Our great southern migration

  The whipbird has an amazing call and is hard to catch with the camera as evidenced below: For the last one, you can see its tail as it flies behind the tree. And these are the shots we saved! This video is also amazing (not mine) and has the call about 1 minute in: I felt it was appropriate to have the sensation of whipping around in circles for this blog.  Our container is ready for release! As of Friday afternoon. Monday is a holiday. We want to leave for our anniversary trip on the 1st (Weds). This is not computing.  Back to the beginnings.  Our anniversary is Oct 5 and we hit 25 years in 2021. Right in the middle of pandemic isolation. Rather than the sailboat adventure in the Virgin Islands, we went for a walk in Green Lake Park in Shoreview.  It was lovely. However, we decided to try again for 30 years. We have rented a houseboat in Myall Lakes Oct 3-7. Being as we are retired, we were going to take our time getting up there. No, our truck is not yet ...

  The Maersk Biscayne  (Panama flag) holds our container of goods. It is due into New Zealand about Sept 5 and then should make its way to Sydney, with any luck.  We loaded the trucks for the container on July 23 and then mostly moved into Matt's new house. His stuff was moved out the Saturday beforehand. After that it was goodwill runs, care corners drop offs and a dumpster bag! Habitat for Humanity now has our house and is fixing it up. They say it is ideal for a multigenerational family and love the welcoming neighborhood.  It may be a year before it is lived in again but hoping the new family finds it as good a home as we did! For those of you out of the loop, Matt moved to a smaller house a few blocks away. He has a 50s rambler with 3 bed, 1 bath and a large basement. No real dining room but a nice airy living room. Great neighbors and even closer to Culvers.  We helped do some minor fixing up while there. Please admire my kitchen cabinet work! The individ...