Dragon's Lair

 What a great name for a cache. It was an oldie too and near a railway tunnel. 

Apparently there used to be a school too.

Rain!

 Very wet and woolly weekend.  The rain started on Friday and we got a little wet while we were at the event. It rained at Parkrun but stopped just before and nothing during the run. Pies at Dayboro for lunch and a child hand over, no rain there.

It was being saved for overnight and Sunday.

I took Lucy for a quick walk with an umbrella as we were out for the rest of the day. I needed the umbrella.

This was one of the paths through the houses near home, we don't usually take that one but Lucy decided that she wanted a drink, it is covered with water for at least half way.

The drain is running too.

 

 

Granite falls

 Friday Sheridan collected me and with another caches Chamad we slowly made our way to Toowoomba for an event. Chamad had offered to climb trees and I think the ladder came out four times. Sheridan keeps a fold out ladder in her boot.

We went to a set of water falls with granite rocks on either side, had to view and answer some questions about them. The walk down was four steps then a platform of about two metres and then down again. It had started raining just as we got there but it was very pleasant.

Sheridan gave me the umbrella and she had a hat.

Mountain climbing

 I went out early Sunday morning with my daughter. We headed north.

We did an adventure lab which included getting some information from information boards. It was detained to be a hot day 36 degrees.

At one place, the foot of a mountain, I was amazed to see people setting off to walk up the mountain. We were there for five minutes and that was hot enough at 9.30am. 

We were back home by 12 noon in the cool thank goodness. I didn't hear about any rescues which was good.

Total of caches were Sheridan 13 and us 8, we had got some of them before that Sheri hadn't. All in all a good day.

Heidi the horse

 I finished Heidi on Saturday and yesterday I put her together. She is not the one that I started as to me, she is a bit of a cartoon type horse. 

Who ever sees a horse sitting like that?

Anyway she is finished and ready to be wrapped for Christmas. She is destined for Jordan's girlfriend who loves anything horses. She has two of her own and a foal that was born about this time last year. 

Heidi is the last of our gifts to organize, which seems early but we always have our family Christmas a couple of weeks beforehand due to other family commitments.

A Snowman

 I was having trouble with the horse I was making, it's chocolate brown and hard to see at night when I do most of my crocheting, so I went to a snowman.

It only took a couple of nights and then I had to stitch it together.

I redid the hat twice and I think it looks more like a bowler hat than the black straw that it is supposed to be. 

I will have a Secret Santa from a website that I am involved with, so when I get the person's details, Mr Snowman will be going in the post.

Nanowrimo

 Yep November is over and so is Nanowrimo. I didn't have an idea this year that I thought would be suitable for 50000 plus words, had lots of ideas but nothing that had legs. On the first day of November with a blank screen in front of me, I decided to write a series of short stories and tried different genres. 

I even attempted a mystery, not sure that it's much good but as that is mainly what I read, I should be able to write one.

Anyway, this year there was no fanfare when finished, I had got to a particular part in what I was writing and updated my word count, which was at 50,035 and the website told me I was finished and then a congratulatory email came in. 

In previous years, everything had to be downloaded to their website to be validated and often their word count was a little different to mine.

I think I wrote about 23 or 24 short stories, a couple were about 5000 words or more. I did have an extra piece to add to the last story but getting to the magic amount and they tell me I am done makes me wonder about adding it or leaving as it is. Hence I have not even looked at it since the magic 50035 came up.