What an experience seeing all the things you paid good money for go off for a song. Funny the value people put on 'stuff'. A box of odds and ends that I was thinking of giving away went for $17 and our 2year old lounge suite we bought for about $1500 went for $37. OUCH! We all had a lot of fun though and 15% went to the footy club.Now we have an empty house to sell and we are sleeping in a swag.

auctioning of all our worldly goods

What an experience seeing all the things you paid good money for go off for a song. Funny the value people put on 'stuff'. A box of odds and ends that I was thinking of giving away went for $17 and our 2year old lounge suite we bought for about $1500 went for $37. OUCH! We all had a lot of fun though and 15% went to the footy club.Now we have an empty house to sell and we are sleeping in a swag.

lavande

Romantic candle lit dining at its best at Lavande of Callington with hosts Chris and Terry.Gorgeous place, superb food.
www.lavande-sa.com.au

Of course later we let our hair down and danced all over the place.

The Evolution of the Ishchicks

The Funny Chickens (or The evolution of the Ishchicks.)
by Stanley Gilbert Eden Editored and illustrated by Ronda Eden.
(A children’s story)
(Well at least one version of the story)


Once in a far-away place called Funny Land there lived lots of funny animals. The pigs were funny. The horses were funny. The cats and dogs were funny. Even the insects were funny. It was a great place to live because they could have fun all the time being funny. All the animals loved it. That is, all except for the funny chickens. They spent the whole time whinging.
One day the leader of he funny chickens said,
“There must be a better place for us to live than this Funny Land!”
So he ordered all the funny chickens to build a sailing ship. Off they sailed in search of a better place for funny chickens. All was going well as they sped full sail over the waves with great hope in their hearts. Then suddenly….. the wind stopped. And they waited and waited not going anywhere for a very long time until the leader announced,
“THIS WILL NEVER DO!”
And he leapt over board and started to swim. The others follow and although they weren’t very good at it at first, they got better and better until they became expert funny swimmers. And they swam and they swam for days, weeks and even months until they finally struck land. They staggered up onto the beach where there were people lying everywhere sunbaking.
Wet and exhausted they plonked themselves down amongst the people and started making their funny chicken noises. The sunbakers laughed at them because they sounded so funny. They were quite amused until this racket went on for about five hours! Then they didn’t think it was funny any more!
So they chased all the funny chickens back into the sea. They swam and they swam once more in search of a better place for funny chickens. (But that’s not the end of the story!)
The sunbakers shook their fists and shouted,
“GOOD RIDDENS!”
Then went back to their sunbaking.
All was peaceful for a while until some one yelled out,
“LOOK!” and pointed to the funniest egg you have ever seen. It was pink with purple spots and square instead of round. It was so funny everyone started to laugh.
“HEY, IT’S STARTING TO CRACK OPEN,” shouted someone else!
It trembled and spun then started to wriggle and bounce all over the beach. “HOW FUNNY,” they all screamed!
Suddenly it exploded open and out popped the funniest creature you could ever image. It was half chicken and half fish! Now the sunbakers were laughing so loud they were rolling on the sand. The funny creature was terribly insulted. After all, they were the ones that looked so funny. So it poked out its tongue at them, ran across the beach, leapt into the water and swam as fast as it could toward Funny Land...... where it knew that it belonged.

up date

G'day y'all.
Won't be long and we will be back in the great USof A. Mernie will be heading back at the end of the month and I will be tagging along behind after the property sells. We sold the float (horse trailer)on the week-end so that's a start. Now we need to sell the ute (truck), house and all the doo dads collected over the last four years. Why do people need so much stuff? We all have it! Loads of 'I might need this someday stuff!'
I'm making the best of the time left here by spending as much time home in callington as possible enjoy the surrounds, friends and the horses that people have loaned me since the boys went to Horse Med.Typically I'm really loving the place now on the verge of leaving it. Anyway we a heading for a great place so I can't complain. We are fortunate people.

horse float

horse trailer

Inside of the horse trailer (float for Australians) for sale. More images to come.

cold in Cally

This looks like a picture I may have taken in Wyoming or Colorado but it was taken yesterday morning in Callington, South Australia! Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The piece of ice was lifted off of the bird bath in our backyard.

Have you ever gone by Pelican?

Latest Kiddie Lit.

Have you ever gone by Pelican?

Have you ever been all cosy

tucked up in your bed

so warm your cheeks are rosy

just you and little Ted

But then you heard some noises

and wished they'd go away

Coz you and litttle Teddy

would like ot sleep all day!

So you opened up one eyelid

to see that noise you heard

then both your eyes popped open

to see a GIANT BIRD!

Staring down upon you

along that big, long bill

A super, gianormous pelican

was standing really still

Then it started dancing

all around your bed

knocking things right over

the ceiling bumped its head!

And then it snatched your teddy

right out of your hand

and held him it that floppy bill

How much can one kid stand!

"GIVE ME BACK MY TEDDY?"

you screamed 'til you turned blue

but then it snatched your nice warm beanie

and held it in there too!

It was trying to tell you something

What was it about?

Its cold outside.Was that a clue?

It was without a doubt.

So you got up and said "Hello,

Mind if I hop inside?"

It opened up its great,big gob

And took you for a ride.

Out of your bedroom window

up into the sky

just you and little Teddy

Above the world so high! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!