Hi folks
Well, June 30th is done and dusted and I am free to think about some other things besides work, work, work!
Last night we spied three owls that had landed on the roof and balcony of a local house. It's been many years since I have seen owls so close up. It was a lovely moment. Can you see them in the dim photo below?
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| Find the three owls |
Toby-the-dog has been learning some new routines since we adopted him. Toby's quiet life has exploded into the equivalent of a particularly shattering version of a Donald Duck movie now that Toby lives with the seven of us - all our comings and going, multiple conversations and 'stuff' ..... poor puppa.
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| Who tried to eat their bone on the carpet? Toby is not looking at me as I go 'crook' about it. |
We are getting used of the oven and cooker at house - they both cook rather fiercely and that means adjusting all our recipes to suit. Mrs HM reckons that only timid cooks cook on low heat anyway - hmmm. We burnt a few dishes until we figured it out.
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| Home roasted chicken from scratch. |
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| Veggies with chili - looking very innocuous until you take the first mouthful. |
We popped up to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast recently to celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary. It was a nice break and very frugal seeing it was off-season. We stayed at Pepper Soul on the beach and they put us up on the 29th floor as a nod to our amount of years married. Very luxurious at a very bargain price. However, I am hopeless with heights and needless to say did not spend much time on the balcony (tingly hands and feet!). Winter in Queensland - 21 degrees C every day .... that's the same as everyone else's mild summer day. No complaints from us.
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| A Gold Coast scene |
The restructure of this blog is going MUCH slower than I hoped. Blogger is not quite as easy to reconfigure as I thought - lots of things just no longer working as I expected. I'm still toying with going across to WordPress. Let me know if something looks badly wrong - I probably will have no clue how to fix it - ha ha!!
Anyhow, off to sort dinner now.
Take care folks and stay nice.
Mr HM
And Toby says, “Well who was the silly billy who gave me a bone in the house” LOL! 😜
ReplyDeleteI know, I know OK :-)
Delete29 stories is too high for me. I have tingles at heights, too, but will not share where.
ReplyDeleteBaa haa!!!
DeleteToby looks suitably regretful in the photo, Mr HM. I hope he got his bone back! I am still learning how to cook to the temperatures of my new oven too ... it's blooming hot! I take 10-15C off the recommended temp. Meg:)
ReplyDeleteYes he has his remorseful look down pat.
DeleteWe are having days of 25 degrees here but it as dry as a chip. So I am hoping for rain, but only in the non sugar cane growing areas as sugar cane harvest is in full swing, and I don't want the farmers upset.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been great to see three owls together. I have only seen them one at a time.
Any more owls and it would have looked like a scene off Harry Potter
Deletecongrats on your anniversary!
ReplyDeletefor a few days here we had 26-28`c it was lovely! not it's back to below 20`c & raining! just as lovely! hah
thanx for sharing
Thanks Selina. I have some gardening posts coming up and I am going to need your opinions soon. Thinking cap on please :-)
DeleteOh poor Toby he looks devastated :(, he will gradually learn the new rules of the house and be good from now on.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great milestone and happy 29th anniversary to you both and really hope you relaxed and enjoyed it. I am perfectly fine with heights it is just the take offs and landings in aeroplanes that frighten the bigeebers out of me. It is the only time I feel I have no control of getting my feet on firm ground :). I am sure there are a few planes with my deep fingerprints in the arm rests.
Sewingcreations15.
Toby has every emotion well practiced! I love flying but only in big planes, the little ones give me the heebies.
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