Horsing Around and Other Matters

This evening I was reading Foxs Lane Blogspot, and I told Kate that her photo looked like Golden Hessian. I got her wondering what I meant. If I got you wondering what on earth I was talking about, I have a photo!

Now, onto other things ... Today, I went to the Taralga Hotel .. Est. 1876 (here), on our (the girls) way back from meeting my husband, his friend Mick and my son Angus, who stayed the night at the Wombeyan Caves camping ground, and had lunch with them at the above hotel. I had to share with you this glorious carpet. If they had cameras operating in any corner of the hotel, they probably are wondering why this mad woman took a photo of their carpet ...

While the boys camped at Wombeyan Caves for the night, my daughter and I stayed with Mick's wife and his lovely son at their property at Binda, and I fiddled with my craft and got a topping up of  TV shows, watching the Lifestyle Channel until very late, and admiring the work of Trinny and Susannah and their Women After Divorce Episode where they completely changed the fashion sense of two women.

Photos of recently completed knitting to follow soon.

And now for some other photos of what has been consuming me lately.

Meet "Princess." She likes eating dodgy windfall quinces, chasing Misty the pony, and eating hand picked Paspalum grass. She is rather lovely to look at, but seems to have a little bit of a cranky streak and wonders why she cannot come out of the paddock and eat the grass around the house on a lead as Misty can. Could have something to do with her size and her abhorrence for being caught.

And what have I been buying in my wandering of the op shops of Goulburn, you may also ask ... Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.  I have my mother's copy but the spine was broken ... so this for $1 made perfect sense.

And also Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott literally threw itself at me, arriving at my feet after falling from the bookshelf in the store. This was $2. If you are interested in this book, I have googled and found it in Project Gutenburg here.
 

And this now sitting on my china cabinet, from the Salvos in Auburn Street, Goulburn for about $2, slightly marked, but lovely all the same.

And from Tony's Second Hand Store in Verner Street, Goulburn ... 

And on a sad note, my cousin called me this evening to let my family know that their lovely dog Dana had been bitten by probably a brown snake on Saturday afternoon at their farm, near their shearing shed. My son Angus had fallen in love with this dog, has wanted puppies from her, and has even told me rather secretly that he kissed her as she rode on the four wheel motorbike with him. He will be utterly devastated at her loss when I tell him in the morning before school as the call came after he hit the sack.

Our sympathies to all the little boys and girls who have loved this dog. May she rest in peace, chasing foxes in the sky.

I've added today's post to Her Library Adventures Flea Market Finds because today, I think my post qualifies!
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