tow two years

Two years ago today I arrived in Australia. It took a while for me to adjust to this new country but now I am perfectly home in Australia. I have a happy comfortable home with ACA and my cat Hermoine. I have two jobs in a field I love. I have a wonderful group of friends, in real life, and online. Allah has been very kind to me and for that I am grateful.

tow visitor

I had a visitor this morning.

I didn’t notice the little guy (or girl, how can you tell?!) until it started moving out of the junk mail. I was eating my breakfast and it took me by surprise. I watched its progress out of the junk mail and over to ACA’s chocolate sticks. I thought ACA would prefer his chocolate sticks snail-slime free and I doubt the snail would have cared for the chocolate sticks. After taking a picture I took it out and I let it go it’s way.
When I got back home from work it was gone. It was nice knowing you snail buddy!

tow gadgets

Look what I’ve bought at Salvos (that’s The Salvation Army for the non-Australians!).

ACA looked at them and said “I didn’t know Dexter donated to Salvos.”
Oh ha, ha! They are not torture devices, clearly. I didn’t have an idea what they were until some ladies helped me out at Salvos. I have a habit of randomly talking to strangers around me when I have something to share. There was a pie pan with a removable bottom, like this one. I never seen a pie plate like that before and I thought it was very neat. There were two ladies looking around the same area and I showed them the plate. They were amused at how amused I was at the pie plate. We chatted for a while and they really seem to know their kitchen stuff. So I showed the three items I was carrying with me and asked if they knew what they were. They did. The first one on the left is an apple corer, the one in the middle is for loose tea and the last one is a melon scoop. I bought them all, 50 cents each, why not? I didn’t buy the pie plate, I am on a budget you know.
I brought them home. I left them in boiling water for 15 minutes. I poured off the water, put some more water and added citric acid to the pan and boiled the gadgets for a second round. I think any germs on them would have died by 30 minutes of boiling.
Tea spoon is really neat. It opens up and you can put the loose tea inside and it shuts with a satisfying little click. I made tea with it yesterday and I enjoyed swishing the spoon around the cup watching tea diffuse into the water. I also ate an apple yesterday just because I wanted to play with the corer. I think I will also use it to cut out neat shapes out of fruits. Wouldn’t an arrangement of fruits in shapes of little tubes look interesting? Especially if I scooped up melons with my brand-new-to-me melon scooper? Will have to play with that idea on the weekend!

tow text

My old high school teacher and vice principal shared a link to a site called “wordle” on facebook.

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”

I put the text of my blog through the worldle and this is what it came up with.

Biggest words are “sock” “socks” and “yarn.” Raise your hand if you are shocked!

tow poem for Australia Post

I posted this today at Ravelry. Thought my blog should get it too.

Five minutes ago a knock at the door.
I open the door and see a delivery guy is getting back in his van.
He points to my doorstep and says “express package”
I pick up the package and look at it
It’s for “Ihmad” somebody or another, not me.
I look at the address it’s 36 Street Name
I live in 38 Street Name
I call out at him, “This is not for me!”
He looks confused, takes the package from me
“This is not 36?” He asks
“No it’s 38.”
He looks around, “Soo where is 36?”
I say “Not here.”
I close the door, roll my eyes and think about posting this to ravelry.
I sit down and another knock at the door
Same guy leaving my drive way
Points to the package at my door step and backs out
Well, he got it right this time.

kelebek