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These are the drawings that I did from November the 8th to November the 22nd 2008.

MAGGIE DOES SOME BLOGGING

"gimme sugar.....gimme water..."

Dad turs into that crazy insect alien man from "Men in Black " occassionally, it's pretty scary as you can see.

This is the compost.

This is the chickens bottoms.

Better not forget the chickens poo.

Happy Birthday Maggie !!

Well, Magnus had lots of fun on his 5th birthday. He invited all his pre-school friends over, plus all their brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers. There were lots of people, we had a slip and slide BBQ. The weather wasn't so great but it didn't stop the kids from slip and sliding.

Maggie wanted a piranah pinata, so Jon was busy during the week creating the pinata and we were all impressed. All Maggies friends got about 2 hits of the Pinata and then I think Maggie got impatient, on his third go he launched onto the piranah and attacked it with his teeth, I think all the kids were happy about that except for Willow who was disappointed he didn't get another round of hitting. Maggie got lots of great presents from everyone , including the fantastic hulk suit he wore at the party and the fancy Darth Vader suit he got from Grandmar and Grandpar. He looks like the real thing!!

HI Rae, finally I am doing a bit of blogging, first time. I have to mention that jon is wishing you had skype running, he's keen to chat and I think also to test out how ours is. I hope your enjoying America, it looks very exciting with all those new places to be explored , and very cold at the moment.

Well to let you in on what we've been doing. Really all I can let you in on is our day to day actions. As I walked about the propery today, I realised we could share a few things...... so here they are.

All the boys have been busy building a cubby house. Jon collected the bush poles and the others did their best. Willow was a trojan and didn't rest all day until the job was done, Seamus jumped about pulling markers out and then after 30 mins decided that it was time to invite a friend over, and I can't remember what Maggie did all day but he was very disappointed when Willow told him he couldn't go in until he helped.Magnus and Seamus finally got moving to do a little tidy up at the end so they could go in and have a look. Here is the finished product...... part of it anyway, I will send a better picture soon.

Just a picture of the boys in their makeshift cubby

Well, we now have some solar panels which we expect will be a saving of about 30%, we'll see, and also I have a flash new car, the boys love it cause we don't need to yell to talk to each other anymore.

We have a friend who is due to have a baby very shortly, and a few people from the valley are making her a wall hanging. The theme is , there's no place like home. Willow, Seamus and Maggie all drew some pictures that I could take some inspiration from, here they are...

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This is Maggies interpretation of there's no place like home.

The picture on the right is our finished panel. We hopefully will get time to create Maggies robot on a separate panel for the wall hanging. Jo wanted to make some dolls and have them sleeping in a bed. Jon cut them out and I have sewn one up. Willow enjoyed swapping the facial features around and we were opposed on how they should be arranged.

Seamus lego creations

Jon and Kibi

I have to go now Rae, I am sure you will see some improvement in my blogging as time goes on. Magnus has been busy taking photos for you which I will post next time along with all the exciting times that we had at his slip and slide BBQ birthday party.

But theres nothing happening!

After much harassment - another post. Magnus is off today to another orientation at 'big' school. I on the other hand am enjoying staying home. I have gone back to 3 days a week, which is great. The plan was to spend one day in the garden, and the other playing music, but it's been mostly garden stuff so far. I hope today will be a music day though. My band looks like having a new member, and the four of us look like having some proper gigs supporting some big names coming through Bellingen which would be cool. Another cool thing which happened this week was that we said goodbye to our sat elite Internet connection which was painfully laggy, and we now are able to have nice fast Internet through the house, so Rae, if you and the "Master" have Skye or one of those we can talk easily, which would be cool. Danielle is doing quite well starting her swimming costume business, and is getting more orders than she can make. She is selling them for about $20 or $30 in town at a shop, but she is going to put them online for more. She has found websites selling similar stuff for $180.
So there you have it. No trips to America, no new houses, not much at all really. Hope it was a good read though:) - Jon

the gusto demo

i finally recorded the demo! i haven't done a web site yet, but you can have a listen:
http://www.groovewithgusto.com/index.html

Magnus and his sense of huour

Magnus this week was with me reading a book, when he pointed out that the bad drawing in the book actually made the boy look like he was cross - eyed. He paused for a sec, then turned around in my lap so that he was looking over my shoulder, and with his eyes crossed said: "he's my cousin."

On my birthday he went with Danielle to get a helium balloon with happy birthday on it. He said "they were so high up, that Rudolf is the only person on Earth that would have reached them."

The Drivers Home

Nothin to report, but this is us - jon