While I was waiting for footy training to finish.

Psssst, wanna know a secret
This was one curious little cow.


















I thought this leaf would be good to use for the catagory of 'light' in the scavenger hunt. I wonder at what the footballers thought of the strange woman laying on the middle of the oval (not the one they were playing on) taking photos of leaves on the ground?
A coupkle of the sheep that the high school kids have raised in the agricultural program at the school.
Seamus in colour and black and white, the colour one is a little underexposed but I still like it, check out the two missing front teeth.























More cow secrets.















I decided to play with my camera, usually I like to watch the boys but I didn't think they would mind if I missed the first 20 or so minutes, they usually train for an hour and a half. Seamus and I enjoyed the stroll around the high school grounds and we fed the cows the school raise in their ag program. I love this autumn weather, lovely sunny days, not to hot, with cool crisp evenings.

Name game tag

This came from http://mummaspage.blogspot.com try it, it's fun, I just copied and pasted into my blog and then changed the answers.

This is a fun game!! Here are my answers!:
1. YOUR REAL NAME Sue

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (the first three letters of your real name plus izzle) Sueizzle

3. YOUR DECTIVE NAME (fav colour and fav animal)Green dog

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: ( your middle name and a street you have lived on) Lorraine Singleton

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: ( the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Fitsu

6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: ( your 2nd fav colour and fav drink) Blue Lemon Ice tea/water or Pink Vodka and dry

7. YOUR CHILD OF A MOVIE STAR NAME ( the name of a seson/weather condition, the name of a fruit/city) Stormy Mango

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME ( parents middle names) Lorraine James

9. YOUR GOTH NAME ( black and the name of one of your pets)Black Frog

10 YOUR PORN STAR NAME (the name of your first pet and a symbol or shape e.g. heart, star, square etc) Puss (yes that really was the name of my first cat) Heart.
Have a go yourself! It's a lot of fun

One of my big brothers

Out fishing on his boat one morning.

Jumper presentation...

The number The guernsey
The moment he's been waiting for.
Waiting.

On Thursday night the boys had their jumper presentation for the footy season.
This is the first time Joseph has ever been through this ritual, he has played footy for the school before but never for one of the leagues. it has been such an exciting few days for him, being chosen to play, the jumper presentation and then when they played yesterday he kicked a goal.

Life with boys

Seamus complained he couldn't get dressed this morning. "why I asked?" "Cause my jocks are up there" was the reply as he pointed up at the light. Boys hey!!!

So what does a barbie doll and dog excrement have in common???

Well I would have thought nothing until just a short while ago, while getting ready for work I happened to glance at the TV while an add was playing for a new barbie with her loyal pet dog Rover (or something like that)which you guessed it, actually poops, you feed it little pellets and it passes them out the other end, ewwwwww. I mean if they really want that badly to clean up dog poo then they can come into my back yard, I'm quite sure my dog will oblige.I think barbie has been around to long if this is what they have to do to create new ones or maybe I'm just out of touch with what little girls want, now my boys would probably love this.

26 things-row

My interpretaion anyway, they are actually paddling but I'm not going to nitpick. Not the most fabulous photograph but it was very rushed as they were 'rowing' past

Check out these amazing works.

Some of the worlds best photographs. I think I'm gonna like this youtube thing.

Just checking something out

A kind pea told me how to link youtube videos to my blog, so if you can see one then woohoo enjoy this cute little song from Jack Johnson, if you can't then I'm up there with the worlds most computer illiterate people, lol.

My first 3 items for the hunt.

Frame mechanical
red

As you may have guessed these are in no particular order.
The first one is the looking down onto the beach from battery hill at Port Fairy and numbers two and three were taken out in the bay at Port while we were fishing (I caught fish, enough for lunch in fact, just had to have a little brag).

26 things, scavenger hunt

Peppermint Patti form Blue Bazaar suggested we do a photography scavenger hunt. The items we are to find are as follows; frame, authority, culture, red, new, liquid, sticky, the end, man made, bottom(could be interesting lol), mechanical, sharp, row, sound, love, you, fizz, numbers, light, curl, missing, Saturday, natural, small, shadows, glass. I'm really looking forward to this, these things are great for making you think outside the box and do something a little different than the everyday shots of the kids etc.

Where my runners took me...

A cute little flower growing in a crevice of volcanic rock.

Yesterday my runners took me from the ocean to the river, a.m. I was bobbing around in a boat on the ocean at Port Fairy, p.m. I was jumping from rock to rock at the Merri falls Hamilton, without my shoes, so lovely to dip your feet into cool water.

The Port Fairy wharf from the river

Taken while heading out fishing in big brother Stoot's boat this morning.

It's me

I decided that occasionally I had better hand over the camera to some one else or the kids are going to forget I existed when I'm gone, (except in silly hats).

Taken at the wharf at Port Fairy on 9th April while the boys were fishing.

Footy training

How they teach the big (and little men) to fly

Paddy
Joseph(with the ball)

After sports Joseph had to turn around and do footy training, the season starts next week and the boys can't wait, at least the three older boys are playing for the same team now, we're not running around the country side to three different games

One I missed

Sports day

Seamus' braveheart green face

Seamus landing his long jump (the photos are out of order) Joseph's hurdles
Joseph winning his championship race, he slipped over got up and ran his little heart out and won the race.
His first place ribbon.

Seamus doing the high jump Joseph jumping
Seamus long jump





Yesterday the two youngest boys had their school sports day, something they have been excitedly been waiting for for weeks. that morning the pair of them were up early getting ready, I think the preparation, the face paint and decorated T-shirts are as much fun for them as the day itself.

Every day

Daisy waits at the front door for a walk, she waits, she gets up, dances around, tears around the house then goes back and waits again. As soon as she sees the lead so goes crazy with delight. It makes us feel quite guilty the days we can''t take her

Seamusisms

Does that make sense, anyway my youngest, bless his little heart, has a habit of coming out with some doozies, some of them I forget straight away and I hate that I do so I thought as I don't keep a diary as such I may as well use my blog to record them. His teacher last year said he was a deep thinker, I said he was ditzy, but he does love to comtemplate things, think them over and then 10 minutes after everyone has forgotten about the subject he will come out with a comment, either hysterically funny or very insightful. Like the night a couple of weeks back, as treat we were timtam slammin' it. Now I purchased a new type not the usually plain or caramel ones, yep we're a family of chocolate addicts, and I made the comment that they were very rich and I didn't like them. My DH held one up to his ear, as you would only do in front of your own children, and in a pretend timtam voice said "no, we're not rich we have no money" now the other boys did a mixture of groaning or snorting milk out there noses in laughter, but not my Seamus, he just sat there looking at us like we had some sort of illness. An entire 10 minutes past, the 3 timtams we get each were gone and everyone was about to leave the table when he burst out laughing,and said "oh now I get it". Don't try and tell me that's deep thinking, that's definitely just ditziness. Now this morning for some reason we were discussing ways we wanted to die, I had the news on and a related subject came on and I think I made the comment that it would be a terrible way to die, just to let you know we are not the sort of morbid family that discusses this sort of thing all the time, anyway I was happy to die in my sleep at a very old old age, but not Seamus, he wanted to swim out to sea when he was really old and be eaten by a shark or when we told him this could be painful he thought he might like to be hauling in a fish so huge that it will be such a strain on his old body that he would die there and then, the mind on this kid at eight. five or ten minutes past and we were in the bathroom cleaning our teeth when he gazed up into my eyes and said " or Mum, I could just look into your eyes when I'm old and die that way" Now what do you say to this, I guess you don't say any thing and just hug them, my little deep thinker.

Rex Hunt really started something.
Little boys love sand they can sink their feet into.
Pulling in the big one.

I don't know how environmentally friendly it is to drive a car onto the beach but boy is it convenient. Jessie baiting up
Paddy baiting up
Caught Paddy having a good old sing to himself in his blue boxers.
The sky was beautiful
We had another fishing trip down to Robe yesterday for a bit of night fishing, the evening was beautiful and the colours in the sky as the sun set were simply gorgeous, ranging from soft pink early in the night to deep orange later on. Jessie was the star fisherman for the night pulling in a lovely big fat bream and a mulloway, Paddy contributed with a nice bream as well, very tasty dinner for tonight. All I managed to pull in were undersized fish but refused to kiss them before releasing them.

I've put in a picture of me with my Guatemalan ear flap hat just for the amusement value, I'm not a hat person and especially very unphotogenic that late at night, we arrived home after 1am.

Some shots from Robe