Ducks Patch: 2025

Yellow-Footed Antechinus in the backyard.

It has been about 3 years since we found out we have Yellow-Footed Antechinus in the backyard, but I have never been able to get photo's of them. While I finally got one.

We have two pairs living under the Ferns in the Backyard.

Glad to see them ocassionily.

Jennifer is another year older and bolder.

Jennifer had her Birthday again, it's strange how they keep popping up.

She got winter Scraf and dinner ut at Sky High ,

The scraf was the better one.

This is the one the them being modeled by Nara.

Great view but the food was not upto the high price.

But what a view.

Cold Winters Morning over Silvan.

Each morning I take Nara out for walk.

Short walk in winter

But this mornign the view was over the moon.

Gemma down Sick with Covid.

Gemma-ann went down with Covid, so she asked us to take care of Luna.

So was to be with us for 11 Days...

But she is Nara's best dog friend...

Finially got in the laast of tree down.

Finally after almost a year, I got the tree cleaned.

Sliced it ready for firewood.

Still have the root ball to think about but now I can fix the wall.

Grandchildern can be cute

I started to play with AI and found this, One taken with me and evelyn when we were out for walk.

meanwhile Magnus got his new Winter coat from Grandma. He looks so cute in it.

Winter is Here, and it's cold.

Home is normally about 3-6 degrees below what the city is.

During summer, we enjoy it.

During Winter, and the fire is light early, just to keep home warm.

Winter Feeding

During Winter we put seeds out for the birds, especialy when it been raining.

yesterday it was the King Parrots,

followed by the Crimson Parrots, and then the

Cockatoo's come last.

At night the Possums clean out the dish.

Getting old.

For my 62 Birthday we decided to go to a Restuarant

It was a evening of fine food and good company.

Great evening.

Winter Sunsets

During the Winter the Sunsets can be great to look at, maybe it's because

they appear earlier int he evening.

This what we see from the main Window.

Yaka Tree Blooming

The Local Yaka's have had a dry autumn

This has meant that they flower.

This is the result.

Bonfire with the Primary Kids

The Primary Kids came over for Activity.

They had to learn how to do a fire.

So we got them to setup a Bonfire.

They enjoyed the fire, and give burnt Marshmallows to Nara.

Nara Turns 4

It's Strange how for year we went with a dog.

And then we got Nara. she has become and essential members of the family

Well she has now turned 4 and can now sit up onthe couch with mum and dad.

New Bikes

I remember never having a bike until I was about 10 years old.

I didn't want my Grandchildern to have that, so we got them Bikes.

So we got the Bikes.

Evenlyn was very keen to learn, and Grandma was right there to help.

Magnus on the other hand, wasn't so keen.

So in the end

Evelyn was riding well within a day.

Baking with the Kids

Gemma had set up some activities for the Kids.

She was happy and so were the kids, and the Cup Cakes weren't bad either.

Road trip to Kandos

Ok Choose a town int he middle of nowhere and you get close to Kandos.

For some reason to see a junk shop, Lissa wanted to go.

So we went.

Bird watching with Gemma and Evelyn

I love going bird watching. so we went to Putta Bukka in Mudgee.

Where we got see some common birds, nothing exciting and with a Loud mouth grandchild. nothing stuck around close.

Day out with the kids

Monday, Ice cream withe Granddad and a road trip to Hill End. The kids of cause fell asleep, So we enjoyed the Trip,

we slowed down to see one oday we would be back. And we continued driving to Sofala, here we had Chips and drick with Kids.

whole trip took about 3 hours. But the kids got plenty of sleep. Oh well Next time.

But as we went home from Bunnings, we saw the smoke.

When we got home the Emergency Alerts told us

that their was a grass fire in Shffield Road

During the day the Fire Boys worked and bringing it under control.

Late in the evening, the wind changed and Suddenly it was

A serious Bushfire

The fire could be seen fromt he house., SO we were up for most of the night, monitring the channels and being alert. the 72 Hours packs came ou, in case we needed leave quickly.

Luckily for us, firies were able to bring it under control. And the rain arrived early

and by mid morning it was declared out and closed.

From burkes Lookout, you could see the damage.

Way to Close

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