My mom had a terrible falling accident and it sent her to Shock Trauma in University of Maryland Medical Center. I spent a lot of time there visiting and staying with her. On one occasion Laura took me in and we parked near a spot we had been wanting to...
John rejoined Facebook and on her birthday, told Miranda, “Nappy Birthday.” Not sure if that was a typo or a comment that she is having her birthday shortly after giving birth to Ezra.
PERTH It was the day I was dreading since I arrived. The day that I have experienced a few times now since John and I got married. It’s like an out of body experience. you’re watching yourself pack and leave your husband. It doesn’t seem real, and each time, it...
Every time John and I go shopping to decorate the house, we usually come back with….nothing. It seems we don’t share the same tastes. This time around we were definitely going to purchase dishes that we both picked out. We still haven’t. So this evening I walked in on John...
So our friend Pauline came up with this idea for something fun to do: With vivid imagination and meticulous design skills, Paramodel create wondrously immersive environments out of mass produced toys and brilliant blue plastic train tracks. Entire rooms become fantastical landscapes. Since 2001 artists Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano...
Don’t you hate it when you set off for King’s Park in Perth and get side tracked to City Beach? John and I were on our way to King’s Park and then we changed our mind and went to City Beach. There was supposed to be a sandcastle making competition...
Whiteman Park has a Woodland Reserve and Friday nights they have Woylie Walks. We booked our tour and were frantic to get to it in time, but made it with some time to spare. We saw woylies and bandicoots. After our walk, we got to feed them and...
So on our road trip I noticed how full the moon was at Northam, and thought, hmmmm, full moon and a trip to the Pinnacles might be fun. How wonderful would it be to get those formations with the moon rising behind them? So John didn’t get much of a...
Initial consumption at the Goldfields proved to be some 1,260,000 gallons daily. Today, some 9 million gallons daily flow. More on the pipeline HERE
The road took us to Meckering, which I learned was the site of an earthquake in 1968. Although the Meckering earthquake of October 1968 was not the largest in WA’s history, it was certainly the most significant in term of damage done and cultural upheaval. It caused ground rupturing nearly...
Still at the Slater Homestead, and finally seeing a human being to talk to, we decided to stay for Devonshire tea. This would give John the opportunity to make good on a plan to take me out to tea. Now I am sure I was expecting to be brought out...
The Historic Slater Homestead Something we weren’t aware that existed was this find called the Slater Homestead. Attracted by a falling apart brick wall and a house that looked very old, we stopped and went in. It seemed to invite you in at least and offered tea and food. ...
We went to Lake Ninan before, when it was spring and there was water inside of it. This time as we decided to stop there again or not, we were both pretty sure it wouldn’t have water. It didn’t. Lake Ninan on video: Keep on seeing our road...
Or could also be titled, Ode to Salmon gums and rusty things. The weather has started to be a little cooler here in the Perth area of Western Australia. So, I thought to bring up the idea of an outing or a road trip to John. I explained to him...
From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the LORD is to be praised. Psalm 113:3 The sun goes down everywhere, but some places are more lovely to watch a sunset than others. Often we dash to the beach to watch the sunset but the last...
Weekends are special because this is a time when John and I get to spend all our time together. We try to plan something fun, if the weather allows an outing or two. Sometimes it’s been too hot for me and we’ve had to carefully choose what we can do...
John’s birthday weekend started with a serene and pleasant sunset, and went straight to hectic after that. We were having guests over all weekend – not completely planned that way, but it happened. After dinner with Georgie one night, coffee with Dad and Iris after church on Sunday, we had...
What do you do when you have a second year anniversary? In this household, you plant a tree for the occasion. Since Red Capped Yellow Flowering Gum trees are in bloom, almost the only color around at the moment, John decided that would be a good tree to plant. ...
Some might be familiar with Spirograph . It was a popular item when I was growing up. The set long gone, John printed me a new one with his 3D printer.
When I am in Australia, I do expect to see some wonderful and different animals…but not one from Antarctica. I saw it first in Facebook, then on the newspapers, that an elephant seal was found resting at Sorrento Beach.
It was looking to be a hot week, so when I realized the the morning was deliciously cool, I grabbed my camera with the long lens to take a walk. Of course my hope was that I would meet some birds. I did.
Things you remember as a child… My mom turned on the movie Born Free one evening, she made a big deal out of it, and I was instantly in love with lions and of all things, the Indian Ocean. There was one part of the movie where the lion cubs...
John took most of the photos for the night as I left batteries for my flash at home. 🙁 He and his fish eye lens did well! Happy Birthday Georgie, and many, many, more!
Since John has this nice 3D printer, I asked him to make me a dolphin cookie cutter. So he did. I found a lovely icing recipe that made that smooth blue look. Instead of mom’s buttercream icing recipe, I used Royal Icing recipe, which calls for egg whites or meringue...
According to Wikipedia, almost all the parts of this tree is usable: Many parts of the moringa are edible. Regional uses of the moringa as food vary widely, and include: The immature seed pods, called “drumsticks”, popular in Asia and Africa. Leaves, particularly in the Cambodia, Philippines, South India, Sri...
John got himself a small 3D printer. When he first mentioned getting one, it was hard to grasp the concept of a printer being able to print 3 dimensional objects. The more I read up on this, it seemed a wave of the future and a marvel for the medical...
Today Laura messaged me to tell me that the new baby Lopez had been born! John and I had just been talking to Miranda on Skype just that morning! Funny thing is, because of and by virtue of SKYPE, I was the first family member to see Baby LIVE….ALL THE...
Veles e Vents in English means, Candles and Winds. What do you do when you enjoy an event but your photos didn’t quite turn out quite like you want them to, AND you learn your friends are going the next night? Of course, you go AGAIN! So the production of...
Xarxa Teatre from Spain, put on a performance here in Perth of Veles e Vents. Thanks to a friend letting us know about the event, John got hit with the idea almost right about coming home time. 🙂 He agreed to take me. The performance is inspired by the work...
So our bird bath had a visitor. Actually it gets a lot of visitors, I just don’t always think fast enough to get a photo. I sure enjoyed watching him take his bath.
So John comes home from work, sits in his chair and says, “So where we going tonight?” Every wife’s dream come true, right? I mean, I had had a long, hot day at home, and wanted more than anything to be in a place that was cooler. I hadn’t even...
What could scones and a 3D printer have in common? John likes scones. They resemble what my mother always made and called biscuits. Biscuits here in Australia are cookies. The whole thing can get kind of complicated. I’ve been making scones for him for awhile now, cutting them out of...
Australia Day, 4th of July, for me, it’s all about the fireworks and always has been. John is learning that I will do about anything to see a good fireworks show. This week at home, (it’s been very hot out, even people who have lived here most of their lives...
We like to walk. So why not a walk along the beach? It’s been perfect weather, and it was a great evening for a stroll. I really enjoyed that walk on the beach. What a way to end the day.
Um. No. One of John’s frustrations is how few people in Australia know about their own native plants. The region is rich in amazing and wonderful examples of God’s creation in an abundance of a variety of flowers. So we were at Bunnings (like our Home Depot in the U.S.A,...
