Monday, October 10, 2022

Seriously big nest boxes

Large birds like large hollows for nests. This nest box is attempting to imitate a hollow tree probably for cockatoos. At Kent Street Weir in Canning, Perth.

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Spiced Ginger Beer

It's not Xmas and I can get my favourite non-alcoholic drink. Yaaay!

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Pink sunset

Smoke makes the setting sun pink in Perth.

Thursday, September 29, 2022

bushfire.io

An excellent app to read the bushfire situation. 

Today a large bushfire east of Perth dimmed the sun. Looking at bushfire.io it seems that highway 40 might be closed.

Sunny at last

After weeks and weeks of clouds and rain- a bright sunny day at the Busselton beach.

Monday, September 26, 2022

Kite repair

At Busselton beach. The kite was missing a spar and the central joint was broken. From my caravan repair kit I took bamboo skewers, glue and zip ties to make repairs.
It worked and the kite fly over the Indian Ocean but it suffered a crash and the substitute central joint broke again.
Time for a new kite.

Monday, September 19, 2022

It was a dark and stormy night....

One of the most famous sentences in English and not originally by Snoopy.
We have reached Albany and I am mixing a Dark and Stormy.

Gas Lighting

Gas lighting was nominated as word of the year yesterday by Mirrium-Webster. When I look it up, the source of the term is nomin...