by Hugh and Justine | Apr 14, 2024
First – my apologies to everyone for last week’s blog being down for several hours! I actually wrote it early but not long after I published it, the hosting site went down and didn’t come back up for several hours. I received some panicked emails,...
by Hugh and Justine | Apr 7, 2024
So much for living in weather paradise, the past month has been so darn rainy! We had the 3 lovely days last weekend and then it’s been raining again since. It was so bad, I know this is going to make you cry, Hugh’s golf game was cancelled on Friday! Say...
by Hugh and Justine | Mar 31, 2024
Well, we saw our first stick insect this week! I was walking up to the 1st floor of my building at work on Monday night and at first walked on by, thinking a twig had become stuck on the wall (stairwells in our building are outside, so this was on an outside wall on a...
by Hugh and Justine | Mar 24, 2024
This was a winning week for the retiree in the house! Although Hugh didn’t have the best of golf games on Monday, the $5 raffle ticket he bought paid off. He got a call on Tue morning that he’d won a meat tray! In my mind, I pictured a deli meat platter...
by Hugh and Justine | Mar 17, 2024
So emus are supposed to be fairly common here – there are apparently around 700,000 of them across the country. That’s nowhere near the 50 million kangaroos we have, but still a good number of large, running birds. On the highway between Yeppoon and...
