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Simei, Singapore - 13th June 2009
By: icysapphires
Mommy tells me she's found a host from Australia, and her name is Sara! Mommy is sending me off tomorrow in an envelope, and hopefully I will arrive in Australia soon. I will miss Mommy and her family, but i can't wait to start my travels! See you Sara!
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Posted Jun 13, 2009, 12:30 pm
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Orange, NSW, Australia - 23rd June 2009
By: sararingham
Hi mom! I've finally arrived in Australia! :-) No pictures yet since Sara was busy all day, but since I've arrived Sara says hopefully we'll get to see a bit more of Orange soon since she hasn't done many updates on the other toyvoyagers she's hosting yet since she's been busy!
Good timing eh?! Well, write again soon! Miss you mom!
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Posted Jun 23, 2009, 8:53 am
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Orange, NSW, Australia - 29th June 2009
By: sararingham
We got two new visitors today! Charlis the dog, and Moxy ugly doll the... ugly doll... wait, I see Charlis but where is Moxy?...
Oh there he is! He was hiding with the much larger ugly dolls that Sara has... they're kind of cute though for being "ugly" dolls aren't they?
Sara decided since she has been lazy to show you her pets. I know of them know, crazy animals! But you don't so... here's a photo of Sara's beagle Anni. She's insane. To say the least... as you can tell that's her front "lawn" which more looks like a dirt pile because of the dog... fun! Anni has been quite a handful and very hard for Daniel and Sara to take care of when they have Sara's son Andrew, who is disabled... so I'm sure you can imagine... hah!
Next is Sara's birds... she's got an aviary in her kitchen... quite a funny place but it's the best place for the light. Here I am in front of the birds... there are nine Star finches both the red and yellow faced, four Gouldian finches, Zebra finches, two Spice finches, two Society finches, that look more like this, and two Diamond doves. She also has two bottom dwelling birds, two Button Quail, which also look more like this for the male, and without the "bib" for the female. Can you see all the different birds?
Sara decided this time to take a small video so you had some ideas of the sounds they make, since for such small birds they're very vocal... VERY vocal... hah! Here's a short video if you want to see it right here. It's not easy to tell, but the zebras are making most of the noise, where as the few chirps here and there are the society finches, the peeps at the end are the star finches. One of the male Gouldians kind of... dive bombed the star finches on the platform at the end of the video - whoops! The spice finches only make noise during the morning mainly... quite noisy birds in the morning haha! Ah well, it's always fun to watch them... they're all Australian birds except for the society finch, which isn't native to anywhere... it's a captive bred bird for mixed aviaries. :-)
Anyways, moving on... Sara's also got some mice... 3 domestic mice, and 3 wild mice (the smaller cages below since they're so small)... there's a Fawn coloured one (kind of tan/orange coloured) called Fluff, a little brown one called Bongo, that Sara believes was a domestic mouse and a wild mouse must have bred and was taken to the pet store... she's also got a long haired black mouse called Shadow... they sleep in a hamburger! How crazy is that! hehe... you can't see it though because it's in the paper at the bottom... :-)
Sara's also got some fish... don't mind the 'Sara' on the side of the tank... that was all thanks to Sara's husband Daniel. They're mostly platies, but a few Chinese barb fish that have been around since 2005 when Sara moved down! There's also a bristlenose catfish, also known as a sucker fish that are common in pet stores in the US. There's also some kuhli loaches but you'd never know.. they hide so well!
Sara's also got some... well, I wouldn't call them pets by any stretch of the mind... but Sara's getting her bathroom re modelled in a few days since it's old and well... falling apart. It's very common here for bugs to get into the houses, this includes slugs, snails, spiders... all those weird things... well, Sara had a few slugs and a snail in the back of her house so she "rescued" them so they weren't killed and is releasing them outside... here we are with the few slugs in the container... yucky slimy things eh?
Well, that was all of Sara's pets.. quite a story with all of them isn't there! haha! She's quite the animal lover, and her animals love her back! She even had a partial tame Gouldian finch baby! Well, I'll end this with a photo of me looking outside... been quite dark and dreary outside lately! Oh well, it's Winter time I suppose!
Write again soon!
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Posted Jun 29, 2009, 8:49 am
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Orange, NSW, Australia - 1st July 2009
By: sararingham
Well, this was day 1 of 10... we surely didn't get up early but we tried to sleep in but the loud BANG BANG BANG! Really woke us up! What was that? Well, it was a contractor in Sara's shower area tearing everything apart... ugh! She says they really needed it since when the shower was built it was not built right and tiles were falling off... so they tore all that off and jack hammered the floor... see this is all the stuff they took off the bathroom? Can you imagine? Geez that's a lot of stuff there!...
...when the contractor was done for the day we had a bit of a look back there... it's amazing, the difference even from yesterday. The right corner of the photo was where the shower is (you can see the piping a leading to the shower head). The window, on the left side was a sink... and in front of all this... was a really big wall. He tore down the wall though, pretty quickly mind you!... it's all a big surprise even to Sara and Daniel - they're not sure what it's going to look like in the end... but I'm sure it'll be nice... interesting to watch it step by step though! Here I am in front of the now torn apart shower area...
Write again soon!
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Posted Jul 1, 2009, 7:40 am
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Blayney Wind Farm/Carcoar Dam, NSW, Australia - 23rd July 2009
By: sararingham
Next stop was just outside of Blayney, near a smaller town called Carcoar, population just over 200. We got to visit the Blayney wind farm and Carcoar dam...
Here I am in front of the wind farm... unfortunately you can't see it that well with the rain and fog... this is what it looks like normally...
...and here I am in front of what is left of the Carcoar dam...
This used to be a huge "hot" spot in the Summer time... people would take their kids, but unfortunately the drought has taken a toll on the area, including the dam. This photo will give you an indication of where the water level used to be...
See the big line underneath the tree? That used to be the water level... amazing how much the drought has taken from this area...
Write again soon!
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Posted Jul 28, 2009, 12:51 pm
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