tortoise rescue

FP found this little guy - an eastern long neck tortoise (or 'necky' as we call them) in the middle of the highway - so FP scooped the dear one up and it was delivered to the nearest waterway (sams creek of course!)

The extremely dry weather has caused many animals to seek new (hopefully wetter) territories - which often means creatures unwittingly attempting perilous road crossings like this... most crossings don't end this well...

Old timers say that when tortoise and frogs are sighted, wetter weather is just around the corner.... we hope so.... it has been so dry for so long...

fungi

just outside the back door

for a fleeting moment or two

is a mini wonder world of fungi

feeding the cows...

Like most of my long-term country compatriots - I'm a multi-tasking, waste-not/want -not sort of a girl... so this weekend when it came to cleaning up the orchard windfall, I was keen to get the kids involved - they were understandably less enthused... until we all figured out that the cows in the neighbouring paddock were MAD for apples...



so EJ was suddenly keen to throw the old fruit over the fence...




to an appreciative audience...




a couple of the older girls knew when they were onto a good thing





and the smarter young ones soon started to get in on the act - showing how skills are passed from one generation to the next - in cows and in people...



a fun time was had by all - and all the spent fruit was cleaned up and put to very good use... a win-win situation