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moonvoice ([personal profile] moonvoice) wrote2010-03-13 05:49 pm

Photo/s of the day.

I'm gunna getchoo!







Let's just say it plainly, right now. Maybe won't chase rocks. Truly, we did try. Actually, mostly we just lazed around for a while. Here's Maybe and Glen.



Here Glen is puffing up sand and she's curious.



She also hangs out with Moet.



When she's not attacking his tail, she's copying everything he does.



Here she is being the closest thing to a cat princess I've ever seen. I'm gonna make her a tiara. Anyway, today we got our quote for liquid limestone pathways to help out with this sand situation. The quote was $3000. Wow. Wow because it's a really reasonable price. Wow because it's three grand.



Eventually, upon realising that Maybe would have none of the 'catching rocks' game that Moet does (which Moet would also have none of because he was rolling around happily in the garden), we decided to get her favourite toy outside.



She will do crazy things for this toy. She started to climb up my body once, for it.



Earlier today she tried climbing the wall to get it, which means we can now say we have a cat that literally tries to climb the walls. Bloody menace.



The Force is strong in this one.



And then you kick out to the left and you do a little jig.



It's MINE!



I told you it was mine.



Moet was hanging around but not playing. He's been very sleepy all day, and I've wondered at times if it's the weather change. He seems alert enough now. In the background is Glen's car, Patch.



The end! :)

[identity profile] freyaw.livejournal.com 2010-03-20 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Americans have an idea that Australia is full of sand and lots of poisonous bugs/insects/snakes etc. I noticed bare feet. Is our perception of the nasty biting-stinging things of Australia off?

They're there. It's just the things you do - like shaking out your clothes before taking them off the line or putting them on - are automatic background noise. It's like I don't have to think about things like not taking water with me when I go walking, it's just unthinkable not to. You take it for granted that This Is What You Do, and get on with life.

Also, there's the fact that Australians as a whole are typified by laid-back bloody-mindedness and a laissez-faire attitude to danger. My Dad picks up redbacks barehanded so that he can put them in a jar and take them somewhere more appropriate (to either kill or release, depending on what works best at the time). I went out to my mother's Stash Room yesterday to get something, went back inside to get my camera and Mum when I saw one of the white variants of a redback and when photos had been taken we both left it there (in one of the major lanes through piles of Stuff in that Stash Room). It wasn't doing any harm.