Showing posts with label Lancefield Show 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lancefield Show 2013. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Lancefield show / Starwood Quilters book club

I have recently joined Starwood Quilters  STARWOOD QUILTER    book club.
This month we are reading the book " State Fair " by Earlene Fowler.



Susan from Starwood chooses quilt blocks for us to make.
 These blocks are relevant to what is happening in the book each month.
Because our town was having their local show I thought I would share it on here.

The Lancefield Show animals and activities

Our town has a population of about 1200 people.
We are a small rural town that plans things together.
We had our local town show today.  It was beautiful sunny weather.
We have lots of food stalls, show bags, pig races, horse events, races, craft stalls, tractor pulls, sheep shearing, woodchopping, motorbike trials etc.
The local landcare group invited the local zoo to attend. Well it's not a normal Zoo. It's not open for the public to visit. It is an educational zoo where school aged children can go and help. They have groups of 10 each day. This is so they can spend time with the animals & teaching the children about native wildlife.
What a great idea. They even do birthday parties. How fantastic.

They held informative talks about our local wildlife. We did have a good day.
Enjoy the photos.

4 hour feeds for the kangaroo

A little bit  of grass too.

An Echidna

Now for the Koala

Everyone's favourite... The Koala!!!!!!





Our national animals

A lovely Echidna. We have had one of these near our back door too. We just gave it water, let it rest & it went on its way.

A laughing kookaburra. We actually have one or two in our back yard for the 2nd year in a row. It's great to listen to.

A cockatoo. These are all around.

Our cute wildlife

Fruit bat

Ring tailed possum

Turtle


More local wildlife

A quokka . Cute

A black headed snake... 

A little penguin. Not quite from this area but our rivers lead to the bay at Port Phillip which is only about an hour away. We still need to look after them.

A goanna

A blue tonged lizard

Animals from our local area

A dingo

A Barn Owl

A 34 year old  green frog

A brown mouthed.       .


Quilts on display at the show




Nikki's Tractor Pull

Romsey Shire Tractor

Nikki driving

Nikki having fun. Girl power.

Nikki pulled the weight for about 85 metres.... Well done

Tractors at the show

A very old tractor still works

The Old Lancefield Fire Truck

A tractor pull in action

And another guy having fun


Tractors at the show

Massey Ferguson tractor.
We used to live near the main factory in Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
 

John Deere tractor



Fordson tractor


My good friends son, James' show entry

James is only 3 years old and had to take part in the local town show
James called this parsnip the Octopus

Their lovely tasting free range eggs

My friend Nikki's produce entries did well


Mixed selection straight from Nikki's garden

Home made jams

Homemade tomato sauce
Her silver beet entry


Animals on show

The Alpacas

Black faced sheep

Bunny rabbits

Cow & calf

Pet rabbits