News & Updates from Vicki Avcin ~ AusCrafts · Page 65
Just a couple of months ago we were celebrating our old girls 22nd Birthday. Just two months later she crossed over the Rainbow Bridge.
Every year for the past few years weve been saying, will she make it to the next birthday and sadly this year, no, she wont make the next one.
I originally purchased her for my daughter for her 9th Birthday so as hubby pointed out, shes been a part of my life for two thirds of it roughly.
I kind of inherited Miss Kitty when my daughter finished school and moved out when she was working.
So saying goodbye is heart ache and gut wrenching. It was so hard to say goodbye and Id made the decision many years ago that whenever the time came, she would be cremated and come home to be with me forever.
I was her carer in the last few weeks as she slowly went downhill and its left a huge gap in my days not picking her up and taking her out to toilet, bring her water bowl to her, give her lots of extra treats and keeping her brushed and cuddles of course.
She is now home in her gold urn, and will sit on the writing desk in the bedroom along with Bubby Munchkin……..the first things I see in the morning and the last things I see at night.
Kitty is the last furbaby we will have (although we are still babysitting the granddaughters kitty), as weve been tied to the house to feed and care for the kitties (Ive had cats all my life), and this will give us more freedom to up and go to visit grandkids and travel.
They all now live in our hearts and wonderful memories and hopefully when our time comes we will get to have those cuddles and hear those meows again one day.
Love you Miss Kitty.
Our resident kangaroos have had a population boom this last breeding season and we are just starting to see the joeys leave their mums pouches the last few weeks.
After showers of rain, there is always a puddle on our front car pad and its a favourite with the wildlife around here.
Just recently we looked out the bedroom to see one of the mummas with her joey out in the puddle.
I think she got sick of carrying that around in her pouch and decided it was time to kick bubba out.
We did see a couple of the mummas out in the yard while it was raining and the joeys seem quite bewildered by getting wet.
They were shaking their heads and trying to hide behind trees as the mums wouldnt let them back in their pouches.
I guess its not a nice as a nice warm dry pouch when you are put out in the big wide world.
My grandson Riley, started doing Taekwondo a few months ago and last Saturday he did his first grading. There were 42 kids in the grading and my little man walked away with the High Achiever Award for the white/yellow grading.
Well done all whites and yellows.
What a great effort today.Extra special congratulations to Riley Woods of Reeves Greenbank for receiving the High Achievement Award. It was a pleasure to watch and the effort put in shone through. We are all so proud of him and his Aunty (my daughter) is just bursting with pride as she held 3 Australian titles in martial arts a few years ago.
Look forward to following his journey in the coming years, I think great things are ahead of him.
Granddaughter Bella Rose celebrated her 3rd birthday last week. The brief from her Mum on what she likes was the Wiggles, colour pink and dinosaurs. She was having a dinosaur themed party, so the challenge was on as to what to give her.
A friend of ours makes all sorts of crafty things and Id seen a little bag she had at one of the craft shows recently and asked if she could help out.
Well, she helped alright, a cute little bag with dinosaur pink scaled pattern inside and dinosaur pattern on the outside.
Perfect! I made Bella a dinosaur card, and put a hairbrush, some bangles , a little pink purse and some plastic dinosaurs in the bag.
According to Mum, she loved the bag and takes it everywhere with her…even to bed!. Bellas mum made a dinosaur cake and each guest at her party was given a little box with some edible paint yourself cupcakes….
Dinosaur theme of course.
In January this year I applied to be an Adult Leader with our local PCYC Emergency Service Cadets and was accepted.
The ESC is for young people from 12 to 17 years who think they would like to become part of an emergency service (Police, Ambo, Firefighter, Volunteer Marine Rescue, State Emergency Service etc).
It is part of Queensland Fire and Emergency Services. Each week their training revolves around one of the services and learning some aspect of that job. Last week they learnt about fire behaviour and the cadets were asked to build their house on a burn simulator table.
This table bends to replicate the terrain with hills and flat areas etc. Each cadet put their house where they wanted it and then were given a variety of items such as stones, vegetation both green and cured, sand, cotton wool (highly flammable plants) which they put around their houses.
They were then asked if they thought their houses were safe or not in the event of a bushfire. A lot thought they had safe houses. Then into the class room to learn how fire doubles its speed going up a hill and slows going downhill and the reasons why.
After that we had a few less safe houses! Then back outside to light it up.
They saw how those who had a good clear area around their houses with stones/sand and no vegetation lasted a lot longer, as did those that were on a downslope (when the fire was lit above them) but those that had built on a hill (with the fire burning up the hill) and those that had a lot of vegetation around them burnt fairly quickly.
They also wore the protective clothing firefighters wear and found out that the clothing is heavy and hot. Mind you this was done in the evening when it was a bit cooler and they said they couldnt imagine what it would be like on a hot day at a bushfire!
But the cadets enjoyed the night and are keen to do some more exercises fire related. I had them doing hose drills a couple of weeks ago and another week they learnt about being on the water with VMR.
Thoroughly enjoying my new role within QFES.