Watery Wednesday

Here is my entry for this week's Watery Wednesday . These were taken in Timbertown, Port Macquarie in the North Coast of NSW.
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Today's Flowers

I saw these flowers during one of our bush walking trips in the lower parts of the Blue Mountains. This is called Thistle, a common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, most in the family Asteraceae. Prickles often occur all over the plant - on surfaces such as those of the stem and flat parts of leaves. These are an adaptation that protects the plant against herbivorous animals, discouraging them from feeding on the plant. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape of a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle's flowerheads.

This is called a Purple Flag, a member of Iris family.A most delicate and stunning flower that lasts only for a day. Just imagine how lucky I was to see the flower at its best on that day.
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Easter Basket Blog Hop

Many thanks to January of January's Scraps of Life for inviting me to join the Hershey's Better Basket:Blog Hop.

It's so easy to join just copy and paste these rules to your blog post.

• Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger – you can give as many Virtual Baskets as you want.
• Link back to person who gave you an Easter Basket.
• Let each person you are giving a Virtual Easter Basket know you have given them a Basket.
• Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop comment section. You can also find the official rules of this #betterbasket blog hop, and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.
• Hershey’s is donating $10 per each blog participating to the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network (up to total of $5,000 by blog posts written by April 4th, 2010).
• Please note that only one blog post by each blog url will count towards the donation.

And I am passing this basket to the following: Jag , Khim and Rose.

Sky Watch Friday

It was hubby who first noticed the sunrise on March 17, 2010. And of course he didn't want to enjoy it by himself alone and woke me up to watch it with him. I hurriedly went out groggily taking my camera with me. I took a few shots and zoomed my camera to avoid the power lines as much as possible.
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Last Sunday

A friend of ours celebrated his birthday in one of the local clubs in our area. It was a dinner with family. Hubby was not able to come because he wasn't feeling well. And even missed a very important appointment later that day. So it was only me and the kids attended the party. I have only two pictures to share from my daughter's camera for I accidentally forgot mine.
Dorothy with her friends.

Baked Mussels (Tahong)

It has been quite a while since I baked mussels. But yesterday, while I was in the fish shop, I couldn't resist the temptation for I saw fresh and good size New Zealand mussels, I bought a kilo for $3.99. I was planning to bake it the following day while the kids are in the school. They don't like the smells of the mussels baking in the oven, so to avoid hearing Dorothy and David saying," something smells gross", I want to bake it when they are not at home. I am the only one who eat mussels for hubby doesn't like it too. I know a kilo is too much for me but I was planning to give some to my friend.
Ingredients:
1 kilo fresh large tahong (mussels)
1/2 cup butter or margarine
5 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup grated cheese
1/2 cup bread crumbs
Instructions:
1.Place tahong on a pan (no water), cover and cook over moderate heat. When shells open up, drain. Remove top shell.
2.Melt butter, add minced garlic. Stir for 3 minutes. Brush each tahong meat with butter-garlic mixture, top with grated cheese and cover with bread crumbs.
3.Arrange tahong on a baking sheet. Bake in pre-heated oven with a low heat (250F). Bake for 10 – 15 minutes.
(recipe from http://kumain.com)

Ruby Tuesday

I haven't been posting RT post for weeks and I miss this meme already. I am glad I have enough time to rummage through my albums today looking for my RT entry and here are what I have found for this week's RT. These were taken in Star City Casino. Me and my friends entered the Casino through the back entry and the moment we were inside these glazed red plant pots caught my eyes. Please visit Mary's Ruby Tuesday and click here.

Our baby guinea pigs

Brownie, our mum guinea pig gave birth again for the third time. She delivered her third babies last February 09, 2010. She has 3 this time, 2 girls and 1 boy. They are all doing fine and growing well. The babies are more than 6 weeks old now and not long from now, we are going to sell them to the pet shop. This makes the kids unhappy for sure. It always does but we don't have any other choice. We cannot keep them in addition to Brownie and Lucky. We just hope each of them will be in a good home someday. And here they are our three little cute furry babies while they were outside having a feast of grasses. Sophie

Lightning

Holly

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Sky Watch Friday

Sunrise, taken right in front of our door on March 04, 2010.
I could not find a better place to take the photos without the power lines in my way in our area. This is one of the reasons why sometimes I just let the chances of taking sunrise photos just slip away because of the power lines .

Have a wonderful weekend!
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Overdue

I got an email from our local library that I have an overdue book.lolz.. As far as I can remember I always return the books that we borrowed on or before the due date. But when I looked around the house to check it out if I really haven't returned a certain book, I found out that I really have one. Silly me! for not checking the books before I returned them. lolzz..I don't know what's going onto my head at that time. Anyways, charges are not imposed for overdue items and that's a relief. I will return it as soon as possible to avoid having a bad record in the library.