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Tide’s out

August 22, 2011 by Jen

Sunday, 14 August 2011, Day 264/365.

Near where The Surfer lives there’s a great walk you can do if the tide’s out. We’ve done that walk the last couple of weeks.

Monty still drags herself along and makes a fine effort despite the fact she must be so tired by the end of it.

You can see from the photo above that the tide does sometimes get up this high to leave seaweed on the fence. You’d be swimming, not walking, in that case.

It helps that it’s been fantastic weather, almost t-shirt weather even though it’s the tail end of winter.

Because the tide was out it was a little bit muddy in places and of course JJ slipped over, got quite muddy and quite drenched. He didn’t seem to mind and in the big scheme of things I didn’t mind either.

That’s all folks

August 20, 2011 by Jen

Friday, 12 August 2011, Day 262/365.

Saturday, 13 August 2011, Day 263/365.

Two photos in one post for a change. I’ve been out the last two nights and I’m still trying to catch up on all sorts of things including housework and sleep.

This morning was the last day of football for my son’s season and for many reasons I’m glad it’s over.

Enjoy the scenery

August 19, 2011 by Jen

Thursday, 11 August 2011, Day 261/365.

Usually I have something to say. Not today. Just enjoy the scenery.

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Thanks.

On being caught in the rain

August 17, 2011 by Jen

Wednesday, 10 August 2011, Day 260/365.

I know it’s winter and winter usually means more rain around here. And after the shortage of rain we’ve had I really don’t want to complain.

But why does it nearly always rain when it’s time to go outside and go somewhere? This somewhere is usually somewhere you have to be on time like dropping off or picking up a child from school, like going to work. Why?

I don’t like big golf umbrellas so my little umbrella keeps my hair and face dry and that’s about it.

I’ve got one of those light-weight foldup umbrellas which I permanently leave in my handbag so the convenience of that outweighs a bit of water on other parts of my body apart from my hair and my face.

Let’s face it, when it’s windy and the rain is coming in sideways a big umbrella’s not going to help anyway. And as a pedestrian those big umbrellas are just bloody annoying.

So I can drag out my little umbrella from my handbag while people around me whinge that they didn’t bring theirs and they’ll get wet. If it rains on my way somewhere next time my trusty little umbrella will keep me from having wet hair.

Now the Australian government knows my stats

August 16, 2011 by Jen

Tuesday, 9 August 2011, Day 259/365.

Seems fitting to remind myself that last Tuesday night was Census night. I did the e-version as a digital tragic like myself should do.

Red light doesn’t always mean stop

August 15, 2011 by Jen

Monday, 8 August 2011, Day 258/365.

The watched green light when you’re waiting for the walking green light to cross the road seems to take ages.

But beware. Vehicles still go through a red light sometimes so you have to watch for traffic that doesn’t obey, or just doesn’t see a red light.

This is why, kids, that you’re told not to run across the road. Case in point. One afternoon we were crossing this intersection and my boy started skipping across the road. Luckily he paused in the middle and then suddenly stopped as a car went right through the red light. If my son had kept going he would have been killed or severely injured for sure. My heart nearly went through my chest when I saw this and I thanked my lucky stars that all the nagging paid off this time.

Another case in point. I always look both ways when I get the green light to cross an intersection while driving. One morning after a late night out I had finished this step and was about to take off when I saw a car run a red light and the two cars that took off in front of me were crashed into by this car.

Luckily it wasn’t a severe accident but it was still enough to cause inconvenience for everyone involved.

Inspiration

August 14, 2011 by Jen

Sunday, 7 August 2011, Day 257/365.

The photo you take when it gets to the evening and you realise you haven’t taken your photo of the day so you look around for what you can find.

The downside is that the natural light is gone so the photo might not look that great but you work with what you can and you process the crap out of it to make it pop just that little bit more.

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