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G'day there, I call myself "Sunshine" because I live in the Sunshine State of Australia.  We Queenslanders are also called "banana benders. " 
Queensland has the Tropic of Capricorn running through it so this makes our days "beautiful one day and perfect the next", as quoted on the tourist brochures .

I have been married to a wonderful man for 39 years, we have two sons and two daughters and five grandchildren.  Our family has and always will be our number one in life.  
I like crafts of all kinds, have sewed and knitted a mountain of stuff.  I like machine knitting as its much faster for me to do, have had machines for over thirty years, way before everyone had a computer.  My computer is my favourite hobby now,  love messing around with graphic programs and making web pages too of course.  My grandchildren always know where to find me, they go to the computer room first.   They reckon Nan is always on the Internet.  I reckon why not, everyone can just get used to that fact.  There is a whole new world out there, the world of cyber space.   Gardening also takes up a lot of my time, we have a big yard full of trees, shrubs, and all sorts of plants.  There was no garden here when we bought the place only two trees. 

The area that I reside in is called the "South Burnett".  A rich farming area famous for peanuts.  The town where I live is about a two and a half hours car drive from the Capital - Brisbane.  The area has rich red volcanic soil and an altitude of 431 meters above sea level.  This makes it ideal for growing peanuts, maize, navy beans, olives, dubosia, grapes, and stone fruit.  Other crops are grown as well but they would be the main ones.  The white peanut silos tower above the town and are a famous landmark.   Click on the link to the left to learn more about the area.
Click on the peanut van icon  to buy our world famous nuts and learn more about peanuts.

The red soil here is about impossible to wash out of white clothes, so an enterprising couple devised a way to dye clothes with the dirt, they have a range of mud gear.  The emu icon will take you to their site.

There is beauty all around and we do enjoy watching the wild birds feed in our yard. It amazes me how brightly coloured they are, yet so well camoflaged. You wouldn't believe how hard they are to see up in the trees.
To My Garden
His splendor is above the heavens and the earth.