IN MEMORY OF THE LOVE AND WISDOM OF THREE SPECIAL CATS 1. Our dear cat, Rosie, died July 28th, 2011.
She loved her daily yogurt, a place in the sun and Peter's lap. Nineteen years of memories.
2. Our constant neighbour, Toby, from across the street, died July 2011. A charismatic boy and sadly missed-aged 19 years.
3. Phoebe, our lovely grey girl, inherited from Mum, died January 21st, 2002-aged 20 years.
At left is Oli, our handsome ginger boy, pictured in 1981. He died in early 1993.
Click on Maneki Neko to find out more about this ubiquitous Asian cat,
so popular in Japan and, perhaps, the inspiration for the cute Hello Kitty products.
Family pages: a work that will continue to be in progress for a long time.
We enjoyed the parrots attracted by our almond tree. Pink and grey galahs sometimes attacked like a
marauding army and dropped a hail of twigs and nuts onto the tin roof of the shed. You'd hear the noise from inside and come running. Sometimes there were sulphur
crested cockatoos and, rarely, huge black parrots swaying on top. Sadly for the birds, our gum tree died first in the drought and then the almond tree, killed
partly by a pepper tree I had let grow, thinking it would be a good replacement until I saw that one of the base roots was 20 cms in diameter
after only 5 years. The pepper tree and dead almond were removed April, 2017.
In Spring, 2011, we were charmed by the arrival of a piping shrike/Murray magpie which we named Cheepy. He walked around our feet collecting crumbs
when we ate outside and engaged in various bizarre acts like flying repeatedly into the laundry window under the verandah and pecking at it and jumping up and
down onto a wheelbarrow of flowers I had on the lawn while pecking the plastic tray. He had several sounds-a loud "cheep cheep" when he arrived
and some lovely whistling too. Pippi, the cat, was always watching and waiting but had had some bad experiences with birds. Above right: Cheepy,
identified by the white S swirl behind the eye, the patch of white over the beak and the slightly scruffy appearance.
Paper dolls on Pinterest;
Adult paper dolls amazing;
royal; Stardoll;
Images
of paper dolls
As a child I used to draw my own dolls based on dolls from Archie comics. I drew and coloured hundreds of
outfits for them using pictures from the "Australian Woman's Weekly" and other magazines for ideas. Sadly, I threw them out when we moved
from the country to the city.
At left: beautiful carnival glass picture taken from Dusty Old Thing's Facebook page.
THE NEWER CATS ON THE BLOCK-BAXTER AND PIPPI
Black and white Pippi born 2002, died June 24, 2021 aged 19 years and 9 months. She was a quiet and home loving girl for most of her
life and almost never meowed until she found her voice in her last 2 or 3 years. Ginger Baxter born September 1, 2012, is a much fiercer cat, sometimes loving, but prone to
flying tackles when you cross his lawn. He also bites, sometimes fiercely. When he arrived he tried hard to make friends with Pippi, but she rejected him completely.
They settled into a truce in recent years, although there were still often hissy fits between them.
SOME OF OUR HOLIDAYS
We have an unrenovated house and old cars but have spent money on travel because we find it interesting and educational.
It also helps us appreciate what we are lucky enough to have at home. We were travelling long before the internet started, and I've always
written diaries but now I put them on the internet because it makes it easy for us to see them and perhaps others may be interested
or be able to use the information in their own travel planning.
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