I will make soap again soon

This soap will be for the Golden Oldies Animal Rescue at Mittagong.  I will update here when it is done and available for sale. I will probably sell it from this site….yet to be decided. All proceeds will go to Golden Oldies who have allowed me to foster the beautiful “Rocky”  dog. Rocky…the dog afraid of doors and now cars, which makes it difficult to drive him to the local dog park which he clearly wants to go to and meet other dogs. He is 11 and after surgery to his foot he is now like a young dog again. He lives to lean on a knee…any knee that will allow him and gaze into eyes to be loved and to give love

A New Dog

A new dog. A wonderful old soul . He  has been here now for 5 months and has gotten a lot smarter generally. “Ginger” is essentially 10 and is  another working dog cross  (is there any other kind ?!!) …kelpie/cattle/rough collie. He loves his new home endlessly after way too long in rescue places.  He is both as rough as bags and as gentle as a baby. I guess his life has made him like that.  He has the saddest eyes and has vast amounts of fur to be removed for summer .  He loves and is loved

Update…Ginger died in July 2017 after a short illness ……probably a malignancy. He loved to the end and died peacefully and calmly at the vet. He had so much living to do when we started walking off lead in the bush.

 

latest visitor

 

I am truly done with the myriad of creatures around here.

This one was a close call

pretty in pink and blue

having spent time weeding the feral native/and otherwise violets out of the back garden where they are literally trying to strangle natives and other stuff and having spent time removing a pile of vines of some kind never seen on any other land i ever owned and having spent time cutting back the ill advised planting of the passionfruit vine………..i got help to cut these pretty hydrangeas. i never get pink but now i have…..and i suspect it is from the run off from the tiled balcony repair that occurred earlier this year amidst a lot of drama.

anyway……the flowers were beautiful before the terrible heat hit them.

they are still lovely …just not as they were.

the bottom pink one is my favourite i think.

 

maggies having minced turkey from 1970s Tupperware

 

A bad hair day and some maggies

 

Family History

i looooove this house. It is called Newton Hall in the small village of Newton Kyme in the UK. My sister has traced it as the house where our great great grandfather was a butler back in the mid 1800’s

a photo of dear dog as she was last winter all wrapped up warm in bed !!.

recent soaps

these soaps were done after discussions with other soapmakers about techniques. I added yoghurt …

which i have not used for years. Makes a great soap.

Again …Lavender with a side of strawberry and cream….the very last of that particular fragrance

the multi colour soaps are part of a donation i did for a charity and are all sold.

they were lavender and very popular

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My beautiful Shadow dog has died

After a relatively short time being picky about her food, then not eating much and then eating nothing really……tests showed acute renal failure, amongst other things.

I chose to let her go peacefully and her vet came to our home on 24 April and she died with my son and I beside her.

We are bereft to have lost this beautiful, intelligent, loving dog. She amused us with her tricks, she loved to *work* and I will miss her picking up things from the floor and handing them to me. It sure saved my poor sore back.

She was just that one special animal that some of us are fortunate to own or meet in a lifetime.

The stories about her are legion, the memories endless, warm  and beautiful .

 she lives on forever.

She had had months of pain after a neck injury in late August 2014. Not being able to walk and being able to do nothing but lie around.

I nearly had her put down then but she finally suddenly got better and had some good weeks before the kidney failure. She was slow walking in the park in the last weeks… but still loved her social activities and knew what time it was when I should be preparing to take her out

The weird thing about her food on the last day was that I was eating an Anzac biscuit when she sniffed it and looked interested. I offered her a bit and she loved it and had a bit more. When my son came home with his chicken and ham sandwiches not yet eaten….she asked for some of that and looooooved it.

She had refused proper chicken, tuna, turkey, beef and her usual beloved dry cat food for the previous 24 hours

 Here she is ready to go shopping a about 2 weeks ago. Looking very well

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Wondering if I am ever coming back.

Here she is as she was recovering from the neck problems

Sitting with “her boy” waiting for the vet to arrive.

The Working People

These are like pet rocks that you take to work. Two faces per rock . !!!

When you are worn out of working, when life becomes too much for the wages you are paid, when it is not time yet to take a break for a looooong lunch…… you can put out the misery side to give people a clue as to how it might be wise to approach you.

Howver if you have just done a great deal that seals your financial future, or even just gotten all that data set out right…….put the happy side facing clients or workmates . This will let everyone know that they can come and be happy with you. 

 

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crimson rosella

they are busy eating the seeds from some left over grass weeds in the back of the yard

and playing on a dead pulled out citrus tree 

one is feeding the other…… but i dont know the relationship between them