Annie's Blog

 Gosh. Now it is NOVEMBER! How time flies while having fun.  Or perhaps bring otherwise engaged ...mainly in (thankfully) minor medical procedures. Most notable being cataract surgery ..all done but waiting on new glasses!  Went to the beach the other day ..thinking I'd beat the schoolies! Almost. There were a lot of people swimming at midday on a warm day....and kids running around in school uniforms etc  https://photos.app.goo.gl/ Nn3JuFyyf5T5Ag9g9 This is a bit of a boring way to show photos! (I'll leave it here for the moment  to see if it worked ok) I will have to try to show at least one here differently! ( whew, I did it ...not sure how!! ) It has been very warm lately and as I write this we have had a very wet morning, with a little low sitting over us here on the Sunny Coast! Looking forward to some family gatherings to come in the next months!! That is me with my sunnies after surgery! Haha. Been doing some reading, a fair bit before the cataract surge...

What better R word than RIVER...but I am not sure whether you can see the RIPARIAN buffer...that is a new word I learnt during the week (pertains to river and creek banks)! This is the Brisbane River at Mandalay. The ROADS are important R words. ROOVES are important too. They help to keep out the RAIN...there are quite a few people in Brisbane tonight who wish they had a roof over their heads. Not only the homeless, but those who lost their rooves in the storm on Sunday night! RETRIEVERS are handy too sometimes! I enjoy READING...do you? and RAINBOWS..everyone likes rainbows, I think! REFLECTIONS are always interesting! so are ROCKS...always fascinating. more old corrugated rooves of Brisbane. and the REGATTA hotel is a local landmark at Toowong that I forgot to include on my world post the other week. The RIVER Hudson from the ROOFTOP barbeque in New York. The scrub turkey loves RAKING my leaves for his nest! What are they doing at the local RAILWAY station? ROBBIE loves...