Fur storm

Bobbers is molting. I have to try and pull out clumps of loose fur whenever I can from all over her body because she doesn't like the Furminator. Today when I was giving her head rubs, I tried pulling out the loose fur and she didn't seem to mind. So I pulled out as much as I could. A little fur storm arose :)

In memory of Small Bunny (Sep 2002 to Mar 2009)

Small Bunny passed away today. :...( I feel terrible because I have not been there with him and he didn't make it because of me delaying his surgery and hoping that problems will go away on their own.

Small Bunny was the sweetest and mildest little bunny we have had. He had the prettiest eyelashes which made us all feel he was actually a little girl. I really wish I didn't have to leave him behind when I moved. I was so looking forward to giving him hugs and kisses in 2 weeks when I go back but that will not be possible now.

Argh!

Split chilli sauce on myself at lunch today when I was trying to squeeze it out of the bottle and it spurted on me! :( Good thing that I am wearing a dark top. Bad thing is that I have been smelling chilli sauce the whole day and I cannot wait to go home and get out of these clothes!

Street art

Cute art I have spotted along the streets - which explains the not-so-great picture quality as I was using my phone.

I'll shelter you

Bobbers shelters Mr Carrot with her ear :D

No dramas

It turns out that nothing really dramatic happened in terms of weather today (that I could see anyway) which is good. However, I was on tenterhooks the whole day, watching the weather websites like a hawk! I was expecting some really crazy weather to suddenly burst on the scene but it really wasn't too bad. Some rain and wind but nothing too scary.

Oooh scary scary!

Tomorrow is supposed to be another horrible day after Black Saturday. This time no one is taking any chances, hence, warnings are everywhere so that people can be ready for it and make the necessary preparations to get away if they have to. We've now even got SMSes over mobiles just in case there are people who do not watch TV, listen to the radio or read newspapers.



It seems a little scary even for us living in an apartment because I don't really want to go out in the hurricane winds that are being forecasted.

Funny bunnies

Made these brooches out of remnant bits of balsa wood :)

Bobbi kisses

Bobbi wishes everyone a Happy Valentine's Day! :D

A touching picture

This moving picture was on the news website today. So many horrible things have happened in Victoria since last Saturday with the high temperatures and strong winds creating the scariest fires ever. So many people have lost their lives and property - the news is counting every day the death toll from the fires and telling stories of how people have lost everything they owned. It is very heartbreaking to see.

Today there is focus on the wildlife that is suffering the effects as well. Poor animals! But this is a lucky koala that managed to survive and meet help as well. I wish I could give it a hug too.

Poor plants

With the last heatwave, all the trees have started shedding their leaves as if it is autumn. It makes me feel quite sad to see them looking like that. There are loads and loads of crisp dried brown leaves everywhere and most plants just look fried. :(

Another hot hot day!

We've got another terribly hot day today. From the morning, the temperature has been climbing steadily up - it is now 45 degrees! Bobbers is in the cool safety of the toilet and we are holed up at home doing art and craft! Hehehe! We have our market stall tomorrow - luckily the temperature will be normal then.


"Lounges in Loo"


Pendants!

Update to weather: -
The temperature has dropped 15 degrees in less than half an hour! What exciting weather we have here! Strong winds around though.

My tray!

Bobbers has taken to lying in her veggie tray since the recent heatwave. The temperature has gone back to more normal levels now but she seems to like it still.

Playing with colours

Here's my new "fun place" online right now. I've just spent a couple of hours coloring in patterns!

Color by COLOURlovers

Phew!

We finally got some relief from the searing heat today. There was a cool change in the late afternoon with some sea breezes coming in and the temperature dropped quite drastically to something more normal.

A little bit of drama on the way home though. When we got home, there was no power in the building and we had to climb the stairs up not knowing if we would make it into our floor if the security wasn't working and the door was locked. We took the risk and luckily we could get in. We hung around for a while not knowing what to do without any power. I went for a shower and the power came back on. :D Hooray! It turned out that they were cutting power to ease up usage because of the large demand to cope with the heat recently.

We are going to have some more warm days but nothing like the heat we've had for the past 3 days so that is a big relief!

Hot hot day!

The heatwave of the year is currently on. Today we had temperatures reaching more than 42 degrees! Every degree it went up made me feel so bad for Bobbers at home. Although there is no sun directly reaching the balcony, it couldn't have been very pleasant for the furry fella. She was quite happy when I gave her a rub down with an icy cold stick when I got home.


Here she is very contentedly lying down in the cool of the toilet :)
Wish I could take her to work with me!

Happy CNY!

Happy Year of the Ox!
These are a pressie from Mammo for the Chinese New Year coming up in 2 days! Although there is no CNY mood here, at least we have a holiday this year because it's also Australia Day. :D We will probably just go out for a nice meal.

A tiny carrot

I found a really small carrot in the bunch of dutch carrots I got for Bobbers today. She wasn't too impressed with it but I was. It was still a perfect carrot shape with roots and greens but it was the size of a five cent coin.

Bobbers at play

This is her favourite game to play :)

This is mine!

Bobbers shows everyone what belongs to her.