Monthly Archive: March 2014
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. ...