Hail stones, birds and cream tea

Last weekend saw our first hail storm. Large hail stones spread like confetti all over the green lawns as they struck the roof noisily. Celebrating our full rain water tanks and nourishment for our garden, we planted shrubs and watched them begin to shoot in the rich, volcanic soil and warm weather that is Queensland.

Lorikeets, King parrots and cockatoos cheekily looked on us as they wiped out the sunflower seeds, prompting a second breakfast!  Our daughter, Natalie managed to coach a king parrot to eat seeds from close to where she was standing. 

 The previous day I had woken up at 5 in the morning with sunlight streaming through the curtains and had startled two wallabies munching.  They stared at me for a while before hopping away.

Later that morning, we took photographs of a country tea with chocolate cake, lemon tart, banana and carrot cake to load on my Facebook page.  Wild flowers picked from the garden, made a colourful display. I was reminded of the heritage of the building which was originally a diary and then a tearoom.  The diary farmer used his cream for tea and cream scones which they served up to the public.  I was reminded of all the empty plastic containers of strawberry jam that I originally found in my clean up when I first arrived at the Hut.  There is a lot you can tell from people's rubbish and what they don't discard!

The story of the Bavarian Hut has quickly unfolded and it will take time before its history is revealed...