I was on my way home from Tennant Creek at the start of April. I went to an opening of an exhibition of paintings by the Tennant Creek Brio in Alice Springs. The airport in Alice Springs is full of parked airplanes.
George and Cyrus arrived the day after I got home. They had driven all the way from Newcastle in Cyrus’ new ute. They were a huge help to John building the shed. They sawed up and moved all the big logs back to our place.
Lara came just before George and Cyrus left. She came with us to pottery in Mossman.
Laxmi has been taking lots of photos of the amazing clouds we have been having and finding them in her cloud book.
The sky was especially amazing the evening Tim and Louie were visiting and we all walked down to the Labyrinth.
We took them to the creek as well.
Tim helped put up some of the shed posts and Louie had a tractor ride.
We had morning tea with Cat and Will and Cosi and Thiango and Tim and Louie and Lara.
Varsha and Lara and Laxmi did some gouache paintings and used the pottery palette Varsha made.
We went to the creek with Lara before she left.
We had lovely gifts from neighbours: a lily and a box of avocados.
Thiango came for a sleepover and we had burgers for dinner.
We dropped Lara off at the airport and stopped for sushi on the way home.
We had a visitor behind the bathroom door for a day. She seemed to have eaten one of our chickens and wasn’t able to go back to where she usually lived.
We have also been the lucky recipients of lots of grapefruits. This tiny graceful green treefrog posed on one.
We went and caught up with our homeschooler friends for the first time in a while.
John went to Kowanyama and made it home even though it rained while he was there and the river came up.
We tidied up and redecorated Laxmi’s desk.