Annie's Blog

What have you been up to this week, Has it been busy or relaxing? Since most of you might be at home this week, and no doubt rattling around with nothing to do (haha) Below are some of the best stories I have read this week...most of them very funny..especially Pioneer Woman's story...and Charlie Brown's (video) the Meaning of Christmas is also very good.... but this one was also very good from the nytimes yesterday,about a family dining out twice a day for several days whenever they visit NYC.... NYC family foodies funny: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/ 12/28/dining/when-the-familys- foodies-visit-new-york.html? src=me&ref=style pig dung: http://www.abc.net.au/news/ 2011-12-29/pig-dung-used-as- teenager-deterrent/3750568 very very funny from pioneer woman: http://thepioneerwoman.com/ blog/2011/12/all-i-wanted-was- a-doughnut/ and the best of all...Charlie Brown links: (watch the real meaning of Christmas) http://www. soupisnotafingerfood.com/2011/ 12/the-most-wonderful-...

For unto us a child was born.

Love Joy and Peace at Christmas.

I wasn't feeling too bad about taking a photo of this old place on my way home from the airport (I took another wrong turn). Until I saw a car in the garage out the back. Help. Does someone actually live there? I hope the back of the place is better than the front then.

and some people have decorated their places and so where are we now? Sitting in Santa's chair? that appears to be a man shearing a sheep we're back at the airport with planes coming and going little people seem suddenly all grown up trawling Daddy's hand luggage the flame trees are natural Christmas trees They'll be back after seeing the other Nanma and GrandDad in New Zealand.

there was a Christmas tennis breakup...on the river all sorts of craft were seen out the city cat ferries were regular occurrences...good to see them back in operation the agapanthus and frangipani and poinciana served as Christmas decorations where we sat for our lunch on the riverbank would have been under water by a few meters during the flood yummy food and good company and coffee a very pleasant time on the riverbank of the mighty Brisbane River...good to see that somethings are looking like they are getting back to normal. Remembering of course that there are many others that are not yet, after the mighty floods at the beginning of the year.

come for a walk... a nice view from the Surf life saver's lookout...this wind sock must be for the parachuters who regularly land here... lots of room for everyone, and every beach and water activity...from the surf on one side.. a walk through the bush along the edge of the lake even a scrub turkey too multi-story apartment buildings the lake provides lots of room and activities for the whole family...many families...what a lovely place.

the frangipani have been pretty nice too lately.. always a compensation for the horrible hot weather we have sometimes, to have some wonderful blooms around!

Time of year for the agapanthus to bloom, lovely to have some blooming at last in my front yard again.

time for playing with kids and shopping of course it can't be long till Christmas waiting around on the way to a fire nee naa nee naa this looks interesting...

Many thanks for the wonderful provision of fresh fruit around us for dancing ladies and agapanthus flowering a rainy misty morning...looking out over Mt Cootha from my morning walk cheerful bougainvillea and poinciana blooms for highways and freeways and byways for the rain, even though it was very heavy in patches, and not very heavy in other places Greetings and a Happy Thanksgiving to you from Sippy Downs, Australia.