Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
The Unexpected
I was getting ready to type this post when I looked down at my keyboard and saw this tiny little inch worm. It seriously was "inching" across the keyboard! I don't think that I have ever seen anything like it before. I scooped him up on an envelope and told Kenton to take him outside. He just came back in and said, "Don't worry, Mom! I put him where it was safe and dry!" I can't say that I was worried - I just wanted him out of MY house:)
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Speaking of dry it's been raining A LOT this past week. I read online where March is the end of the North East Monsoon season and generally is when the rain picks up again before becoming drier through the "summer" months.
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"North-East Monsoon Season - December to early March
Northeast winds prevail, sometimes reaching 20 km/h. Cloudy conditions in December and January with frequent afternoon showers. Spells of widespread moderate to heavy rain occur lasting from 1 to 3 days at a stretch. Relatively drier in February till early March. Also generally windy with wind speeds sometimes reaching 30 to 40 km/h in the months of January and February." www.app.nea.gov.sg
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I don't mind the rain so much as it's made for cooler days around here - the average high has been low 90's and today the highest temp recorded has been 82 degrees. When I went to pick the twins up from school there was a cool breeze blowing and a smell of cut grass was wafting on the breeze. It reminded me of Spring back home and made me lonesome for my tulips! I know that they are poking up through the ground right now - and the rabbits have probably gotten to them as I doubt our renters would know to put blood meal around them.
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Ryan was in Thailand last week (in Phuket) and this week is in Australia along the "Gold Coast" area. He's been presenting to different groups within the company and has started visiting with customers. His first Six Sigma class starts up the third week of March and that will be here in Singapore.
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Apparently the previous tenant didn't pay all his bills! We keep getting ominous looking envelopes in the mail that we suspect may be from bill collectors that are addressed to the same guy. Ryan said that a few weeks ago a bill collector showed up on our door step looking for him - Yikes! One day in the mail we received mail for THREE different families who must have lived here in the past. I don't know how the mail works here in Singapore - if people don't notify the PO of change of address or if they are not efficient at forwarding mail.
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I had the first of four scrapbooking classes last night with five other women. It was fun and I'm feeling motivated to start turning out pages - too bad my scrapbooking "things" are sitting exactly where I left them by the front door when I arrived home last night!
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Fall Party and Trick or Treating
I ran upstairs for ONE second and when I came back down look who found the Halloween candy! He was having a grand time playing with it and was quite mad when I picked it all back up:)
He likes the taste of it too! Ryan took the twins around while I stayed home with E and passed out the candy. Our neighborhood kids all went together riding on this neat float that someone was pulling behind a lawn mower. It was covered in lights that blinked off and on - it was pretty creative and someone did a lot of work on it!
Kenton is waiting to play a game at their Fall party at school.
Kaitlyn is playing pumpkin Bingo
Kenton giving me one of his "Kenton Looks"!
Kaitlyn is making the spider craft. They were creative and cute. Yes, I just called a spider "cute"!!!
And here they are before heading off to school. A firefighter and an angel (Just in case you couldn't tell!)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
AHHH!! Cooler weather:)
Finally it's a little cooler outside! It was starting to feel like we'd already moved to Singapore and weren't going to get to enjoy fall this year. We have wonderful temps in the 70's this week which feels nice...time to head to the pumpkin farm with the kids this weekend:) They have been begging to go and pick out a pumpkin to carve with Ryan. Guess this is going to be a short post - Ethan has a little friend here and they are both begging for attention!
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