Cocos palms last days

When we moved here, we were told by a few people that the cocos palms, as beautiful as they are, can become a real nuisance. You see, they drop thousands of these seed pods which are act like ball bearings when you tread on them. We've nearly come a cropper on several occasions. Worse still, when they start to ripen, the fruit bats bring their families for feasting. These fruit bats are the size of tom cats and make these dreadful screeching noises all night long. So now that the fruit is ripening, the decision to cut down the two cocas palms was an easy one! While Curt was at it, he felled the pawpaw tree overhanging the balcony too...for the same reason. Bats love em...and since neither of us like pawpaw and we'd prefer drinking water without batshit, that went down too.

Short n Sassy

Breathing new life into the hair, I told my hairdresser for short and sassy this time. She's been dying to expose the curls from under the top layer of straight hair so I gave in. And glad I did.
Another addition to the bedroom is this wavy full length mirror from our favourite shop Ikea. I figure if I want to lose weight, I need to see my whole body more often...lol

Froggie television

The rain brings with it flying insects of all varieties...and frogs! While we're safe from the insects inside with all our flywire, a whole world of action is going on just outside our window. We'll be watching telly and to the right of our vision, we'll be treated to the movement of a frog going 'splat' on our window as he's chasing an insect attracted by the light. Check these guys out!

Sun up!

Now that the seasons have moved along, the sun is coming right up over the ocean in the mornings. This is what we woke up to this morning...

Two of my favourite people

What a gorgeous time we had, so nourishing spending time with good friends. Hanging out, eating good food, sittin' and talkin' till the words run out and it's just sittin'! Loads of laughs. We all took a bit of a holiday while Kinz was here! Here's Curt chillin'. And Kinz with her feet up reading a book.

Best friends!

Kinzi is here! Isn't it fabulous when old friends come to visit! We've been trying to keep her away from dishes and cooking and anything remotely close to work so that she can really get the most from her break away from a very full life in Perth. Those orange banana chairs have had a workout...and so have our tongues! Yakkady yak, lots to catch up on! We're off to the bead shop and markets today. Hope to have more shots then!

New viewing chairs

We bought a couple of great chaise lounges (they're called banana chairs here!) the other day, the perfect thing to relax on under the shade of the Jacaranda overlooking the world.