Day 158 - Drink

These are two of the coffees that I didn't get to finish today. In my job, most days we get two 20 minute breaks during the school part of the day. In that time you have to: help kids find their hat, drink, lunch box or whatever else they have lost, get your own lunch ready or heated, eat it, make coffee, wash your own dishes, use the bathroom, do any photocopying and catch up with anyone you need to speak to, such as office staff or other teachers. Once you have fit all of that into your break, you are either out on playground duty or back to the classroom, where you pretty much have no chance of finishing your coffee before it turns cold!

Day 157 - Hat

So the theme today is hat and I discovered that my little hat collection was all at school! The thing I do like about buying hats is that for teachers they are a tax deduction, along with sunglasses, for the outdoor work that we do (playground duty). It's a good excuse to buy them!

Day 156 - Sign

Downtown Monaro Street in Queanbeyan this afternoon as the evening was just coming on was a very cool brisk walk. Today's theme was a 'sign' and as much as I wanted to find something clever and funny, I couldn't! So instead I tried to capture the feel of the business of the day winding down. There are always a lot of cars about here at this time and the street was pretty empty because it was so cold! Like many main streets through NSW towns there is one shop sign after another overhead, as far as you can see.

Day 155 - Goodbye to My Feline Friend of Eighteen Years

Today was the end of a very long era. My cat, Baby has been through all of my adult life with me. I got her during my first year of uni in 1994 and she has seen all the changes in my life, including moving many times and finally moving to Canberra with me in 2006. Dale says that he will never forget that trip with her on his lap in the passenger seat of the MX5! I do remember pulling up to get petrol and getting funny looks at all the cat hair covering me when I went in to pay and I didn't even have her dribbling all over my lap!

Last night Baby didn't seem herself and strictly speaking, I did take this photo early, because I took it on Sunday night. It was, however, more fitting to post it under today's date. On her last night I brushed her hair, we had a little chat and I kept a very close eye on her after taking a bunch of photos of her.

Sadly by morning, she was no longer with us, having not made it through Sunday night, but having made it through 18 years with me. She was a trooper, sometimes a pain, sometimes purry, sometimes cranky, but always there.  Hoping now that she is with her old mate Jessie with maybe a bit of frolicking like they used to :)

Day 155 - On Your Plate

The theme "On Your Plate" encouraged me to cook a lot today - breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert in fact. You may notice the beetroot soup that I made for lunch. I was attempting to make soup out of ingredients that we already had so that I could use them up. We had some frozen stock which I made use of, some roasted veggies from last night's dinner and a tin of beetroot from the cupboard. The fact that I couldn't find a use by date on the tin, suggested that the beets were old. Did you know that they can turn black in the tin?! Yes Dale had to grab some more so the soup could be finished off. We certainly ate well today!

Day 154 - Googong Excitement

It was an exciting day today as it was Googong Day! With our 3.30pm appointment not far off and a message from Peta saying that they were successful in getting the block they wanted, we were pretty excited about picking our lot! Last night we sat down and went through our block choices again. We read all the fine print and discovered that you need 8m at the rear of a 2 storey house, which changed our choices a bit. Finally we decided that there was one we liked if only we could change the side that the driveway was on. After being told that would be okay, we picked out our block and the salesperson stuck an orange dot on it to say that it was taken! Funnily Jenna is not pointing to our block in this photo; we will be a bit further north.

Day 153 - Morning!

Well doing FatMumSlim's May photo challenge was a fun way to take photos for the month, but now that we have arrived at June, I have decided to go back to using my favourite photo of the day, regardless of a theme. Today's photo does fit in with the theme of Morning, however. Here is Henry happily munching away on his toast this morning (looking back, did I go heavy handed with the jam or what??). Henry loves toast... most of all the popping noise that the toaster makes!