A Day in the Life

•June 18, 2014 • Leave a Comment

A very dear friend asked me what a day in my life looked like. While I am proud of my recent ability to live off the smell of an oily rag it is not exactly something to write home about. So I waited till today…when I signed the lot lease and took possession –  I am now the proud owner of a mobile home – my first project. Another  very kind friend loaned me the money to see if I can flip the mobile and make myself some money. With no car the prospect initially was rather daunting, but I just happened to manage to negotiate a 20 year old Saturn along  with this fully furnished mobile, so I am off and running. This is a 1979 double wide and well used with no modernization. The plan is to clean it up, modernize the kitchen and bathrooms with a budget of $2000 and flip it for at least a $6K profit.

Number one I need to find a whole new kitchen – I decided $500 would be how much I could spend on materials. I found 15 new cupboards online for exactly $500 and I will find out if they are what they say they are on friday when I go look at them and hopefully pick them up. Next I needed a countertop and I just happened to be offered one for free from my new neighbor. I found two cartons of laminate that will put in a new floor so now I have to figure out how much of the work I can do and how to get the work I can’t do done for another $500. There are a couple of ceiling issues to deal with and a couple of walls to come out, its going to get interesting. I  will show photos once I have before and after photos. 

I have also put my website up and I am doing my EFT/energy healing again, I have participated in an alternative healing Fair and will do so again next month. So far I have made some good contacts but no paid work. I expect that will come as I meet more people and get the word out about what I am doing. I am doing lots of study and incorporating new techniques and technologies into my work – most recently epigenetics from Bruce Lipton. I love doing this work and can see myself doing it for free when I am able to.

Cooking for my friends gives me my creative outlet and they are never sure what I will come up with next. My brother sent me some beetroot relish and last nights creation was a burger with brie and relish on toasted sourdough – maybe doesn’t sound as good as it tasted but my review nominated it best burger ever – I think it was the secret seasoning in the patty or just that I cook with love – you can’t beat it, makes everything taste better.

My days are never the same, I just know that every day is a new adventure and that everything always works out in the end… if it hasn’t worked out yet… it is not the end.

 

Impossible Dreams

•June 8, 2014 • 1 Comment

Did you ever have a dream, .. an impossible dream..something that you want more than anything else in the world, but something you know you can never have. Yet you live your life in anticipation, making decisions that keep the slimmest possibility alive. And as crazy as it seems somehow you can’t allow yourself to give up on the dream. There is a part of you that wants the magic of the how to just appear…. I am learning to let go of figuring it out and having the answers to anything and as I do it almost feels that impossible dreams are closer than they ever were….it makes life just that much brighter and the journey just that much easier.

I saw a manatee today, this week I have seen Osprey fishing, clumsy Pelican swinging on the rails of the bridge, Dolphins dancing and a fever of Sting Rays  ( who knew they were called a fever… and one does wonder why) My quick iPhone photos make me crave a real camera with a telephoto lens, but just to see this sort of wild life and experience them up close in their natural habitat was once one of my impossible dreams…. I think I need to just keep dreaming and believing

 

 

…. some random deliciousness

•April 20, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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mmmmm mmmm mmm fish and chips

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A very kiwi spread

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So many delicious choices

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Best Coffee Ever!! – 5am Christchurch Airport and my favorite underground coffee blend

Sunshine and wedding fun

•April 20, 2014 • Leave a Comment

My beautiful niece Beaulah and her new husband WeiLi on a beautiful sunny day at a lovely Ohoka estate, family and friends and very very special day for all of us.

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Wanderings in the city

•April 19, 2014 • Leave a Comment

The ruins, the artwork mixed with roadworks and construction, its a strange feeling just walking the streets…

Christchurch bound

•April 19, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Its a long flight from LA with a change in Brisbane, but the excitement always builds as I get the first glimpse of the West Coast and we start to cross the alps heading towards the intricate patchwork of the Canterbury Plains. I have flown this so many times but I never tire of it.

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Inextricably Linked

•April 19, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Some people come into your life, and in that moment you know you will be forever linked. I have been so lucky to have such wonderful people in my life and they will always be a part of it no matter time or place or circumstances. These past weeks of travel have highlighted this to me so much more, the joy of getting together with family, friends, weddings, birthdays, making contact with old friends and missing those I could not visit. There is never enough time but each time is just so wonderful I will always want to keep coming back.

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I started out from Cape Coral Florida and headed to LA to stay with my friend Judy in Pasadena. I love Pasadena, its a part of LA that honors the past and has a character and uniqueness that is lost in many other parts of this huge metropolis. Brother Ian and I explored the Metro and South Pasadena and as always there was too little time…. next time I will carry my camera and not just my iPhone.

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One of the original McDonalds

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Pasadena Station

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Union Station

Alligator Alley

•October 18, 2013 • Leave a Comment

The drive back to Cape Coral is through Alligator Alley and I really wanted to see an alligator – just as I pulled up for gas one obligingly crawled out of the pond – about 10 ft long and with a big smile.

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Miami Beach – Day two

•October 18, 2013 • Leave a Comment
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Downtown Miami

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Observatory on Versace’s old residence

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Jupiter Island

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Little Havana

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Lincoln Mall

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My first attempts at night time photography – next time a real tripod

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Dancing girl on the building dances all night – Very Miami style

Miami Beach – Day one

•October 16, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Only 3 hours from Cape Coral across alligator Alley the drive to Miami Beach was an easy one arriving in the evening to meet up with my good friends Ori and Ken from Fort Collins and their family. David and Steve’s apartment overlooks the most spectacular panoramic view of Miami down town around to south beach, you just can’t capture how breathtaking it is but I tried and tried and tried.Image panImage