Nearly a new year lets hope it's a wet one.

What can I say who else get a Christmas present like this, this is the biggest rat I have seen in this area I have seen a bigger one running along the railway tracks in the underground in Sydney but wildlife is in short supply since the drought this time last year we had a mass of  kookaburras,  corellias and masses of doves, even the bat numbers are down from years gone by. Tom Tom is a very good rat catcher but I wish he would  bury them in the back yard instead of leaving them in the lounge room floor.

To hot outside today so I took some inside pictures

The Christmas tree

and stockings I found some lollies in the toe of one of them.

Today was a bit cooler so Tom and I sat outside after raking up leaves, but they keep falling

Tom is no help at all good at supervising

The garden is doing ok being kept alive with water from the washing machine.

even the african violets are still alive they are the neighbours, they are overseas and I'm babysitting.

and red reflections are everywhere  being a common sight now and smoke still fills the air.