a toilet in the cabin.</div>
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Adding to the existing septic system with an extra tank results in the output of very high quality water. Evaporation trenches weren’t working for us, but sprinkles would be great. </div>
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And so I have been thinking, that this area of 45mx15m will actually have the perfect base for an orchard. With a gravel bed for drainage, a necessity with our heavy clay soil, regular watering from the sprinklers and because of the slight dip in the landscape: proper soil.</div>
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So now I’m dreaming up an orchard... What to plant... Fruit trees, bananas, lemon myrtle, macadamia. And an extra row of natives.</div>
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Once established, we would really need a beehive... I mean reaaaaaly need a beehive. Right?</div>
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The new tank is in, but massive delays on the cabin is pushing everything back.</div>
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Next week the cabin will (hopefully, finally) go in. Just in time before my parents arrive, giving them a place to sleep.</div>
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The kids have been loving all these big machines: excavators, cranes, trucks and bobcats have all been paraded around.</div>
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The ultimate inspiration for pretend play...<br />
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After re-discovering an old cattle track, Tim and Sander have been going for bike riding trips,<br />
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I’ve been enjoying myself in the kitchen garden which has gone unplanted and neglected for most of this year, while I was too busy doing other things.<br />
But it’s great to see how quick everything gets back in shape, after having been buried under a thick layer of mulch, just push the mulch aside and you are ready to plant. The topsoil is actually in its best shape ever and teaming with earthworms. Having set up drip irrigation for the fruit trees and perennials in the border of the garden, it all came through Winter surprisingly well. All that was needed was a good trim, sprinkle of manure and a mulch top up. The fruit trees, one by one are, are sending out new buds and flowers.<br />
After a long and very dry period with the rainwater tank going towards empty, there came the predictions of good rain for the first week of Spring, the end of the soccer season. My sign to dust off the gardening tools and get organised. And so I did, planting out herbs, flowers and all the big ticket items like zucchini and cucumber. Because however great and convenient sprinklers are, even hooked up to the rainwater tank, it has nothing on water coming straight from the clouds. Timing is everything and this year I grabbed it by the horns.<br />
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Rain, beautiful life giving rain. Yes, I’ve come a long way in the last 12 years, with rain being more or less the default weather in The Netherlands. I now find there are few songs or sounds prettier then fat rain drops falling on the tin roof. You can hear the sigh of relief from the trees and the happy twittering from the birds, not fazed at all by the naked kids splashing in the puddles.<br />
Glorious... everything washed clean, sparkling and bursting with colour.<br />
Bursting with happiness, I plant some more flowers...<br />
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The kids are more then happy to help in the garden. David makes sure no earthworms are damaged, while we’re making pockets for new plants. He transplants them to a safe spot, with another plant. Sophie is like a gardening fairy, dropping seeds here and there, while Tim is more for hammering in stakes. Alex is happy to watch us from his perch, sharing with the parrots in the loaded mulberry tree.<br />
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With my last online order for seeds, I’ve gone a little overboard (again), this weekend we’ll have 12 types of heirloom variety tomatoes to plant, sunflower seeds, beans, lettuce, melons and the rest of the herbs. I’m trying to convince Sander that we should rebuild the green house, which had to make place for the swimming pool, for better seedlings... Spring time, a perfect time for dreaming...Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-10489259639103530342018-08-17T16:52:00.002+10:002018-08-17T16:52:33.462+10:00Thankful<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Being thankful, for all the amazing fire fighters, rangers and volunteers that are out there keeping us safe. While we sleep in a room filling with smoke from several bush fires burning around us. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">It might still be winter, but our thermometer is reading 29 degrees, the valley is filled with smoke. And just like any other year, in August the winds pick up, fanning every spark. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Thinking of friends who have fires on their doorstep and other friends, making sure there will be a house for them to come back to. With dozers and chainsaws creating fire breaks, water bombing from the air and back burning ahead of the fire to keep the control. You’re all amazing. Be safe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Being outside grounds me: a quick walk with the dog while the sun is coming up, checking on the horses and the chooks. The first rays of sun, so pretty with a bit of cloud cover or the smokey haze over the valley. Giving a tiny hint of warmth on these freezing mornings. A friendly nicker from the horses while they wait on their hay, now the grass is all gone. The kookaburra, always a happy sound in the morning, frolicking away in the distance. The magpies, sitting on the branches above me, doing another sing along. And of course the chooks, always hungry, spotting the chook bucket and calling me over. All of this while the dog is happily doing bouncing laps around me and the kids finish their breakfast and climb on their bikes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The strong community spirit, the many, many awesome people volunteering their time and energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With all of NSW drought declared, we’re aware that a bit of rain in June has done wonders to get us through this Winter. We still have water in our rainwater tank. Even though most of the grass has disappeared with the first good frost, the coldest winter since a rather long time, we know that many other are not so lucky. It’s been heart-warming to see how many people are involved in fundraisers to pull our farmers through this. With long road trains of hay going all over the state. We have to look after our farmers, where would we be without them...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I keep bringing out new products, knowing it probably not the most efficient way having a menu so wide. But it’s keeping it fun, the experimenting, trials and promoting. It also enables me to bring out the best products of the season. That means sometimes saying goodbye (temporary) to best sellers, like the maple pecans. Sometimes the stress of keeping up stock is not worth it. I’ll bring it back for next Winter, with a better supply line...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With my Autumn granola coming to an end. I’m introducing a new seasonal granola: Berrylicious.</span></div>
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This would be the year that I would challenge myself a bit more, stretching the comfort zone. Trying new things and making sure there wouldn’t be any regrets. While keeping a balance...</div>
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Well, the balance is often the biggest challenge. But I’ve grown so much this year, in skills, as a baker, business woman and as a person. I’ll let you know at the end of the year what the verdict is...</div>
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Full Moon rising over the gum trees.</div>
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Macadamias, raw organic cocoa and raw local honey.<br />
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Soccer games. Alex’s team had a formidable opponent. After a rather frustrating first halve, Alex had enough and took on the role as goal keeper. An Edwin van der Sar in the making, nothing did pass this little wall.<br />
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To say that it’s rather dry is an understatement. With a fire ban coming in early. The valley was rather smokey from all the back burns cleaning up dry vegetation for when it gets dangerously dry, combined with hot Summer weather. </div>
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The Amongst Friends, Trees and a Full Moon get together. After many moons, still going strong and highly anticipated by our kids.</div>
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“Cleaning up” my macadamia brittle disaster as a topping for lemon myrtle and vanilla cake.</div>
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Back at school, all the extracurricular activities have started up again.<br />
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With quality time at home, doing some fun workshops at the library, kitchen experiments and a trip into the mountains.</div>
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A change of scene also creates head space. A drive along the Mann River always puts a smile on my face, trying out new tracks a sense of adventure.</div>
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Bush tucker Taste and Talk at the library. Getting some new ideas for the kitchen and the garden.<br />
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I accidentally made honey macadamia brittle while trying to improve a recipe.<br />
I must admit, this turned out so good. Not too sweet, letting the macadamias shine. There was so much positive feedback on it that I might try to replicate another batch, but making sure to press it flat this time!<br />
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More Going Nuts! kitchen experiments: Macadamia nut butters. With a hint of vanilla, sea salt and local honey. Adding raw organic cocoa made me a winner...<br />
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The scream</div>
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for coffee...</div>
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School holidays = Board games</div>
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And silly selfies.<br />
Team: Curly Whirly<br />
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Horse riding, enjoying the sun, space and fresh air.<br />
While David rides his bike besides me and Tyson is never far behind me.<br />
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Middle of the Winter. With sunny and dry days often reaching 20 degrees.</div>
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The nights have been a lot colder this year, we’re going through hay and fire wood in record time.</div>
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Going into the New England Highlands for the weekend.</div>
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Driving up, through the mountains, with beautiful views on the Clarence Valley.</div>
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With the road cutting through the Word Heritage listed Gibraltar Range and Washpool, National Park. Giving us a beautiful, fresh, picnic at Dandahra Creek.</div>
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Which is very much like a painting...</div>
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A run at The Standing Stones</div>
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The Chill in Glen festival.<br />
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David was rather proud of his (mini) snow man. </div>
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But didn’t understand why his hands got so cold!</div>
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Finding a new and trendy coffee place.<br />
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Farmstay on the plains,<br />
surrounded by 450 acres with only cattle to share the space.<br />
So quiet during the night!<br />
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With the night reaching -8 degrees. Waking up was a rather cold affair!<br />
Now I hear my fellow Dutchies thinking, “have they turned into complete wusses?!?!?”.<br />
Yes, maybe, well, let me explain: houses build here don’t have double glazing, wall insulation or central heating. Just a bit of ceiling insulation, if you’re lucky.<br />
For warmth you have a wood fire in the living room, that needs to heat the whole of the house.<br />
While the very modern houses have reverse aircon...<br />
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Being on a farm, this is the best place in the house.<br />
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But seeing everything white outside from the frost....<br />
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Which warranted hot chocolate for breakfast...<br />
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Going down at the mountain. Making a stop at the Boundary Falls for a walk.<br />
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Spottting good boulders and trees to climb.<br />
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And of course a pretty waterfall</div>
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Team: Straight & Narrow<br />
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Trying to keep the kids on the walking track with a creek nearby was hopeless...<br />
Rockhoppers, all of them.<br />
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But with a rather wild rain forest like this, who can blame them.<br />
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Revived after a weekend of fresh air.</div>
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Ready for the next school term, a rather busy one by the looks of it. We’re expecting the new cabin to be build it next week, the soccer carnival and a major overhaul of our septic system. </div>
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At the beginning of the year I made a deal with my husband. He would go rock climbing in Thailand with a mate, I would catch up with my sister in New Zealand. </div>
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Already looking forward to the next adventure, I’ve just booked the plane tickets for the next school holidays, two weeks exploring the North Island, before my sister Lisa will commence her training there.</div>
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One week of school holidays has passed. Although it feels like we have spend most of our time in our pyjamas, taking a well needed break from the many responsibilities. Looking back on my photo’s from the last week, it’s telling a different story....</div>
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My granola is now for sale at 2Be Nourished and GoVita in Grafton.<br />
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2Be Nourished has the full range: granola, nuts and tikka paste. Also using it in their kitchen.<br />
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At Govita, you’ll find me as a local and plastic free alternative. </div>
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The nights have been cold. But once the sun comes through, the days are gorgeous. Perfect for playing outside.<br />
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An interview and photo shoot with the local newspaper. </div>
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A promotion for our soccer club, where I share the role of Treasurer and Registrar with Sally.</div>
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Time is ticking for the upcoming carnival, 3 more weeks and its all wrapped up. Just getting through the next couple of weeks.</div>
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My first ride on Chester, he was a total gentleman. </div>
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Since he has come of his racing food, he has turned into a whole new horse, cruzely plodding along. Nothing fazes him, quite the “bomb-proof-pony”. And since he was so calm and well behaved, the kids got to have a little ride on him, with the lead rope.<br />
He’s like this big, fluffy teddy bear, who loves his cuddles.<br />
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School holidays are perfect for sleeping-in, even when the kids didn’t get the memo.<br />
Happily playing Lego together, on my bed.<br />
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David turning 4, he was as surprised as we were...<br />
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So we made good on it. Crackers, cheese and wine for the parents, while the kids played outside, easy! And a walk trough our forest, where the kids decided it was time for a swim...</div>
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I on the other hand, prefer to sit by the wood fire, with a book. <br />
Home made crackers and pumpkin soup sweeten the deal...<br />
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Peach blossoms, hearing all the bees buzz is a wonderfull start to the day.</div>
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Lemons, limes and chillies are still growing like mad. Which is awesome, with the tikka paste so popular nothing is going to waste.<br />
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Playing chess with Alex, our 5 year old.<br />
He’s very competitive...<br />
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Rebranding my line of nuts.<br />
“Going Nuts” is rather accurate and fits well alongside my “Nuts! Granola”.<br />
These cinnamon roasted macadamias are totally addictive.<br />
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The first meeting for Clarence Valley Food Inc, a group set up to promote regional growers and producers. Held at the gallery in Ulmarra, we had a lovely evening with an enormous variety of food, producers, foodies and a very interesting guest speaker.<br />
We are so lucky with the wide variety of food that we can grow in our beautiful valley: sea food, to prime beef, dairy, sugar, olives, nuts, fruit, including massive blueberry growers, native foods, edible flowers and vegetables. And then of course all those that create foods and drinks, sourdough bakers, ice-cream, granola, cheese, wine, beer and cured meats. Turns out that the Clarence Valley is one of the major national producers, but is hardly know as such. But that is about to change, it spotlight has been turned on...<br />
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Where normally the winter months get a little bit more quiet,<br />
it didn’t happen this month...<br />
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Enjoying the very mild weather that is an Australian winter, which means being outside a lot. Soaking up the sun, instead of hiding in the shade.<br />
Crisp nights and 20 degree days, with mostly blue and sunny skies. I love this time of year...<br />
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Going for an afternoon walk along the dam with the kids,<br />
while convincing them it might be a little too cold to swim.<br />
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Mulching the veggie garden<br />
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Collecting horse manure for the strawberry plants.<br />
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Baking:<br />
chocolate & pecan brioche<br />
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Player of the match, Alex is a bit of a loose cannon.<br />
But coach him well and he’s an awesome little player, running his heart out.<br />
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Halfway, fixing up the stairs.<br />
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Celebrating the end of pecan harvest, at a friends organic pecan farm.<br />
Mates, space and kayaks. A kids paradise...<br />
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Seeing my sister win gold at the World Cup.</div>
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Wanting to finish my quilt that I started last year. But I’m not satisfied how it’s coming together.<br />
I have taken out the bits that I dislike and are slowly changing them over with fabrics I love.<br />
And since there are so many beautiful fabrics, it might turn into a king size quilt after all...<br />
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My babies.<br />
David learned to ride his peddle bike independently.<br />
So proud of himself... You often find him outside practicing skids on the gravel on an early morning. The three degree mornings don’t seem to bother him (or his flannel pj’s)!<br />
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Truck parade,<br />
noisy machines, right up their alley...<br />
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Loving how the gully turns yellow with wattle blossoms this year.<br />
The first time we actually managed to catch it!<br />
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I keep working with Laura, but we’re still not friends. Chester on the other hand has become a great friend. He has settled down, you see him plodding along in the paddock and wonder how he ever raced for a living. I’m keen to put the saddle on him this weekend. </div>
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Enjoying the setting sun at soccer training.<br />
Work as treasurer and registrar has slowed right down, enabling me to actually see some of the training sessions these days...<br />
Our club is organising an annual soccer tournament, flyers have been send out.<br />
Last year we had 700 players.<br />
With only 4 active members on the committee, I see a busy couple of months coming up...<br />
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Sophie is seeing stars.<br />
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Athletics carnival.<br />
They all did well, but I was super proud of Sophie, giving the 800meters run a go.<br />
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Taking a break after a soccer morning.<br />
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Maple Pecans.<br />
I’ve found myself a local supplier of nuts. Pecans are being the main ingredient in my Autumn Nuts granola. Customers like them so much that I’m now also selling them by themselves.<br />
Selling like mad, just the perfect time of year for them.<br />
Highly addictive...<br />
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Loving the new display at Blueberries Health Food Bar in Maclean.<br />
Australia ends it’s financial year on the 30th of June, so I’m right in the middle of stocktake and changing over all my documents to a new year, for both businesses!<br />
That also included a tally on the Second Chance Jar program, with $2.50 for every jar and $2 for every bottle sold being donated to the local Womens shelter.<br />
Another $750 dollar for this year, making the total amount raised for this project $2100!<br />
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For this project, I also saw myself invited to have a little talk at the local Rotary Club.<br />
With my laptop crashing, I had to totally wing it! But it worked out great, turns out I actually do quite well a public speaking. I did not see that one coming! The things you learn when you step out of your comfort zone...<br />
I’ve now found myself invited to become a Rotary Club Member. I’m honoured, because they do so many great things locally and globally. Making a difference on a large scale.<br />
Just not sure if this is the right timing for me, right now.<br />
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I’m going nuts. Woodford Island Nuts, putting local products in the spotlight.</div>
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Cinnamon roasted macadamias. An outback dukkah and lots of other savoury options are being experimented with. Yes, I love my job.</div>
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Two coffee vans have taken on the maple pecans. Two local health food stores, who had been showing interest before, approached me again after one of my other cafes closed. I will be stocking the granola, curry paste and nuts from next week onwards. Besides, 2Be Nourished will also use it in their kitchen, which is quite the compliment!</div>
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With a good friend now helping me with packaging, it has given me the option to take on more.</div>
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Nerissa is a great cook in her own right and knows her way around a commercial kitchen, we make great partners and it’s a lot more fun having company.</div>
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A weekend of salsa dancing.<br />
Our usual lesson on Thursday and the Ay Pachanga concert and workshop this weekend.<br />
It’s great fun to go on dancing dates with my hubby, I even “splurged” on a new dress. Seeing that I’m rather hopeless in the clothes department, that is quite an accomplishment...<br />
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The second shot had to do, already a week late. The battery ran out and there’s no way I can get them all lined up (and dressed!) again.</div>
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Harvesting the first batch of our wild pumpkins.</div>
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Which got me here...<br />
Teamed up with a local nut grower, who keeps me in fresh pecans and macadamia’s.<br />
My new Autumn granola: chockerblock with pumkin and maple roasted pecans. <br />
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For sale now, customers are raving about it.<br />
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My cave man Tim, in charge of the fire.<br />
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Saturday morning soccer games, finding warmth wherever you can.<br />
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Tim’s team, such focus.<br />
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Alex, burning off some of that wild energy...</div>
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Help-coaching David’s Little Champion program.<br />
It took me awhile to find my feet with it, but if there’s no-one else, you make the most of it.<br />
Nowadays, I’m having heaps of fun and actually look forward to get all these kids having a very fun morning.<br />
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My lone rider.<br />
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Watermelon tastes so much better in a...<br />
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Friday afternoon fun.<br />
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A pancake afterparty.<br />
We still very much enjoy hosting our Full Moon gatherings.<br />
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Loving the hand-me-downs from friends.<br />
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Little brothers rule!<br />
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Focus<br />
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Adding a piano to the madness. Sophie has been doing lessons for the last couple of months, but all of us are keen to learn, adults included. Tim still plays guitar, but gets a real kick of being able to play his practice songs on the piano too. David often plays me make-up songs to keep me company while cooking.<br />
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Even in death, this tree was very stubborn... Thankfully, Sander is too.<br />
This will keep us warm for many more months, Winter is near.<br />
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Loving life.</div>
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We’ve added a new friend to our menagerie. </div>
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Laura is happy with a new friend, even when he doesn’t let her boss him around. She has great respect for the <strike>reach</strike> length of his legs, she has now become the little one. </div>
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Thinking how our little Moony, who passed away in February, would have been able to run straight through his legs!</div>
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This is Chester, who was a kickass racehorse. But after 5 years of running, his heart wasn’t in it anymore and he got <strike>dumped</strike> retired. </div>
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The owners no longer willing to pay agistment, abandoned him and so he became “free to a good home”. Three months after his last race, still filled up with high power racing foods, I saw him and rode him. Even though he was a bit jittery, he didn’t set a foot wrong, willing to work and give things a try. </div>
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After a life of running full speed (straight) ahead, trotting and circle work were difficult for him. Unbalanced as he was, he tried his hardest and stole my heart. </div>
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And so this beautiful, giant, chestnut Thoroughbred came home with me.</div>
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The first two hours in a big paddock saw him running around like a loon. </div>
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Bucking his bum off and doing victory laps of freedom. </div>
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I must admit that I had a moment of: “what did I bring home?!?!?”</div>
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But he has slowed down, getting the power food out of his system, his hooves tidied up and general checked over by a vet. He’s a beautiful gentle soul.</div>
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I’ll be focusing on ground work with him. Getting him into better habits, more flexible and balanced. Starting his re-training at the very beginning, while building a strong foundation to advance from. </div>
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But for now, most of all, letting him just be just a horse...</div>
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This beautiful groomed to the nines horse, that saw most of his life being stabled, got into the dam first chance and covered himself in mud. This big guy loves water, the dam is a great hit.<br />
Chester was the name of the guy that build our dam...<br />
And that’s how he got his “second life name”, Chester the Chestnut.<br />
Only 8 years old, I hope to have many good years with him.Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-34199260147821464162018-04-30T12:48:00.001+10:002018-04-30T12:49:09.855+10:00Autumn Holidays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two weeks of school holidays.</div>
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Making the most of it.</div>
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Slowing down.<br />
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Watching the waves<br />
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Taking a break<br />
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Picnics by the water<br />
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Enjoying honeycombs from our friends hive.<br />
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Horse riding and potlucks with friends</div>
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Sophie had the time of her life!</div>
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Checking out the water dragons by the river.<br />
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BBQ by the beach<br />
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Sharing the rock pools with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobbegong">wobbegongs</a><br />
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Swimming and exploring<br />
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Anzac Marching<br />
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Another successful Full Moon get together<br />
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Almost independent.<br />
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Date night with hubby: salsa dancing!<br />
With a special Cuban birthday dance for one of the dancers.<br />
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Nights are getting nippy, the PJ’s have come out of storage...<br />
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Soccer, soccer, soccer.<br />
It's going great, however I’m still a little frazzled with everything involved.<br />
The kids have stepped up, taking on more responsibility. Sophie loves helping out with fundraising, and odd jobs like handing out balls with our new mascot.<br />
Seeing them play from the distance, Alex is this blond tornado whizzing over the field, David with two hands in the air celebrating his first goals, Tim being a wall in defence.<br />
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And Sophie finding her feet. </div>
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Playing in the backyard and swimming with the waterlily’s.<br />
Even though the swims in the pool are getting very short.<br />
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Enjoying a lazy afternoon at home on this extra pupil free day,<br />
tomorrow is back to school, work and play.Marijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-23037887956149405022018-04-14T19:30:00.000+10:002018-04-14T19:30:26.408+10:00Autumn - Playing in the Back Yard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So many waterholes, to tramp through and to play with the dog.</div>
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It always amuses me, that the kids make sure they’re clothed, but barefooted, when we go out to play. </div>
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Only to be stripping clothes as they go, running free, wild (and nude), climbing, splashing, jumping and exploring.</div>
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This is what I envisioned as a perfect childhood: space to play.</div>
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The dam, for sticks, stones and designs for rafts,<br />
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and swimming.<br />
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Many walking tracks, also doubling up as awesome BMX-tracks.<br />
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Coming up to the end of our forest, our gully, drains into the neighbours dam,<br />
it’s such a serene place, about half a kilometre away from the house,<br />
Just the birds twittering and dragon flies playing around you.<br />
But don’t get tricked, it can get really spooky after prolonged rain, with a river pounding trough.<br />
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So many pretty mushrooms.</div>
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Checking out all the different types of waterlilly’s that are popping up in the dam and waterholes.<br />
Sophie is in love with the blue tinged ones.<br />
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All four kids and the dog are hiding and you wouldn't know if it wasn’t for their giggles.</div>
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Two found!</div>
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Laura has besides her paddock, the whole 20 acres of forest to roam, the girl loves running! </div>
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Same as with the kids, it’s great for her physical development to have space to roam. The rocky, muddy and hilly ground is making her very surefooted. </div>
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Last week we had her first training session, I enlisted the help of a professional trainer to guide me through the process.</div>
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Little miss bossy boots did great, accepting everything we did with her, no fuss. Plastic bags flying, noisy banging, sudden movements, overall touch or a saddle on her back. She was cool as a cucumber.</div>
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Sander is finally getting fit enough that he can make it through the day without naps, his strength is still lacking, but he’s adamant to go back to work tomorrow. </div>
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The kids all had their first soccer games, they had a ball!</div>
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Alex scored his first goal and was high fiving his way around the field. David was a little overwhelmed but did great for most of the session, Sophie a little late (me being frazzeled with other stuff) and Tim did great on a bigger field. </div>
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Maybe more luck next week, although it looks like we have one starting at 8:30, then the other 3 at 9:30, in three different locations! With Maclean being the furthest to travel (60km). </div>
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At least we have everyone signed up, and 95% of the fees sorted, it's been another big week with spending at least 20 hours processing registrations, money and vouchers. </div>
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I’m having great fun with it, things you enjoy give you energy. And I’m making sure there is some fun down time in the mix. Craft mornings with friends are great for the soul...</div>
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This week I'll have to park the soccer stuff and spend my focus and energy on my granola, with the school holidays coming up next week, I have to triple my work load to be able to still meet orders for those weeks. </div>
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Seeing our first koala, on our ridge!<br />
Very shy and I didn’t wanted to spook little fella, so no close-ups. It’s great to see them around!<br />
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The kids all get to choose their chores for the month, they keep surprising me with the jobs they like to take on. Besides their own responsibilities (school bags, cleaning their own rooms, sport bags,...), they all have to pitch in, with jobs that suit their age.<br />
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Our Easter walk, although delayed, was still a great success. The older three are now clued in the fact that you can make magic happen. Leaving little eggs to find for each other.<br />
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David was shaking trees wherever he went, when you do, little chocolate eggs fall out (with some brilliant throwing arches from Tim).<br />
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and other little surprises....<br />
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Pizza Party.<br />
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with a view...<br />
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Midweek walk through the forest to clear the head and cool down in the dam.<br />
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End-of-terminitus is real...</div>
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Spiderwebs in the mist...<br />
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Sander developed a very high fever on his second day home from Thailand. On the 4th day of fevers we made it to the hospital, to rule out malaria (he was in a low risk area) and to to hook him up on some much needed fluids. Blood work came back, it’s off, but luckily clear of malaria.</div>
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Although still very weak, thankfully he’s on the mend now.</div>
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Our first Amongst Friends, Gum Trees and a Full Moon </div>
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It was a lovely evening, a cloudless sky and a beautiful and very bright moon, which gave enough light for the kids to ride their bikes, run around, wrestle on the trampoline and play hide-and-seek in the shadows.</div>
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Working in two teams,<br />
each team gets to hide eggs on one side of the house,<br />
then they swop sides to find them, but get to give each other clues...<br />
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Halfway through the weekend I managed to stake my foot on a branch while Tim clocked out with a mild fever,<br />
Our Easter walk has been postponed until further healing.<br />
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Playing in the sandpit, made with leftover tiling sand...<br />
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Making the most of the last warm days.<br />
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Enjoying the butterflies<br />
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A friendly horse<br />
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Trying to tempt someones appetite,<br />
baking fresh, egg enriched, breadMarijkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13577363925336203716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867725.post-48784958914482303932018-04-02T12:24:00.001+10:002018-04-02T17:52:38.225+10:00Rock climbing in Thailand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tonsai Beach,</div>
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which is awesome for:</div>
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Rock climbing<br />
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Deepwater soling</div>
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Island hopping<br />
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Cliff faces<br />
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and caves<br />
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Krabi</div>
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These guys have been friends for 40 years!</div>
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After 10 days, it’s time to fly to their own hemisphere, home. </div>
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The wives and kids are waiting.</div>
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