A Day Out

Yesterday Saturday the 28th March Neville and I took Ryan and Tegan for a drive and a day out we went to railton, the town of Toparies, there were some beautiful designs, even if they do cheat a bit and use frames to grow the trees around and trimmed. We then went to latrobe which is an antiquey type town, checked out some cool shops then went into Devonport for lunch at KFC (ooops there went the diet!!) We wandered around another antique shop in Devonport and then started for home, stopped at Ulverstone for coffee and cake, drove through Penguin and then home. I felt exhausted, I was tired from driving and all I wanted to do was have a lay down for 1/2 an hour and Neville persuaded me to go with him to get a load of firewood, (I hate woodcutting, with a passion) but being the dutiful wife I am (pmsl) went with him.

Funny Names Swap from Swap-Bot

This was such a funny swap I thought I would blog it to share with everyone.

Funny Names Survey E-Swap

1. REAL NAME: Carol Jackson
2. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME:(mother and fathers middle names) Patricia Amos
3. NASCAR NAME:(first name of your mother's dad, father's dad) Henry William
4. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name) Sonca
5. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)Purple Dog
6. SOAP OPERA NAME:(middle name, town where you were born) Joy Currie
7. SUPERHERO NAME:(2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning) The Red Bourbon
8. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)Caon
9. STREET NAME:(fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie) Vanilla Fruit Slice
10. SKANK NAME: (First pet's name street you grew up on) Stripey Woodrising
11. GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of last name plus 'izzle') Jacizzle
12. GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets) Black Panda
13. STRIPPER NAME: (favorite perfume, fav candy)Red Door Clinker
some I made up
14. Preschool Nic name : ( first 2 letters of your first and last name with little first) Little Caja
15. Old Folks Home Nic: (no letters needed, just if female use er or male use is with Old in the beginning) Old whatsername
16. Aussie Nic Name: (first 4 letters of surname + o on the end) Jacko)

Completely off the track

This is Panda

















This is Reg ........................................................................this is Blossom


Hello, this post is especially for the group of wonderful women in the Aussie Group at Swap-Bot making the friendship strip quilt.
I thought I would give you ladies the link to my blog and post a few photos of our piggies.

more babies and other things

I really cannot get into this blogging regularly thing, can I?

Blossom had her 3rd litter of babies on Monday in the pouring rain, wind blowing a gale and sooo cold.

She deliverd 4 little cuties

This is Ratus and Corky (from left) and Blossom, Bill and Ben.

they are really sweet arent they. ahhh maybe I am just a guinea pig freak.

At SWAPBOT I joined a strip quilt round robin, this means that each person makes a calico strip with either applique, embroidery or whatever on it, joined to a coloured strip in their colour scheme and then posts that off to the next person, In the end you get back a single bed sized quilt piece back, with a strip of everyones work, its so exciting I have done my first strip and my theme is black and white and................... yep you guessed it, Guinea Pigs :) I will def post pics when that gets home to me.

I am also in a Journal round Robin, a Recipe journal round robin and Tegan has joined a kids journal round robin...... whew lots of journalling going on here.

MY CAR PORT IS FINISHED........ YAY and it poured with rain on Monday and Tuesday and my car was all nice and dry underneath, its nice when its raining to be able to get from the car to the house and not get wet. Thanks to Neville for being Husband of the Year and building it for me :)

Well I think thats about it for this time, until next time, BYE Cx

I had a Birthday

Well there you go I had a birthday and I am no older!!!!!!! can you imagine how stupid I was, all last year Ive been saying I am 46 and will turn 47 in Feb 09, weeeeeeeeeeell as it turns out, I only turned 46 this year, so Happy Birthday To Me!!!!

Speaking of Birthdays, my sweet little girl angel organised a surprise BBQ for me at Ang's house, We arrived there after picking Ryan up from the farm and here were cars I recognised !! what a lovely evening we all had.

Then the next week we went up to Milabeena to a girlfriends for a BBQ for her birthday. Lots in my family and friends birthdays in Jan and Feb.

I have opened an Etsy Shop today and listed some book sacks and some envelopes will be listing more as time moves along.

ooops nearly a month since last Blog,,,,,

LOL so much for my big brag I was going to blog more often HAHA Yeah sure carol.

Anyway whats been happening, Tassie in in ythe grips of a heat wave, its so dammed hot here. Well its hot everywhere but we are sooooo not used to it here in Tassie.

Nev started building the carport and the other day I was going to pick up the kids and my car was in a different spot so wjhat did I do but drove a tad too close to the house and put a nice little dent in the car, (not to mention the house :)) I went inside and told nev he just gave me a hug and said hey dont worry it could have been worse. Its bad enough tho $700 for a small dent to be fixed, grrrr. In my next life i want to be a panel beater :)

My Kids havent gone back to school yet. Spending a huge amounyt I have them ready to go, Tegan starts grade 7 on Monday..... my baby in High School !!!!!!! and Ryan starts grade 9 on Wednesday . Ryan said to me the other day, Hey mum do you realise next year I will have my "Ls" now THATS Scary.

Anyway that will do for today and I will try and blog more often :)

The next episode!!!

Well after fining out the car was going to cost lots and lots of $$$$ to get fixed apparently pistons and other important things were bent and broken, apparently the timing belt broke, which I have now learnt IS NOT a good thing.

Nev decided we should buy a new (well new for us) car so we went looking on Thurs afternoon around all the car yards in Burnie only found 1 he kinda liked so we went back Fri morning (19th Dec) and took it for a test drive, nev said it had a knock in the steering, me ?? , so we went to Shearwater to have a look at a private one from the paper, Nev fell in love with the car AND the price and I ended up driving my new car home YAY.

On the 29th december Nev went back to work and I called him to let him know that our fridge died. sighhhh what else can possibly go wrong next. Nev decided the best thing to do would be go buy a new fridge so he brought one home on Wed.

I have decided that all out bad things happened in 2008, not all bad off course because we had our wonderful wedding. but 2009 Is not going to be a bad year. Things WILL go our way,,, pleaseeeeeeee.

lol thats all for now folks I have RSI from typing so much in one go lol, Carol xx