Sweet Pieces of the House

New Stuff

Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad

A couple weeks ago I emailed the movers to see if they had an estimate on when our shipment would arrive. They replied with an estimated date of arrival between May 27 and May 30. Unfortunately I thought that this was an estimate of when the movers would be able to deliver the shipment to our new rental house. But no, when I called yesterday they informed me that their estimate was the date that the ship our things were on would arrive in Sydney. So now the ship is in, but our stuff has to go through customs and be trucked over to Adelaide, and then be delivered to us. All this will probably take at least two more weeks. I had told Sarah that our things would be here on May 30, so it was pretty heartbreaking to tell her that any seating besides the floor and some wooden chairs was still two weeks away instead of one day away.

The Front

The right side.

The Left Side.

WILD Animals

I (Sarah) just wanted to let you all know that we did see wild animals while at KI but they were too fast to take pictures of.

The Fourth Day on Kangaroo Island

I love this picture. I think that Sarah makes a real good queen bee. We were able find and purchase some honey in the comb at this place. Good stuff. I haven't had any of that since Gerald Wunsch gave some to my family a few years back.




These are some dolphins we saw while we were in Penneshaw waiting for the ferry back to the mainland.

The Third Day on Kangaroo Island Continued

The Third Day on Kangaroo Island

We visited the Parndana Wildlife Park. It was pretty sweet. Most of the animals seemed pretty sad or lethargic though, so we asked the owner what the situation was with them. He said most of them had been rescued and brought back to health, but that the state law forbids the release of rescued animals back into the wild. Then I asked him if I could buy some antlers off him that I had seen sitting in a pile, and he said "no, but you can have some."


This thing is a cassowary. It has one razor sharp claw on each foot that it uses to slice the throat of whatever it's attacking. I guess people are killed by them sometimes.

The Second Day on Kangaroo Island Continued Again

I don't see any breeding going on here. Must not be the right season. Crazy seals.


View the high resolution version of this pic. Note the two hundred camoflaged seals lying about the place.

The Second Day on Kangaroo Island Continued

This is a place called Remarkable Rocks in Flinders Chase National Park. As you can see it is indeed quite remarkable. We had some good times climbing around the rocks. I hope, Lisa, that you will remember a picture of the two of us inside the basketball storage box at camp when you look at this first pic here.

The Second Day on Kangaroo Island

Masses of gulls, and some annoyed seals.


The seals at Seal Bay. The one on the leftt kept moving over and squishing the smaller ones. Good times. Reminds me of the game called steam roller my siblings and I used to play in our youth.


My beautiful bride contemplatively overlooking a placid lagoon.

The First Day on Kangaroo Island

This is what a lot of the island looks like. Sheep grazing peacefully amongst the hills on brilliant green grass.


Here's Sarah in the ride, lookin' pretty sweet. The good ol' Falcon did pretty well on all the dirt roads.


Here are some of the sheep, up close. As if you couldn't tell.


This is at a beach called Stoke's Bay. You had to walk through a kind of cave underneath huge boulders to get there. Very pretty.

The New Krix

9 John Street

This is our backyard. The building in the corner is our shed. It has some sweet shelving, some workbenches, a vice and pegboards on the walls for hanging tools.

This is Sarah in the guest bed in the guest bedroom. We're sleeping in here until our bed gets here. Then we will move into our own bedroom, and the guests can start coming.

This is our stylishly outdated but functionally sound kitchen.

Notice the amazing black and white checker style tile floor, and the stained glass window in our bathroom.

Walking Away from Their Past

Some of the Things We Saw

Here's a few pics I thought were rather indicative of the scenery on our Sunday bike ride.

Another Ride

Sarah and I went for a 41 k (26 mi) bike ride with our friends Nandor and Annie on Sunday morning. It was good ride, and we got to eat some tasty meat pies, pasties, donuts and pastries at a scrumtrulescent backery in Willunga at the end. We saw some sweet old school bicycles along the way. Some crazy Aussies just rolling all over the place.

Utes

The following photos are a collection of my sightings of "Utes" yesterday.





These vehicles have been around in this corner of the world ever since, and maybe even before, the El Camino reared its ugly head and then died a sudden but timely death. The reason they have stuck around over here is a good one though. They are much more fuel efficient than the pickups everyone drives around in the U.S. Since petrol is so expensive over here they've actually sacrificed something to conserve fuel. It's pretty amazing, and I commend them for it, even if I don't agree with the aesthetic outcome.