Lilly in the garden

Yesterday I took a pic of this lilly as I thought it would be fully out in another few hours.

This was this morning

Lunchtime

From the front, dont know how long it will last out but it is a beauty.

Arrrr, Coffee!

Let me introduce my breakfast this morning.

My own cuppacino made at home and not even by me.
Love my coffee and usually I have it wet and black. Warren says i have about eight grajns of instant coffee in a cup filled with water. Its more like a quarter of a teaspoon.

A couple of months ago we decided to buy a coffee maker, we were in the market to buy a new dishwasher so took the opportunity to look at coffee makers. Oh my goodness, so much choice and they all seemed to done different things. We left with the dishwasher, that didnt take long at all but no coffee maker.

Later that day we went to Costco to fill the car with fuel, saving thirteen cents a litre that day, we decided to see what they had in the way of coffee makers. We bought the one in the picture. They only had two, the other one was $3000 plus, that wasnt happening.

I find jt too strong to have without milk and I did try having the second cup from one capsule and thats not too bad.  Then Warren perfected cappuccino. Yum! As I have sugar and milk in it, frothed by the machine, I limit my intake to no more than two a week, then I really enjoy it. Mind you, I have no idea how to make one!

Todays wildlife

We had lunch at a seaside bakery then walked along a beach path. Heard a noise and thought some one was gardening. It was gardening being done but not a person.

It was a bush turkey and he was raking up the dead leaves to make a mould for his nest. I say he as I think it is the males who prepare the nest.

He did stop when I took the photo but just turned the other way and keeping raking. Leaves were being scattered about two metres away. A completed mound can be as high as a metre.

A weekend adventure

Last weekend Sheridan and I went to see a piece of local history that was less than 30 minutes from home. I had no idea that it was there but during war years there was a large area with several buildings using radio transmission.

The huts that we saw are domed shaped and they reminded me of Nissan huts that featured on many military bases and housed refugees and migrants were they first came to Australia.

They looked like they were built from wood but on closer inspection, they are cement, the woods were used to pour the cement into and are about six inches thick.

This photo was taken at the entrance of one of the domes. Dont know how many people would have worked there, its possible that personnel were housed in tents as the buildings that are there were work station with trenches through the floor for cables.

Outside were the iron structures that were bases for the aerials. 

The last building housed the generator which ran on diesel. The fuel had to be brought in by truck in 44 gallon drums. We got there by driving on a bitumen three lane highway then a smaller bitumen road then a well formed gravel road for the last couple of kms. Of course back then, the roads were not so well formed and neither were rhe bridges. Four bridges the trucks had to negotiate before being about to deliver their fuel. The bridges werent built for trucks let alone trucks laden with 44 gallon drum of fuel. At each bridge, the drums had to be unloaded and rolled across the bridge then reloaded.

Very interesting to wander around and learn some history but written this, I realise how much I didnt find out.

Halloween

Its getting closer and I have bought some lollies for door callers. The last couples of years there hasnt been many kids around but just never know.

We were out at a small country town on the weekend and saw a house dressed for halloween.

The people had gone to a lot of trouble with signs and spiders, skeltons and witches.

Power outages

The other night I couldnt sleep and Warren woke up as well so what to do, have a midnight feast, well coffee and toast at least.

I went to the kitchen and put on the jug, grabbed the toaster and bread from the freezer and plugged the toaster in, suddenly blackness! Warren went outside to the fusebox and we started again. I waited til the jug had flipped off before turning the toaster on, nah, same again.

Looked like te toaster had sh... itself as nothing else was on except a light. Warren disappeared outside again and brought in the toaster from the caravan. All good, coffee and toast and read our books before going back to sleep.

Yesterday however was very different with a power outage, we were expecting rain, possible storms around 2.30, well, the prediction was only about 20 minutes later. First loud clap and we had no power, storm and rain lasted for about an hour. It was a bit dark inside but could still see and we put on our new camping lantern just in case. It threw enough light to get around.

Power and everything was restored about 5pm, just for us to see a bit of the news about flooding in Toowoomba and hail down south and it all went black again. Thinking about get out candles and stuff and back on it came and then stayed on.

Hopefully some of the rains has got out west where they really need it.

A walk in the black forest!

Not really but this tree with its exposed roots caught my eye.

It was on a rainforest walk we did, very small park with a few paths around probably only about 300 metres all up. It was nice and shaded though, we thought we would walk off our scones jam and cream but that little walk wasnt going to do it but we did try.