Last Sunday

Before we slept on Saturday night, me, David as well as Dorothy had agreed to wake up early to watch something truly a remarkable scene in the sky. We heard about it from the news last Thursday night about these 4 planets alignment which will be visible in Australia at 5:00am (AEST) before the sunrise just above the horizon in the East for a few days starting Friday morning. Since we missed out the Friday and Saturday morning for I wasn't in the mood to go out that early for it was so cold, we vowed ourselves not to miss it that Sunday morning. With my pocket size camera in hand, me and David braved the freezing cold morning and went outside to our backyard. Unfortunately Dorothy didn't able to see it for she wasn't an early riser like David . Even if I woke her up a few times but to no avail so I just left her sound asleep in her dreamland.
The alignment of 4 planets happens only once in a lifetime and the next occurence will be on 2056. I managed to capture a few pictures, however, I am sharing you only two for the rest are not quite good. Venus, in the middle of the group and the brightest, just above to the left was Jupiter, Mercury was to the right and quite fainter. Unfortunately we could not see Mars from our location, which was farther down, for trees were apparently blocking our sight. I thought to take a drive to look for a good spot where we could see all the 4 planets but David seemed happily contented of what he saw and said "not nalang, mum".

Watery Wednesday

Here's my Watery Wednesday post, a small creek in one of the parks of Bowral, the largest town in the Southern Highlands of NSW. This photo was taken a few years ago when we stopped by at the park on our way home after our camping holiday to admire the lovely colours of Autumn.

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Overdue books

Oh, boy! I got an email from our local Library that I have 0verdue books. "What!" was all I can say upon reading the e-mail for it's hard to believe that I missed the due date, never happen before. But when I checked out the printed receipt I got, I saw that I was really wrong and the 8 books that I last borrowed were due for return early last week. I didn't actually realize the due date that was on the receipt until I got the e-mail, because what was registered in my mind was that all books will be due sometime next week. It's strange where did I get the wrong date from. It must be from something that I had read.

Ruby Tuesday

It's RT time once again and here is my post, a red rose that I saw while taking a walk around our neighborhood.

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Lucky

We took Lucky, our male guinea pig today to the Vet for a check up. Since yesterday and today we noticed something was not normal with his poop, it's a bit sloppy and we were worried that he was not feeling well despite the fact that he was eating well. We just wanted to make sure of his condition. Thankfully, the Vet told us that he is fine and there is nothing wrong with him. The sloppy poop was probably caused by what he had eaten which made his tummy upset. I was thinking Lucky had eaten maybe spoiled hay (we're using hay as their bedding), or something. I will be more careful now too of where to put him outside to graze grass.

Camera Critters

Here's my camera critters post for this week. I saw this small green grasshopper on the flower of one of my succulent plants.

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Sky Watch Friday

I have been on the look out for beautiful sunsets from our backyard for the whole week and thankfully, Mother Nature didn't fail to treat me with what I was looking for for my Sky Watch Friday Post. For the entire week, this is the only sunset that I reckon the best. I concentrate to capture sunset for I am temporarily giving up this time looking for sunrise for it is getting colder and I hate waking up early.


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Dorothy

As a result of Dorothy's participation in the Zone Cross Country last Monday, she wasn't feeling well the following day which was also the schedule of the NAPLAN test (literacy test in the afternoon). She was complaining of sore legs and back pain and didn't feel like to go to school. I was worried because if she will be absent on that day she gonna miss the NAPLAN test. I gave her pain reliever medicine before she went to school. I told her too to ask permission from the office after she finish the test to go home early and to ring me so I can pick her up. At around 11:00 am, I received a call from the school office that Dorothy was with them because of sore legs and wanted to go home. Without delay, I went straight to the school office and when I arrived Dorothy was looking tired and told me that she cannot wait the NAPLAN test in the afternoon and wanted to go home. I asked the lady in the office just to make sure of what to do if I take Dorothy home and would not be able to take the test. She then informed me to get a Doctor's certificate and not to worry because she can take it when she comes back and so we went straight to our GP for a check up and to get a Doctore's Certificate. The good news was Dorothy was fit to go back to school the following day and was able to take part of the test and the next part was last Friday.

Watery Wednesday

Photos were taken last January when we visited Featherdale Wildlife Park, west of Sydney. They are called Little Penguins, Fairy Penguins, Little Blue Penguins or just Blue Penguins. They are one of my favourite animals in FWP. At the time of our visit, they were happily swimming in the pond in their enclosure.

The Little Penguin ((Eudyptula minor) is the smallest species of penguin. The penguin, which usually grows to between 30 and 33 cm tall (12 to 13 inches), is found on the coastlines of Southern Australia and New Zealand, with possible records from Chile. (wikipedia)

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Ruby Tuesday

Here's my Ruby Tuesday post. This was taken at my friend's place when we visited her one weekend .

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