WildLife

Pete blogging for parents - who continue to be too busy to blog.  :)

I took the boys out to the farm for a visit as it has been quite a while.  Mum is suffering grandchild withdrawal symptoms since the Toowoomba Bryants (Jim) have moved to New Zealand and the Dalby Bryants (Les) have moved to Brisbane.

We got to the farm Friday night in time for dinner and soon had the boys packed into bed for the night.  We knew they would be up early as they always are at the farm, and Grandma promised the boys a walk.  The next morning the boys were off with Grandma at the crack of dawn and were back quite a while later with tales of flooded creeks and wild pigs.  Apparently they saw a mother pig and babies.  Lagoon creek is still running from rain which finished more than a week ago.  The whole countryside is soaked and it is lovely to see it that way for a change.  Luckily, Mum & Dad had the house dam dug out just before all the rain hit, so it is now nice and deep.

In the afternoon, we went down to the dam and saw a snake swimming along the creek where it followed the road.  We were able to walk along at a safe distance and observe the snake's excellent swimming action.
After the dam it was bath time, dinner time and then off to church.  Unfortunately I let the big boys pack their own shoes and it seemed that Alex packed only gumboots - now very wet and muddy.  As grandma had nothing to fit him, it was off to church with bare feet.  Not to worry I supposed not many people would notice once we were sitting down.  The boys picked our seat - right at the very front of the church.  Then a lady asked Mum if she would do the offertory procession with the boys.  So I reckon the whole church saw the poor little urchin Alex who had no shoes!
The boys behaved themselves reasonably well on the bribe of ice-cream at MacDonalds if they were good.
Harry was a bit silly, but what do you expect from a 2 year old ?   :)