HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

It is always such a great joy every year to look out for a baby kookaburra (it is always around Christmas Day that we usually have our first sighting). Happily this year there are at least two babies. They are so adorable and we absolutely love them.

I am taking part again in Ali Edwards' One Little Word again this year and my word is FOCUS. I am excited about working with this word during the year. I really want to focus on the things dearest to me - my family, my health, my home and my interests. Hopefully I can focus on what I have NOT what I think I have to have.

This year I am also taking part in Cathy Zielske's FIT. I have been so motivated to walk and exercise since I got my fitbit flex. It is just the boost I needed to try to live as healthy as I can and I know Cathy's course will give me lots of ideas, encouragement and fabulous handouts to keep me motivated throughout the year.  

I love oracle cards and one of my favourite decks is Connected and Free. I pulled these two cards when asking about 2016. I was thrilled to see Abundance (this word keeps cropping up for me lately) and the card for the Third Eye Chakra - this is the card of sight and awareness.

Looking forward to being a bit more focused on my blog this year :)

Two visitors - one welcome and one not so much

A few weeks ago we got a visit from a possum who often 'stays overnight' in our garage. Over the years she has brought her babies for us to see and that has filled us with much happiness and delight. We get visits from brush turkeys, green frogs, lorikeets, kookaburras and sometimes galahs and sulphur crested cockatoos - all are welcome. A not so welcome visitor came last week ......

a red-bellied black snake. A bite from one of these snakes is not usually fatal thank goodness but it was quite a shock to see it in a corner of our garage. A (very) quick call to the snake catcher and she was caught and released in a bushland area where we hope she will live a happy life away from people.