Same Canetoads, different coffee cup
This morning I leisurely wandered out into the backyard with a steaming cup of tea. It was so quiet. There’s time to dawdle when it’s only you and the yawning birds. Time to organise my thoughts, plan the day, and just savour it’s promise. When you’re up before the sun it feels like you can achieve everything, not just anything.
It’s times like these that I miss perhaps the favourite of all the houses I’ve lived in. It was a “Renovator’s Delight”, which we “delighted” in for over 9 years, on a high point besides the Canning River in Perth. We built and rendered courtyards, dug and mosaiced ponds, and painted walls in outrageous colours. This was one of my favourite places just to sit and daydream.
I painted holographic glitter over the mermaid’s tail, and at night we lit her up with an underwater halogen spotlight. Instant disco with the rippling, splashing water shadows!
What I don’t miss are the bazillions of tiny leaves falling into the pond from the overhanging Jacaranda tree from March through until November. But from then until well past Christmas it was just magical with the lilac blossoms forming a glowing carpet over everything. Just magical.
Purple was a continuing theme, with the 10mtr long water wall out the back swathed in a lustrous shade as well. Even the pots couldn’t escape the purple onslaught.
Our new Home is unfortunately also in need of a good reno. Though small, it has good bones, and a wonderfully peaceful setting. Bordered by creeks, mountains, and Coral Sea, it is just seething with wildlife. Something I’m grateful for everyday. And rather scared of sometimes!
And speaking of new homes, at long last I can call a new corner of the internet HOME. This time it’s with my own .com.au, so no more surprises, unless I spring them!
It’s like Christmas with your own site - photos as big as your heart desires, and no flashy corporations trying to flog you their products - sheer bliss!
Not much has changed in Canetoad Country, even though it’s supposed to be winter. Still around 28 C max, and even though the nights are cooler, I’ve only thought about putting the sheepskin slippies on. Opening up the camphorwood chest I said a brief “hello” to all the winter woolies that are living in limbo. Will I ever use them again? The locals suggest it takes 2 years to acclimatise, and that I should feel FREEZING like the rest of them come next June. I’m quite happy never acclimatising!
It’s good to be back….
To see the original Canetoads in My Coffee, click here.
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Hi,
Cool site!
Hope you get the camera fixed.
Hi Cindy,
Wow I like your new blog. Did you code it all yourself? Aren’t you the clever one then!
I will be back!
Tim
Hi boys, found your way over ok from the bigpond to the littlepond I see!
I did the graphics myself, but used a “ready-made” theme that was customised by a lovely lady that I host the site with.
There is a wee bitty of HTML which I don’t mind if I can take my time, but the heavy duty stuff I leave to the experts. Tim, I used to program in BASIC back in the Dark Ages as well, wasn’t that a joy - just don’t run out of command line numbers!
Doug, luckily only the lense ring broke off the telephoto lense. A bit snapped off, but it could have been worse, it could have landed on the glas lense itself. I’ve invested in a UV filter lense to protect it bit now. Touch wood, camera is working fine.
See you around,
Cheers,
Cindy
Hey hey hey!!!!
Love the mermaid, not sure about the pink stand in the corner, but hey its all part of the picture. Mosaics can be wonderful, a friend of mine just had his pool resurface and got a mosaic professionally doen in the pool- Awesome.
Your new blog is great, im sure it will evolve and become full, good to see you have left soem room to grow. I wouldnt have a clue how to make that happen and probably be too scared to attempt it, so bigblog is where i will stay.
Will drop in as always,
Regards your friendly Cairns Stalker
Gav
Afternoon,
my piles are giving me hell.
What good are they anyway.
If there is life after death and we get to reincarnate, I refuse to be a hameroid.
Byeee
(Error: please type a comment.) I did write a comment and because I did not fill in my email address, I saw that. There is no Back link there. It would help. (Now I am being fussy and a nag)
Byeee
Hey……I too found it, bit cryptic, but then again I am VERY tired…..have had a Red Bull and numerous coffees (without canetoads) but today is a real struggle…..
I love your home shots……have bookmarked ….
Hava good weekend……..Hosky
Hi girls, thanks for dropping by.
Grotty, I have made 2 backlinks, but you may not have seen them. One is at the bottom of the post (in purple, I might make it bigger), and in the right hand column under BLOGROLL at the top of the page.
Kim, at least it’s Friday, time to refill the sleepbank. Now if I had drunk all that caffeine today, I wouldn’t be sleeping till after 2 am.
Cheers,
Cindy
Love the new site..Fantastic….And I followed the links no probs….lol
Hi Cindy
great to see the new blog up and running. Look forward to seeing and hearing more. Be interesting to see who ends up engaging in dialogue here. The usual suspects from bigpond of course, but maybe many more from the wide, wide world of blogging…….
Hi Mandy and Tazar,
Glad you found your way, I felt like I should leave a trail of breadcrums or something. It’s a shame that Bugpond fell into such a hole.
There’s so much r o o m to play with here, thoroughly recommend it.
Cheers
Cindy