Super good news

Checked the post box today and something from the family accountants?

A cheque from the ATO for $2500 – finally. This is for two super co-contributions that I put into our SMSF for ET – the wife.

I posted about this 12 months ago, the first contribution of $1000 was three years ago when the govt. was offering $1.50 for every $1.00 put into super up to $1000 for people below a certain income level, that’s $1500. With Labour having spent all the surplus Wayne Swan started his penny pinching crusade and the co-contribution was reduced to a dollar for a dollar which amounts  to $1000 –that adds up to $2500.

The exact amount is actually $2500.01, yep…two thousand and five hundred dollars and one cent.

More Pixie damage

Returned home Friday afternoon after a visit to the Vet with the cats.

Waiting for a visitor

Pixie expecting her friend Shyla.

It’s a dog’s life

Fashion headwear

For both humans and K9’s

Some kids never grow up…

ALDI: Bought a few items

No particular immediate need for any of them, just stocking up the work shop.



Pipe Wrench or Bolt Cutter $ 14.99

• Choose from 450mm Bolt Cutter with drop forged steel blades or
• 1.5” Pipe Wrench with inductive hardened teeth
  
  

Getting rid of freeloaders

One of the greatest threats to the health of poultry is mites – bird mites.

If birds are allowed to enter and roam the chook run area it’s likely you will end with with a mite infestation, this is particularly so in the summer months. This is one of the reasons why I built a annex extension onto the chook run.

Fortunately chooks are programmed to get rid of their freeloaders – they dust.

Speckles and Lilly, the new Pekins about 20 weeks old and been with us for about one month now. On the right is Misty and Ruby, they are Wyandotte’s about three years old.

We have had a lot of rain lately but they are able to still dust in dry soft dirt under the garden gazebo. This is one reason why I haven’t paved that area yet.