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Tim of the week for some Aussie slang.
Wowser: Straight laced person, prude, prudish or a spoilsport
Wuss: A nervous person or animal to be a scaredy cat
XXXX: Called four X a beer from Queensland
Yabber: Someone who talks a lot
Yabby: An inland fresh water crayfish
Hello Tuesday I hope everyone is doing well this morning, or night, or afternoon whenever you are reading this.
Today we are looking at the Burrowing Owl, this is a ground dwelling owl that makes it nests in burrows dug by other animals such as squirrels, armadillos, skunks and gophers in the open plains throughout North America.
Galloping across the ground on their long legs they pounce on their prey which include insects, small mammals, amphibians, reptiles and other birds at either dusk or dawn.
Left on their own in the burrow while parents hunt, juvenile owlets scare off predators my mimicking the sound of a rattlesnake.
The surround their nests with mammal waste this heady concoction attracts dung beetles which is one of the favourite foods.
The burrowing owl, also called the shoco, is a small, long-legged owl found throughout open landscapes of North and South America. Burrowing owls can be found in grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, or any other open, dry area with low vegetation
Well here we are at another Monday and of course that means it is time for some more facts, still looking at Earth facts.
The Earth is the only planet in our solar system known to support life, as living things need just the right amount of heat and light from the sun as well as food, water and oxygen to survive.
If all the land on Earth was shared equally among the entire population, each person would get an equal size about the same ar couple of football pitches.
The Earth is over 4 billion years old, but it is only expected to support life for a further 500 million years. How the hell do they know that.
There are thousands of artificial satellites as well as twenty odd thousands pieces of man made currently orbiting the Earth.
The population of the Earth is about 18 billion and increasing
Had another good night woke when the alarm went off. When I went to wear my shorts they were so loose I was unable to wear them and had to change into a pair of longer pants as I have no more clean shorts that fit. It will be another nice day warm but not hot.
I used the new air fryer/oven to toast my banana bread and of course I burnt most of it.
A warm day but no need for the a/c.
Tim has ben making his own beef jerky type stuff in the new air fryer/oven as it has a setting for dehydration.
Had a good night woke with the alarm, found the kitchen not a mess but not as clean and tidy as usual.
Made myself an egg-flip for breakie with a hot cross bun which I couldn’t eat.
In for another warm day top of 27 degrees.
Turned the air con on at around midday.Tim took the empty cans and bottle over to earn & return.
Another good night up at 5am as usual and could here rain as I was having my morning wash. I am unable to go with Sam to meet his driver due to the rain.
Rained on an off all morning but then fined up.
Had a phone call from the podiatrist they changed my appointment to Friday at 9am.
Another pretty good night, I am wearing light weight long pants as my shorts are not dry, Tim did a load of washing Monday night and hung them on the clothes hoists to dry but as yesterday was not a good drying day due to the rain and all I found the shorts still damp this morning so went with what I am wearing instead.
How frustrating is our internet we are online and everything should be working just fine but no I keep getting a message saying no internet….grrrrrr
Dawson came over for a visit he was here for about an hour or so, it is always nice to see him.
This afternoon while I was eating lunch Tim went out didn’t say where he was going, for some reason I thought he was going out to buy his lunch, which he but he also bought me a new mobile phone that was a surprise. It is a Samsung Galaxy A05s. I will have to get either Jess or Tash to help me set it up. I shake far too much to try and do it myself.
Another really good night slept straight through till the alarm went at 5am. We are in for another scorching hot day with a high of 38 degrees, yesterday it got to 33 degrees.
I turned the air con on at 9am.
Kelli called in to pick something up, it was nice to see her, she was only here 5 minutes but that’s ok better then not seeing her.
Jess came over and set up the new phone, I will have to install a couple of apps but it is working and for that I am grateful.
Tim followed Jess into were she is working tonight to met someone she works with he is connected to some church that runs some kind of men shed thing Jess thought might interest Tim he wants to do something other then sit on his bum watching Youtube or Facebook.
It is a warm morning here 23 degrees when I got up at 5am. At 5.50am Blain walked in he brought down the disable parking permit as I have an appointment with the podiatrist this morning.
When I was speaking to Kathy I asked how Michael’s dad was doing and Kathy told me he passed away last night, I said that is big news you could have told me without waiting for me to ask after him. I hope Michael is doing ok.
Went to the podiatrist saw a new woman she was nice but I had to pay for the first time in years, cost $66 and I should get $58 back.
I am having a hard time settling tonight so got back up at 10pm and watched the last hour of a movie with Tim, before returning to bed.
After returning to bed around 11.20pm I managed to get some sleep before the alarm went off, I suspect I will be having a nap sometime this morning.
I sent Tasha a message last night asking if goes to the Plaza could I go with her.
I shut the house up at 9am and turned the A/C on for about 15 minutes and then turned it off for a while I turned it back on at 11am. Around 1pm there was a change in the weather and the temperature dropped, so Tim turned off the A/C.
I have also done a new post on Radom Things which can be found here:
Well hello Friday you have arrived at last, that makes it sound like I have been waiting a long ass time for you to come around but nope not the case just the usual amount of time from one Friday to the next.
Here is a little more about the slowness that comes with Parkinson’s Disease. Slowness can also effect ones speech over time with people often unable to raise their voice, this is because the slowness of movement effects the muscles of the chest and diaphragm as well as those of the larynx which results in speech becoming softer, slower and slurred. I have heard Tim say often that I don’t speak loud enough, I don’t think that is the case as I sound normal to me.
Even though family and friends of a Parkinson’s sufferer may find the slowness o movement irritating and frustrating it is part of the disease and however, much we try we cannot hurry or go faster.
Everyday tasks such as dressing, washing and eating can over time take longer to achieve, our love ones need to remember it is also very frustrating for us suffers as well. We try and do things as fast as possible but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. We still think as normal no slowness there unless the condition is well advanced or we are effected by side-effects of treatment.
We do not need people to speak slower for us to understand, we understand just fine the problem is getting our bodies to do what our brain says to do.
Next week we will talk about balance.
Well here we are at Thursday again so it is time for more about the working life in Australia in the 1890’s.
This week we are looking at transport and shops.
To save money most workers lived either in the city or the inner suburbs meaning they would be able to walk to work. As the cities began their slow sprawl to the outer suburbs, trains, ferries, trams and the omnibus system was established to service them.
In the 1890’s the main form of transport was the horse, it was in 1898, 670 four wheeled cabs and 212 hansom cabs crossed the streets of Melbourne and 1,332 drivers were licensed for the movement of goods.
Over time more and more cable trams were able to carry more and more passengers, in 1898 a first class gripman earned 40 shillings per week, while first-class conductors earned 38 shillings per week.
Large department stores had become a feature of city and suburban life by the late 1800’s. Salespeople worked long hours and had strict rules which contrasted with surroundings the these lavish stores, such as David Jones, The Mutual Store and others.
Here we are at the time for more Aussie Slang.
Up one’s self; To have a high opinion of yourself
To get up someone To rebuke someone as in the boss got up me for being late.
Vinnies: St Vincent De Paul, a local charity organization/shop
WACA: The Western Australia Cricket Association. Perth’s cricket ground
Woop Woop: A made up name for an unimportant town, think he lives at woop woop
Hello Tuesday, I hope everyone is doing well this weeks creature is the North American Beaver .
The first thing many notice about this beaver is its teeth they are large and strong , they use these to gnaw down trees and build dome shaped homes called lodges.
The can swim up to 8km/h with the aid of their webbed back feet and paddle shaped tail. They are also able to stay underwater for up to 15 minutes and have a set of transparent eyelids that function like goggles.
They are second only to humans in their ability to change their environment, felling trees to transform forests and fields into ponds.
The North American beaver is one of two extant beaver species, along with the Eurasian beaver. It is native to North America and has been introduced in South America and Europe. The North American beaver is one of the official national wildlife of Canada symbols and is the official state mammal of Oregon and New York.
A new week has arrived and that means some facts about the Earth.
If you went soaring through the atmosphere in a hot air balloon, you would find it harder to breathe the higher you went as the atmosphere gets thinner.
The mixture of gases in the atmosphere has taken over 4.5 billion years to evolve, around 99% of the atmosphere is made up of oxygen and nitrogen, the remainder is tiny amounts of other gases.
The force of gravity is not even all over the Earth, a person weighing around 150 pounds at the equator would weigh 151 pounds at the North Pole.
The part of the Earth that has life on it is called the ecosphere.
The length of a day on Earth is increasing by 17 milliseconds per century.
Up at 4.50am after a decent enough good night.
I have no deodorant as Jess ran out and came and took mine, and boy do I stink. I went in and washed under my arms. I turned the a/c on at 9am as I was sick of being drenched in sweat.
The computer was working well till 9am when it decided it was time to freeze.
I decided to start having an egg flip with or for breakie as I am not eating much during the day.
Had a really good night, slept well woke twice to pee but straight back to sleep.
Yesterday afternoon around 3pm Sam walks out of his room needing help with a bleeding finger due to a slip of the knife, he had been eating a pie. Anyway Papa helped him clean it up and cover it with a band aid, it’s not a serious cut thankfully. I helped change the band aids this morning.
Sue popped over to see me no reason other then to make sure I am doing ok. I asked I she could send of the parcel for Thea & Daemon which she said she would do.
Tim had another meeting at work and they have terminated his employment this is ok, he was frustrated with the run around and he has no idea when he will able to go back to work at 100% and that’s what work wanted to know.
It started to piss down rain around 10.30am and came over pretty cool.
Sam out early and Tim was just walking out to go meet him but he was already here.
After around 3hrs sleep I found myself needing to pee 3 times in under an hour, so I decided to get up for an hour or so. I did at last settled down on returning to bed.
I woke to find Tim asleep on the lounge at 5am, he moved from the lounge to our bed.
Had to ring Jess to wake Sam who’s phone was going straight to voicemail, also been raining on and off and I am not suppose to take the scooter out in wet weather.
Due to the rain I rang and cancelled my podiatry appointment. As I sat at my computer and watched yet another very heavy downpour I decided to cancel as I am slow getting in and out of the car and if such a downpour happened when I was getting in or out I would end up drenched. I now go next Wednesday.
SUMMER’S BIRTHDAY SHE IS 11 TODAY
Had a really good night slept straight through for like 10hrs and haven’t been shaking at all since I got up nearly an hour ago. Feels good.
The no shaking lasted till 8.30ish and even after it returned it wasn’t bad.
Felt good all day.
DAEMON’S BIRTHDAY
Had another good nights sleep woke only once to pee and then straight back to sleep. Tremor wise I am not as good as yesterday when I got up but it is also in no way bad.
A warm and sticky day, had turn the a/c on at midday.
I have restarted my exercise program to help keep my body moving as it should, I got a little slack for a while but I think that has passed now.
Another good night, slept straight through again woke with very little shaking. I have the front and back doors opened and the breeze is nice, we are in for another hot day.
I had to go and wake Tim at 11am. He was shocked at how late it was and he was in a deep sleep as I had to say his name a few times before he woke up.
He had a phone call from Youi they said that the woman Sarah is going to help Tim find another job not driving heavy vehicles as he isn’t cleared to do that by his doctors as yet. They guy also said something about how much they will keep paying Tim if he is unable to get another job but I can’t remember what was said. The gist I got was they wouldn’t be paying the amount they are currently paying but I am not sure.
Had another pretty good night woke when the alarm went off, much cooler this morning only 22 degrees better then yesterdays 38 degrees and should stay around the low 20’s all day, with maybe some rain.
I was writing some letters this morning and when I tried to add a photo it came something about the graphics being missing or faulty what the hell, it was fine yesterday. I restarted the computer and it came good.
Been raining all day.
Up at 4.50am after a decent enough good night.
I have no deodorant as Jess ran out and came and took mine, and boy do I stink. I went in and washed under my arms. I turned the a/c on at 9am as I was sick of being drenched in sweat.
The computer was working well till 9am when it decided it was time to freeze.
I decided to start having an egg flip with or for breakie as I am not eating much during the day.
Had a really good night, slept well woke twice to pee but straight back to sleep.
Yesterday afternoon around 3pm Sam walks out of his room needing help with a bleeding finger due to a slip of the knife, he had been eating a pie. Anyway Papa helped him clean it up and cover it with a band aid, it’s not a serious cut thankfully. I helped change the band aids this morning.
Sue popped over to see me no reason other then to make sure I am doing ok. I asked I she could send of the parcel for Thea & Daemon which she said she would do.
Tim had another meeting at work and they have terminated his employment this is ok, he was frustrated with the run around and he has no idea when he will able to go back to work at 100% and that’s what work wanted to know.
It started to piss down rain around 10.30am and came over pretty cool.
Sam out early and Tim was just walking out to go meet him but he was already here.
After around 3hrs sleep I found myself needing to pee 3 times in under an hour, so I decided to get up for an hour or so. I did at last settled down on returning to bed.
I woke to find Tim asleep on the lounge at 5am, he moved from the lounge to our bed.
Had to ring Jess to wake Sam who’s phone was going straight to voicemail, also been raining on and off and I am not suppose to take the scooter out in wet weather.
Due to the rain I rang and cancelled my podiatry appointment. As I sat at my computer and watched yet another very heavy downpour I decided to cancel as I am slow getting in and out of the car and if such a downpour happened when I was getting in or out I would end up drenched. I now go next Wednesday.
SUMMER’S BIRTHDAY SHE IS 11 TODAY
Had a really good night slept straight through for like 10hrs and haven’t been shaking at all since I got up nearly an hour ago. Feels good.
The no shaking lasted till 8.30ish and even after it returned it wasn’t bad.
Felt good all day.
DAEMON’S BIRTHDAY
Had another good nights sleep woke only once to pee and then straight back to sleep. Tremor wise I am not as good as yesterday when I got up but it is also in no way bad.
A warm and sticky day, had turn the a/c on at midday.
I have restarted my exercise program to help keep my body moving as it should, I got a little slack for a while but I think that has passed now.
Another good night, slept straight through again woke with very little shaking. I have the front and back doors opened and the breeze is nice, we are in for another hot day.
I had to go and wake Tim at 11am. He was shocked at how late it was and he was in a deep sleep as I had to say his name a few times before he woke up.
He had a phone call from Youi they said that the woman Sarah is going to help Tim find another job not driving heavy vehicles as he isn’t cleared to do that by his doctors as yet. They guy also said something about how much they will keep paying Tim if he is unable to get another job but I can’t remember what was said. The gist I got was they wouldn’t be paying the amount they are currently paying but I am not sure.
Had another pretty good night woke when the alarm went off, much cooler this morning only 22 degrees better then yesterdays 38 degrees and should stay around the low 20’s all day, with maybe some rain.
I was writing some letters this morning and when I tried to add a photo it came something about the graphics being missing or faulty what the hell, it was fine yesterday. I restarted the computer and it came good.
Been raining all day.
Jo-AnneRamplings 