Seamless Crochet project finds a home

Just had to share with you my latest project inspired by a scarf pattern from Seamless Crochet: Techniques and Motifs for Join as You Go designs by Kristen Ohmadl. These little circles are made in a two rows from the right side.

With a bit of experimentation and lots of undoing of corners its done. Looks great on our queen bed at the Rathmines Bible School where we have been again this week. Kept my legs warm in the evenings as it grew steadily all week.


A wonderful lady from Adelaide snapped it up almost as it fell finished off the hook. Love it when my babies go to a good home.


Cheers Sue
A Ferg on the Move  

Autumn days, sheep and kids

The unusually warm daytime weather has continued all week and we are making the most of it. The nights are cold and I have taken to wrapping the yoghurt maker in a thick towel to keep it warm while it works at night. Seems only fair as we are sleeping under a minki blanket, a doona and one of my crocheted afghans.


K is feeding the sheep on the days that our son-in-law doesn't come out from town. This daily spectacle is something I hadn't seen until this week when early one day he fed them before we left for a shopping trip to Canberra.


The procedure involved parking at a particular spot in the paddock and beeping the horn. From every direction sheep came running, pushing and shoving each other and baaing loudly. They appeared from behind trees and down in the hollows. K then got out, opened a feed bag and walked in a circle dropping the food in a thin line. I tried to get a photo of K pouring sheep nuts out of a bag with 150 sheep trying to get the food as it tumbled out. Some even got in front of him and shoved their heads in the bag to catch a mouthful before it hit the dirt. Quick footwork was required to stay up right and just ahead of the mob. By the time I stopped laughing the only shot I got was them chomping into the line of feed.




Meanwhile in town two grandkids were chilling out after a hard day of playing in the yard, eating and sleeping. Miss Four and Master Five months were watching a movie. Too cute.  

It is still lovely outside. I'm told by the locals to enjoy .. Winters are bitter here. It even snows.
Perhaps we will escape to warmer places before then.


Cheers   Sue
A Ferg on the Move

Solar power, nature deficit disorder and other interesting reading.

The weather has been kind to us this last week. Lots of sun and a light breeze. Not ideal for farmers here who need good soaking rains to get the winter grasses started. A lot of locals are supplement feeding their lambs and there is a bloke who has his cattle out on road edges every afternoon. We have to keep  bovine afternoon tea time in mind as we drive into town.

Cattle out for an afternoon tea munch on the road side

But the sun has kept our batteries charged and I have taken advantage of that to do some crock pot cooking in the middle of the day and to charge computers and spare batteries while the sun shines.

Solar Panels on the right of our camp.

It has become second nature to check the battery voltage every morning before staring the coffee machine. This doubles as a weather check as well. This morning the reading was low..... so without even popping my head out the door I knew it was cloudy.  Put the kettle on and made a plunger pot instead.


We  are always on the lookout for information about solar power and off-grid living just in case we can find ideas to improve our electrical independence, so I was interested in this article in the Caravan World Magazine on solar power systems for your caravan. 


This issue also had an article with this very cute title. Do your kids have nature deficit disorder? The  teacher in me was quite taken with this concept. I'm not quite sure how the science of the idea stacks up but today's children (not my grandchildren of course) do seem to spend more time indoors than I remember allowing.

Talking of interesting reading, here is a gem we found in our favourite Crookwell coffee shop. Coffee Mash Potatoes.

 Now .......... I know a day is not right without coffee but maybe this is taking things a bit too far.



Cheers Sue

A Ferg on the Move