Weekly Winners.. WooHoo!!!!

Yay!!! It is time for Weekly Winners.

To see more fantabulous winners just go and visit Lotus aka sarcastic Mom.

You wont be disappointed..


Cheers kim xxx

Favourite photo Friday (on Saturday)

Yay!!! It is that time of the week again.. Julie is back from her trip to Italy. So without further ado I would like to present
My Favourite Photo Friday.. (on Saturday)

Busy Busy Busy!!!

I have been really busy doing a whole lot, of not much at all.. In lieu of Easter eggs David had his hair coloured.. I like it. I would have posted a better pic but Dave is a typical teen and spent a lot of time making silly faces at the camera. Little does he know that I am not afraid to use the silly photos as leverage whenever I need to..* insert evil laugh.. muuawaaahahhaaa















We have had some much needed rain. Not a lot of rain but enough rain so that I don't have to buy a load of water just yet..*phew...


David stayed at Veronica's last night and is staying there tonight as well.. Thanks Vonnie the cheque is in the mail..

So today I played 'my music' and cooked all day.


Yummy slow cooked lamb casserole..


Fresh bread and bread rolls..





I took these pics after the spouse and I had sampled the rolls.. If Dave had been at home I would only have had photos of crumbs...

Thanks Vonnie the cheque really is in the mail *honest*...




My little car died yesterday.. I had gotten quite attached to my ancient little mazda. (even though I only owned it for 6 months) I really liked the fact that you only had to whisper the words petrol and wave an oily rag in its general direction...




Here is my new car...Yay!!!! shiny.. The newest car I have ever owned was an 88 magna.. This car was made in the .. drumroll please.... the gasp nineties.. Wow!!!!

My uncle has sold this shiny shiny car to me...

Thanks heaps!!!! The best thing about my new Mazda is that David can sit in it comfortably.. Yay..( he is 6 foot 3 and growing every day)

hehehehe

see more crazy cat pics





see more crazy cat pics

Weekly Winners #17

Here are My winners for this week..Yay!!!
There are more winners at Lotus' aka Sarcastic Mom
Happy Easter.....

Luckily I am Optimistic...

"Tis the season to be jolly" Tra la la la laa lalalaaaaaaar.. Ooops! Wrong commercial opportunity. I mean wrong religious festival aka holiday thingy.... *sigh*

Lucky for Jesus, His mother was a saint. He made it to adulthood, albeit a brief one *sighs again*

I am so close to axe murdering my teenage son that it isn't funny. The only thing that is keeping my son firmly anchored to this life is the fact that," I AM AN OPTIMIST!!!" Things in Casa Rockyponds must get better.. or for Frogs sake I am going to run away and join the circus...

Last year I watched a docco on ABC and it was all about brain development. Apparently toddlers brains and teenagers brains are eeerily similar. *cue spooky music*.

I would never ever ask Miss Amy (toddler) to light the woodheater in the kitchen..
I did ask David (teenager) to light the woodheater in the kitchen..

Ooops!!!

We have had a run of very hot weather and I haven't needed to light the fire for a while, so there were a couple of things on top of the fire-box.. A watering can was one of them..


And this my dear friends is just the thin end of the wedge...

Veronica writes most beautifully about her little brother....
Actually she describes the teenage boy annoyability to a T....

Yours Frustratedly Kim ...xoxox

All Children.. (cover your eyes)

Tracey from Why Bother, as part of her Easter Greetings to the Bloggiverse created this awesome piece of blingery..

To say that I am in total awe of her skills would be a massive understatement...

I am also extremely indebted to Tracey because I have reached the age of 42 and I only just now have found out where the easter eggs came from..

Thankyou Tracey.. Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!

wordless wednesday

You can see more wordless wednesdays here... Yay!!!

an update..

This Map shows the fires that are burning around the state.
Going:
Fire is spreading in one or more directions. Effective control strategies are not in place for the entire perimeter.


Contained:
Whole of fire perimeter is behind identifiable control lines. The fire is not out, active fire may be within the perimeter. Firefighting activities continue to extinguish the fire. The fire could breach control lines under difficult weather conditions

Patrol:
Fire is at a stage where firefighting resources are only required for patrol purposes


The red triangle in the middle of the map is the fire that has been worrying us.. But as you can see from this sky-shot today is a much nicer day, weather wise. It has started to drizzle as I write this. So fingers crossed people, that the drizzle turns into rain and helps our firies out..


cheers kim xx


edited to add.. the fire is now contained and it is still drizzling.. yay

Phew!!!

Phew!!! luckily the strong winds forecast for this afternoon haven't arrived ,Yet....

This is the view from the western side of my house. all my "weather comes from the west"

This is the smoke from a big fire roughly 30 or so kilometres away.. that is "as the crow flies" or as the fucking embers float, whichever way you like to look at it.. It is too farking close..


All is well at the moment.Even though it is still a stinking hot 34 degrees at 8.30 pm. (and that is just wrong...)
It is very still and the strong and gusty nor westerlies haven't arrived..

Yay...( I know I said that twice) but it IS hot..


So at the moment all is quiet on the Western Front...

Weekly Winners #16

Yay!!! Here are my winners for this week.. You can see more Weekly winners at Lotus' aka Sarcastic mom.. WooHoo!!!!

The Rocking Frog Stars.... Yay!!!!

I am not going to go into great detail awarding this AWARD... There aren't any rules or linky things attached to it.. this is just a laid back rocky frog star, ponds and all type award..

So without further ado!!!! Drrrrumroll Puurhhleeeease.

The Winners Are..

Bendy Girl.. for her post-- No special Treatment.

Tiff... for her post-- 5 things I sleep with

Maddy.. for her post-- small things

Lotus... because she rocks..

Julie.. for creating F.P.F.o.S

old knudsen for saying that I have the sexiest green eye since eric the cyclops

Fit Cat.. for her post ---chocolate..

Kelley... because she hates the hot weather as much as I do..

Casdok... for this post, which like most of casdok's posts make me think 'outside the square'

Bettina.. because she will pass it along to the coven, thus saving me heaps of time (hehehe)

Taz.. because of her consistently nice comments..

Xbox4NappyRash.. for having the balls to wank in public (sort of)

Veronica.. because she is my daughter and isn't really bossy(much)

Lou.. for sending tootsie rolls and making my heart sing with that small gift

Tex'sMissus... for quoting the Dalai Lama.....

Tracey... for her berry-misu recipe.. (and she will whinge if i forget her..hehehehehe)

Strange but true...

Happy Birthday Kelley... WooHoo

It is Kelley's birthday today hip hip hooray.So I was wondering just what do you give to a friend that you have never met????

I decided that I really didn't want to send her cyber chocolate because even though the thought was nice Cyber- chokkie really isn't that satisfying..(no guilt you see)

So because it was too late to organise a stripper to go to the Indian restaurant.. I could do the next best thing... Happy Happy Birthday Kelley....

Fancy that..

You Are Best Described By...

Farbstudie Quadrate By Wassily Kandinsky

What Famous Work of Art Are You?
I was having a browse through the world of blogthings because I enjoy the spontaneity of the answers to their quizzes. and also because I find them scarily accurate.. This quiz I took for fun with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. I answered the one question.. that is right .. one question, thinking that this will be different.. Well... I am slack jawed in amazement Kandinsky is one of my favourite artists... I am farking gobsmacked...* de do de do de do de do*

B.. is for BOOB..

The amazing Lotus aka sarcastic mom is hosting a (breast)feeding carnival.. My daughter the very bossy Veronica from Sleepless nights mentioned that maybe I should add my two cents worth..

My initial reaction was for goodness sakes Veronica what on earth could I possibly contribute to a breastfeeding discussion.I haven't breastfed for years..But then of course the seed was planted...and the eternally bossy and demanding eldest child of mine has got her own way again *sigh*

I never wear a bra at home ..Ever.. My boobs are huge they are enormously massively ample.I can, if provoked use them as weapons of mass destruction.. A full blown Tittie smack from me is very similar to being body slammed by Hulk Hogan...

At a Tas Rally once I was so pissed off by the small titties and perfect bums vying for the crown of wet t-shirt princess that I stormed the stage, milk filled breasts in hand and squirted the compere with milk.. I loudly declared that these were proper TITS... and then squirted the whole front row of hairy biker type men for good luck... hehehehe I got a dozen cans of vodka udls for that ... And a huge round of applause when I loudly asserted that boobs were for babies


I was young.I was pissed. (mum was baby-sitting Veronica) I was militant. I was sick and tired of it being ok to flash your tits if it was for the pleasure of men,, but breastfeeding mums were being made to feed their babies in stinky public toilets..

Below is a copy of a post I wrote last year on myspace..

sometimes I feel so old....

Luckily for me feelings of 'being old' are only fleeting.. and often are feelings of
self pity..Or maybe just hangovers??? who knows...who cares?...

But thats not what this blog is about at all.. this is about BREASTS and more importantly BREASTFEEDING And being able to breast feed in public, when
your baby needs to feed....below is a copy of my daughters blog....

Saturday, September 29, 2007

The Great Booby Fest

Ok I was recently over at Her Bad Mother, who had a link to The League of Maternal Justice who had these cute little buttons for me to stick on my blog.

Well yes they are cute but they are also meaningful. There will be a virtual nurse in on October 10th at 10am, to protest against Facebook deleting pictures of breastfeeding babies, but leaving up photos of half naked girls and pro-anorexia profiles.

You can get a button for your blog here.

Join in, show your support and breastfeed, bottlefeed, or reminicse about it on October 10th at 10am.....


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Now back to me..Kim ...I breastfed and was quite militant about being able to breastfeed in public... In the late eighties it was considered quite offensive
to whack the 'ol titty out in public and give the offspring a feed... never mind that
you could never see more than a centimetre of bare skin... and only ever get a glimpse of a milky nipple, before the offspring latched back on...gleefully hogging the aforementioned nipple...

It gave me the shits, that a prominent Hobart venue charged top dollar for a
'Los Vegas' type revue/musical/thingy.. with topless dancers wearing impossible
feathered headdresses, and not much more... and this was totally respectable..
yet a mother breastfeeding her child in public was viewed as disgusting...
and offensive...sigh...
So I was part of a breastfeeding protest 'feed in' with lots of mums coming together to feed their babes in public...

It saddens me that nearly twenty years later my daughter still suffers the same prejudices that I faced feeding her.. feeding my grandaughter...


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Okay maybe Veronica was right.. maybe I do have something to contribute to a discussion on breastfeeding.. but next time ok.. I think that I have shared a bit too much information here already..

cheers Kim xxx

Weekly Winners #15

Here are my winners for this week..

******* blogger has been playing up and I am only able to upload one image at a time... *sigh* So of course I forgot what I had uploaded and then uploaded the same image again...*sigh* Every second attempt I would get a google image error report.. with a please try again in 30 seconds..but. but. but. my pictures had VANISHED..PFFFFT into the void.. and so I had to start again... ad freakin infinitum.....

so after much mucking about here are my weekly winners...


*collapses in an exhausted heap*
hehehehehehe

Cheers Kim xxxx




Oh Ps. you can see more weekly winners here...

Favourite Photo Friday on Saturday

Yay!!! It is Saturday and that means that it is time for... Drumrollll Puhleeeease... Favourite Photo Friday on Saturday....

F.P.F.o.S is the brainchild of Julie... apparently julie is a pretzel eating hedonist *doh*



I have chosen these photos this week especially for Julie.. I have included some sky-shots because we share an obsession with the sky..I have also chosen some photos of the trees and stuff around my house because Julie mentioned that she liked the Aussie flora...

Too much info.. ok. *sigh*

Here is a dark sky shot that I took on Wednesday, I think that this shot mirrors my mood today..

I heard on the news today that the the 'Ruddy Government' as part of its cost cutting anti inflation measures, is going to abolish the annual carer payment bonus...

I heard this on the radio as I was driving to TAFE today. My first thought was 'typical'..

My next thought was Oh Fuck! That's Us! Shit Shit Shit... We need that money.. We really really need that money.. Because I am a full time carer, I was expecting to receive a $1600 cash boost in June this year, as we have received for the previous four years..

I wont go into details on how this decision will impact my family at the moment as I am feeling pretty gutted that any government would slash at the knees of the most Vulnerable members of society...Let alone an australian Labour government.. Bastardages...

But at the same time , Why am I not surprised??? It is so easy to cut the funds from disability payments or from programs aimed at helping families in crises .. Hell we are used to fucking living below the poverty line, and not having any services or support

I am crying now as I am writing this because it just isnt fair..I had actually been expecting this cut back but when I heard it this morning it was like a physical kick in the guts.. Truly I felt ill.. physically ill... I have been alternately sick or sooking.. All Day,, Bastards!!! I rarely get sooky and I never ever feel ill. but I think this decision might be enough to tip my scales..

Wordless Wednesday

You can see more Wordless Wednesday offerings Here or Here..

The new house, a partial update.

Veronica, Nathan and Miss Amy have settled in very nicely at their new home. Amy has been sleeping quite well in her new bedroom. So I am crossing my fingers that it keeps up.

The new house is on tank water, which means that all the water into the house comes from an above-ground rain water tank. To get the water into the house you need an electric pump. (this is a picture of ours)These pumps are pretty noisy so they are usually outside next to the tank.



Vonnie and Nathans pump was in the bathroom cupboard under the sink... mmm a very strange place for a pump... and it wasn't working *sigh* The water that was coming out of the taps was just a trickle.

Today the Spouse and our friend poppy Stan fixed the water pump.. It is still in the bathroom, it is still very noisy but it is working... Yay.... and the water is gushing out of the taps WooHooo!!!
Nathan and poppy Stan put the ridgecapping onto the shed roof, so now the shed is waterproof, (well from the top at least..)

I don't really want to write too much about Vonnie and Natty's new home because It is Veronica's story to tell and also cause Vonnie is a much better writer than me..

But I can tell you that in todays market it was a good buy. The soil looks like it is good fertile sandy loam.My green fingers are itching to play in that soil.. We think there might be a spring at the far corner of the block.I also think that there still might be one or two fruit trees in pots in my late grandfather's garden, that we can plant this winter.The possibilities are endless....

I am really proud of the two of them.. Veronica and Nathan are full of plans and I think that the both of them are walking a bit taller...

Yours excitedly Kim xxx

Blitzen Wooo farkin Hoooo!!!!!!

You Are Blitzen

Always in good spirits, you're the reindeer who loves to party down with Santa. Why You're Naughty: You're always blitzed on Christmas Eve, while flying! Why You're Nice: You mix up a mean eggnog martini.

Which of Santa's Reindeer Are You?

Weekly Winners #14

Here are my Weekly Winners.. YAY!

Join in the fun with Lotus aka Sarcastic Mom....

Favourite Photo Friday on Saturday

Here are my favourite photos for this week.
F.P.F.O.S is the brainchild of Julie...