Lovely summer's weekend

 After last weekend's deluge, the weekend we've just enjoyed was almost sublime. Temperatures in the high 20s, lots of blue sky and sun. Steve and I shared the rather challenging job of getting the lawns back under control and these were finished off this afternoon. I love mowing the bottom paddocks, though I'm not sure the cane toads of various sizes that start crawling and hopping out of the grass as I cut it, do.

 Shane had bagged up as many of the mangoes as he could last week to protect them from the hungry mouths of the flying foxes and possums (and, I suspect, rats as well). He picked as many as he could earlier in the week and Steve made a delectable mango cheesecake last night when Glen came over for a spa, wines, dinner and movie.

And over the past few weeks we've been visited by a flock of more than 30 yellow-tailed black cockatoos which enjoy crunching up the young pine cones, to extract the oily seeds, which they seem to love. This pic is not very good but it does give you an indication of the number of cockatoos that have been snacking on our cones.