Saturday 27th June 2009
It's my birthday!!!
I'm back home again after spending a few days helping my sister and her family pack up their house and farm. It was lots of work!! Firstly I packed up all my sister's things in her craft hut. She loves to sew and make things. I love looking at her quilts that she makes. I helped load all of the garden statues into the back of a truck. And then I had the fun job of packing all of the glasses and coffee mugs etc This meant using lots on newspaper and so I ended up with very black hands!!!
On Thursday, 2 very big trucks came to load up some of the farm machinery. One of the trucks had a crane that lifted the things onto the back of the truck. It was very sad watching the trucks drive away from the farm with all of the things. One of the big trucks, a smaller truck and 2 utes lift on Thursday afternoon to go to the new farm. The other big truck, a smaller truck which my brother was driving and my parents in their 4WD with some pot plants and my sister and I in her 4WD with some of her craft things and all of their hanging clothes left very early on Friday morning. It was a long drive to their new farm. it took about 3 hours. The truck that my brother was driving looked funny because it had a pot plant stand right up on top of the load with its legs sticking up in the air.
Their new farm is between Roma and Injune. You will have to look at a map! Their letter box is 11 kms from the house. My sister said that she will not be walking to collect the mail. The mail gets delivered twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday. The house is on a hill in the middle of the property. It was quite cold there. It started to rain when we were there so we had to get everything unloaded quickly because the road is not a wet weather road and the trucks wanted to get back out. My brother in law took my parents and I for a drive around some of the farm. There are many, many kangaroos on their property. We saw a lot even in the daytime!! Because it was raining we then had to drive a longer way back. When we got back to my sister's old farm it had rained there too and the road was very boggy. I had to get my car (well Mr K's car really) out. Now that was fun!!! I did get it out but nearly got bogged twice!!!! We all went out for dinner in town then. My family wanted to celebrate my birthday.
Today I drove back home to be with Mr K and Felicia for my birthday. My brother and dad had to help me wash LOTS of mud out of my wheels before I could leave. Felicia just got home from work and gave me 3 presents for my birthday; a scarf, a necklace to match my bracelet that she bought me for Mother's Day and some very special chai tea -Mmmm!!! and we ate birthday cup cakes - Yum!!!!
Now that I am home again, I'm missing Simba. He is staying with my mum and dad while we are away. He has 2 other King Charles and a Terrier to play with there and he was having so much fun. He doesn't seem to mind wearing his nice warm coat each night. At my sister's house she had a Tibetan dog that was about to have puppies. Her name is Furby. She is so fluffy and cute and fat with babies!!! I was hoping that the puppies would be born while I was there but they weren't.
I hope that you enjoy your holidays and do lots of extra special things for your parents!!!
Mrs K xx
