Sep. 10, 2007 -
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O.K. OK Just hold on a bit longer. I'm still here. I'd better do an entry since I've got 10 comments on the last one. You hadn't forgotten about that had you?
I don't have time to do a proper post tonight but I'll do one next time I'm on.
P.S. One thing I would like to say is Welcome back to OceanaJones. We're glad you're back!
Aug. 16, 2007 - vegies, recipe and tag
This morning Dad, my two brothers(Burger and Bibleman), two sisters and two friends(BobaFett and Yoshi) left for their snow trip at Mt Buller. Me, Mum and my little brother stayed. I not really the kind of person that like to go travelling much and I don't like driving up mountains.
This summer I'd like to try growing vegies again. For the last few years I'd been growing in a patch about fifty metres from the house so on the hot summer days it didn't give me much incentive to go out and check them so they basiclly dried up.
So now I'm going to try in patch closer to the house. There's only one problem. The washing line is right in the middle of the perfect spot! So that's going to have to move over. In the next week or 2 Dad and the boys will dig it out of the cement. I hope it won't be too hard! We'll also have to put up some sort of screen on the west side so in the middle of summer it won't be so hot for the plants.
So anyway this morning I started digging up the ground and whew! it was hot work, even though it's a pretty cold day. But I got at least half of it done, which is good. I should be finished tomorrow.
I've been saving the tomato seeds for the last two or three years so I'll have to get them planted soon. I'm also thinking about grow lettuce, beans, radishes, zucchini, and cucumbers; whatever I can fit in!
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Here is a choc-chip biscuit recipe that a friend of ours gave us. She is from a homeschooling family of nine and does quite a bit of baking. These are absolutely the best biscuits we've had.
120 grams butter 1 cup brown sugar
1 egg 1 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup plain flour 1/2 cup milk powder
1 cup rolled oats 1/2 choc-chips
Heat oven to 180 C. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and essence. Mix. The add all other ingredients
Drop teaspoons of mixture onto greased tray and bake for 10- 15 minutes. Enjoy!!
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O.K . Last thing. Tag from BobaFett. I have to write eight ramdom things about myself.
1 I play a lot of table tennis with my brother, Burger(I think we get a bit too ferocious at times, when we play matches! We're pretty even)
2. I just finished Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness yesterday.
3. I read Piercing the Darkness first when it should have been the other way around!
4. I've got nealy 30 tennis trophies and about 15 medals
5. I'm going to visit the U.S. someday.
6. Tulips are my favorite flower
7. I'd like to go to Antarctica
8. For some reason I don't like all these hi-tech gagets like mobile phones that can do 20 things, or i-pods, or computer games or any of that stuff.
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Aug. 14, 2007 -
OK I don't have time for a proper entry. I've just been working on the changes you can see. But anyway here is a tag from Luthien.
7 Favorite Movies:
1. I basiclly haven't seen any movies; I'd rather read; which I do
7 Favorite Foods:
1. Rice pudding
2. spaghetti
3. Minastrone soup
4. Savoury pancakes
5. Dates and cheese
6. Coffee cake
7. Pizza(with anchovies)
7 Favorite Drinks:
1. Milo
2. Ice Coffee
3. Lift
4. Pineapple juice
5. Water
6. Apple juice
7. Lemon Powerade
Next time I'll have something more substantial!(I hope!)
Aug. 6, 2007 - Title: too lazy to think of one
You know, I don't understand why some Americans, e.g. Sharla, Striker, want to live in Australia. I mean Australia's good to just live but you have a LOT more interesting stuff like the grand canyon(I'd love to see that!) and everything else that I can't remember at the moment. Oh, yes, I'd like to see the Hoover Dam and the Brooklyn Brigde and statue of Liberty and Washington D.C. and those tall trees, I forgot the name but they're the tallest in the world.....and you also so have all the good singers. There are just soooo many that I want to see. One day I'm going to the U.S. just to go on a concert tour. All we have here is Hillsong and they're too wild. There's no tune most of the time. And the rest are either hiding or they're no good.
I wonder what it would be like to not see a single gum tree. I know there are a lot of others but it would be pretty strange! If we want to grow oaks and elms and all them, we have to treat them like babies but gum trees don't need any help whatever and they don't have water most of the time.
One good thing about Australia is that there aren't so many people. I can't believe that New York has about 10 million(is that right?) and that's half our population!
Anyway I don't know what you all think but that's what I think!
Last week I started knitting a jumper for me. This is the second one I'm doing. It took me only a week to do the back, and I started on the front yesterday.
I'm pretty good at riding a bike no hands. We usally ride in our big shed. I can do figure 8s and stuff that easily so I thought I'd try knitting. It's not too easy cause you have to keep looing up to see where you're going and it makes you kind of dizzy to see the ground whizzing by underneath. Anyway I did manage half a row! I wonder what I can do next?
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Jul. 25, 2007 -
Oh, hello, everyone, friends, bloggers, anyone who has laid eyes on this blog,
No i haven't fallen off the blogsphere, as OceanaJones so nicely put it. I've just been having a break of sorts and we've been fairly busy. And since we don't get too long on the computer by the time I've done other stuff I want to do, I don't have time left for entries and comments and all that.
It's been pretty cold lately. I think it's been a colder winter than usual this year. But I'm enjoying it. I don't like the hot summer days that leave me feeling like a ragdoll.
We watched quite bit a Wimbledon, which was on a few weeks ago. Of course, for us it's in the middle of the night, so we recorded it and watched the matches the next day. But one night Burger and I got up to watch. It's really fun getting up in the middle of the night when everyone else is in bed and it's so quiet. 'Cause you see, us children don't like watching recorded matches, because they've already played and whoever won has.....well...won so it's so much more fun seeing it live.
Then all of us watched the the womens and men's finals. They were very good, especially the men's going to five sets. It went for for 3 hours and 45 minutes. So we(the five older children got up round 10:45PM and went to bed at 3:20AM! I'm glad that Federer won. So now he has won 5 Wimbledons in a row. That's 11 grand slams altogether.
Now that I think of it I should post some of our Australian photos. Burger posted one of him getting an autograph, so I should do a few as well.
Today, the 25th, is Burger's birthday so it's been a pretty good day. I say pretty good(not awsome or such) cause I'm just getting better from a semi-cold that's been going around in the last few days.
Anyway we had some good food alright! Real good as Americans would say!
Ok, I have some other stuff to do now but I'll to post again soon(and put on more AO photos)
Jul. 1, 2007 -
This is at the farm. One of the old sheds from my great-grandfather's time.
This is our front fence early in the moring.
This is an interesting composition I took at the farm. I like the windmill in the background
I'll try to write more next time I'm on. I hope this makes you all happy for now!
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Jun. 25, 2007 -
Here is a tag that I've thought up in the last few weeks.
1. What kind of car will you drive? Manuel or automatic? Manuel
2. What is your favorite Olympic sport? Gymnastics
3. A cookbook said that anchovies are a food that you either love or hate. What are you? They're awsome good!
4. Rank these in order of liking: Peanut butter, jam, vegemite and honey Honey, jam, vegemite, peanut butter
5. And these: Astronomy, biology, maths, history, geography and archeology History, astronomy, geography, archeology, maths, biology
6. How did you start blogging? Our friends told us about it, then my brothers got one and then 6 months later I thought I would get one too.
7. What are two countries that your ancestors came from? Brazil and England
8. How many comments did you get 5 entries ago? 9
9. How many houses have you lived in your life? 6
10. In what form do you like eggs? Scrambled or fried
11. If you went back in time, what time would you like to go to? The early 1900s
12. What 4 bloggers are you tagging next? BobaFett, sharla88, Striker and OceanaJones
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Jun. 11, 2007 - photos and stuff
Here is something I forgot to write the other day. Mum is getting us to keep track of all the books that we've read. So I wrote down all the books we got in our bookshelf and all the ones that I could remember from the library and ones that we don't have anymore. And so... I read, in my whole life, over 230 books. Does anyone think they've read more than that? If so please tell me! Here are are couple of shots. The top one I took last winter on a cold misty morning and other one I got on really hot day in summer. From now on I won't do an entry until I've got 10 comments. Fair enough? So when you come here make sure you comment! First I want to do an advertisment. My brother and friend, Burger and Yoshiyahu have made a blog together. It's called the Goodies. If you want to go there(and comment) it's on my friends list. I don't want it to end up like Quadguys,(some of you have probably been to that abandoned blog once upon a time. BUT.. I hear that they are trying to resurrect it.) so I'm going to make sure that they post, even if I have to do it myself! Last Friday we played the 6th round of the winter pennant, and we won 6 sets to 0. So that was a very good boost in points for us. So now, interestingly, we have won 15 sets and lost 15! We are coming 5th of of 7 teams, but we only have to get into 4th place to be in the semi-finals. I've also been doing more photography lately. During the summer it was hard to get up early since the sun comes up at like 5:30am. But now, in winter, it rises at 7:30 so I manage that! I've been getting some really good shots which I'll try to post soon. O.K. here is a tag that Burger made up and wanted me to do. I said I'd never do it, but I feel like doing a tag and this seems to be the only one around.LOL 1: what are your 4 favourit keys on the key board? What kind of question is that?? 2: Describe in 30 words or less what you want to look like when you are older? ummmm, I don't know..probably much the same as now! 3: Have you been on a motor bike?. if so have you fell of one? Once and No 4: Do you like the smell of Desel or petrol? It's one the disgustingest smells around 5: What are two things you want to do but can't? Blog for longer and have a vegie garden that works 6: What do you like best: wood fire heater, gas heater or eletric heater? Gas heater 7: Have you been on a steam train? Yup twice. 8: What do you do for a hobbie? stamp collecting 9: How many comments do you think you will have by: July the 25th? 40-50 10: are you very good at swimming? well I wouldn't call it swimming but I can get through the water at fair speed(if I want to) 11: 5 bloggers I am tagging. anyone who can spare 5 minutes
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Jun. 4, 2007 -
Finally, I've got the hang of shrinking photos! Now I'll be able to show all my favorite shots.
Like my new background?
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May. 19, 2007 - More random
I guess it's time I did an entry.
This one will be like the last one, just a bit of random what I've been doing.
Well, firstly I've been going flat out on my family reshearch project. I got sidetracked into researching reletives who fought in the world wars. So far I've identified about 16 out of a possible 69(who have the same last name,which was my mother's maiden name) who could be related. And I'm trying to get as much imformation as possible on each one.
What else....have...I been...doing? Oh, yes I've been working hard on my maths and science lately, since I got back. (Doing that helps earn me computer go's, so that gives me incentive!)Those two subjects are really the last two things that I haven't done enough of.(Mum says!) I've almost finished the maths book I'm doing and then I'll be doing my last book. YAAYYYYYY!!!! No more maths books to battle!!
I really would like to post more of my photos but I can't get them on. Sadly I'll have wait for my brothers to come back and help. I'm basiclly computer iliterite, if you were wondering. Anyway, hopefully you'll get to see something then.
When we went up to the farm I took a pack of my photos(along with the usual photos that we take to show our grandparents). My grandmother picks out the ones she wants to keep. Anyway, I left my pics as well. About two weeks ago one of their friends came for a visit and they showed him to photos. He was absolutely shocked(Burger said) at how good they were! I thought they were good but I didn't think they were exceptional. Maybe they are. He said he had seen a black and white shot of a windmill and it was $700! 'Cause you see, I had a shot of the windmill at the farm with the sunset behind it, which I enlaged and gave to Pop for his birthday. And so, he is going to take some of my photos to an art gallery in Sydney! Imagine that. I wonder what they're going to think.
Just one last thing I'd like to mention.
It's really amazing just how many planes fly over our house. Many more than when we were in the A.C.T. It's probably because we live relatively close to Melbourne, and we see the planes going between Sydney and Melbourne. Especially early in the morning, there might be about five between 7:00 and 8:00. You actually see two passing each other. And they're big ones like Qantas, etc, as well as the smaller ones. I also sometimes see military planes.
Then later on there are helicoptors and lightplanes. There's this one little lightplane that we hear quite often. We think it must be a flying training plane because you can hear it change gears or whatever you call it.
Have to go now, getting late.
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