Yet Another Tree!

I love trees, as you might have guessed!

This one is lovely.

And the clouds made it even more spectacular! Peaceful & Alone

What do you think?

Our Trip to The Dairy Farm pt4

Our Trip to The Farm pt4 or On The Road Again!Ralphy- tuckered out from all the playing he did with Rosie.
Pit Stop- Necessary when you are travelling three hours to get home. . .

A beautiful little boy!

Are you done taking pictures yet?

The long road home. . . I liked our trip!

Our Trip to The Dairy Farm pt3

Cows-Duh. . . I really liked the way this pic turned out though!

We went for a walk, it was lovely!

GM snuck this pic in. . . :)

Ralphy made a friend. Her name is Rosie.

She kept him running!

This is Bruce, setting up the milking.

Eating on one side, while being milked on the other. They have about 80 cows, and some yummy cheese too!

Our Trip to The Dairy Farm pt2

Our family on the bed. Not a great pic, but I like it!

Open Fireplace- Loved it!

Here is where we took a long walk. Beautiful!

Ralph inspected everything!

I wanted to see him climb the tree. . .

Our Trip to The Dairy Farm pt1

This is where we went, it was about three hours from home.

Sue & Bruce were great hosts. I bought some cheese to bring home too! YUMMY!
Ralphy made himself at home. . . .
This is the gorgeous place we stayed.

It was really relaxing, and the hosts were lovely.

GM's Birthday Weekend!

Been kind of quiet lately, I have been really busy, and had lots going on, along with angst about Mother's Day. But, I am trying to come out the positive end of that now.

I have a new employer, which is kind of cool. I am still working in the same office, at the same desk for the same man, doing the same job, but the company that pays my remuneration is different. It was a little stressful getting it all done, but is all sorted now. Works for me!
GM got a year older on Saturday, and partly mid life crisis, partly ours was slowly falling apart, he got a new car. I will take pics, when I get a chance. It is really pretty, and way too fancy for me, but GM is once again in love with a vehicle. . . :) We took delivery of the vehicle on Saturday, and also went out for a big night on the town to see Wayne Brady Live. He is hilarious! He does "Don't Forget The Lyrics" and used to be in "Whose Line is it Anyway" w/Drew Carey. Absolutely fantastic! We caught the train into Melbourne, took the tram up to my work, as I had forgotten my cross stitch, and goodness knows i cannot live without it. . .lol Then we trekked back closer to The Arts Centre- Hamer Hall, where we were due to be. On the way, we stopped for dinner. GM chose Burger King/ Hungry Jacks for his birthday dinner. Then we took a leisurely stroll to where we needed to be. The show was hilarious. I love Improvisational comedy anyway, but this was great! Obviously there was no research on his audience, which actually worked rather well for this. Not knowing what a panel beater, Cootamundra and The Rialto were, made it even more funny. Loved it! Got home around 12:30am or so, and went to sleep after 1:20am. There was also a walk of Zombies on, when we went into town, not to mention the usual weekend night young people stuff. I am in the city everyday, for work-GM is not. That made for even more entertainment. . . lol
Made a roast dinner & White Chocolate Raspberry muffins for GM as a continuation of his birthday on Sunday. Muffins instead of birthday cake. He seems to like them alot. We went and saw his mom for Mother's day, that was really weird, but it went okay.
Guess we will see what the rest of the week has to offer!
Hope you are all well, and stay in touch!

Ralphy's Birthday & More!

Okay, it's been a while. I have been busy, and enjoying life away from work I think. . .lol. So Friday, we went to Vaughan Springs. I had looked it up online, and was way happy to be going. Take Ralphy on a picnic, and what a lovely birthday present for him. We get there, and there are signs posted NO DOGS ALLOWED! all over the place. Damn Damn Damn! GM being his wonderful self, suggested we backtrack, and go to

We got there,and I got out, and looked for signs, that said no dogs. Could not find a one. Thank goodness. We were able to sit, relax, enjoy our lunch, and watch Ralphy be a goof, along with taking a nice little walk. Here are some pics of the gardens.

This one and the one above are the view from the picnic table we had lunch at.

The viaduct (above) was breathtaking, and the whole place was absolutely fabulous!

This is a beautiful old building we passed on our way.

Ralphy excited, and ready for a new adventure.

Man I think he is cute.
We had a great time, and it worked out well, even if Vaughan Springs did not turn out too well for us.

I completed the top part of an Australian Table Runner I have created. Here are a couple of the pics from that. Okay, it's just pics of the needlework, but if it does not shame me too much, I will put pics of it up, as I complete it.

By the way, this table runner was an idea I was gonna try and make one for some special folks, for Christmas, but will not have time before we get there to complete them. So, this one may end up being just for me & GM.

Anyway, I am exhausted, no one did my work, while I was away from work, so I am making up for my two days off by cramming it all into today and tomorrow. I will not miss that. Oh well, It's not all bad.

Okay, I will have to write more tomorrow, when I am coherent, and can string a sentence together.

Have a great night!

PS- Congratulations Obama- Way to go!

~Melissa

Busy & Fun

Hiya! Been kind of quiet on my end. Just getting through the day to day stuff at the moment. I have 16 more work days, until I am unemployed. I have an appointment with a Temporary staffing agency in a couple weeks. Hopefully they will be able to get me into work, shortly after I get home in January. Had a Dr appt yesterday, and have an RDO (rostered day off) tomorrow.

Also, tomorrow 31 October 2008 is Ralph's Birthday. Ralph will be two. He is such a cute little guy. And GM loves him to bits too. I do not know how GM is going to deal w/ leaving him here, when we go on our trip. In celebration of his birthday, and our day off, we are going to Vaughn Springs as described in a previous blog. On Saturday, we are going to The Victoria Market, and then to a bbq at a friends house. Sunday will hopefully be quiet. Monday I have another RDO- hopefully I can get more stuff organised for our trip. 24 days till we touchdown in Seattle. And Tuesday is a Public Holiday for Melbourne Cup Day. What a lovely five day weekend I have ahead of me. Oh, and I think on Tuesday we are having a bbq at our house with the neighbours. So, all in all a great time is coming.
Oh, tonight I am going to get some prescriptions filled, and then meet GM & Ralph to go for a walk around a place called The Nook. It is a beautiful place, next to a vineyard, a waterhole, and a nice long walking track. Then we will get fish & chips for dinner, and go home. I think it will be great!

Okay, guess I gotta work now. Back soon!

~Melissa