Saturday, April 12, 2008

The birds

We checked out the Adelaide Bowling Club today (lawn bowls). While waiting for Richard we saw these beautiful birds in the tree.

In the evening we ate Mexican food items with Karin, Gavin and Rhys. We had a very nice time and the food was excellent-o.

Friday, April 11, 2008

The ouchie

I drove around a lot today, bought more geek stuff with which I won't bother you so I'll start todays blog with walking Mason.
I took a picture of a tree.

Less than 1 minute after taking the picture (literally infront of the next house) I had the slip of my life. Never have I walked on anything more slippery than this. It was a clay like substance covered with a thin layer of mud that looked like ordinary wet sand. The bastards building the house there couldn't be bothered cleaning up the pavement. I wonder how many others fell there.

Anyway, I took the fall with my left knee which is internally intact but the outside was less happy. Actually when I just got up you could only see a little patch of blood. When I cleaned it it seemed 5 times bigger.

At 18:00 o'clock it was Mason feeding time. He got yummy ehm.. substances, unidentified by me to be honest. It smelled awful but he loved it.

Dinner phase 1: Just started.

Dinner phase 2: Half way.

Dinner phase 3: All gone!

After dinner, sir wants to have a nice rub.

I think he found a piece of food left in his nose or something. Hilarious. Dogs are such funny creatures.

After watching the Simpsons for an hour I got behind my computer. I've been chatting up some smokers on a forum the past few days about the coming smoking ban in The NL, hilarious. I played ABBA :-)

Thursday, April 10, 2008

The bocconcini

Today I finally made bocconcini myself. Next to carpaccio, this is my favorite starter. I made it in our little and portable but very capable convection oven.

It's basically little bits of bocconcini wrapped in prosciutto. Before putting em in, just oil the bottom of the pan a little bit.

Don't make it too hot in there or the prosciutto will burn. After a while the cheese will start to melt and white liquid will come out, that's when they're done.

Quickly put on a plate, put some black pepper and oregano on it and a little bit of olive oil and eat! Hmmmmmm.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The dolphins

After a mediocre day we wanted to go do something so we drove to Henley beach.

Because we drove the wrong way we actually saw some undiscovered streets with lots of trees.

Hmmm....traaaiiiiins :-)

When we arrived at Henley the sun was setting slowly.

Our seagull friends were there as usual.

There wasn't much wind and the water was beautiful.

Looking on to the square.

Looking towards the jetty.

We walked on to the jetty and looked over the water.

And then we saw this, a little fin.

And then the fin was gone for a while.

But then, a mother dolphin and her baby came really close to the jetty!

It was very hard photographing them but you can see the silhouette of the mother here with her baby on her right.

This was stunning. They came out of the water about 5 meters away from us, maybe just to say hello. What wonderful animals.

In the meantime the sun had set and it was getting dark quickly.

A last look but the dolphins were gone...

When we came home it was completely dark. It was only 18:45.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Peanut butter

A wall of peanut butter at the Coles super market this morning. On Nicole's blog there's a wall of vegemite.

It was a warm day today, 29C.

A tree I walk under every time I walk Mason. It's a nice looking tree, it looks like fireworks I think.

Mason enjoying the sun (really he was thinking "can we go already?").

Another tree along the way has these beautiful flowers. They have been there almost ever since I started walking Mason, unreal.

In the evening Karin and I player 1 set of tennis again that Karn won by 7-6. It was a good match. Gavin was an excellent ball-boy too!

I always try to serve hard the first time. If it screws up I can usually poke the second ball over the net slowly.

Monday, April 7, 2008

The Larg's bay fishies

I really wanted to have a swim. Since today may be one of the last warmer ones for the next months we went to Larg's bay.

Larg's jetty from the water for a change. Notice the HUGE mountain of dead seaweed washed ashore. It came up to our knees while walking in and out of the water.

I am still very happy with the diving gear my ex-colleagues gave me. Today I actually had a good snorkel. I wore the goggles tighter than last time and there was hardly any water coming in so I could stay down very long. Also I figured out how to make the airpipe stand up properly so I wasn't choking all the time.

Nicole came in as well.

Larg's jetty the other way.

There was an incredible amount of dust, sand and what not in the water unfortunately.

Under the jetty is where you find the fishies. Rather big ones too. I don't know what kind they are. The stupid thing is that there are always a lot of people fishing from the jetty throwing their hooks far away from the jetty but the fish are right underneath! I reckon if I had a spear I could have brought some home. I rather photograph them though.

Here's one coming right at me. See that killer look in his eyes?

Side view. Hmmmmm. Obviously I need to get the quality better next time...

Close-up of a jetty-pole with a yellow tag.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Hahndorf

Behind the walnut tree I picked up a lot of walnuts that had fallen on the floor over the past days due to the strong wind.

Early afternoon we ( -I- ) drove to Hahndorf. The way there was without any problems (first time on the free way). The drive back was a little bit more adventurous.

Parked close to our car was this old timer (MG).

I was wondering how people fit behind the wheel here. I sure as hell don't!

Hahndorf is a little village founded by a handful of germans who brought European trees and plants with them. It results in beautiful colours during autumn.

There are a lot of places in Hahndorf with German heritage. Local pubs, hotels and restaurants happily use this to lure in the unknown tourists. Check out the dude on the left wearing lederhosen.

The weather was magnificent today.

On the other side of the road another old timer was parked: A Rolls Royce.

I tried flying my micro helicopter outside but somehow the infra-red transmitter didn't reach the heli well at all. This is funny because indoors it works fine.