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These photos are from the cottage where we stayed. It was really, really nice and relaxing (apart from one night when the people in the next door cottage had their music and tv on too loud - my husband got them back though by playing his Mongolian throat singing CD really loudly at 7am the next day...
Our kind friends L & G (with the great view, remember?) invited us to a barbecue out at their cottage. Sometimes it's nice to get out of the city, even when that city is Prague. We ate hamburgers, drank sun tea (G is from the American South), picked apples from L & G's trees, threw horseshoes, and...
built a perfect house in a perfect town dreamt a perfect dream and it all fell down we held on tight like hungry lovers watched the day break from beneath the covers had to know for sure what it's all about oh, this should be easy oh, just tell me we're happy just building castles in the sand i saw...
it should have been two weeks... because one week was simply not enough for me at that little rental cottage on lake mutton. the one week was great, mind you. we couldn't have been more lucky with the weather that we recieved. the lake itself was just the right size - small and beautiful. with a...
to make up for last week's missed weekend snapshot, as we were on vacation, here's another one we took from mutton lake's rental cottage... say hello to the red toad i found.
from our cottage rental's beach...
Adam Lindsay Gordon For many he was regarded as Australia's greatest poet and his life reads like one of his own galloping pieces of verse. Adam Lindsay Gordon was a remittance man. Described as a riotous youth, Gordon's parents shipped him off from their Scottish estate to Adelaide in 1853. On...
The girls were great for the drive up. Took about an hour and a half. We got there and the owner forgot who we were. Got to our cottage and the husband of the owner started to use a chain saw on a metal beam for about 3 hours. His garage was right across from our cottage. In the back of our cottage...
i. in a cottage with all the movable curtains. there were tons of huge windows, the kind one can jump out of. wood. logs. a man was sick and we'd have to operate on him. the cottage was a warm place with flowery curtains. there was another man there with me. he couldn't do anything to help. ii. the...
Learned to sing songs in Croatian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian. The Bulgarian one was crunchiest, harmony-wise, and very challenging. Yum. Learned a new definition to the word "hurtling": The sensation of being on a bike, going downhill at 46.75 kmph towards loose gravel. (See beyond the gravel ......
More point forms: - I downloaded Alpha Centauri. Basically wanted that game for ~ 6 years. And then I was like, "Hey. The internet is so good for that." I also learned that I do not know anything about computers, but now I have a vague idea of what an iso is. - I also legitimately downloaded the...
