Eat Australia

bit of a summary

Yes, we've made it to summer without a post on this blog. I'd apologise but it's only myself who really suffers, as I'm trying to keep this for future reference, so I shall forgive myself for being busy and not having dialup, and go on. We now have broadband, you see, so I can write my posts at home (on the Mac, using MarsEdit, an offline blogpost editor) and upload them nice and quickly. (Insofar as NextG uploads quickly, which it doesn't; but at least I have _something_. We are very pleased!). So, a summary of what's happened over the last few months:

• We got pups :)
• We got broadband :}
• We got heat - it turned up just after Xmas, after I was starting to wonder whether it was going to be cold and drizzly for the whole summer.
• We got food in the garden and it's not all dead!!
• We've had quite a lot of rain!

Dreaming of a dam ...

... this dam.  Doesn't it look all brown and cool and unimaginably inviting on this hot Canberra day?  (32C.  That's hot even by my standards.  Esp. for October).

The contract for said dam (and the 47ha on which it lives, plus the rather nice house 5mins away) is in the post winging its way back to me for exchanging on Monday.  I'll have to settle for dreaming for the moment.

Many people are very excited by the possibilities of knowing someone with a dam (and 47ha etc).  At lunch today, some of the excited people and I settled on a pool pony as an acceptable housewarming present that compromises between what I _want_ (ie a horse) and what I can _afford_ (ie not a horse). Not to mention I just love the idea of having shiny plastic clean sparkly toys on a sort of dull brown dam :).

C. then wanted reassurance that yabbies won't nibble her toes. I can't promise that but I can bouillabaisse anything that hangs on for longer than 5mins - that should be ok, right??  (Yes, yes, I KNOW bouillabaisse is not a verb, but an extremely delicious French seafood soup thing.  Into which yabbies would most definitely fit; well, in a freshwater-crustaceans-food sort of a way).