I’m so proud of my little gal Juniper. She’s 10 years old and is a creative genius. About a year and a half ago, she asked me to set up a website for her, juniper’s tree house. She likes to write and often she’ll sit at her computer and write little essays for her site.
Last night, I had a look and noticed that she had posted a couple of essays. The essays tell a story about our two cats, Harley and Banjo. In Banjo’s Narrative, she tells the story from his perspective. In Harley’s Narrative, she re-tells the same story from Harley’s perspective. I am very impressed with her narrative concept and feline insight. At 10 years old, I think she’s a brilliant writer. If you get the chance, pop over to her site and say hello.
My precious Juniper was sick from Tuesday til Sunday. She had a fever until Sunday. The Doc said it was nothing sinister and that she needed lots of rest and fluids. We stayed pretty close to home all weekend. I didn’t get the opportunity to take many photos. I did manage to get this photo of her sleeping on the couch as a very soft winter sun streamed through the window.
A couple of weeks ago, I got to play Mr Mom. That was a very enlightening experience. It taught me to admire, really admire, single Mothers (and Dads too). I don’t know how they do it.
On my weekend as Mr Mom we went into the city and had a stop at the park in Birrarung Marr, Melbourne. The gals had a great time. This is my oldest gal, Juniper, attempting to do mid air splits.
Now, I’ve got to get down to creating my third Doodle for Doodle Week - the Doodle garden. Normally I do them at work but today I was in the type of meeting that requires eye contact and concentration and was unable to doodle away the time.
Hello, Mr Mum here. The gals got up first thing this Saturday morning and wanted to go to the aquarium. So I made them breakfast got the little wyld one dressed and then waited and waited some more for the older, much more vain one to finish getting ready. We went by train into the city to the aquarium. They had a blast cause we took the train ride then had a short tram ride.
They whizzed through the aquarium to get to the other side (did I mention there was a gift store on the other side at the exit?). We then strolled along the banks of the Yarra River as it meanders down the heart of Melbourne.
We didn’t get home until dinnertime and both were knackered. I even got the wyld one in bed early. w00t!
I took several photos during the day. Most while we were playing around the river.
Hope you have a great weekend!
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Juniper before one of her ice skating competitions. I slipped in an Astronomy Picture Of the Day antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070509.html photo of the Cone Nebula and the Snowflake Cluster for effect.
From the APOD website:
Strange shapes and textures can be found in the neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. These patterns result from the tumultuous unrest that accompanies the formation of the open cluster of stars known as NGC 2264, the Snowflake cluster. To better understand this process, a detailed image of this region was taken in two colors of infrared light by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope. Bright stars from the Snowflake cluster dot the field. These stars soon heat up and destroy the gas and dust mountains in which they formed. One such dust mountain is the famous Cone Nebula, visible in the above image on the left, pointing toward a bright star near the center of the field. The entire NGC 2264 region is located about 2,500 light years away toward the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros).
