Cane Toads

They are ugly and gross! As the weather is getting warmer these seem to be around more.

We took Lucy out for her nightly walk in the garden last night before settling down for the night, (one or both of us go out with her and wait until she relieves herself as we don't want any surprises in the mornings) and the amount of cane toads in our small back yard was amazing.



Lucy chased after a couple and we were  bit worried that she might try to eat them as some are poisonous. Thankfully its rare to see them in the daylight except when it is raining.

Dog Food

Now that Lucy is with us, I have been making her food as I find tinned dog food is yuk. It smells and also causes smells and more volume at the end result without being too gross.

She has pellets or dry food in the mornings and as a treat, a girl at Pet Barn suggested using a drink bottle when empty and clean/dry to put some pellets in, then giving it to her as a toy. She needs to throw it around to get the pellets out. I just gave her one this morning, she does squash them after she has emptied it, its an easy thing then to pick up and throw into the bin.

I dont have a recipe as such for her food but I cook some rice usually about a cup, then mince and vegetables.

This is some of her food ready for the freezer, one of these bowls is enough for three or four meals. I add a couple of eggs as well and this batch has a tin of tomatoes added too.

Lucy is getting very long when she stretches out.

She gets a chewy bone every two or three days which keeps her amused.

THAT one day in October!

Bathurst day. The day that I do not have a husband, I have a zombie who moves in and is glued to the TV.

I choose today to go out and left early, the race wasn't due to start until 9.30 am but of course there is all the interviews and replays from previous years. When I left hubby/zombie said he wasnt turning the TV on until 9 am.

I had a great day climbing around in bush areas and and have the war wounds to show (got a little close to a vine with thorns) and arrived home mid afternoon.

Washing had been done and folded, floors had been swept and washed. He said that he got sick of the adverts so when they were on he did some housework.

Still 40 laps to go so I kept the H/Z company and listened while he told me about some of the crashes and exciting bits. Oh well, Bathurst only comes once a year and I dont think/I hope he didnt record it as well.

(Bathurst is a city but in October the streets are turned into a race track for V8 cars and they do 161 laps around ordinary roads with speeds up to 300 kph)

Blasted Supermarkets!

Had a busy morning and I needed to go to the library and pick up some groceries. It was almost lunch time when I left home but it wasn't going to take long as after all, I have been shopping there for some time and I know where things are, that I want!

Ha! there is where I got annoyed. Library visit didn't take long, I do use the self serve there , (I refuse to use self serve at supermarkets) checked my books in and did a quick raid, checked out and was on my way home.

Dropped into the small supermarket, its close to home and while not one of the big ones, it has everything that I need. My list, yeah, I actually had a list today! was small mainly fruit and vegetables although Warren had asked me to buy some more cereal for him if I saw it.

Weighed out bananas and apples, picked up a bag of spinach and moved on to the aisle with the cereal which now holds a huge selection of nuts, oh well cereal next week. Some yoghurt mix as I didnt know how many we had at home and we use roughly three packs a fortnight. Nuh, again, they were not in their spot. I asked a young guy who was packing shelves, poor buggar, he looked unsure and then then suggested that i look in the freezer/fridge area. As the mix I wanted is not a fridge item, I didnt think it would be there but I did look there.At lest he did try to help.

The other thing I was looking for was cream cheese as I wanted to make some dips, went to the fridge whee they had been kept, no another reshuffle but I did find some pre made one 50% off so I picked up two and left for home.

I will have to take longer to look for the other things. One of the reasons I shop thee is because I know (or used to know) where things that I regularly buy. I suppose it does mean that shoppers o to different areas of the store.  Ha! a plus by leaving those things in the store was that my weekly bill was lower.

The Best Thing

About working is meal that I haven't cooked almost ready to eat when I walk in the door.

I worked yesterday and i had some pork strips that i was going to turn into a stir fry with lots of vegetables once I got home.

Due to a staff meeting and stopping to get fuel on the way, I was a bit later than usual arriving home.

Opening the garage door, I could smell dinner. As I wasnt home at five Warren had done a raid on the freezer and located some lamb chops.

I had time to play with and then feed Lucy, wash up and then dinner was placed in front of me.

Two small lamb chops, cooked with a mixture of bbq sauce and sweet chilli, (just an idea he was trying, it gave the meat a slight sweet taste, it was good!) plus steamed carrots, mushrooms, broccoli and snow peas. After we had eaten, the plates were cleared and a cup of coffee was brought to me, while the dishwasher was packed and put on.

Plus, I get paid!

Roast Lamb

Yum! Not often I buy a leg of lamb to roast but the last time I bought a pack of meat from Costco (it was $79 for almost 10 kilos of meat) there was a roast under the chops.

Decided to go old style and cook a roast for Sunday dinner (evening meal not lunch!) It was great nice and tender and I cooked roast vegetables to go with it.

A roast is great for a family but for the two of us, its a lot of meat.
Sunday night, hot with vege and gravy.
Monday and Tuesday lunch was sandwiches with gravy, very unusual for us to have sandwiches.
Monday night I minced some meat with spinach and carrots and then topped it with mashed potato, my version of Shepherds pie.

Tuesday I made sausage rolls from the left over Shepherds pie, ready to take to our kayaking picnic on Wednesday and Lucy had the bone.

The font two are the meat ones and the other two rolls had spinach and feta in them none came home from the picnic.

Grand Final Day.

Last day of footy today until next year. Neither of our teams made it this year although Warren's hawks did play two final games but were then put out. We will still sit and watch it pay out.

This year there is a new team who have not won a grand final for many many years, Footscray or now called the Western Bulldogs "the doggies".

The dogs will play the Sydney swans.

We have had the pre game entertainment, with Living End Warren's favourite band followed by Sting.

Umpires are out on the ground and there looks to be no empty seats.Fancy playing in front of close to 100,000 fans.

Time to make the coffee and the popcorn. I think we are going for the doggies just because they havent won for such a long time although we probably know more of Sydney players.