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As I carefully searched the forest floor, I was greeted by several kookaburra cackling in the trees above and even a small euro kangaroo – which took off from her resting place only about 10 feet from where I was walking. The roo particularly was of interest as you don’t really see many euro’s in the area. It’s had a more red colour to it’s fur and was more broad in it’s features.
Wandering the bush I felt this sense of excitement and that joy, that comes from looking at beautiful colours and observing the bugs and birds. We were all moving through the lazy pace of the day, enjoying the warmth of the sunshine. There were at least 4 species of orchids out – though I’m having trouble confidently identifying the green hooded orchids. They all look so similar!
I was only away a couple of hours, and when I came home Wesley greeted me with this big beautiful hug. It was so nice!
While I am here I may as well report that camera has since been smashed. The lens is in 4 pieces – and I’m not 100% sure my camera body works – as I’ve not got a lens to attach to it. I had run outside quickly to capture some bees for Mike as he wanted some for a hive. They had swarmed so I ran out quickly – thinking Wesley was safely playing in the house. I came back to my camera on the floor…and the discovered that it was a goner. What a silly mistake! Thankfully wee man was not hurt at all…the body and lens together are very heavy and could have badly injured him. Phew!!
We also had about 500k beetles swarm the farm yesterday. The air was very still and at first all the noise I thought we were being swarmed by the hive I had caught the night before. The trees were dropping leaves, and the sound of the things hitting the house was almost comical. The devastation to the bottlebrush trees is incredible – these little beetles sure know what they want to eat! The were around for about 2 hours – and if I had my camera I’d love to have shown you all the madness.
I’ve been prepping our living room for a bit of a makeover. Over the past three evenings I’ve been taping, touching up the trim and starting to put up a prime coat in the shade that would replace the current medium green shade. I was hoping to brighten up the space and make the room feel more open. I’m now second guessing my colour choice. It’s this really pale yellow – which I thought would make sense with the 50’s style of the house but it’s not quite right. We had previously painted several of the rooms various shades of soft grey and I have a feeling that might be the route we take for the living room too. In a few weeks our shipping container should arrive from NZ so hoping I have finished this before our furniture arrives.
Have you ever painted a wall and immediately regretted the choice of colour?
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