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"All electronic devices are powered by white smoke. When smoke goes out, device is dead."

Milan Nikolić

The candle project has reached it's zenith - although the next incarnation of the PCB was a bit of dead duck on arrival, the victim of auto-routing. Now we don't auto-route anymore, and in the meantime we banged up a few candles for a customer. Thirty more to make for a local restaurant as well - not a bad return on all that work <sobs>.  Makes us feel like maybe a bit of country and western will help drown the pain...

Thanks Willie Nelson (again), apparently more than just a cool haircut.

Skylarks

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." 

Leonardo da Vinci

We didn't realise how much gardening we had to do post winter until we saw the place from the air - thank Chels and Mitch for the nifty quadcopter Papa Bear Day present!  When we're more practised pilots expect a few more sky-larking on the blog ...

Maryknoll

"Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"

Shirdi Sai Baba

Maryknoll for a couple of hours this week produced some lovely Spring-i-ness - enjoy!

Postponed springtime

"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches."

E.E. Cummings

It looked a little bit like Spring for a short while, and in fact hay-fever sensitive noses were flaring, snorting and leaking, but then this on Friday...

Thanks for the grass Dad, we couldn't find anything under the white stuff

Spring buds, but snow on the top - confusing!

No gardening until this all melts...

Mitch and Chels can't believe we're in the same country as they had 26 degrees in Perth that day. Anyhoo the red wine and fireside chats about politics while all around the snow falls is pretty special. So we're not in any great hurry for Spring just yet...

Across the country

“It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own.”

Bill Bryson

Another Papa Bear Day - this one with Kym across the country in Perth watching Mitchell graduate, and meanwhile Anthony and Jackson catching up in Tasmania. Lovely!

Skype pic - Perth to Tassie

What is it with old men and wacky knitwear?