Firstly, I have to update you on the ongoings in my life since I have not updated for more than a month.
Had not have the mood to blog at all!
My morning sickness has passed, thankfully. I do not vomit every evening now. However, I am still off some foods and I still have palpitations every day.
Baby is 18 weeks now and I can feel him/her moving. Only a little, though. It’s rather ticklish. An anatomy scan is due next Monday and we will hopefully be able to find out if it’s a girl or a boy.
I’ve been knitting more though progress is slow. Have been dyeing yarn too! No pictures yet though.
Mum and Lulu came down for a visit. Mum is leaving soon but Lulu will stay on for a week more. We went to the zoo and also drove down to Margaret River (5 hours from home) and spent some time in the countryside. We stayed on a farm. The farm experience wasn’t too bad. Could have been better if the people there were to be more friendly.
When we were driving home, we got into (another) car accident. !@#$%^&*(
More on that later in the post with pictures.
For now, I shall post pictures of our trip.
We were at a cafe on the way down to Margaret River and this duck was patiently waiting for us to feed it.
Sunshine found something interesting!
Yeah, nice butt!
This is one of my favourite photos.
Mum and Sunshine are fillies. Hehehe.
Look at her shoes! Soooo tiny~!
Me handing a chick to Sunshine for tea to observe.
Orphan mutton lamb.
A Clydesdale horse. It’s rather small for its breed, I think.
Billy the (fat) Border Collie.
Bottle feeding a lamb.
The forests in Margaret River are amazing. I cannot, for the life of me, remember what kind of forest is this. I want to say that they are Jarrah Trees but I know they aren’t. Nad told me but I forgot!
..9…10 a BIG FAT HEN!
An orphan joey… SOOOOO cute!
That is all for the farm stay. I didn’t take many pictures because… well.. I didn’t.
We went to a Shearing shed and wool shop in Yallingup (on the way back home). They had sheep shearing and sheepdog herding demonstrations. The farmer, Steve Butterly, was very friendly and very detailed in his demos.
I even bought a bag of raw merino fleece (just off the sheep!) to spin! I have been advised by my very loving knitting and spinning friends not to scour and spin the raw fleece just yet though. Because my tetanus jab is not up to date and also, being pregnant, I could risk getting tetanus from the dirt in the fleece. Would have to wait till next year after bubby is born, I guess.
Anyway, here are the pictures to Yallingup Shearing Shed.
Docile Merino sheep, fasted for at least 12 hours so that it will not be cruel to hold them in this position while they are being sheared.
Shearing in progress.
All in one piece! A sheep usually gives 6kg of fleece. Shearing it all in one continuous piece would allow the farmer to skirt the fleece easily.
A Border Collie is chasing them from behind!
Kelpies love to walk on sheep.
Sunshine touching the wool on the lamb.
MmmMMmmm.. soft merino wool!
Lulu loves the smell of lanolin.
Happy happy bubby!
Now on to the stupid accident I was talking about before.
We were traveling home and were about 3 hours away from home when the cars in front of us stopped suddenly. Nad applied an emergency brake and managed to stop in time. A ute (truck) behind us also stopped in time. However, we heard a screeching noise and then BANG! Our car was slammed in the back and we lurched forward and slammed into the car in front of us!
The car in front of us was not badly damaged so they drove off. The ute behind us didn’t suffer much damage either as the vehicle has more metal than plastic. The stupid asshole woman who slammed into the ute had it the worst. Her car’s bonnet was smashed in and was leaking coolant.
No one was hurt in the accident, thank God.
Our rear. Badly smashed inwards.
Our front wasn’t so badly damaged.
The woman’s car. (She’s not the one pictured above.)
She must have swerved in attempt to avoid hitting the ute. That’s why her car faced the kerb.
This idiotic woman must have been traveling at a higher speed than the road conditions (wet and rainy) allowed. Before we stopped, we were going at 60km/h. She must have been going at AT LEAST 80km/h.
Can you imagine that our damage was suffered THROUGH the ute? If she were to hit us directly, we would have much worse damage than this! Even with the ute as a ‘buffer’ and absorbing most of the impact, we still had it pretty bad!
What pissed me off was that ALL SHE DID was to sit on the verge to CRY. I understand that she is in shock (Hello? So am I?) but please, if you are old enough to hold a license, you should understand the responsibilities that come with it! If you cause an accident and you are unhurt, at least have the decency to check on the people in front of you! Not sit and cry! Crying doesn’t solve anything!
She refused to show us her license to copy down her details and said that her parents were on the way. When her parents came, they too refused to show us her license and said to wait for the police to arrive instead.
What asshats.
They refuse to admit that she was driving faster than she should. Even though any fool would be able to tell from the extent of the damages.
What saddens me the most is that we JUST paid off our mortgage for this car. If you recall, we had another accident when I was 19 weeks pregnant with Sunshine. That car had to be scrapped and my guess is that this car too, has to be scrapped. It’s like a demise of a family member. I loved this car! 
Now we MIGHT have to owe banks again to get another car. This is unnecessary expenditure through no fault of ours!
We’ll be able to claim from our insurance company. So at least that’s a relief.
Sigh.
