Frequently Asked Questions

So you're a farmers wife, does that mean you can drive a tractor?

Well, we are purchasing a tractor soon, and I am sure I will be able to drive it. I know this because I can drive (ride) a motorbike, a go cart, a tennis racket, and I drive The Hubbster crazy on a daily basis.


You like your bling then, tell us what you have.

I love gold...anything. I only wear gold or white gold and just because I feed the chooks doesn't mean I can't look chic doing it.

You don't have alot of photos of your kids on your blog. What's with that?

I have this "thing" about putting photos online....it's completely irrational and ridiculous because I adore seeing all of your gorgeous offspring....and I mean....this is a blog afterall. But, I am slowly getting better........about it.

So have the kids done anything embarrassing lately?

Ha, well I'm glad you asked. Thank God this happened at home and not in the middle of the supermarket isle like usual. My two oldest got into an authentic, full blown on the floor wrestling/headlocking fight yesterday. Over something trivial but their fuses just blew and it was on.

Miss T and I just stood there with our mouths open, and I thought to myself :-

- Do I have time to grab the video camera....this would look great on Youtube (I wouldn't really put it on Youtube...really).

- Who's winning......

- They are really going to hurt each other.

- I don't know whether to feel horrified or laugh.....

- Give me a panadol. I feel a headache coming on.

They do get on...mostly....and that's the first time they have fought like that. There was tears all round then, and they made up with a hug before bed.

If you had to kiss another woman, who would it be and why?

What the hell is this, my blog is squeaky clean... But if you really want to know, I suppose it would be Drew Barrymore. I adore her, platonically speaking of course. She is just so down to earth, and funny and talented. She would make an awesome best friend.

Anyway, you already know my heart belongs to:-


And if you missed it:-

Ah what the hell, once more...

School is back

Shoes are polished.

School bags are ready.

Lunchboxes are packed with healthy goodies.

The local stationery and book shop is in the back of my truck.

Everyone is smiling and happy....especially me! The new school year has begun!

Happy Australia Day!

Proud to be an aussie on Australia Day.

The bed throwing incident

My kids love to bounce - off walls mostly, but they really love to use their beds as trampolines and jump, jump and jump. They are not allowed to do this for obvious reasons..beds are expensive these days, and there's the chance they could hurt themselves....

So Miss T jumped a bit too much on her bed recently and broke it. They all have single ensembles which have the top mattress on top of the bottom mattress which is on wheels. She broke all the wood on the bottom section so her top mattress just sagged in the middle.

The Hubbster did the right thing and took two hours to repair it with strict instructions and warnings not to jump on the beds again. You know what happens next, don't you?

The kids were relaxing (trashing) the bedroom today, and we hear a loud crunch. The conversation went like this:-

Miss D: Uh oh, mum, dad, Miss T has broken her bed..again

The Hubbster: if she's broken her bed I'm throwing it down the paddock (family injoke, alot of things around here get thrown down the paddock, we have 75 acres so we have the room)

The Hubbster thus goes into the bedroom and carries out the bottom, now broken section of Miss T's bed, followed by the howling girl in question and he then proceeds to wildly throwthebeddownthepaddock.

I wish I had taken a photo of thus bed with a now broken wheel but the mood wasn't good. It may have looked something like this -


an arty shot of a bed in the middle of the country looking very romantic. Instead ours looked like a kids broken bed surrounded by long grass, trees and a wire fence.

I convinced The Hubbster to help retrieve the bed, and now it sits proudly in my already overcrowded loungeroom.

Miss T will now be sleeping on her mattress on the floor for a week, while she learns how to appreciate her things and not wreck and destroy anything else.

Just wanted to add that the little devil (Miss T) just said to me:- Mumma, I don't want that bit of the bed anymore, I just want the mattress on the floor. Grrrrr.

A bit random

I have a bit to get through today so stay with me people! First of all, thank you to Brandy over at Stitchblade Designs who resized my blog header overnight to fit in with my new 3 column blog. I have been wanting to have a change for a while and was never bold enough to follow the instructions on how to fit 3 columns in but I did it and I love it. I need to adjust the margins a bit, but overall -What do you think??

I also wanted to send a shout out to you, my 52 beloved, faithful followers. I never thought so many people would think I was talking anything but shit, but there you go. I really really appreciate you being part of my blog world..

I managed to remove the permanent marker from Miss T's face, with a bit of scrubbing and yelling (both of us), so her face is back to being gorgeous and unflawed.

I have sold 10 baby guinea fowl to 2 good homes and I made $82.00, so I am thrilled about that. We let the mumma keep 4 babies....now we have one more grown up missing so we are expecting our 3rd batch of guineas any day.

School goes back next week. For some reason I thought we still had another full week of holidays so now I am behind with getting their school things organised and I have a sore throat and feel like crap so it will be a chore to get it all done.

Speaking of school stuff, you will remember my crazy, unhinged recent posts about my do it yourself project, and how I deleted it all including the photos etc etc. Well, my newest best friends, Jarod and Liz managed to save my post, so here it is again, in all it's glory. I bet you are super impressed about this and can't contain your excitement any longer.

"So Christmas and New Year are over. The decorations are put away and it's about time to start thinking about getting the kids back to school.

This means books. School books. Covering these books. I don't know about mums in America, but here in Oz, most mums cover the school books with contact. With a range of themes available (think anything from Barbie to Ben 10 to Winnie the Pooh) it's the thing to do.

Well, I've had enough. Usually I sit myself down with the tv on, a glass (bottle) of wine, the books and the dreaded contact. And I say dreaded because it is an absolute pain in the butt to work with. It's sticky, and it sticks to your fingers and anything else that gets in its way. It bubbles up, so it looks untidy by the 20th book, because by then, you don't give a damn how good the book looks, you just want this hell to be over.

Now that I am not drinking (day 22 thanks very much) I decided not to put myself through this agony and come up with something different. Easy. Stressfree. Manageable. So I present to you a step by step guide to covering school books without feeling like sticking needles in your eyes through the stress of using fucking contact.

I don't even think I will write instructions here, as the photos speak for themselves and I have saved some of my sanity (by the way, I have finished the books in a clear contact which is not the same as the themed annoying contact). Note the pile of uncovered books in the corner *sigh*."

Yes, I agree. It's lost some of it's oomph! and I haven't even photos to back up the project.

I'm floggin a dead horse here. Goodnight.

Hurry up school

Permanent marker...anyone???

(Still trying to get my new 3 column layout in order, and I know the header looks like crap, but I'm onto it.....)

Stupid blog

Okay so my sick blog was caused by my do it yourself post, that apparently messed up the whole show. So what do I do? Delete the post, and your fabulous comments WITHOUT saving it all. Hmmm blonde moment possibly??

So now I will repost in a very simple, cut to the chase format because I can't remember what I posted yesterday.....

- do it yourself book covering without the stress
- without using sticking, annoying contact
- save your sanity
-this post sucks

Oh, you'll never guess what??? I deleted all the photos from my camera yesterday so I could take some pics of some eagles...that never landed. So I don't even have the pics to prove my do it yourself!!

I'm giving up. Forget I even mentioned the entire thing and we'll start afresh tommorrow.

Sick blog

I woke this morning to find my blog all messed up. See, the usual right hand sidebar is now at the bottom of the page. WTF. Can anyone help me get my sidebar back where it rightfully belongs?

I have checked my blog layout and all is well there......I wonder is there a html code problem somewhere...HELP!!

Meh, I'll post it tommorrow

Okay I have a great "do it yourself" story ready to post tommorrow. I'm too tired to load the pics tonight, but look out for it. It's truly riveting and you could be amazed (well possibly interested anyway).

Back to Reality

Mum went home today. I hate it when we have to say goodbye. We always get teary and it's awful, and depressing afterwards.

But we appreciate that she can visit, even though it's only for a week at a time. She's such a hard worker, she doesn't stop. She was supposed to be here relaxing and taking a break, but we woke on her last morning to this:-


She had finished all of my washing, that had been literally overflowing from these baskets for weeks as I struggled with a family who go through more costume changes than an awards ceromony presenter. In fact my 7 year old son is the worst, he would change his clothes at least 3 times a day, and matey that's gonna stop in 2010! Just warning you now if you read this. Which he won't, sorry I digress and ramble.....

Anyway, she did all of my washing, we shopped, did lunch with the kids, drove around the property, and settled on the couch every night with our tv, our chocolate and our magazines.

School goes back in two weeks time. So after the big Christmas rush it's now time for the big Back To School Rush, commonly known as the Let's Give The Retailers Some More Of The Money We Don't Have Rush. It's very expensive to send kids to school these days. I have three so its three times everything, mostly. New school bags, lunchboxes, textbooks and stationery, as well as uniforms for Miss T who will be starting Prep this year.

Once the kids are back at school and settled, I will be officially starting my part time job, and we can really get stuck into the house and get things moving on that front. The order of jobs to be done is:-

Oil the deck

Paint the house exterior

Line the verandah soffits

Then either start on the electrical and plumbing rough in OR

Build the exterior stairs and verandah railings.

Then we will be about 3/8 closer to moving in. So you see, we still have SO much to do before even considering living there, and I am getting antsy and impatient but I just have to wait. It's hard living in a crappy shed with our house right next door.

The guinea babies are doing well, except for the stiff one on the bottom of the cage this morning. She's obviously having a bad day!!

I don't really know what happened to this one, she was acting sick and lethargic yesterday and was gone this morning. So we have 14 babies, that I am trying to sell, I'll keep half and sell the rest.

I still haven't had any alcohol so I'm sticking to my game plan. Instead, I'm consuming disgusting amounts of cadburys chocolate, with the odd Tim Tam thrown in. Which defeats the purpose of getting fit and healthy and losing those stubborn 5 kilos. Like all things, I'll just wait til the kids go back to school and then I'll really start. That's what I'm telling myself anyway!

Yay for some help!

QUICK! Gotta clean. Mothers coming.......


Of course, this is what I look like every time I do shedwork.....

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