Hello there,
Yep that's right, How ya Goin'??? Not how you doing? or Where you going? It's How ya goin'? for How are you doing? I love it!!! Ozzies!
They have so many shortened words like, pool comp, that means pool competition! It's a language all of their own.
So many new things to share with you.....Firstly I road a camel, yep that's it, you heard me, a CAMEL!!!! Do you know how many wild camels are in this country? Take a wild guess......come on guess......higher........yes higher...............over A MILLION! That's write, I guess they breed like crazy out here once they were dropped off from Afganistan (from what our guide said). Watch out the spit!!! No, not really, that's just from Aladdin-I love that cartoon-you have to see if you haven't already, one of my fav's!!! Nope they just chew their cud and drip, not spit.
They guides for the camels were hilarious, I was laughing the whole time, they'd flirt, crack jokes, tell some history and make it funny. I wasn't even going to do this Camel ride but the guy got me laughing so much I just had to. Of course I turned down the butt rub he offered if our butts got sore...but I'm sure he would have made that fun as well!!! He took photos of us, the camel, the camels parts-if you know what I mean ; )! How degrading for the poor camel! Not really but goodness, how many people have photos of his genitals and feet! (the camels, not the guy's though he pretended to do that too, not something I'd want as a token from OZ). ; )
Bellingen was heaven, I hope to go back there. I have now been up in Byron Bay area for the past week staying with Doug, a new found friend, a friend of a friend from home. He's been great. Picked me up from the Bus station, we had SUSHI, Yummy!!! Now I'm woofing for him, taking his dogs for walks, gardening, fixing meals...but my favorite part is watching him do what he does best, he works with clay! Yes he throws, he makes great little animals out of clay and pots! I've already made one little rabbit, he said it was great for my first time. I was impressed with the little bugger! But it's fun playing with clay. I want to do more of it!
I'm finding balance between being out here in the country side-rolling hills, green, lush, raining every other day but coming out of it gloriously fresh, wet and sunny afterward, to visiting the small towns around. I get a little stir crazy out here once I've been here too many days, I need to see something else. I think if I lived here it would be different. So much to see here that I know there is going to be a ton I miss, as this country is Ginormous!!!! (sp? if it's a word) But I want to see more.
I will be helping Doug glaze tomorrow which will be exciting! Then on Sunday I'll be going in to Byron Bay's Market, which I'm very excited about experiencing!
Last night I went to a comedy night, OH it was great! Three Comedians, all terrific, people looked at me as I laughed so loud-OOPPS! Not really, I don't care, really, too many years of quiet laughter, I'm workin' on letting it all out now, while everyone around me is quietly laughing. But then I got a woman who would laugh quietly with me giving me eye contact, it was great!
My Birthday was Great! It started out by getting up at 5:45am for a 2 hour walk through the small country road, hills rolled out in lush bright green. The blue skies just shined as the white clouds turned shades of morning colors! The country homes seems such a peace sitting there with the nearest neighbor minutes away and not in view from each other! Then I found some friends-3 horses and some cows!
Their was 2 white horses and one brown. Well I just had to sing to them, they just came on up and listened, didn't want to be touched but stared at me. One got quite aroused, not sure if you have ever seen an aroused horse, but ladies, I think we would all agree we'd be running! YIKES! Glad I'm not a horse, well, I guess it would be different then! Well then I got excited as I thought I was going to see two horses do the wild thing in nature...but another horse came around and all horse flirting with the two in front of me stopped and the excitement of the male went away....Nature, don't cha love it. I guess it's ok in front of humans just not other horses, or maybe there was a jealousy thing going on or too many decisions, who knows! Not that you wanted to know all of that.
But my morning walk was filled with thoughts of what I believe in, what I stand for in this life. I came up with a few things: healthy living-food and exercise, healthy communication in relationships, healthy parenting, homes and food for all and creativity. All that I believe in is covered in this short line! There is much more but it all can be under those things. How lovely! What do you believe in, what would you stand for? What could you not live without? I can't live without exercise, dance, creativity and communication, and well good food is just so lovely!
So then I got home to Doug giving me this book that I almost brought with me: Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz! Oh my gosh, it's perfect. It's so lovely, talks about your childhood how it effects you now, how a little thing like you playing with your fathers guitar and him coming in and smacking you effects how you trust him and others for the rest of your life. How we learn to stop playing as we might get in trouble. Man this really hit some cords in me. I can really track things back. It's a great read so far and very simple! A must I see for reading and learning about yourself and clearing things with awareness!
I had one my favorite meals on my birthday as we celebrated Thanksgiving! I got to help prepare the meal which I love! I got to talk to my mom and some friends on the phone which was so nice! As some I haven't talked to in ages or since I left! That was a blessing! So the evening was filled with friends of Dougs, new found friends for me, food, music and at the very end I danced! I loved it! I was wiped out by the end of it but I was a great birthday! A good time to bring in the new-year 38 which equal an 11 in numberology and it's a powerful number! I have some great goals for this year! Love it!
So my days are spent walking, working on Dougs property, once he saw that I could help him out as he has so much growing and to do and no time, as it's high season for his business with christmas coming! Once the work is done I go swimming in the pool OR this is the bestest, yes that's in my dictionary, I take the dogs out to the beach and run with them, I get them in shape they get me in shape, then we swim in the cool, not cold, salt water. Which getting me out is the hard part since it's so nice and the weather being perfect! Then we walk to a lake across the way that is filled with Tea Tree water from it growing wild here and we swim there and get the salt our of their gorgeous German Shepard coats of fur.
They are happy, I'm happy and we head home or to Starbucks for chai! We sometimes go to one of their many parks of rivers going through them. Trees every where, people BBQing and perfection at it's best where parks are concerned. This is the one thing LA lacks, parks, I'll have to track them down once I'm back.
Because of the nature I could see myself living here or in a place like this. But I'll see. The US is a big place maybe there is a place there, but the warm factor is the big thing here, it's warm here at 6am-and it doesn't get too hot either. Perfect temperature! But who knows that's the future, for now it's gorgeous!
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it!
Oh, I have to tell you this. There was a sign I saw that said "aged people walking slow, slow down" or something to that effect in Bellingen. I thought it was hilarious-could you imangine in the US-watch for slow aged people, SLOW DOWN! Goodness, what does the aged people think of this sign, maybe it's a good thing. They have funny signs here. More on that later.
I must go work! Off to packing ceramics!!!
Have a great day! I look forward to talking with you soon. I'd love to hear how you are? What you truly believe in? And just a thought, what would you die for? I'll have to think on that one!
Much love to you, and so many hugs, Heather
May the brightness in your soul peer out, shining brightly in every moment and may it be shared by all around you! H
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
How do you like your Chokes?
And no I don't mean artichokes? Chokes out here are chickens!!! Pretty funny eh? They love to shorten and change everything with words!
Hey ya,
How are you? Well my last several days have been great and challenging all at the same time. I was out wwoofing on a organic permaculture farm. It was stunning, the view, with the mountains around and the greenery! My favorite was feeding the chickens.
The first day I was scared of them, afraid they'd peck at me like my mothers goose did when she was a child-she said it hurt! But they were great, I'd feed them from my hand and they'd grab my skin but no pain!! I petted them and picked them up. The son of the family helped me with playing with them and getting them back in the cages as they loved to come out to scratch around and eat grass! I liked the son best. He was very coold-sensitive, respectful, generous with what he had-like letting me on his computer and loaning me a plug to plug in my ipod. Plus he bakes cookies for everyone!!! YUMMY!
Then my second favorite thing was getting up in the morning around 6am-that's just when I wake up, and taking a walk. Well on my walks I'd sing to the cows and they'd crowd around to listen and stare at the human that would also moo at them-Yep, I love talking Cow! And they seem to love it too as they all moo back, especially when I'd walk off they'd all moo- of course in my human mind it means they were wanting me to come back or saying good bye. But hey who knows why they do that's it's not the first time cows have followed me down a field mooing!
Then I'd sing to Misty, the horse at the farm, she seemed to like me making up songs about her beauty. I loved her fuzzy white ears and sing to her about them. She seemed go like it and come closer-how lovely, but she doesn't to be touched so don't touch her-but I had to try! So once I touched her (twice it happened!!!) she jumped back and I jumped too, funny, she scared me, even when I expected her jump! Her white gorgeous body was just too nice to not try to pet!
I stayed in a caravan home you pull behind your vehicle, I liked it. It was nice and it's what I called home. Not like my creative little 6 walled bungalow like I had at the other place with windows on 4 of the 6 walls and very colorful and fun and set into the trees that you wake up looking at in the morning, but the caravan was nice!
So the father was a bit controlling and very selfish and all about him. But I just tried to avoid him after a while. He did know a lot about Permaculture that he learned from books. But after him treating me like a child one time too many my patience were up and I asked to leave and thank goodness he took me to town!
Though I loved working in the garden, arriving in Bellingen, where I've wanted to be for a while I'm very happy I came. I love it here! Cute little quaint town, with hills, rivers and valleys. Fresh air, coffee shops that fill the air around the main street. Cute little shops filled with all kinds of creative things. It is so relaxing and lovely here. I think I'll come back to stay a week or two. But I've got great plans for the next few days!!!
Starting tomorrow night I found a 5 RHYTHMS Class to dance my booty off too in Byron Bay!!! And this is where I've wanted to spend my birthday!!! So I'll be spending my 38th birthday, that's write I'm 38 years young in Byron Bay! To top it off I'm staying at a friend of a friends house where on my birthday-the 25th, we'll be having Thanksgiving meal-one of my favorite meals with Pumpkin Pie! And then Monday I'll be going out to a retro night club to dance to old time lovely music I love! So it should be a lovely weekend.
Last night I went on a sunset kayaking trip, just lovely. The sunset was stunning, the hill side breath taking and the whole thing was beautiful. I wish it was longer. I really love kayaking. So any of you who want to go when I get back I'd love to go with you have you come with me.
Oh I forgot to tell you, I met my first leech on my ankle, it was having some fun and I without looking rubbed something away, ooohhh, man it still stings days later. Not very friendly guests after the fact. Painful and itchy! All my life in the wild and I get a leech on a farm near the chokes!!!
So I'm enoying the nature, what I'm learning about Permaculture, want to learn more, it fascinates me!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Have a lovely day full of gratitude. I have a huge list of things to be grateful for but one of my biggest things I'm grateful for is you! You being in my life, hearing from you makes my heart sing and sharing with you my stories and rambling on forever and you reading it. I love sharing with you and hearing from you. The freedom of this life is a gorgeous thing to choose your friends, your life, your work, so make sure you are living the life you love and grateful for everything, even the rough times as that is where we grow. I know it is for me-though it's hard at times.
Many hugs and with much love and gratitude, Heather
Hey ya,
How are you? Well my last several days have been great and challenging all at the same time. I was out wwoofing on a organic permaculture farm. It was stunning, the view, with the mountains around and the greenery! My favorite was feeding the chickens.
The first day I was scared of them, afraid they'd peck at me like my mothers goose did when she was a child-she said it hurt! But they were great, I'd feed them from my hand and they'd grab my skin but no pain!! I petted them and picked them up. The son of the family helped me with playing with them and getting them back in the cages as they loved to come out to scratch around and eat grass! I liked the son best. He was very coold-sensitive, respectful, generous with what he had-like letting me on his computer and loaning me a plug to plug in my ipod. Plus he bakes cookies for everyone!!! YUMMY!
Then my second favorite thing was getting up in the morning around 6am-that's just when I wake up, and taking a walk. Well on my walks I'd sing to the cows and they'd crowd around to listen and stare at the human that would also moo at them-Yep, I love talking Cow! And they seem to love it too as they all moo back, especially when I'd walk off they'd all moo- of course in my human mind it means they were wanting me to come back or saying good bye. But hey who knows why they do that's it's not the first time cows have followed me down a field mooing!
Then I'd sing to Misty, the horse at the farm, she seemed to like me making up songs about her beauty. I loved her fuzzy white ears and sing to her about them. She seemed go like it and come closer-how lovely, but she doesn't to be touched so don't touch her-but I had to try! So once I touched her (twice it happened!!!) she jumped back and I jumped too, funny, she scared me, even when I expected her jump! Her white gorgeous body was just too nice to not try to pet!
I stayed in a caravan home you pull behind your vehicle, I liked it. It was nice and it's what I called home. Not like my creative little 6 walled bungalow like I had at the other place with windows on 4 of the 6 walls and very colorful and fun and set into the trees that you wake up looking at in the morning, but the caravan was nice!
So the father was a bit controlling and very selfish and all about him. But I just tried to avoid him after a while. He did know a lot about Permaculture that he learned from books. But after him treating me like a child one time too many my patience were up and I asked to leave and thank goodness he took me to town!
Though I loved working in the garden, arriving in Bellingen, where I've wanted to be for a while I'm very happy I came. I love it here! Cute little quaint town, with hills, rivers and valleys. Fresh air, coffee shops that fill the air around the main street. Cute little shops filled with all kinds of creative things. It is so relaxing and lovely here. I think I'll come back to stay a week or two. But I've got great plans for the next few days!!!
Starting tomorrow night I found a 5 RHYTHMS Class to dance my booty off too in Byron Bay!!! And this is where I've wanted to spend my birthday!!! So I'll be spending my 38th birthday, that's write I'm 38 years young in Byron Bay! To top it off I'm staying at a friend of a friends house where on my birthday-the 25th, we'll be having Thanksgiving meal-one of my favorite meals with Pumpkin Pie! And then Monday I'll be going out to a retro night club to dance to old time lovely music I love! So it should be a lovely weekend.
Last night I went on a sunset kayaking trip, just lovely. The sunset was stunning, the hill side breath taking and the whole thing was beautiful. I wish it was longer. I really love kayaking. So any of you who want to go when I get back I'd love to go with you have you come with me.
Oh I forgot to tell you, I met my first leech on my ankle, it was having some fun and I without looking rubbed something away, ooohhh, man it still stings days later. Not very friendly guests after the fact. Painful and itchy! All my life in the wild and I get a leech on a farm near the chokes!!!
So I'm enoying the nature, what I'm learning about Permaculture, want to learn more, it fascinates me!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Have a lovely day full of gratitude. I have a huge list of things to be grateful for but one of my biggest things I'm grateful for is you! You being in my life, hearing from you makes my heart sing and sharing with you my stories and rambling on forever and you reading it. I love sharing with you and hearing from you. The freedom of this life is a gorgeous thing to choose your friends, your life, your work, so make sure you are living the life you love and grateful for everything, even the rough times as that is where we grow. I know it is for me-though it's hard at times.
Many hugs and with much love and gratitude, Heather
Monday, November 19, 2007
.....My Heather
Hello there,
This is yet another gorgeous poem from my same friend that wrote me the last poem. She has such incredible heart and talent and she is just lovely, knowing me so well! I miss her tons. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. Much love, Heather
Lately, I wonder what time it is in your bedroom... lately, I want to be a part of the air, there, where you lay silent... I wonder if the best thing about today is the idea of tomorrow....the idea of Summer and your precious face resting in my hands...the background holding Amma against it's gold and red banners, India with its black language and profound mouths watching us exist....watching my hands on your eyes...the way you hold me up, kiss me, then fall down again... the way I love you like an extravagance...in a place where flowers with dove blood push, by morning, through the black soil of your breath out of your lips and I pick them fresh everyday and hold them there, in a deep green vase, next to my bed where I pray for you to be strong...where I pray for you to be happy...though I miss you....though I crave the touch of your orange blossom fingers, your embrace that cuts through me like the green balconies of the sun over an orange and gasoline rainbow...now...I am dying of such love....now, I wish to be where you are...where I know you are dancing in the empty air of turquoise brides...where all of a sudden, I am seeking a permanence in time, and imagine no limits on earth and you, you stand there like a habit of nature, immortalizing greatness like that of a just-created ocean... nothing but love, the curvature of silence, star lines and kisses.... your pure gifts gathering sage from the pockets of my grey ghosts....the pockets you could never visit without your red dress on....though I've missed your hair growing longer....in my sleep I can see you....and I stretch to reach you where you are...
This is yet another gorgeous poem from my same friend that wrote me the last poem. She has such incredible heart and talent and she is just lovely, knowing me so well! I miss her tons. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. Much love, Heather
Lately, I wonder what time it is in your bedroom... lately, I want to be a part of the air, there, where you lay silent... I wonder if the best thing about today is the idea of tomorrow....the idea of Summer and your precious face resting in my hands...the background holding Amma against it's gold and red banners, India with its black language and profound mouths watching us exist....watching my hands on your eyes...the way you hold me up, kiss me, then fall down again... the way I love you like an extravagance...in a place where flowers with dove blood push, by morning, through the black soil of your breath out of your lips and I pick them fresh everyday and hold them there, in a deep green vase, next to my bed where I pray for you to be strong...where I pray for you to be happy...though I miss you....though I crave the touch of your orange blossom fingers, your embrace that cuts through me like the green balconies of the sun over an orange and gasoline rainbow...now...I am dying of such love....now, I wish to be where you are...where I know you are dancing in the empty air of turquoise brides...where all of a sudden, I am seeking a permanence in time, and imagine no limits on earth and you, you stand there like a habit of nature, immortalizing greatness like that of a just-created ocean... nothing but love, the curvature of silence, star lines and kisses.... your pure gifts gathering sage from the pockets of my grey ghosts....the pockets you could never visit without your red dress on....though I've missed your hair growing longer....in my sleep I can see you....and I stretch to reach you where you are...
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Got Paid for Singin'!!!!
Hello there loves,
How are you? I am great! I'm in Port Macquarie and it's stunning here. I am loving it in this port town. So much to share if I can remember it all.
Well I got on the bus from Sydney up here and I was just listening to my music on my Ipod, having a hard time containing my voice from singing full out! We stopped for the break and while everyone got out to walk and eat. I stood there just belting out at the top of my lungs singing to Amae! Got I love that womans music and lyrics! I didn't care that I was getting looks. I'm getting you just have to do what you have to do and let others do the same-including react or try not to react.
So I'm standing there singin' and having a great time, so very happy, heart soaring high from the music coursing through my body! I saw this little girl walk by with golden hair and a matching rat to boot-reminded me of that book your recommeneded to me Edgar, she stayed in my head, and she went into a play area. I didn't see her at all playing but when she came out she did something so stunning to my system. She walked right up to me and infront of me was a table and she placed a $2.00 coin! I looked at her fingers in slow motion as she scooted it against the table to me. It went so slowly, then she slowly walked off. My mind was saying "is this for what I think it is, for singing. Is this little girl of 8 or 10 years old really paying me for my singing". I picked it up, holding the $2.00 coin in my hand and looked up right at the same time she looked up and we waved at the same time.
I was so grateful, thrilled, excited and overwhelmed with ECSTATIC BLISS!!!! I felt as if the Universe is was telling me something, like, "yes you are on the right path. Keep going with this, yes, yes, YES, YES!". So I have been walking on cloud nine since. My first payment for singin' from a beautiful little girl with golden hair and a matching rat on her shoulder. Children are so great, so many lessons in that little moment when she place that coin down. I love it and love her for it! I love this Universe for how it works too!
I got in the moment it was one of my favorite of my whole trip and then realized most all my favorite moments revolve around singing and dancing on this trip. Lovely!
I went for a walk the other day at the rivers edge and starting singing "my favorite things" and then it hit me, "what are my favorite things". Well of course food came to mind-love my food-like raspberries with vanilla yogurt, the taste and scent of celantro, crab......Then of course I went into dance, singing, writing, animals-dogs and cats I just adore and any other little fuzzy critter or even unfuzzy like dolphins...., friends, cooking together with friends, having parties...and the list went on and I realized more and more what I loved and what were my favorites-like I love the feel, scent and sounds of Starbucks-I know not PC but honestly when I smell a Starbucks I as so happy and I love their music and chai of course-which I got to have yesterday here in town!!!! So what are your favorite things? What makes you smile and laugh, giggle, shine and all the rest?
Well I have fallin' in love! Yes that is right! And I am bringing the two of them home! No they are not human and nope I really can't bring them home, but I'd love to! I spent the last two days with Koalas, they are beautiful, so sweet and so great natured. I got to pet two of them yesterday and I just couldn't stop, they are so lovely and sweet! Then I got to pet a Kangaroo-well a few of them actually and some of them being mamas with their joey's (babies). I learned a lot about Koalas. Like, did you know they live to 16-20 years old, they die mostly from being hit by cars or dog attacks or chlymidia-a popular disease with them as well as conguntivitis.
They are so strong and have huge nails and only eat eucaluptus leaves which doesn't give them enough nourishment to move a lot so that is why they sleep all day-nope they are not stoned off of them.
The other big thing I am consciously practicing is to be grateful for my life every day and every moment. What are you grateful for right now? The roof above our heads, the computer so I can email you, the bed I sleep in, the food, and being able to travel, sing, dance,writing, thinking, be excited and to be conscious of CELEBRATING LIFE NOW AND EVERYDAY!
So I am off to Kayaking in a few hours, which I love and I am thrilled about. I send you love, I will share more soon. Much love, remember to be grateful and live fully. Love, Heather
Be YOU!
I need to go now but I will finish this later
How are you? I am great! I'm in Port Macquarie and it's stunning here. I am loving it in this port town. So much to share if I can remember it all.
Well I got on the bus from Sydney up here and I was just listening to my music on my Ipod, having a hard time containing my voice from singing full out! We stopped for the break and while everyone got out to walk and eat. I stood there just belting out at the top of my lungs singing to Amae! Got I love that womans music and lyrics! I didn't care that I was getting looks. I'm getting you just have to do what you have to do and let others do the same-including react or try not to react.
So I'm standing there singin' and having a great time, so very happy, heart soaring high from the music coursing through my body! I saw this little girl walk by with golden hair and a matching rat to boot-reminded me of that book your recommeneded to me Edgar, she stayed in my head, and she went into a play area. I didn't see her at all playing but when she came out she did something so stunning to my system. She walked right up to me and infront of me was a table and she placed a $2.00 coin! I looked at her fingers in slow motion as she scooted it against the table to me. It went so slowly, then she slowly walked off. My mind was saying "is this for what I think it is, for singing. Is this little girl of 8 or 10 years old really paying me for my singing". I picked it up, holding the $2.00 coin in my hand and looked up right at the same time she looked up and we waved at the same time.
I was so grateful, thrilled, excited and overwhelmed with ECSTATIC BLISS!!!! I felt as if the Universe is was telling me something, like, "yes you are on the right path. Keep going with this, yes, yes, YES, YES!". So I have been walking on cloud nine since. My first payment for singin' from a beautiful little girl with golden hair and a matching rat on her shoulder. Children are so great, so many lessons in that little moment when she place that coin down. I love it and love her for it! I love this Universe for how it works too!
I got in the moment it was one of my favorite of my whole trip and then realized most all my favorite moments revolve around singing and dancing on this trip. Lovely!
I went for a walk the other day at the rivers edge and starting singing "my favorite things" and then it hit me, "what are my favorite things". Well of course food came to mind-love my food-like raspberries with vanilla yogurt, the taste and scent of celantro, crab......Then of course I went into dance, singing, writing, animals-dogs and cats I just adore and any other little fuzzy critter or even unfuzzy like dolphins...., friends, cooking together with friends, having parties...and the list went on and I realized more and more what I loved and what were my favorites-like I love the feel, scent and sounds of Starbucks-I know not PC but honestly when I smell a Starbucks I as so happy and I love their music and chai of course-which I got to have yesterday here in town!!!! So what are your favorite things? What makes you smile and laugh, giggle, shine and all the rest?
Well I have fallin' in love! Yes that is right! And I am bringing the two of them home! No they are not human and nope I really can't bring them home, but I'd love to! I spent the last two days with Koalas, they are beautiful, so sweet and so great natured. I got to pet two of them yesterday and I just couldn't stop, they are so lovely and sweet! Then I got to pet a Kangaroo-well a few of them actually and some of them being mamas with their joey's (babies). I learned a lot about Koalas. Like, did you know they live to 16-20 years old, they die mostly from being hit by cars or dog attacks or chlymidia-a popular disease with them as well as conguntivitis.
They are so strong and have huge nails and only eat eucaluptus leaves which doesn't give them enough nourishment to move a lot so that is why they sleep all day-nope they are not stoned off of them.
The other big thing I am consciously practicing is to be grateful for my life every day and every moment. What are you grateful for right now? The roof above our heads, the computer so I can email you, the bed I sleep in, the food, and being able to travel, sing, dance,writing, thinking, be excited and to be conscious of CELEBRATING LIFE NOW AND EVERYDAY!
So I am off to Kayaking in a few hours, which I love and I am thrilled about. I send you love, I will share more soon. Much love, remember to be grateful and live fully. Love, Heather
Be YOU!
I need to go now but I will finish this later
Sunday, November 11, 2007
HUGE Kangaroo in my Way!
G'day mates!!!
How are ya? Well I'm back in Sydney now, the mountains were lovely. They made my heart so happy and they hikes were gorgeous! I did my first Wwoofing job-organic farming work. You put in 2-4 hours of work and you get free room and board and the rest of the day is yours.
I have to say this first experience was definately an experience! I get to the place, it's two trailers that have a wooden porch in between them that is missing boards so you have to be careful where you walk as you might fall in! ; ) Fun fun! I was brought into a room where I hadn't a clue if it's where I stayed or not. But found out shortly this is where the owner stays, but it's where everyone fixes food and watches TV and listens to music. No heat, just four walls, the ceiling might blow off if the wind got strong enough.
So I sat down with the other Wwoofers after chatting a while-2 from Switzerland, one from Germany and one from Korea, and we all watched a video. I was starving as I hadn't eaten in hours so they sent me to the fridge to fend for myself and not one vegetable to be found there, YIKES! All meat, eggs, cheese and bread. Well I do eat eggs and cheese and bread I'm not fond of but I'll eat. Put it this way, there was nothing organic here and nothing fresh or good to eat. I finally pulled something together and then the owner came in with tomatoes, so I got my veggies. I fixed enough for everyone and we all relaxed.
Well the owner, Lovell, he can talk a mile a minute. Someone told me that people in this area take wwoofers for company and I realized it was true within a short time. He couldn't handle being alone and he didn't care if you worked or not. Just be there. His father, when I went looking for work, told me I was working by keeping him company. Luckily I got to do some unloading huge amounts of aloe veras and a number of other plants from the truck and helped his other son plant some great small trees in front of his two trailers with his living room outside and covered by a huge plastic tarp. It was clean and nice. I liked hanging with him. He was spiritual, into health, though he didn't eat that way, but he knew how he was to eat anyway. He knew cures of cancers and all kinds of things. I liked him a lot and his girlfriend that came by in the afternoon, she was great too!
I went for a walk one day, now mind you I didn't have my glasses on for distance, I was wandering through that lush green trees and smelling the fresh air, while singing to Barbra Streisand on my Ipod-a new experience as I have never been in nature with my ipod, I love nature sounds, but the music took me further in to the now of nature. My voice raised louder and louder, letting the fragrant surroundings take me away! At some point I just stared at the clouds doing a number of things-white and puffy, the blueness of the sky was stunning and the sun just about to set starting streaking the sky with orange colors. I finally decided to head back.
I turned back and looked up ahead and froze in my tracks. What I was looking at from a distance looked like either a Ginormous (is that a word and if so is it spelled that way?) Kangaroo with no head or it was a huge man with a Kangaroo body. I'm talking this thing must have been 8 foot tall at least and heavy in weight, possibly 5 feet around. Without my glasses it was a little unnerving as I wasn't sure what I was looking at, but as I moved to my left I could see his head, as his head blended in with the trees. He just stood there in the middle of my path. Thank goodness it wasn't headless as it looked at first. My first though is "are they dangerous"? I knew I didn't want to get close just in case but how to continue on?
So I started talking to him as I moved closer. He took a few humm.....steps forward, or are they slow hops, not sure, he was bouncing but using all 4 limbs to move forward a few feet. Then stopped. I came a smidge closer and really got to see his beautiful brown colors of his coat and black eyes. I started talking some more and he went a little further off the road, at least I could pass now. He wasn't my first kangaroo I'd seen but that hugest thus far. Then as I got closer he hopped right over a 3 foot fence and right out into the woods. Man oh man, no effort, just hop, talk about humans being no competition for them. Can you just jump standing still 3 foot off the ground and keep going. He was very impressive. I'm sure they are not to impressed by us....I mean really, not physically anyway. We can write and all but they must be all muscle underneath that soft yet wiry coat.
I see Kangaroos all over when I'm in the county, it's pretty impressive and shocking these things actually live. I hear of raindeer too, we'll see.
I saw something two days ago I never heard of walking on the beach. I saw these little plastic filled balloon type things only 2 inches long. I popped a few of them with my shoe, having no clue what they were. I assumed it was something that fell over board from a boat. Later I was told they are blue bottle jelly fish, I'd even touched one with my hands but luckily not the tenticles. I was a little wigged out at I'd been squooshing live things, but they were probably dead anyway, hate thinking of killing something. And they were every where. Now I know why no one was swimming that day, but they were surfing as usual and fishing.
The people here don't seem to get cold, I'll have 3-5 layers on and they have a singlet top on and shorts. I think they have thick skin or something. I'm not sure. Or I'm just adjusting to the tempurature. But luckily I'm over jetlag and culture shock and feeling good. I still ask people "are there banks in this town?" as it's called a town. But I realize now if a train goes to it a bank is there and it is the west. I also got to hear the seranading of sicades again in Windsor and I got to see there burial grounds of shells they leave behind after they shed them. Pretty amazing things. I got to pet a few live ones. One wasn't too happy about it so I didn't pester him too much. But they shed everything but their wings and they only live for something like 24 hours but are in the ground growing for years before-at least that what I was told. Pretty amazing critters.
So my trip is going well thus far. Heading north tomorrow, probably to Port Macquarie, but who knows. I'll decide where in the next hours to come. I went out with Kristi and friends yesterday and really got to see how Ozzies party, pretty amazing. Can't say I could relate but they were pretty simple people and fun in their own right. For me, humm.....it was fun for a day, but not my thing but I could completely appreciate them for who they were and how at ease they were at being them.
I still have great memories of staying up in the hostel in Katoomba, with the fire place blaring heat out of it and everyone reading around it. Just so great. Felt like such a great community of people. Love that place. May have to go back. If you get the chance to stay at the Flying Fox Hostel, it's great!
I loved calling the bus and train station, everyone so nice, and getting them to laugh is so easy. It's truly lovely talking to the Ozzies. So laid back and "no worries".
I'm out of here. Take care and love ya lots, Heather
How are ya? Well I'm back in Sydney now, the mountains were lovely. They made my heart so happy and they hikes were gorgeous! I did my first Wwoofing job-organic farming work. You put in 2-4 hours of work and you get free room and board and the rest of the day is yours.
I have to say this first experience was definately an experience! I get to the place, it's two trailers that have a wooden porch in between them that is missing boards so you have to be careful where you walk as you might fall in! ; ) Fun fun! I was brought into a room where I hadn't a clue if it's where I stayed or not. But found out shortly this is where the owner stays, but it's where everyone fixes food and watches TV and listens to music. No heat, just four walls, the ceiling might blow off if the wind got strong enough.
So I sat down with the other Wwoofers after chatting a while-2 from Switzerland, one from Germany and one from Korea, and we all watched a video. I was starving as I hadn't eaten in hours so they sent me to the fridge to fend for myself and not one vegetable to be found there, YIKES! All meat, eggs, cheese and bread. Well I do eat eggs and cheese and bread I'm not fond of but I'll eat. Put it this way, there was nothing organic here and nothing fresh or good to eat. I finally pulled something together and then the owner came in with tomatoes, so I got my veggies. I fixed enough for everyone and we all relaxed.
Well the owner, Lovell, he can talk a mile a minute. Someone told me that people in this area take wwoofers for company and I realized it was true within a short time. He couldn't handle being alone and he didn't care if you worked or not. Just be there. His father, when I went looking for work, told me I was working by keeping him company. Luckily I got to do some unloading huge amounts of aloe veras and a number of other plants from the truck and helped his other son plant some great small trees in front of his two trailers with his living room outside and covered by a huge plastic tarp. It was clean and nice. I liked hanging with him. He was spiritual, into health, though he didn't eat that way, but he knew how he was to eat anyway. He knew cures of cancers and all kinds of things. I liked him a lot and his girlfriend that came by in the afternoon, she was great too!
I went for a walk one day, now mind you I didn't have my glasses on for distance, I was wandering through that lush green trees and smelling the fresh air, while singing to Barbra Streisand on my Ipod-a new experience as I have never been in nature with my ipod, I love nature sounds, but the music took me further in to the now of nature. My voice raised louder and louder, letting the fragrant surroundings take me away! At some point I just stared at the clouds doing a number of things-white and puffy, the blueness of the sky was stunning and the sun just about to set starting streaking the sky with orange colors. I finally decided to head back.
I turned back and looked up ahead and froze in my tracks. What I was looking at from a distance looked like either a Ginormous (is that a word and if so is it spelled that way?) Kangaroo with no head or it was a huge man with a Kangaroo body. I'm talking this thing must have been 8 foot tall at least and heavy in weight, possibly 5 feet around. Without my glasses it was a little unnerving as I wasn't sure what I was looking at, but as I moved to my left I could see his head, as his head blended in with the trees. He just stood there in the middle of my path. Thank goodness it wasn't headless as it looked at first. My first though is "are they dangerous"? I knew I didn't want to get close just in case but how to continue on?
So I started talking to him as I moved closer. He took a few humm.....steps forward, or are they slow hops, not sure, he was bouncing but using all 4 limbs to move forward a few feet. Then stopped. I came a smidge closer and really got to see his beautiful brown colors of his coat and black eyes. I started talking some more and he went a little further off the road, at least I could pass now. He wasn't my first kangaroo I'd seen but that hugest thus far. Then as I got closer he hopped right over a 3 foot fence and right out into the woods. Man oh man, no effort, just hop, talk about humans being no competition for them. Can you just jump standing still 3 foot off the ground and keep going. He was very impressive. I'm sure they are not to impressed by us....I mean really, not physically anyway. We can write and all but they must be all muscle underneath that soft yet wiry coat.
I see Kangaroos all over when I'm in the county, it's pretty impressive and shocking these things actually live. I hear of raindeer too, we'll see.
I saw something two days ago I never heard of walking on the beach. I saw these little plastic filled balloon type things only 2 inches long. I popped a few of them with my shoe, having no clue what they were. I assumed it was something that fell over board from a boat. Later I was told they are blue bottle jelly fish, I'd even touched one with my hands but luckily not the tenticles. I was a little wigged out at I'd been squooshing live things, but they were probably dead anyway, hate thinking of killing something. And they were every where. Now I know why no one was swimming that day, but they were surfing as usual and fishing.
The people here don't seem to get cold, I'll have 3-5 layers on and they have a singlet top on and shorts. I think they have thick skin or something. I'm not sure. Or I'm just adjusting to the tempurature. But luckily I'm over jetlag and culture shock and feeling good. I still ask people "are there banks in this town?" as it's called a town. But I realize now if a train goes to it a bank is there and it is the west. I also got to hear the seranading of sicades again in Windsor and I got to see there burial grounds of shells they leave behind after they shed them. Pretty amazing things. I got to pet a few live ones. One wasn't too happy about it so I didn't pester him too much. But they shed everything but their wings and they only live for something like 24 hours but are in the ground growing for years before-at least that what I was told. Pretty amazing critters.
So my trip is going well thus far. Heading north tomorrow, probably to Port Macquarie, but who knows. I'll decide where in the next hours to come. I went out with Kristi and friends yesterday and really got to see how Ozzies party, pretty amazing. Can't say I could relate but they were pretty simple people and fun in their own right. For me, humm.....it was fun for a day, but not my thing but I could completely appreciate them for who they were and how at ease they were at being them.
I still have great memories of staying up in the hostel in Katoomba, with the fire place blaring heat out of it and everyone reading around it. Just so great. Felt like such a great community of people. Love that place. May have to go back. If you get the chance to stay at the Flying Fox Hostel, it's great!
I loved calling the bus and train station, everyone so nice, and getting them to laugh is so easy. It's truly lovely talking to the Ozzies. So laid back and "no worries".
I'm out of here. Take care and love ya lots, Heather
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The Mountains are Good to Me!!!!
Hello there,
How are you? How is life treating you? Well I'm up here in the Blue Mountains, first in Mudgee (love that name) and now in Katoomba! The mountains are great and have been good to me here. Hiking everyday for 3-5 hours through the green carpeted forest up here at over 3,000 feet. It's so incredible how green a place can be. The trees go on forever without seeing any cities or buildings or houses. So stunning!
Even through the rain and fog it's just breath taking here. The air wakes me up as I walk out of hostel and onto the road to go to the trail head. It gets the nose running, the eyes watering and make one wonder "do I really want to do this" but after 20 minutes the blood is pumping and the heart is going and the passion for nature has awakened by the sight of the trees, fresh air and the bright red and blue birds hiding in the trees. So it's all worth it.
I am so in love with being in nature up here. And the people are so friendly, and the hospitality in the cafes are just lovely! They are all so friendly and making sure everyone has what they need. It's great to be around down to earth, caring, mountian people. So much less stress up here. I'm lovin' it. If it weren't so cold I'd consider staying. Yes it's spring here, but it's friggin' cold for my hot blooded body! But I have a feeling I'll be up here again.
I saw these 3 men coming out of the deli today with their dinners in hand in bags, all of them with those large full brimmed hats, jeans and all rough and Auzzie like. I just smiled as I past them, I am in Australia. These people really dress this way up here, it was great to see it live and in person.
Plus I had a great flashback of 2 or 3 years ago wanting to come Echo Point and Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains, and here I am, here, and loving it. Dreams coming true!
And the bonus is really feeling how authentically friendly these people are. I mean, I can talk with them on the street, on trails, in cafes, where ever and they are just so positive, full of laughter, conversation. So many of them seem to walk with a sparkle in their eye and a bounce in their step and just so happy. I went into an antique shop and the guy just talked my ear off about the short history of OZ and how the people are all from Europe, except the tribal people that you hardly see any more. He was just full of words, light and just wanting to share what he knew and he is from England, not from here.
So I could go on but I thought I'd keep this short. I am off to do some farm work, I think tomorrow, so it will be a new experience. I'm excited by it. Plus it's supposed to be sunny down there!
Oh oh, I almost forgot. I went to Kristi's family's house in Mudgee (I think that's the perfect dogs name, Love it) and we made homemade pizzas, OH MY GOODNESS! They were all about 2.5 inches thick, with all kinds of veggies and shrimp on mine, the others had meat and all kinds of things on theirs. YUMMY! Plus then we served up brownies that Kristi and I had made up earlier that day with Cherries and then played Scattagories! So much fun! I love games!
Ok, I am off now. Take care, big hugs to you, Love, Heather
How are you? How is life treating you? Well I'm up here in the Blue Mountains, first in Mudgee (love that name) and now in Katoomba! The mountains are great and have been good to me here. Hiking everyday for 3-5 hours through the green carpeted forest up here at over 3,000 feet. It's so incredible how green a place can be. The trees go on forever without seeing any cities or buildings or houses. So stunning!
Even through the rain and fog it's just breath taking here. The air wakes me up as I walk out of hostel and onto the road to go to the trail head. It gets the nose running, the eyes watering and make one wonder "do I really want to do this" but after 20 minutes the blood is pumping and the heart is going and the passion for nature has awakened by the sight of the trees, fresh air and the bright red and blue birds hiding in the trees. So it's all worth it.
I am so in love with being in nature up here. And the people are so friendly, and the hospitality in the cafes are just lovely! They are all so friendly and making sure everyone has what they need. It's great to be around down to earth, caring, mountian people. So much less stress up here. I'm lovin' it. If it weren't so cold I'd consider staying. Yes it's spring here, but it's friggin' cold for my hot blooded body! But I have a feeling I'll be up here again.
I saw these 3 men coming out of the deli today with their dinners in hand in bags, all of them with those large full brimmed hats, jeans and all rough and Auzzie like. I just smiled as I past them, I am in Australia. These people really dress this way up here, it was great to see it live and in person.
Plus I had a great flashback of 2 or 3 years ago wanting to come Echo Point and Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains, and here I am, here, and loving it. Dreams coming true!
And the bonus is really feeling how authentically friendly these people are. I mean, I can talk with them on the street, on trails, in cafes, where ever and they are just so positive, full of laughter, conversation. So many of them seem to walk with a sparkle in their eye and a bounce in their step and just so happy. I went into an antique shop and the guy just talked my ear off about the short history of OZ and how the people are all from Europe, except the tribal people that you hardly see any more. He was just full of words, light and just wanting to share what he knew and he is from England, not from here.
So I could go on but I thought I'd keep this short. I am off to do some farm work, I think tomorrow, so it will be a new experience. I'm excited by it. Plus it's supposed to be sunny down there!
Oh oh, I almost forgot. I went to Kristi's family's house in Mudgee (I think that's the perfect dogs name, Love it) and we made homemade pizzas, OH MY GOODNESS! They were all about 2.5 inches thick, with all kinds of veggies and shrimp on mine, the others had meat and all kinds of things on theirs. YUMMY! Plus then we served up brownies that Kristi and I had made up earlier that day with Cherries and then played Scattagories! So much fun! I love games!
Ok, I am off now. Take care, big hugs to you, Love, Heather
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