Our introduction to keeping chickens, the high's, the lows and pics of our journey.

[Fancychooklady]

If you ever get the travel bug Scott and find yourself in Tassie I highly recommend cradle mountain , it's just so pristine it's breathtaking . I had a girlfriend that worked for the University of Western Australia as a student scout. She travelled all over the world and said of cradle mountain , that it was the single most serene place she had ever been.

 

[scottcaddy]

Quote: I do remember the Ad's for that movie, and thought that I might want to go see it. I don't remember why I didn't

. We do like the the hill/river/mud hill slide kind of ride so, we should have liked the action. You live near that?

Scott

 

[Fancychooklady]

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I do remember the Ad's for that movie, and thought that I might want to go see it. I don't remember why I didn't  . We do like the the hill/river/mud hill slide kind of ride so, we should have liked the action. You live near that?

Scott

Oh no, I'm a little further south, nearer to the Antarctica .

 

[vehve]

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I do remember the Ad's for that movie, and thought that I might want to go see it. I don't remember why I didn't  . We do like the the hill/river/mud hill slide kind of ride so, we should have liked the action. You live near that?

Scott

Oh no, I'm a little further south, nearer to the Antarctica .

It's weird how backwards Australia is. Summer is winter and going south means you need gloves and a hat.

 

[ozexpat]

It's weird how backwards Australia is. Summer is winter and going south means you need gloves and a hat.

there are a significant number of places that have a cool july. Any where below that line on the globe called the equator actually

summer is not winter. winter is still winter.

 

[vehve]

Quote: Oh no, now I hit a soft spot

I'm sorry Oz, I didn't mean to offend the southern hemisphere.

But you must admit, for most people a warm July is the norm, and I think even of the people living south of the equator, the greater part are so close to it that they don't really experience a significantly colder cold season.

 

[Bens-Hens]

Only the southern parts get real snow. Apart from the occasional school trip to the southern highlands I'd never seen much snow before we moved to Tasmania
Just google ' the snowy mountain range ' . I guess you've never seen ' the man from snowy river ' ?

Ben I seem to recall hubby saying that there was snow on the sterling ranges when he did his carter course.

Brrrrr.

Yes, rarely it has snowed here in the hills, but it's not very often, and it would be gone before I got the kids in the car to go show them. Still gets fresh, just not white stuff on the ground kind of fresh.

It's weird how backwards Australia is. Summer is winter and going south means you need gloves and a hat.

It's normal to us, backwards is people driving on the wrong side of the road and wearing puffy jackets in January hahahaha. We all do kind of pine over a white christmas though, until of course we actually get one.

Oh no, now I hit a soft spot

I'm sorry Oz, I didn't mean to offend the southern hemisphere.

But you must admit, for most people a warm July is the norm, and I think even of the people living south of the equator, the greater part are so close to it that they don't really experience a significantly colder cold season.

Below the Tropic of Capricorn, we get 'normal' seasons, above it is more of a 'wet' and 'dry' season, both still hot.

 

[vehve]

Here's a summer picture from Nokia, Finland, taken midsummer week this year. I borrowed this picture form a Finnish newspaper, Kaleva.

This isn't normal here though, but June was so cold that we got a bit unusual weather. A month later, it has been +30 C in Nokia.

You are mistaken about the driving. Clearly we are driving on the right side of the road.

When we attended my cousins wedding in Ireland, we rented a car and drove around a bit. Dad kept taking the wrong side of the road every time we had stopped somewhere and continued our journey. Made for some interesting situations with oncoming traffic.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Here's a summer picture from Nokia, Finland, taken midsummer week this year. I borrowed this picture form a Finnish newspaper, Kaleva. This isn't normal here though, but June was so cold that we got a bit unusual weather. A month later, it has been +30 C in Nokia. You are mistaken about the driving. Clearly we are driving on the right side of the road. When we attended my cousins wedding in Ireland, we rented a car and drove around a bit. Dad kept taking the wrong side of the road every time we had stopped somewhere and continued our journey. Made for some interesting situations with oncoming traffic.

Hubby spent 6 months in the US training with the navy seals , one day he forgot which side of the road he was on and run a cabby up the curb onto the walk way and into a newspaper dispenser. 3 years ago we had snow on Christmas Day.

 

[vehve]

Quote: Hopefully no one was hurt.

One thing I find terrifying, is people who are too old to drive still going out in traffic. I saw a 80 year old man last summer, who had gotten confused, and turned the wrong way on a road with 4 lanes going in each direction. Luckily no one got hurt, but it was a close call. When my grandmother was still alive, she was issued a 5 year driving license when she turned 80. Her car was a 1986 Fiat Uno, no power steering or break servos. Fortunately she understood that she wasn't fit to drive it anymore, so I took her around when she needed to do something. But it's a very high threshold for doctors to not give the green light to pensioners when they need a checkup to renew their licenses. My sisters boyfriend manages a car repair shop, they had repaired the bumper of a car that had some scratches. A week later the same customer came back complaining that they had done a dodgy job. Good thing they had pictures of the original damage and could show that it had been 10 cm from the spot that was now damaged, the man was just driving into something in his garage repeatedly.