The Start of April

The start of this month has been rather uneventful, with Mick doing all his favourite things at the bowling club and in his shed and me playing in the sewing room, as per my previous post.  This post is just the little extras.

We had a lovely day on Easter Sunday, visiting special friends for lunch.

The day started with an Easter egg hunt in an area on their property, not far from their house, that they have named “The Enchanted Forest”.  

Everyone had to join in the fun, including us, although we left the majority of the eggs for the littlies present.

I was amazed at this ancient old cypress tree.  How old must it be with the thickness of the base of the trunk?  And look how it had fallen over and then continued to grow further upright trunks.

Inside there was a gorgeous centrepiece on the table, which had apparently been well picked over even before we arrived.

Back home, I gave Mick an Easter Bilby.  Having visited the Save the Bilby Centre at Charleville last year, I had to buy one of these.  Now to see how long until he gets around to eating it.  Let’s hope it is before it starts to get too stale.

Now that Easter has passed, it was time to yet again change up my little kitchen shelf for autumn.  I can’t believe we are already over a month into the season.  Where is this year going?

I have picked some of our dahlias to add a pop of colour to the house.  With temperatures getting down to close to freezing forecast for early next week, we are making the most of them before they are finished.

Speaking of weather, our street tree has really coloured up and some of the trees down the road have already started to lose their leaves.

It is only less than a week until we head off with the caravan to Baradine, so much of this week will be getting things packed and trying to remember all the bits and bobs and show and tell that I need to take.  Just as well we have a truck.