ROAD TO RECOVERY

My operation is done and I am on the road to recovery, I am doing much better than I had anticipated, obviously all those prayers on my behalf have worked a treat. I am walking with crutches, and I am feeling no pain at all, oh !!! the peace of no pain, how wonderful it feels.
Soon I will be back to scrapping I'm sure, but then again, I might be too busy walking around to sit on the computer working, who knows ? We'll see eh ? !!

MY IMPENDING OPERATION

All being well I will be having my operation on 29th April. If everything goes according to Hoyle I will be in the Surgical Hospital for 5 days then a Rehabilitation Hospital for 10 days, I would presume that it will be a few more weeks after that before I will be able to sit for any length of time on my computer desk. So I will be missing in action for a few weeks. I look forward to a speedy recovery and getting back to normal after that. Thank you so much to all the people that have sent me greetings, I really am grateful to you all, it makes me feel good to read them over when I start to feel down.Until my return I bid you "adieu" !!!

Counting down now..... only 6 more days till op. day !

My Tropical Paradise

After we built our swimming pool, there was nowhere to escape the heat, only in the water, but even here you needed to get out of the sunshine for a while, so we built a Pagola, and filled it with chairs and a table so we could sit and sip in the shade after a refreshing dip.

It looked pretty bare to me, so I hung some Stag horn and Elk horn plants around to make the Pagola look pretty. These plants have now taken over, we have to duck and weave to get inside without banging our heads (it reminds me of the movie "The Day of the Triffids".

The plants just seem to adore the conditions here and are thriving, these photos are of two of the plants but there are many many more all in the same condition. My palm trees are also reaching for the sky and dropping seeds everywhere, they are really happy as well.

It all makes my back yard like my own private resort, I couldn't wish for a nicer yard !!

Christmas Lights

My Christmas Light this year, aren't they amazing, all courtesy of a lot of hard work by my daughter Yvette !!

Yvette you Rock!!!!

Centennary Park

Our local Council opened a new park for the children to play in, it is HUGE, so naturally we took Zach and his mate to play, to see if it was any good. They had a ball, it was a coincidence that both boys wore similar shirts, but it made my photographs look just that much better don't you think ?
This LO was scrap lifted from "ScrapGirls" Newsletter dated Thursday 17th July 2008, the LO was done by Melanie Johnson.

Kookaburra

Still the birds keep arriving into my "New Garden" this time it was a pair of Kookaburras. They were sitting on my front fence and when I didn't come out to feed them, one of them took the initiative and was banging on my front window !!
When we pulled the curtains back to take his photo, he was not fazed by the fact we were just on the other side of the glass at all. Zach is on school holidays so he took both of these photo's.

A Peacock and Wombat

This day we took Zach to our local privately owned zoo "Simbio", and these are two of the best, out of hundreds of photo's that we took that day. The Peacock was showing off to all the ladies (hens), and the Wombat was sunning himself in the warm summer sun, We had a great day, and Zach was amazed with all the animals there. Being a Leo he seems to be drawn to animals of all kinds !!

50th Birthday Celebrations

My how times flies !!! Seems like yesterday we had this party for my 50th. Yvette organised a surprise party for me, and I think I spent the night walking around in a daze, it really was a shock, I had no idea at all !
We had a wonderful night, and I received some absolutely fantastic gifts, I will never forget this party, it was the best one that I ever had in my whole life. My daughter is definitely one in a million !!!

Daughter

I'm still experimenting with my new lens, it has various filter that go with it, this was one result that I really like, it seems to be blurry but in fact it is supposed to turn out like this, it is a special soft filter lens. Now that I have gone digital, I know that I can do these things with PSE but I miss using my old SLR.

Ivan

We went to our friend Sammi's house for a barbecue, after lunch we went for a stroll though the grounds of Sammi's huge property on the outskirts of Sydney. He had a wonderful little valley with a creek running through it and he also had this lovely horse that his daughter rode. The horse was extremely friendly, and Ivan struck up a pose with him !!

Lighthouse

Lighthouses always remind me of olden times, with sailing ships and shipwrecks and a solitary way of life for the lighthouse keepers, not so today though, modern improvements have made all our lives so much better !! Thank Goodness !!!

Daisies

Daisies in my back garden. I had just bought a new lens for my (now old) Pentax SLR camera, and was experimenting with it, I was lucky enough to catch a bee on the daisy, and was very impressed with myself at the time. These old photo's that I am scrapping were all taken in 1995 !!

Another Bird Another Time

This day we were taking a ride on a boat around Forster on the North Coast of NSW. A bird came swooping in, I think that he thought we were a fishing boat and if he stayed with us he would get something to eat. He stayed with us for about 10 minutes, and I couldn't help but take lots of photo's of him.

More Visitors

The day before the Rainbow Lorikeets came into my garden, my son had these Sulphur Crested Cockatoos in the garden as well, these guys can almost be a pest, and the neighbours get angry when we encourage them to come. They sit on my front fence and break the bulbs on my fairy lights, smashing them with their strong beaks. If you happen to have timber anywhere (like I have on my screen above the new garden bed), they will chew it until it is all broken and gone. The trouble is I just love these guys, and they only seem to come down into the garden when they are hungry, which isn't all that often, probably about twice a year, so I feed them and to hell with the neighbours !! lol

Cats

As I said before I was going through an old photo album and came across some photo's, very dear to my heart, of old friends. This Layout is of our cats, they are long gone now but definitely not forgotten !!
The Black one (Ebony) had a coat like mink, he was so delightful to cuddle, and so even tempered, he never ever scratched anyone.
The Grey and White one (PuddyRat) was a very regal part Persian cat, he was very superior to Ebony but they did love each other very much, when Puddy died, Ebony cried for days, looking for his mate !
Sometimes Puddy though he was a dog, when he was a teenager, he used to go over the fence and steal the dog next doors' bone and bring it back home. I always wondered how he could jump the fence with a bone in his mouth, but he did !! I saw it one day !!
They were a lovely pair !!

New Look

My blog now has a new look, I love it, what do you think ?

It has come about with the amazing help of my friend Anneli at Attic Treasures, who has done all the really hard yards getting the blog to look so good, all I had to do was a little tweaking here and there.

Thank you Anneli you have been just awesome !!!!

Journal Entry 1

I know it seems as if I do not make many entries on this blog, but I have been so busy on my Freebies at MeeGeeDesigns, that this blog is sitting on the back burner, there are heaps of LO's to put up, but so little time to do it in !

As I am retired, I really see no urgency, as I long as I don't die before I get this updated LOL !! not in the near future anyway !!

Thank you for visiting, and there will be some more entries soon.