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There are three flowering on my path to the dog park. don't you just want to push your face into them?

Day 1: Perth to Balladonia (947km)

• 6:20am - Leave transcendancing’s house with fully laden car (Tetris achievement unlocked!)
• Meckering, buy petrol
• Southern Cross, buy petrol
• 12:30pm – Lunch at Coolgardie (decide to skip the Kargoorlie pit detour)
• Coolgardie, buy petrol
• Norseman (lakes were most lovey) buy postcards
• 5:15pm – Arrive Balladonia, buy petrol, eat food, write postcards, shower, sleep

Day 2: Balladonia to Ceduna (983km)

• 6:30 am – Leave Balladonia
• See eagles feasting on dead roo, take photographs of eagles, but not roo.
• transcendancing pulled over for speeding by very, very nice police. Woe
• Cocklebiddy, buy petrol, take photos, buy stuffed squid, name squid ‘Cockle’
• Wave at Madura, think about tea, identify transcendancing is ill
• Mundrabilla, buy petrol
• Wave at Eucla, drive up non-flat bit to great excitement
• Cross Western Australia – South Australia Border (wave)
• Stop at Great Australian Bight to stare, take photos
• Nullabor Roadhouse – definitely not Narnia
• 8:15pm Arrive Ceduna, order food, eat, walk, bathe, sleep

Day 3: Ceduna to Adelaide (634 km)

6:30am – Leave Ceduna, admire sunrise

• Poochera, buy petrol, take photo of dinosaur ant, chat to lovely store owner, do not make ‘screwed the poochera’ jokes *gives prk a filthy look*
• Wudinna, buy petrol
• 11:00 am Cowell, admire ‘crap’ art show in public toilets, no seriously, art show
• 12:00 pm Ferry from Luck Bay to Wallaroo (2 hours not driving was good)
• 2:00 pm – Wallaroo, locate hospital, medicate transcendancing’s throat infection
• Arrive Adelaide, arrive Juliette and Damian's, soak up warm hospitality and peach cobbler, discuss pterodactyls

Day 4: Adelaide to Melbourne (728km)

• 6:30am – Leave Adelaide and drive up into hills (sunrise thankfully blocked by hills)
• Murray Bridge, buy petrol
• Kaniva, sleep in Windmill café for 30 mins - v. good idea (staff were fabulous)
• Wave at Stawell, discover it is pronounced ‘stall’
• Ararat, buy petrol
• 4:30pm - Arrive Melbourne, cuddle littleboot
• Union Hotel, Brunswick, eat food, cuddle littleboot

Day 5: Melbourne to Perth

• Sleep in, drink tea, cuddle littleboot
• Arrive at cafe, hug hope, skud, japester and littleboot (just in case), eat all the food
• Drive to airport, fly home, cuddle everyone, laundry, food, shower, sleep

When the QFHC bought our house last year we were told by the previous owners they participated in the Christmas lights tradition. We bought in late December, had 3 couches and the fridges for New Years, and moved in January so lights weren't exactly on our radar back then.

I thought it would be nice to do something this year and since we're not big Christmas people I did something the entire household could get behind. A stargate.

It took me about 2 months of weekends - although a lot of this was thinking and workshopping - and on that note special thanks to maharetr, chaosmanor andcupidsbow, Andy, madradish and the many people who contributed wonderful encouragement and a steady stream of ideas.

Here is the entire process.

We have a new woofer in our lives! Kiba is 1 yr 4 months (July 2011) and an energetic boy who can apparently clear 6" fences. We're utterly smitten and will photograph him continuously from now on :p His settings are FULL SPEED and nap... with a gap in the middle for cuddling.



chaosmanor has taken some wonderful photos of him.

...and I have a macro lens for my phone.

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