Progress and heading home

We left Merrijig not long after 9am and headed for home.

We had a stop on Hay to find a geocache here

I have huge difficulty with these but the hint helped greatly here.

The PO is a lovely building, there was flooding here, the river was very high and the surrounds covered on water from the rain we had the day before. There was also heavy rain and trees down in Merrijig, we were blissfully unaware! We did see one car on its roof over off the side of the road, no idea what happened there either. 😳 

We arrived on Sorrento in good time and met Carleens hubby at a cache there I hadn't been able to find and he has. After a few minutes I could see it thank goodness, it took longer to get the lid back in place !

Looking up the street from the cache site 

Carleen and her hubby headed for home,  I decided to try for another cache I hadn't had luck with years earlier

I found it no problems this time 😄 this is the view nearby 

The cache is just near the railway line, this us part of the railway from Drysdale to Queenscliff,  often steam trains run along here. The rail line Drysdale to Geelong is now a walking/cycling path with lots of caches.

I did do dome stitching when we were away, this is the progress I have made with Tea and Cake a Judy Newman pattern.

I have reached the ends but there is still filling to do on the sides and another row of hexie flowers. Was great to get a second floor view.

I went out to get something from the car and saw these visitors

Back home now, did some weeding today and finished reading this book

Was a good read.

There was a wonderful  bookshop in Mansfield, I'm an old building with a bay window and creaky wooden floors. They has a set of books I have mostly read, I bought the last 2 in the series and then went back a few days later and got the rest!

A little extravagant but I enjoyed these and hope to read them again.

Happy stitching. 

Geocaching

Our next day out and about was to take advantage of the nearly fine weather

first stop at a park up the Mt Buller Rd, the cache took ages to find

Beautiful stream down rhe bottom there 

The kookaburra was watching us

Still some great colour on the trees

Further up the road we found this 

How good is that?? We found the cache nearby. Looks like the tree has grown and is pushing the door out of shape

we left a letter for the gnomes - I think it is aimed at kids but us big kids joined in too 😁

Next stop was over the road from Mansfield Zoo .  We could smell the bison before we saw them! Then on to another  no photo,  and another, but we got a bit lost and ended up at Gough Bay on Eildon.

Beautiful place for lunch not too many rain spots happened.

Back to the cache we missed

Next to a water measuring thingie  we found the cache after a while.

We even got a little sunshine 

Last cache for the day, over the road from rhe airport. 

I had a walk around the complex before dark

A little visitor

Phone is playing up again now so I will finish up until next post.

Happy stitching.

Out and about -photo heavy

We have taken advantage of the lovely weather and been out caching 

There was a cache at this war memorial 

Lots of rocks with names under this pine tree 🌲 

Lovely memorial walk with a rock slab and plaque for each war the Australians attended

Was a beautifully quiet place

We then went on to Bonne Doon 

There was a cache under this bridge, we didnt even attempt it!!

Such a beautiful sky today

Eventually we headed back to Mansfield

The info centre was closed by the time we fot there, but we made the supermarket and stocked up.

A bit of trivia we learned was that the main street is wide because back in the day the space was needed for the bullock teams to turn around!

Blogger is mot cooperating on my phone so will finish up for now. 

Off and away and FNWF

Yesterday Carleen and I got the ferry from Queenscliff to Sorrento and then drove towards Merrijig.

We stopped ro look for a cache at a chocolate making place -success - 

The surrounding countryside is beautiful.   

We stopped for a late lunch at Yea, and another cache 😁

The cache was on the rail trail picknicked near the train station.

We drove then to Merrigij and to where we are staying

The view out the window thru the fly screen 😁.

Last night was FNWF and I didn't get a lot done by the time we settled in and had dinner I was just about ready for bed, but I did get some wool and needles out, cast on for a fingerless glove, did 4 rows and made a mistake so I had to pull it out and start again.

This is where I finished last night.

Tou can see the other Friday Nighters over at Cheryl blog. 

Nearly time once again to be getting dinner.

Happy stitching.

This week

 I have been doing bits and pieces, the vest for Finn is finished and has been delivered, the book case is a bit closer to being finished

the strips on the side need to be added and then it is done, I was going to add more sashings but think it is big enough.

the heap of knitted squares are now a blanket, all sewn together and a crochet edge added, ready to go to KOGO

Last Wednesday's Anthology block

Last Thursday evening I backed out in hubbies car at about 6pm to deliver dinner to Adam and Beth and misjudged the driveway and collected the end of the fence. I wasn't going that fast I didn't think, but a good third of the wall has fallen down  and hubbies car is damaged. The car has been to the repair shop, I was told the damage was not that bad and it can easily be fixed, we are waiting to hear more. Same with the front fence. We might go for a colour bond fence across the front and a gate, I will feel a bit safer after  hubbies wheelie walker was taken from the front of the house.

I was tidying up and found these strips hanging behind the door - they should have been made into a Row by Row back in 2017! The Bellarine Quilters had a challenge back them and mine has never been finished! Maybe this year.

One of the orchids on the back deck has  beautiful flowers at present

Out in the garden, the bird feeders are mostly frequented by possums I thinl!!

Two blocks for Anthology this week. Those 1 inch squares and half square triangles are not easy to work with!!

I have been in the garden today and all the buddleia bushes are finally pruned.

I have attached one of the bird boxes to the fence. I had a look inside, it has a soft base of plant material in the bottom, then bits of plastic and chocolate wrappers and I egg!! We have galahs using the other box, they raised a young one, I hope the egg will be ok and that the birds come back to the box.

The other box is still in place, the one on the fence used to be attached under this box, it fell of in the windy weather this week.

I had better make a move and get some dinner under way.

Tomorrow night is FNWF you can sign up over at Cheryll's blog, Cheryll is our lovely host.

I will in Merrigij for the next week 

In the autumn/winter

and the summer. I haven't been here for many years so will be interesting.

Right I really had better go and start dinner. 😄

Happy stitching.