five things | Miss Holly

1. She is more or less convinced that the only possible place to sleep during the day is on someone's lap - which is super sweet, but kinda makes it hard to get much done.

2. When she's playing the build up to her pouncing is super cute - she waits, gets ready, waits, gets readier & then bam! whatever toy she's after is in trouble.

3. She had a lovely time exploring when we took her with us to Bundaleer Forest, a little unsure at first, but she soon got over that. (also, she is, I swear, wearing her harness & lead, it just doesn't look like it in the photo).

4. Ants fascinate her - she'll spend ages sniffing, following & trying to catch them.

5. In the evening, after a good play, she will curl up on someone's lap until bed time. Usually it's whoever grabs her, but sometimes she'll decide on someone & refuse to settle until she gets the lap she wants - it's uber cute :)

You can find plenty more cute Holly-ness over on her tumblr.

a few good things...

1. Miss Holly - she's a few good things, all by herself.

2. some salvia, providing a nice pop of colour in the garden.

3. Happy Birthday to my beautiful Mum - Amy made an awesome cake as part of our celebrations.
4. new (purple) walking shoes.

5. foggy, misty mornings.

6. dreams & schemes & plans - trying to get things organised.
7. a soft knit sweater & some colourful tank tops.

good golly, miss Holly

Just wanted to introduce you to our newest family member - the gorgeous bundle of cute that is Holly.

She's a seven month old moodle (maltese x poodle), who we collected on Sunday & she's very sweet, cuddly & affectionate - I think she'd spend pretty much her whole day curled up on a lap if we let her :)

full credit for the title goes to Kathryn :)

goodbye, sunshine...

We lost our Archie-dog on Thursday & as you can imagine, we're all heartbroken.

He was only three - it was sudden & unexpected & almost unbelievable.

Neither of us felt up to posting about this until today, but Kathryn has written a post on his blog, and in the next month or so, we're going to post some of our memories over there too.

rain, rain, river flow...

Last week we had about 5 inches of rain (mostly on Tuesday) in the Southern Flinders, so the Rocky River has water in it. Mostly the river is dry, although in days gone by there were market gardens on its banks.

Anyway, on Monday we (my sisters & I, along with Archie) went for a walk to see the river & then on Wednesday we headed down again, this time with Mum along. We also went for a bit of a wade...
...the water was freezing, although our feet went kinda numb after a while, so we didn't notice any more.



& then the girls developed mysterious super powers....

...or just struck a silly pose :)

you can see more photos on Archie's blog

A hot cup of tea is like a little slice of heaven...

...on a cold day...or a cup of coffee or hot chocolate of course :) . Some out-takes from my Pretty Pink Tuesday shot. The one above is the one I almost chose (sorry Kathryn) & below are some shots of the girls & Archie getting in on the photoshoot, enjoy :)