Hi Everyone,
Sorry I haven't been on here much lately. I have a lot of crazy things going on in my life. I am hoping to have the house on the market for Christmas but I am not the only party involved so we will see. I have applied for university next year and I hope I get in. It has been so long since I studied...I hope I remember how. I have applied for a Dental degree

This time of year in Oz is so crazy, everyone wanting to get together for a party before Christmas. It has been rather warm lately high 30's with humidity. Great beach weather.

My sister is coming up for Christmas and we are going to spend as much time at the beach as possible. I have booked a campsite for 5 days by a beautiful fresh water creek in an awesome location for an amazing $50. How good is that!! I am hoping to see New Year's in this year at the Woodford Folk Festival which is only a 15 minute drive away through the forestry.

I had an interesting weekend in Canberra with family this weekend just passed. Was having a great time until a game of backyard badmington ended in injury....
My young cousin, Erin hit the ball into a tree above the fence and in typical Karen style I without thought climbed to retrieve the ball.... this is were the fun begins....I climbed the fence and up into the tree to retrieve the ball but made the stupid mistake of relying on one grip.... the one on the branch of the tree.....and as you can probably guess the branch broke and I fell backwards and impaled my bum on some rusty rienforced meshed (that was pushed into the ground along the edge of the garden to keep their rabbit off the garden) and followed this up with a backwards roll and then tried to stand on my feet.... I could put minimal weight on my left leg and in typical Karen style told everyone that I was alright. It wasn't until I was dripping blood on the lawn that I thought maybe someone should look at it. My poor Aunty was the lucky one and she was horrified. She wanted to take me to the hospital but again typical me, I said it was fine, took some painkillers and sculled two glassed of champaigne. In hindsight I probably should have gone to the hospital but I didn't want to spoil dinner. My injury continued to bleed all of the evening. I am going to the doctor's today.... better late then never I guess.

I am hoping I will be able to go back to work tomorrow. I am a bit disappointed though as I don't think I will be able to play touch footy for a while, but who knows we will see.

I hope you are all getting in the mood for Christmas festivities. I am planning on just making the most of all the tropical fruit in Oz for Christmas this year.....mangoes, lichees, peaches, apricots, plums, watermelon, cherries... YUMMMMMMM!!!!! Most Aussies do a seafood Christmas but I don't really like seafood... which is terribly slack as we have an awesome freshly caught market here in Queensland.

Have fun everyone and take care,



Karen

Here are some recent fav's:

Wow, what a week. So many up's and down's..... Friday made up for the rest of the week though. I go given a kayak recently and I finally got to christen it on Friday.
I was supposed to be pouring concrete with my Dad but due to circumstances beyond our control, it had to be postponed to this Friday So we loaded up the kayaks (Dad has one too) and headed up the beach in his old 4WD. I have never seen so many dolphins!!! I saw at least 30....it was just magic. We went kayaking on the Mermaid Lagoon and then before heading home we kayaked on the surf side of Bribie Island as the waves were very small. It was while we were out on the ocean that a dolphin came up near us.... I was so excited ... and I have so much fun catching the waves into the beach with the kayak.

Got to take the good times with the bad... but thank goodness for the good times

I wish you all a wonderful week.

Take care,


Karen


I would like to thank so very generous friends for features this week.
Thankyou

Below is a feature of some spectacular pieces of art from so fabulous artists!! Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful art

Hi Everyone,
Next week I get a year older and I am escaping to the Great Outdoors to celebrate around a campfire with my besties!! I am heading to a beautiful place in Western Queensland, called Carnarvon Gorge. It is a girl's only camp, so we will run a muck, no doubt. Pity help the other campers!!! I drive off early Sunday morning, with an eight hour + drive ahead of me. The only problem with Oz, it is so bloody big!! I still haven't got my favourite lens for my camera back, but I am living in hope that someone will call very soon!!

My last trip to this part of Oz was about 10 + years ago, oh how time flys
Here are some old picture of Carnarvon Gorge:


I am still sick with the flu, but I am going regardless I will just have to pack heaps of tissues

Have fun everyone and I will catch up when I get back


I have loved everyone's recent additions Hear are some of my fav's from the last week or so :

To get you in the mood for some beautiful Aussie landscapes I have added some links to some classic Aussie songs [link] [link]




















I hope you all enjoyed the road trip. Thank you everyone featured for your beautiful photos!!!

Karen

A feature to beautiful red




Thank you to for this beautiful skin