- Fall is here! Cool nights (in the 50's now at night), and for the most part sunny, warm (only when the sun is out) days. The days are getting shorter also. I am getting two seasons back to back of short days! I think I will make up for it when I return to the Pacific NW this summer with long days, when it will be full on winter here with the shortest days of the year, so no room for any complaints on my part. We have a propane heater that we can turn on in the house for short periods at night to take the chill out of the air. Woody has a nice woodstove, but we have not stated a fire yet. We have a stack of firewood ready for the woodstove right outside his door however!
- The leeches are fewer in number now, I have been brave enough to walk on the grass with bare feet on occasion. I have attracted a few buggers, but I am not as grossed out by them anymore. Did I ever mention they itch like crazy for days afterwards?
- The Bagworm--- well, I let him go walkabout last week to look for the food he wanted to eat as he was not eating anything I put in his plastic hotel. He climbed up into a tree nearby and stayed there for several days. I thought he was going to hang there for several months as he morphed into a moth, but one day, he was gone. I am a bit sad he is gone, yes, yes, weird I know, but he became my first Australian pet!
- I passed my English tests! Oh god, THANK GOD! So now I can turn in my application for my RN license...then wait to get it approved, then apply for my nurse practitioner license. I am procrastinating now that I can actually apply. I am hesitant to take a job before September when I return here after my time in Washington this summer.
- We have been clearing land, fighting back the jungle around the houses. I must have moved a ton of branches recently. Now the view is opened up and we can see some of the surrounding foothills. It is so very nice.
- I am taking an organic gardening course trying to prepare to be more self-sufficient in the future. Will there really be a huge food shortage in our lifetime?
- It is raining today (good news) after many weeks of floods followed by more weeks of no rain and a decreasing water level in the rain tank. I have been taking showers standing in a blue basin to collect the shower runoff water for the garden. We are talking about getting another large water tank to store more of the rain that comes in the summer time.
- I went to the beach a few days last week and it was beautiful (again). Sunny, warm, and not too hot. The ocean was turquoise and crystal clear. There were big waves breaking right off shore and when I stood out there, I could see right through the two foot tall swells before they broke, it was like looking into an aquarium. The swells were transparent and full of different fish.
- I think Susan and I will climb Mt. Warning this week.
This is the view before the land was cleared.
And AFTER, exposing a beautiful rainforest tree!
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