That Scary Place

Off to Maryborough for the markets and art shop this morning.

Our first stop was breakfast.

I purchased $50 worth of healthy treats for Harley including dried sardines and other fish products, dried meaty sticks of duck, lamb, kangaroo, beef, crocodile and chicken. I also got some GF donuts, a top for me, snow peas, a very special paint brush, 3 sea shells, and some thick but light boards to protect my art when on display.

I put my lotto on and found some well priced tracky daks for Adoring Husband as well as the latest NSW State of Origin hoody.  My trusty butcher cut up a big marrow bone and a neck bone for me to freeze for Harley.

We also visited Lincraft to get some art pens but I controlled myself well.

Even though we were home before 2pm, it was a long day and we were buggered. We’d walked a fair distance carrying a load each.

I unpacked our goodies and made a late lunch for everyone before putting my feet up to watched what was left of my game shows.

Before I cooked dinner, I took Harley out for a play around the pool.

We had crispy skin chicken with vegetables, including sweet potato from our garden! I par boiled chunks of it and then lightly fried it. 

My beloved Broncos lost to Penrith tonight - a tough game without their captain.

Now it’s time to sleep. I’m hoping to relax with some art tomorrow.

Nite all.

Fully Productive

I cooked breakfast for the gang.

Harley and I walked to the Lions Park for our catch up with the girls.

He met Salty the Bedlington Terrier and was very well behaved.

He’s not quite walking on a loose leash, but he’s not pulling me as if he’s taking ME for a walk. He didn’t try to chase cars today either!

We stayed for a bit over an hour and left them to continue without us - for another 3 hours!

Harley was rewarded with some play around the pool before I gave him his daily bone to chew on and I decided to bake some apple muffins.

Once I got them in the oven, I chopped up the vegetables for Harley’s weekly dinners. I boiled pumpkin, carrot, sweet potato, broccoli, beans and celery. I mixed it with, 3 raw eggs + shells, coconut oil, hemp seeds and 3 kgs of raw beef mince. It made 14 meals for him.

When the muffins were ready, I decided to make some custard to pour over mine. There’s nothing better than hot apple and custard. Yum!

Adoring Husband arrived home from collecting this weeks FROG box, so I unpacked our order and put all of the goodies away.

I sat with BGWLBH and we enjoyed a cup of herbal tea with our warm muffins.

By then it was 1pm and I was in need of putting my feet up for some relaxation so I joined AH in the lounge room.

I watched my quiz shows, had my afternoon play with Harley and cooked some laksa chicken for dinner.

We played trivia for 90 minutes before the new quiz show - The 1% Club - came on.

It’s been a big day and I think I’ll sleep well tonight.

Nite all.

Health Check

"A Lady asked an old street vendor: "How much do you sell your eggs for?" The old man replied "0.50¢ an egg, madam.” The Lady responde, “I'll take 6 eggs for $2.00 or I'm leaving.” The old salesman replied, “Buy them at the price you want, Madam. This is a good start for me because I haven't sold a single egg today and I need this to live.”

She bought her eggs at a bargain price and left with the feeling that she had won. She got into her fancy car and went to a fancy restaurant with her friend. She and her friend ordered what they wanted. They ate a little and left a lot of what they had asked for. So they paid the bill, which was $150. The ladies gave $200 and told the fancy restaurant owner to keep the change as a tip.

This story might seem quite normal to the owner of the fancy restaurant, but very unfair to the egg seller. The question it raises is; 

Why do we always need to show that we have power when we buy from the needy? 

And why are we generous to those who don't even need our generosity?

We once read somewhere that a father used to buy goods from poor people at a high price, even though he didn't need the things. Sometimes he paid more for them. His children were amazed. One day they asked him "why are you doing this dad?" The father replied: "It's charity wrapped in dignity.”

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It was an interesting trip into The Bay this morning with Harley in the back seat trying to chase all the cars driving in the opposite direction!

Crazy dog.

He kept stepping on the seat belt connector and accidentally undoing his strap so we had to stop and reconnect it.

He snorted all over the back window so you can barely see out of it now.

He was well behaved for Dr Amanda but she couldn’t find his microchip with the scanner and we have booked him in to be desexed next Monday.

That means no swimming in the pool for a week and it means wearing a cone on his neck for a week. This should be interesting.

We were home by 11am and a swim in the pool for Harley was a reward for doing so well.

Nothing else got done for the rest of the day.

BGWLBH arrived home at lunch time and brought in two giant sweet potatoes from the garden. They will be on the menu tomorrow night!

We had easy tacos for dinner.

Tomorrow morning, I’m going to duck down to the Lions Park to see my art girls. Harley will enjoy the walk.

For now, it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Humping Harley

Ahhh the sweet memories …

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The memories are not sweet at all and every one of those commentators, journalists, news readers and people in power should be ashamed of themselves.

Harley and I had a long walk this morning and right at the end we got caught in the rain. When the rain stopped we spent 20 minutes playing fetch around the pool.

BGWLBH made a delicious pumpkin soup which we savoured for lunch.

I did some art and watched some telly.

We’ve had quite a bit of rain today and it was too wet for our afternoon play around the pool. Harley was not happy.

We are off to the vet tomorrow to introduce Harley to Dr Amanda and to organise desexing. By law Harley needs to be desexed. He’s been humping his bed! It’s time!

It’s also time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

Eurovision No 1

I haven’t watched all of it, but this is the first time that I’ve seen a good portion of Eurovision.

Gotta say I’m not a fan.

Like Hollywood, it’s just another event to stroke massive egos and in my opinion, some of the so-called ‘talent’ are missing quite a bit of ‘talent’.

There is obviously a truckload of money tossed in the mix that could have been better spent on more worthy causes.

Apparently, Eurovision has a bigger global audience than the Academy Awards!

Harley and I had a big 45 minute walk today and he was well behaved, although still wanting to chase cars. I need to explain to him that cars are not cattle or sheep and he doesn’t have to round them up!

We returned home from the walk and played around the pool for another 20 minutes and Harley dived into the pool to cool down.

BGWLBH did lots more art today but I only have a couple of pics …

I spent some more time on mine too. Still lots more to do though.

I received phone calls from Vegan Chickie and Number One Son for Mothers Day and a private message from Bubbles later today. It was lovely to see Chicklet and Hazey on a FaceTime call too.

Instead of the planned lamb roast, I crumbed some chicken and served it with two salads.

We watched the football and I tipped 6 out of 8 correctly this week.

Now I’m ready for sleep.

Nite all.