A month after my birthday, we are finally winding this up. 🙂 Mom got me a bag for my laptop that opens to reveal a handle and wheels! It’s been so heavy carrying my laptop the normal way, and I desired something smallish that would do the job! Carry on...
Today after church, we went to see Jim play with his band for a benefit. This was my first time hearing him play, ever. I was very glad I got to hear them! Here are the movies I took with my phone. Not great quality but it was the best...
Memorial Day was a tiny bit different this year. We did the usual, going to Kinder Farm Park with our Church Picnic. This year, instead of taking photos of the adult activities, I spent most of it with Silas and Rubi.Â.
Heroism is latent in every human soul. However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all self-denials; privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself ? For some great good, dimly seen but dearly held. ~ Joshua Lawrence...
While Enric and Miranda were busy working on the steps (sanding and staining them), Laura and I took Silas and Rubi to Kinder Park for a walk, fun, and a picnic.
Another year gone by, I was once again spoiled for my birthday. The birthday fun is likely not over. John sent me money for shoes and clothes. My mom also wants to help me for my next trip, a laptop luggage with wheels. I had a hard time carrying it...
And I guess living with her, seems like right in front of my eyes so fast! Make your own slideshow with music at Animoto.
Our little Rubàturned two today! Just one day after my birthday (I so wanted her to be born on MY birthday!), comes RubÒs special day. Rubi had a very sweet second birthday. We are so blessed to have her in the family.
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends. Persian Proverb Petra and Leoni sent me flowers for my birthday… Between mother’s day and my birthday, my room has never looked so cheery!
It’s blue. Ok, I know more than it’s color! Ok, so we’re all a little happy for Miquel and Jenny. 🙂
Well a good way to surprise a mama for Mother’s Day is to send her flowers 2 days early! 🙂 Roses no less! From Enric and Miranda!
From Wikipedia: Yowie was a brand of chocolate encased toy line, manufactured by Cadbury Australia and based on the mythology surrounding the Australian Yowie. Invented by Bryce Courtenay and Geoff Pike, they were similar to Kinder Surprises in that they are basically a chocolate shell around a plastic capsule, with...
…or as Rubi says, Miss Sipsipee This past Saturday, we were invited to Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis to say good-bye to Elisabeth, who is off to work and study in Wisconsin. She has been wonderful to have in our home. She will be missed. People come and people go...
I’ve been sick, but it’s been a great time to prepare a slide show of our wedding. 🙂
There is a lot of sadness around being apart from one’s spouse. I know people in the military do it all the time. Often they don’t even have the ability of communications as John and I have. Looking for a silver lining in the dark cloud of separation, and one...
Perhaps it goes without saying that John and I both feel like we’ve been divided in half, that apart we’re no longer whole. We knew separation would be hard, and that it’s so much BETTER….TOGETHER. Try our slideshow creator at Animoto.
It was time for tearful good-byes. My heart was never going to be ready for it, but I wasn’t mentally prepared either. The day to leave came so fast. It was time to go back to my other home in Maryland. This is going to be my life. 5 More...
Ever fill out those surveys that ask mountains or beach when asking your vacation preference? I guess I always select mountains, but something about the sunsets of Western Australia that lures me to the beach. After our long day at the zoo, we went to North Beach to watch the...
Our visit to Perth Zoo Part three. We went back to the wetlands… It was a nice long day at the zoo, not too hot out, and then we went Dad and Iris’s for a lovely dinner of Cornish Pasty.
It seems each time we went to Perth Zoo in the past, it was done in a rush. So we set aside Saturday to have a long leisurely day there. Part two of Perth Zoo next blog. 🙂
Most of my morning chores done and not quite ready for lunch, I decided since it wasn’t a hot day, I would take a walk. I grabbed my camera of course to document the walk, and hoping to be ready for anything. As I left the driveway, I saw our...
While out at Whiteman Park some weeks ago, we happened upon this little shop that had an adorable coat rack, after some thing we bought the first thing for our house as husband and wife!
Iris has become someone special to me, she is more than a mother in law. So, even though we were deep in floor mess in the kitchen, there was no saying no when she invited us to come to the house for dinner and meet her side of the family....
As I mentioned in another post, the kitchen floor was to be our first house project as husband and wife. Not sure that was totally what John intended, but it worked out that way. After pulling up all the ugly green icky gluey tile, we realized we were never going...
This was a different Easter for me. I suppose this was the first time since 1979, that I was away from the bosom of my family for Easter. After talking to them, I think I was missed. I did miss them too, however, I was kept very busy with my...
After the show and shine, a trip to Bunnings, and a look at the burned Bush, we decided it might make a nice evening to take photos of a sunset. I also wanted to practice with my flash, trying to get a photo of John and I, lit, but still...
Much to John’s surprise and apparently unprecedented in Koondoola Bush, it has remained closed for a long time after the fire. So we decided to look outside and see what damaged was done. It’s kind of hard to say damage when for example, the Banksias seem to respond well to...
For those who don’t know, (and I don’t pretend to know a lot) Holden cars are made in Australia. They seem to be a big deal to John and his brother Graham. From Wikipedia: GM Holden Ltd is an automaker that operates in Australia, based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The...
After our day at the Birds of Prey Centre and all the parks we visited, I was starving. We didn’t know which beach to go to see a sunset, so I suggested a beach with FOOD. John eats a hearty breakfast and can last all day, and I on the...
After Whiteman Park and part of the morning at the WA Birds of Prey Center, we went to Lake Monger for a second time, this time with the intention of walking completely around the lake. There were more birds waiting for their photos to be taken. After a walk around...
John remembered that our last visit to Perth, one of my favorite parts was the WA Birds of Prey show held inside Whiteman Park on weekends. However, for awhile now these shows weren’t being held, but as luck would have it, for the month of April, precisely while I am...
I think men in general don’t like to throw things away. Since the passing of my dad, we have found more stuff and can’t believe some of the things he had kept over the years. You hear about it all the time in the sit-coms, the wives want to throw...
I am far from the Grandchildren, but the internet brings us closer. I got a note from Silas via Miranda’s Facebook, that he missed me. It was so sweet, I hurried on to Skype. But just because we’re using the internet to catch up, doesn’t mean we don’t have to...
I left Maryland with hopes of disasters behind me. Let’s face it, last year was a banner year: we had a tornado, 2 hurricanes, storms, flooding, and the first earthquake I’ve ever witnessed. I am not exaggerating when I say my nerves were shot, and we were all tired from...
We made it one month. So, we celebrated. We decided to do something we had done before, go to Perth from King’s Park and take city at night photos. John and I both grabbed our camera gear and his tripod, found a place to eat, then we were ready. ...
After the egg hunt, John and I were off to Perth Zoo for the Docent Birthday Party. At this point, he had his camera, and a good thing too, he took lovely photos of us!
Sunday, we were invited to Cathy and Graham’s to an early Easter Egg Hunt. (Given that they will be very busy on Easter) 🙂 It was our job to pick up Dad and Iris, and because we had a party at the zoo that night, I didn’t bring my...
