Wisteria

 My walks with Lucy these days is down the hill and cross over at the shops then we go from there, our walks are named so she knows where we are going. A couple of days ago, heading down to the shops, she decides that she wanted to go down a laneway. 

Her way of indication that, she heads that way and plants her feet squarely, sometimes she is allowed to go her way, it's easy and we do get to the destination so I let her take me that way.

We have started to come home that way as the top laneway had three little dogs on one side and two in the other and if they are all outside, there's a lot of barking. 

So this day, Lucy gets her way and we go down the laneway. To my surprise, there is a Wisteria vine starting to come into flower.

Beautiful clear blue skies this morning.

A sewing project

 A tic tac toe game or noughts and crosses. We were discussing at crocheting that our last term we will make toys for Christmas. One of the women made a small noughts and crosses, it fitted in her hand. Two pieces sewn together with an opening and she was making circles in two different colours. 

She is also a quilter and said that it could be made in fabric.

I have always kept bigger pieces of left over fabric to use in smaller project so I made this the next afternoon. Five rounds of green and five of pink.

I have made two more, each a bit smaller. The fabric is quicker but I will do the circles in crochet.

The second one I did today and it's a plain piece of fabric and I have sewn ribbon to make it into squares.  

Burpengary CREEC

 Just down the road from us and there was an adventure lab. We needed one cache on that day to finish our year to get a cache on each date.

Took Lucy as it was a 1,5bwalk around. Go to drive in and notices saying no dogs. I ventured in toget the two around the admin buildings.

Then I met them at the entrance as there is a walkway around the whole thing.

Lucy had a couple of friends, apparently there was no hesitation with the chooks coming over.

 Got two caches along this path, Warren thought it would be a good time to sit down to sign it.

Turtles

 I bought a pattern online for a set of turtles. It is a toy as well as a game. I made the turtle and also made a ladybug by adjusting the pattern slightly. 

It was suggested at crocheting group that we each bring something that we have done to show and also teach the others to do. I took the second week and shared the pattern of the turtle. 

Turtle and ladybug together. Inside are ten smaller one with a coloured basé.

Ladybug with baby one. The game is to match the colours by turning them up, there a set of two for each colours. One of the ladies made eighteen little ones and made the top shell a little larger so they would fit in. The top shell is stitched around leaving a gap which is then secured with a loop and button.

Proston

 We spent two nights at Proston golf club. Showers and toilets were available but no power for a donation. Most people had said they had donated $10 a night which we though was fair enough and we did the same.

On Friday nights they offer a meal at the club rooms all staffed by volunteers we booked in for that. 

Boy oh boy what a meal, the plates were piled high and none of us could eat it all. Each of the three meals cost under $20.

Parkrun on Saturday morning.

Weather's at the park

And of course a windmill.

Local coffee shop opened across the road at 8am, ready for the trade after parkrun

Kingaroy

 The peanut capital of Australia. 

We stayed here a few years ago and we did a few tours around town. One was visiting a biscuit making factory which is operated by people who have some mental issues. 

There was an overseer and about eight workers who each had their own particular job to do. It was good to see and also interesting to get an insight how these kids worked together. 

This time however we were just passing through and stopped for a short break.

Dartmore

 On our way back to Melbourne we stopped at Dartmore. There was a heap of wooden figures.

These were Aussie animals on the posts going over a bridge.

All done by the same guy. Along the main street in front of the hall and service station were military scenes of people. One was different and it was a rifle upside down with a hat on top. The question we needed to answer was what did it mean. It was for a fallen identified soldier, I didn't know about the identified but.