It's Been A Busy Week Around Here...

Firstly we had goat mustering... 

with these

 and using this

 to aerial muster and let the people on the motorbikes know where they need to go

 to round these up

 dirty stinking big rangeland goats

 no nannies this time just billies and we managed to muster near on 1000 of them...

they destroy the countryside so much... a sheep or a cow just munch what they see

but these buggers trample and pull down bushes and trees and dig the plants out...

 and seeing the weather is cooler this week 30 to 34 is expected... time to do some hard gardening...

hubby got the trailer for me before he headed off for a few days ''dogging'' (dingo trapping and please no negative comments on this)

 first to tackle the two big beds out the front  of the house...

 trimming and pulling up of dead or going to died plants...

 filled the trailer in no time at all

 and still had more to go into it... but that will have to wait until the trailer is emptied...

which hubby will do when he gets home as he takes it away into the bush so that seed gets trapped in it for ''regeneration'' when it rains...

 and of course when you are tackling bougainvillea there is always an injury...

somewhere in there is a very long thorn which will just have to stay there until it gets pussy and can be squeezed out... 

and

 today it is red, sore and swollen and stopping me from hand sewing but not machine sewing...

 but hey look how neat and tidy my beds are now...

 all clean and trimmed...

 and this morning I had two friends helping load the second pile into the trailer...

Lucy and her lamb LouLou...

When Friends Come To Visit...

They bring special things...

 how cute is the little joey...

her Mum was found dead and this little girl was still alive in the pouch... 

our friends partner is looking after it until she leaves to go back to Germany

 then this baby will go to his sisters place...

 and my daughter is visiting with their dog Cleo... 

see how that little joey is stretching out to say hello...

and Cleo just isn't too sure as to what it is...

very cute...

Blocks Galore...

This block was made for one of my February partner in the QBSA... 

Michele-Marie wished for a bright basket...

 Raelene was my other partner for the month and she wished for Jacob's Ladder in 30's

hope I managed that for her...

 these two are for a friend...

 I really like the background on this one...

 and this is my scrappy spiders web that I wished for from Raelene

 and my scrappy spiders web from Michele-Marie...

 loving them both... thanks girls for being my partners in February...

Oh Raelene made me this log cabin as well... I have two choices for my wish...

I've Been Busy...

sorting... cutting... sewing... cutting... sewing... pinning... sewing...cutting... sewing...

and this is what I came up with...

 three double nine patch quilts all bound and quilted ready to go off to here for our Aussie soldiers...

and around 60 metres of binding 

ready for Jan-Maree and her ''merry band of quilting friends''...

Now to clean up my mess in the games room and move back into my sewing room...

Shopping...

Now I wasn't going to buy anymore fabric for awhile I had decided.... 

only if I needed backing fabric...

but

Spotlight was having a sale and quilting fabrics were $6 a metre sooooooooooo

I did buy some and I did still buy backing fabric too...

 the yellow/orange is backing for a baby quilt and the two pinks I am going to use for binding for Jan-Maree at Aussie Hero Quilts...

 and so will these greens and blues...

 the lighter green has made 31 metres of binding... 

that's a load of binding off one fabric and I have all the others to cut up... 

look out cutting board hahahaha...

I will use some for one of the quilts I am sending to Jan-Maree...

and this is some backing fabric haven't seen this spotty one before...

and a packet of charms and Perle for a swap I am in.... see I wasn't to bad most will be used this week and gone to Jan-Maree...