In Him

Natasha's Sculpture

I first heard of this today at Peasoup who heard of it from Simple Sparrow.

This is my entry for today-Natasha’s Sculpture of Mandarins, Tangellos and Oranges.

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.
I had amnesia once — or twice.
I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart. Now what?
Protons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
If the world was a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle.
What is a “free” gift? Aren’t all gifts free?
They told me I was gullible … and I believed them.

How can there be self-help “groups”?
Is there another word for synonym?
Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?
The speed of time is one-second per second.
Is it possible to be totally partial?
If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
It’s not an optical illusion. It just like one.

as seen at http://www.philbaker.net

Over the time I’ve had this blog I have been happily updating my blogroll and not realising it hasn’t been displaying ANY of the changes I’ve made.  I use my favourites in my browser to read them, not my blogroll, so I haven’t realised.  Just now I tried to get into the code and change things, yet still it isn’t displying properly.  This is an appology to anyone who thinks they should be on there, and I know there are a few.  I want them to be there and am attempting to put them up.  bear with me.

I think for Favourites Friday I’ll post my four favourite flowers.  Now flowers for me MUST be in a natural environment, NOT picked - they just look like they are dying to me when they’re picked.

4th - Gerbera (Bright orange)

3rd - Iris (Dutch, purple)

2nd - Rose (pale apricot or pink )

1st - Lavender (White or Purple)

My first Thursday 13 is going to be things about me. 

1 - I like the colour orange (for clothes especially).

2 - I homeschool my girls.

3 - I have 9 pets.

4 - I don’t like to drive at night.

5 - I love windy days. 

6 - I’m a natural hoarder (it might come in useful one day!)

7 - I enjoy novels over non-fiction.

8 - I think I could live without a TV if I lived by myself.

9 - I don’t like deep water and boats do nothing for me.

10 - I like motorbikes but have never ridden one alone.

11 - I love music and always have a song playing in my head.

12 - Rockabilly is my alltime fav type of music, yet I don’t own any!

13 - I don’t think I would ever live anywhere but country.

I thought I’d write about me.  I don’t often and it’s not easy for me, so I had to really sit and think about what I’ve done today.  Here it is.

Woke up around 9ish.  Got up around 9.15.  Coffee (only one, not enough milk for my second).   Crumpets (glad I grabbed those yesterday).  Tea (instead of second coffee because I’m drinking it with soy at the moment).  Sit around digesting and watching children play playstation2 games.  Generally trying to start brain.

10.15 - get dressed.  Strip bed of sheets and take out to laundry.

10.30 - alert children to possibility of school soon (don’t want them to startle and scatter!)

10.31 - put some washing on as its supposed to rain later in week.  Notice a neighbour somewhere burning off, hope it’s done by the time the washing needs hanging out.

10.45 - call girls to school (we do this at our kitchen table).  It was a relatively easy day.  They started with journal/copywork and I think they both did copywork, which is unusual.  Then on to Maths bookwork (They use New Signpost Maths.  Then Natasha had bookwork for English (Text Types) and Olivia had creative writing.  I set her a page long story.  Olivia had a science experiment to write the conclusion up on, Tash had done it the day before.  Our “extra” this week is Art & Craft they are learning to crochet and are making a scarf and a doll blanket.  Tash had finished all her work except for the A&C so I left Liv in Dave’s capable hands (he’s a SAHD/student) and went down the street for some milk and bread.  Tash came to help compare prices of milk as we had a $10 budget.  We ended up getting 2x 2L milks for $2.99 each (on special) and 1 loaf of bakery wholemeal bread for $2.20, so a little change.

When we got back Liv was still writing her story, a pleasant surprise (she ended up doing 3 pages!)

I hung out the washing sometime during school. 

I had my second coffee with lunch (YAY!) and sat on the front porch on the swing with Dave.  We were soaking in the sun and warmth as it got down to 0.6c last night. 

I noticed the weeds popping up in the gardens so I thought I’d get off my bum and do something about it.  Spent about an hour weeding and raking up dead leaves.  The girls helped and Dave cut some of the liquid ambers back in the driveway to dry and use for firewood.

It was starting to get damp in the air so I brought the washing in and made the bed.  Then it was time to start the quiche for dinner.  It was a pseudo spinach quiche (silverbeet) but it worked nicely.

Now it’s after dinner and I’m having my last coffee for the night (at 6.30pm) and waiting for the final of Australia’s Got Talent (7.30pm).  After that the girls will go to bed (Liv will probably read her current Christy book for another hour before lights out but Tash will fall asleep instantly!).  Then I’ll sit and watch brainless TV with hubby while I crochet a green stripey beanie for Tash and get to bed between 11 and 12 and start all over again! 

That’s my life - usual boring stuff, so that’s why I don’t write about it much.