Simple Sunday

 

Source Unknown- please let me know if you deserve the credit for this one along with Mr Da Vinci. 

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Flora on Friday

 

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Right now...

Right now, I am...

:: listening to the sound of the water in Les' shower.

:: relieved that Tama is a bounce back boy and has shown no ill effects from his General Anesthetic today.

:: hoping that the MRI results will show that he's in the 90% of cases that are just fine.

:: feeling exhausted from holding 9kg of cuteness for the better part of the day. 

:: seeing mess but pleased that it has been left because some relaxation is in order.

:: wondering at ways to guide Will through his current phase of silly/loud giggling and attempts to maim his baby brother. Sibling rivalry is no fun for anyone.

:: dreaming of my pillow and duvet.
:: loving that it's a three day kindy week.
:: wishing that I had have signed up for Ali's 31 class at Big Picture I'm really in a writing mood.

:: thinking some deep and heavy shit that the book I am reading has brought about.

:: anticipating Tamas birthday next month- now that we get paid monthly it's a 'must do' to think ahead.

:: going to bed.

 Night all!

Simple Sunday

 

 Source Unknown- please let me know if you deserve the credit for this one along with Mr Einstein.

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Single Photo Saturday

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Flora on Friday

 

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Tiny Tales Untold 2012 Week 13

 

My perspective: Freaky kid in oversize shirt, hat and latex gloves wielding a cotton bud.

Will's perspective: Doctor performing urgent surgery on sick bear.

Botanists perspective: Weed.

My perspective: Beautiful!

 

My perspective: Inedible.

Tama's perspective: Yum!

 

 Tama's perspective: Mine.

Will's perspective: MINE!

 

My Perspective: wind catcher.

Tama's Perspective: AWESOME!

 

My perspective: water.

 Tama's perspective: AWESOME! 

 

 

 

Les' perspective: Cute baby son.

Tama's perspective: OMFG it's Dad!

 

Tama's perspective: Funny!

Les' Perspective: FUNNY!

 

 

 

My perspective: Cute and Handsome x2.

(Mine's the only one that counts here!)

From this perspective- wide open blue skies, limitless potential beyond the fence.

From this perspective: Hello Suburbia!

Will's perspective: I look down on you.

Tama's perspective: I totally look up to you!

Tama's perspective on life: I'm taking it all in from my own small viewpoint.

 

Will's perspective on life: I'm head over heels about it!

 

My perspective on life:

Up close and personal, taking the good with the bad, it looks pretty sweet from here.

 

 

 My perspective: Pipe, wood, tape and string.

Luke and Christy's perspective: Ex-Confetti launcher.

Will's perspective: International rescue by Thunderbird 1.

 

Les' perspective: Mess

My perspective: Learning

Will's perspective: Fun

Tama's perspective: Edible

Australian perspective: Gum nuts. Common as muck.

Will's perspective: A collection a treasured possessions.

 

My perspective: Warmth

Tama's perspective: prison.

 Anyway you look at it: Bedtime.

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In the Garden

We've been here almost 9 months! That's 3 seasons already and I haven't blogged much at all about our garden! We were so lucky getting a house so new that there was literally nothing in the back yard- and having a cool landlady who was happy for us to put in a garden! 

So here it is much like Auckland weather- 3 seasons in one day!

Spring:

Corn, Sunflowers, Sweet & Snow Peas already in the background plus Rhubarb and a Bougainvillea Will is sowing beetroot, having just done the carrots and spring onions. It was interesting to observe the results of this as there were a lot of 'clumps' of seedlings- not much success though: 

Lesson for next year: water, Water, WATER!

We planted the Watermelon down the end of the garden so the vines could grow over the mulched area.

Tomatoes, capsicum, lettuce and cucumbers.

Lesson for next year: No. 1. Use the lettuce.

No. 2: water, Water, WATER!

Lawns looking a bit brown? Probably needs some water.

 

Still need more water.

Chilli plant in the herb garden. 

Kieran said: Are these Chillies?

Me: Yes.

Kieran: Can I try it?

Me: Yes.

Kieran: Stuffs whole chilli in mouth and chews.

Les and Gypsy: Simultaneously shocked and fascinated.

Kieran: Beet red and now spitting.

Gypsy: Worried.

Kieran: Guzzling water, milk, ice. Splashing lips. Floundering in pain.

Les: Googling

30 minutes later.

Kieran: Still applying cold face cloth, yoghurt, ice etc to lips and periodically drinking more milk.

Gypsy: Wishing it had have been kosher to take photos and video in this situation.

Present day: We take the chillies to Les' work, too scared to eat them.

Summer:

We enjoyed lots of snow peas. Saw not one sweetpea. 

The corn plants looked awesome and so did the sunflowers.

Watermelon plants below starting to grow.

Herb garden.

Late summer- the one really decent corn cob we got....

 

 

An example of the other corn cobs..... perhaps lacking water?

Watering in the buff?

Still not enough.

 

 Cucumbers like WATER.

 

Autumn the Herb Garden totally rocking it!

Everything else pretty much on way out.... except the mice who are coming to feast on corn, the odd dried pea and sunflower seeds.

 

Watermelon just starting to take off....

For some reason all the melons we got rotted on the half that was touching the ground.... probably TOO much flippin' water!

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