Myra Thomas-Rhodes's Blog – November 2010 Archive (3)

Well, the Lupelinas have turned one year old, already. I cannot believe where the time and all the initial excitement has gone, but the youngsters continue to grow superbly and give so much joy to us all.

Thankyou to John and Norma for baking the wonderful birthday cake, supplying hats and organising me! We celebrated in style with Derry, Finoo, Tully, Gillou and Ballad, as well as Mama Lupin, who I might add, ate the lion's share of the cake - deservedly so! The grown-ups celebrated…

I want to show you all our beautiful road, a quiet "No Through" road, with only eight homes on it Our council, Mundaring Shire, Perth, Western Australia, want to widen and bitumise this road, at a cost of nearly half a million dollars to its ratepayers - a road length of only about 600 metres, effectively making it a "Rolls Royce" road to nowhere! All the residents…

Summer is on our doorstep, and the warmer weather heralds the awakening of the snakes and lizards.

The photos are of a Blue Tongue, or Bobtail Lizard, that the dogs found yesterday. I was alerted by their barking and dancing around it, making out they weren't scared, but jolly glad to come in when I called them! These lizards have no teeth, and their only form of defence is to try to frighten the "enemy" with their open mouth and blue tongue. They move quite slowly, and sadly, with…