RIP Rocky

Yesterday Rocky didn't come for breakfast.  I checked to see he wasn't locked in the garage...  I wondered about him all day.  Later in the afternoon Jon got a call from our neighbour that he found Rocky dead in his garden.  Jon went to pick him and we gave him a burial.  I have no idea really what it was that killed him, maybe some poison, maybe he got sick?  No matter he leaves us to rest in cat heaven.
We will miss him a lot because he was a cat like no other.  Everybody who met Rocky loved him, even people who don't normally like cats.  He loved cuddles, and would always come & sit with you and purr.  He was also a very funny cat.  These are the great memories we will be left with...
* Sitting outside the toilet door waiting for you
* Chasing the cricket ball while we were playing
* Running, jumping and chasing Dumpy through the house (Dumpy is also missing him!)
* Jumping about a meter in the air to see in the window -- like he was on a pogo stick
* Following me all the way to Jono's house, and then me having to walk him back again
* Running around in circles about 3-4 times when he knew he was about to get fed
* Trying to walk through snow that was as deep as he was tall!
* Pulling the magnetic letters off the fridge and playing with them like they were mice
* Hugging the radiators
* Trying to get as close to your face as possible
* Whenever we came home he would come running to meet us.

I will miss you Rocky, thanks for the fun times! :-)

RIP Rocky

Garden Tea Party

May 15th is the latest and last woman's event we will be putting on before summer.  Here is the invitation I made for it.  I am really loving using Microsoft Office 2010 -- lots of great features.

It is going to be in our "garden" so we are hoping for quick grass growing & good weather! :-)

Garden Tea Party

Lest we forget

Last year we had a ANZAC day celebration at our place, this year it kind of crept up on us.  But our mate Gav (from Australia) rang us up with a good suggestion that we come over to his place for a roast, and then a movie for ANZAC day.  So last night after the boys had an ANZAC game of cricket (at the indoor stadium built by Wayne) we headed over to Gav's house.  Gav had also invited another couple -- Altug who is from Turkey and his wife from Ukraine.  We didn't try any re-enactments, although I wanted to do so commondo rolls and pretend shooting, but my maturity got the better of me!  The roast was very tasty -- thanks Gav!  We then watched "Kokoda" and earlier in the day with a friend I had watched "The Hurt Locker." I neither understood, or really enjoyed both of these movies. But I did make a comment after watching, that maybe it is good for us to watch these types of senseless war movies once a year or so to remind us -- "lest we forget."
I think it reminds us of 2 things...
**The courage of the soldiers gone before us, and how they gave their lives for our country.  This is something we need to be reminded of, so we don't take it for granted.
**The relative peace we have in our country, and the huge amount of things we can be thankful for. The fact that I don't have to wonder if the next bullet will hit me, that I can sleep easy at night in a comfortable house beside a wonderful husband.
These things I need to be reminded of when I start to complain about "the little things".  Lest I forget the bigger picture.

Lest we forget