a busy start to the long weekend

 Its that time of year again, the Carnivale, lots of music, food, arts and crafts, kids all decked out in costumes, G with the girl guides spraying peoples hair all sorts of wild colours to raise money for the girl guides its their biggest fundraiser...and did I mention food all sorts of wonderful smells filling the air.....

 G all bright and happy with his costume

 the guides spraying hair

 and new arrivals, 3 guinea pigs born last night, so sweet and soft.....

 got their mums colouring

 sunny smiles from M as she looks through her favourite window so she can see the guinea pigs

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 tricky to get a picture in focus when they're bouncing around so fast!

a bit of colour and fun

Ooops I thought these pics where from our last trip to the indoor ball centre, but they where from the school holidays, anyway I'll leave them for you to see, and find the latest ones (where M is more adventurous!)

A look around the garden

Armed with a new batteries in the camera and M sleeping for a while I stalked a few insects around the veggie patch, those bees are camera shy and to get a few decent pics was quite an achievement. The garden is very damp still from the deluge of rain over the last week, the good side is that its made everything a vibrant shade of green or red and that's good to see as we start our way into autumn.....

 

 pommegranites ripening

 even though the artichokes are going over they still look impressive

 tricky little bees on the basil flowers they adore the basil, I am saving the seed and will plant heaps of basil through the garden to attract the bees next year

 lovely reds of the ruby chard

 

 a delicious cabbage ready for picking at the weekend, more impressive colours

 a flowering leek plant with a little creepy crawly, think its a shield bug, kids love to collect these bugs

 ready for the fire

 

 this is an everlasting spinach that is supposed to be tasty, we haven't had much leaf on it this year so hope to get it through the winter so we can taste it next spring

parsley, the flat leaf variety

 agapanthus seeds

 the gorgeous pink berries from the lillipilli tree, apparantly edible but not game to try bush tucker just yet

Fun with the army vehicles

In complete and utter happiness is little Gg as he wanders around talking to the soldiers at the Army family welcome day here in Wodonga (Gc was attending a guide stand at the event)

 And here is Gg recieving his 'Good Choice Guru' award at school, what a star, well done!!