Hi everyone!
Well what a wild and woolly past week we've had over here on the south-eastern side of Australia. And it isn't over yet they tell us! Not a lot of people equate Australia with being freezing cold but yes, we do get snow, we do get under zero temperatures (celcius) even here in Sydney too! So glad we didn't have a footy (AFL) game to go to over the weekend because I do not think I could sit at the SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground) in our member seats. Check these news photos out, only a couple of hours drive from where we live in the far north west of Sydney's outer suburbs!
Blue Mountains residents woke up to a winter wonderland today (Saturday) as cold weather saw snow fall overnight.
The Bureau of Meteorology was predicting a maximum temperature of 5 degrees Celsius for Katoomba on Saturday, with the temperature expected to climb only one degree higher for Sunday's maximum.
The wind has been so bad, I've swept up 2 otto bins full of debris from around the back of the house as well since last Wednesday. Glad the bin was emptied Friday morning. Yes it is that time of year for the Jacaranda to drop it's leaves/seed pods. And yes it's that time of year we do traditionally get high winds, particularly leading into September. But this has been unusually arctic the BOM tell us and don't we know and feel it! Kind of glad I don't own that house up in Katoomba these days! However, how pretty does this scene look! I use to live not far from that place. Two snowy winters living in Katoomba was enough for me not to want to live there for ever ☺ Though I do prefer the cold.
Saturday morning we did have some sunshine so hubby and I spend the morning building our kitties a 'climbing gym' from wood left over from our recent house repairs. We nipped to Bunnings and bought extra sand for their sand pit and another sheet of artificial turf to go over where the 'problem child', Nibbles, started to dig holes a month ago. This saw him end up at the Vet's in an emergency. He was sedated, xrayed, bloods taken and a few other things done to him. Daft kitty got too much of that fine dirt in his bowels and blocked himself up. Eww!! But, hundreds of dollars later, he's fine again and he can no longer dig in the dirt. He's found a new love of his sandpit LOL. They love their new structure! Now if the wind would die down, they may just spend more time out there instead of under my bed's doona!
Yes, Pip's a bit of an 'acrobat' ROFL.
The Herbster was very happy with the results of our recycling of discarded wood! Me thinks Mr Nibbles is happy too!
And little Miss Pip loves that she still has the logs in there too!
I hope you have a wonderful week, thanks for stopping by, watch out for a new tutorial soon! I'll be using some new Stampin' Up! products. Not long til it's all for sale. That will be on 4th September, it's not that far away!
